St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-25
THEY REFUSE TO PERHITA K0TA
AS Long as Oratory and Dilai
tory Motions Hold Out.
COMPROMISE AGAIN. SvG GESTE1
Although Repeal Men Have q
Big Majority.
THE OUTLOOK NOT .PR0Mtsfae

ton in the senate as day after day
passes fails to show encOur ,gelnent for
those who are making the battle for un..
conditional repeal. 1t is only dIspas.
slonaGe statement OF the truth TO say
that the repeal forces are apparently no
nearer victory than they were ten days
ago; that 1t does not appear that they
have made convert In the senate for
two weeks, and that the prospect for.
unconditional repeal Is not so bright as
1t was when the repeal bill passed the
house with the unexpectedly large ma
JOiity month ago. That startling rel
suit and that phenomenal majority
gave the cause of repeal an impetus
which seemed likely to provoke pub,
lie sentiment that would rush the meas
ure through the senate immediately
But since the bill passed the house there
has been no concerted attempt to force
the issue in the senate. and since every
advance movement OF Senator voorhees,
and every demand of the chairman Of
the finance committee for definite day
on which the vote should be taken have
been successfully met by the "r,
VIGOROUS OPPOSITION, -e.4 /!
of the silver senator's, with the plainin.
timation that every resource affeFaed
Dy the rules would he Invoked by the
opposition, the repeal senators have ap.
parently lost much of their confidence.
aud the anti-repeal senators have re-.
gained all that courage which they tenn
porarily lost after the passage of the
measure by the house. Aud thus it ia
that the TO calls of the senate show
that the anti-repeal senators present an
unbr0ken front of nineteen senator's,
ready to resist to the utmost tile ineas-
ure of unconditional repeal For
week after the passage Of the repeal
bill by the house there was scarcely a
senator to be found who had tiie eotifage
to publicly announce thatt q opponents
of repeal would resort to interlBinable
filibustering to defeat the bill. Within
the past week half dozen senators
have openly proclaimed that every bul-t
wark afforded by the rules and usages
of the senate would be raised by the
opposition to prevent the passage of the
unconditional repeal bill; and today
those in the confidence of Chairman
Voorhees, and the other leaders uf the
repeal forces practically c0ncede that
the unconditional repeal bill can only
pass when the strength of the )
MINORITY Is EXHAUSTED
in sleep!ess vig:ls. In making diIatOry
motions, demanding roll calls and re-
sorting TO other obstructive tactics TO
prevent a vote on the dominant issue.
Two weeks ago it was mysteriOnsly Fu-
mored that the repeal forces might de-
mand vote at any hour and rush the
measure through the senate Now no
advocates of repeal can he found who
will predict with any confidence that a
final vote will he reached before the
middle of October. And yet the numer-
ical strength of the repPalers is as
strong in the senate today as it was
three weeks ago; they have an un-
doubted majority prJbahly about
hree-ffths-and there can he no. ques-
tinn of the result when the final vote s.
reached. But when that vote is to come
is the great mystery of the future. Un-
der the present rules of the senate %
half-doZrn senators >can indefinitely
pr0lOng the fight and postpone The vote.
and, if they are go inclined. may either
defeat the measure or force cOmpro.
mise. III this fight the minority is
NOT AN INSIGNIFICANT ONE.
The opponents of repeal can unques.
tionably muster thirty or more votes.
OF these men it is believed that dozen
or more will not hesitate to filibustpr in
an attempt to defend the citadel against
any indefinite siege of the majority.
The time has passed when any repeal
senator. however indomitable his cOuI-
age, dareS TO publicly express the hops
that any rule can ne adopted which Will
break away centuTy's traditions Of
the senate by enforcing clnture on the
pending question. The financial fight
in the United States senate will not be
saved by rule of oloture. The burn
ing question of the hour is: "Wiil the
minority filibuster to prevent the paSs-
age of the bill aud so secure a
COMPROMISED" The indications are
that the minority-or minority Of
the minority, and haIf-dozen men
are suf1icieEt-are prepared, il
necessary, to filibuster against uncOD-
dltiOnal repeal. and it is these Indica-
tiOns that have given rise once more to-
the discussion of compromise that one
begins to hear on every side. The diff
ficulty, however, will be in agreeing
up'u q IOiih VI OmpIOilISe. recent
developments show that the present
leaning OF those desiring 10 reach So
luton is in the direction of
THE SQUIRE AMENDMENT
rather than that of Mr.. Faulkner, which
are the only compromise measures SO
far presented. The radical repeal men
still assert that the unconditional repeal
bill will pass without compromise at
tachment. but add that subsequent leg
islation will be enacted. giving to silver
suitable recognition. The silver
men make verv little cOnceaIment of
their present plans. They say they are
in as good condition to hold the bill off
now as when it first came over from
the house, and that they will certainly
be able to entertain the senate at large
with speeches pertinent to the question
until the elections bill shall be brought
over from the house. after which time
the senate will have another question
tn which it can give portion of its at
ttnt0n. The fact that some OF the re-
peal senators have spoken of a day i'm
October when the vote will be taken
has led to the report Ill some quarters
that they had plan for forcing vote.
but this report cannot be verified. No
one acquainted with the vice president
and his antecedents gives the least
credence 10 the story sent out from here
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