The morning call., 1893-09-20
WAR IS DECLARED.
Silver Tlen Will Fight to
the Death.
VOORHEES, BECOMES ANGRY.
1t Is Utterly Useless To Talk of
ClOture.
HINTS OF COMPROMISE AGAIN.
Mr.. Dubois of Idaho riurIs Back
Defiance to the Forces of the
administration.
VOORHEES, BECOMES ANGRY.
IINTS OF COMPROMISE AGAIN.

WASHINGTON, Sept 1O,-Inere lS strong
talk of a compromise on the silver ques-
tion in the Senate tonight, based upon re-
ported intimations given by the President
that he is willing to accept a moderate
compromise in the nature of continued
coinage fer a specified time of so much
silver per month until specified amount
shall be reached. The President, however.
is isrepresented as unwilling that the conces-
sion made 10 silver shall so on the repeal
bill as an order, but insists that it must be
passed subsequent to the passage Of the
unconditional repeal bill.
The assurance that he would sign the
supplementary bill might satisfy some
compromise advocates. but the free silver
men, even though they do acquesce, would
probably insist on the compromise being
Incorporated in the original bill. They
naturally want the best terms they can
make for silver, and the acceptance of
a compromise with them would be in the
face of certain defeat. On the other hand,
If the President is correctly represented il
is possible he might agree to coupling the
compromise with the repeal bill. There
are therefore many contingencies upon
which an arrangement to let matters go to
a vote depends.
These reported intimations from the
White House of willingness TO accept
anything at all short of absolute and un-
conditional repeal has revived the talk of
an early settlement of the battle in the
Senate, whether it eventuates in anything
or not.
Meanwhile the situation in the SEN
ate on the repeal bill reached a cru
cial stage this morning. voorhees,, the
leader of the repeal forces, after a sensa-
tional denunciatiOn of New I ork bankers
and a defiance to the press that has been
criticzng his actions and questioning his
motives. demanded that the minority Sen
ators name a date for the final vote.
Dubois of Idaho met the demand by
positive declaration that the antirepeal
men would oppose the passage of the re-
!oeai bill by avaiiing themselves of every.
advantage afforded them under the rules
fsnd usages Of the Senate.
Voorhees, retaliated by giving notice
that he would tomorrow move for longer
and more continuous sessions. So the
situation in the Senate appears to have re-
solved itself into a mere question of en-
durance.
Immediately after the Senate met the re-
peal bill was taken up. Voorhees, once
moIe sought to obtain an agreement as to
when the vote should be taken. The
time" he said, would not be misspent in
instructing the public mind in regard to
the organization of the Senate" In doing
this be addressed himself "to the great
body OF intelligent public opinion, as well
as in some quarters 10 a dense, opaque
degree Of ignorance; ignorance in some
resi- ects innocent, but in others malicious"
He then reviewed the history of the rules
of the Senate from Its creation, showing
that for seventeen years, from 1889 to 1906,
the Senate, among its rules, had pro-
vision for the previous question. It was
tried fully, and in 1906, when Thomas JEFF
ferson was President, it was deliberately
abandoned and never claimed nor admitted
from that hour TO the present.
81 am now arraigned," said voorhees,.
before public opinion for not terminating
this debate. AS we'll might | be arraigned
for not terminating the tide of the ocean
or the northwest winds. In abandoning
the clOture Tule the government of this
great body was placed upon a sense of
propriety. patriotism and Difference to the
public sentiment and public interests of
each Senator and of the body itself, with
the assurance in the minds of those then
in the Senate that no Senator would be
found to abuse the patience of this body
or outrage public business or public in
terest.
For eighty-seven years this body has
been a law sufficient unto itself 1t never
has been found wanting in peace or in
war. so that the criticisms of a certain
class will fall as harmless upon this body
as they fall upon me. AS far as concerns
the personal criticism of myself. l may as
well embrace this moment az another to
say they are met with absolute stern def
ance. have served the people of Indiana
many years, and l have had no explaDa-
tiOns required when have gone home TO
them. and | treat with scorn and immeas-
urable contempt the suggestions coming
from New York bankers or anywhere else
as to the motives which govern me. / re-
spond to that kind of criticism by saying
that it comes from a class whom the
Savior Of the world never spoke of with
respect, nor do 1"
The vote had to come on the repeal bill,
Voorhees, said. and he appealed once more
TO the Sen ators in charge of the opposition
to the bill, which he said was supported by
public opinion and majority of the Sem
ate, TO know whether there was not a time
in their minds when vote would be agree
able to them.
Dubois of Idaho said that many Sena-
tors were yet to be heard. MY impression
IS" he said. that the Senator in charge of
TINS measure had better proceed in an or
derly manner and in the customary way.
He will reach result sooner by that
course. The opponents of repeal are
ready to join issue with it's friends.
whether 1t be longer sessions, continuous
sessions or cloture. The passage of the
repeal bill would sound the death knell of
silver as money metal. No jugglery with
words would obscure the issue. The Sena-
tors would talk sweetly about interna-
tional agreement, forcing England and BIZ
metallisTn, butwheD the pending bill passed
the doom of silver is sealed, and the Sena-
tors all knew ii. You shall not commit
the deed if we can prevent 1t by any hon.
orable means known to the use of the Sem
ate. Our duty is plain to us. We believe