The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-10-05
RANSOM NOW AT WORK.
TRYING TO-HARMONIZE THE AID
MINIST RATION AND SENATE.
Some Satisfactory Agreement May be
Reached-What the Boston Herald
Has to Say About the Situation.

Some Satisfactory Agreement May be
Reached-What the Boston Herald
Has to Say About the Situation.
Correspondence of the sentinel.I
| WASHINGTON, Oct, 2.-Since Sena-
tor Ransom, the oldest and most in
fluential Democratic Senator has gone
actually to work to bring about a
modus vivendi between the admins
tratIon and the Senate on the silver
question, it is possible that some
agreement may be reached which will
be satisfactory to all concerned. New
ertheleSS, / am still doubtful as to the
result; and L find that the views ex-
pressed in my letter of the Goth inst.
are shared by the leading paper of
New England, the Boston Herald,
which in it's editorial correspondence
of the 10Th, speaks thus of legislative
prospects here:
"a large number of the Republican
senators are of the opinion that it
will be political benefit to their
party if the bill for unconditional re-
peal of the purchasing clause Of the
Sherman act shall not be passed. They
find support for this view in the state
ments recently made by such newspa-
pers as the New York Evening Post
and the New York Times, that, if the
unconditional repeal bill shall fail in
the Senate, the result will be the de-
struction of the Democratic party.
These Republican Senators, who are
politicians first and patriots after
ward land there are some Such), will
be pleased to have the silver repeal
fail if they can realize such result.
THAT such result is possible they
now fully believe. They will contrib
ute nothing puOlically to such an end,
nor will they, by too CONSPICUOUS in
action, make 1T possible to charge that
they aided in such a contamination.
If, after the passage of the election
bill by the House, a motion should be
made in the Senate to lay aside the re-
peal and to take the elections repeal
bill in its place, the Republicans, with
the exception of the So-called silver
Republicans, will be found voting
solidly against such displacement of
the silver repeal bill.
But many of them will welcome the
substitution. Some of them say that
such a movement would be certain to
result, not only in the defeat of the
silver repeal bill, but of the elections
repeal bill and of the tariff bill In
fact, there is reason to believe that
the recent introduction of the closure
rule by prominent Republican in
oIIC COh1OO 10 q llell VI Oh pOI1Cy WHICH
is designed to prepare the way for a
movement which will certainly be put
into execution to defeat both the bill
to repeal the Federal election laws
and that to reform the tariff.
1.-THE attitude of the Republicans
will be that there cannot be closure
for one bill and not for all: that they
propose closure for the silver repeal
bill and that the offer was refused by
the Democrats and the resolution re-
ferred to the Committee on Rules in
the SeIate without support from q
single Democratic Senator, and that
the committee parliamentary nurse
which cares not for it. that the sill
yer repeal BILL having been defeated
or sidetracked the Democrats will
not be permitted to adopt a closure
vote to pass the tariff bill and to re-
peal the Federal election laws, and
that the Democratic party must pre-
pare itself for such a parliamentary
battle and such contest of physical
endurance with regard to these bills
as was not possible in connection with
the bill torepeal the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act"
Since my last letter, Mr.. Carroll d.
Wright's appointment as superinten-
dent of census has been announced
and his acceptance assured. The
House of Representative has also
passed a resolution continuing the
Census Bureau until June 90, 1894.