The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-10-13
Continuous Sessions I'm the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Oct 9.-Senator VOORHEES,
on Saturday gave notice that next Wednes-
davis session Of the Senate would be made
for the purpose Of trying to get
a vote upon his bill for the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman Silver law, and
since then every Senator who 10 absent, and
not paired upon this bill has been notified to
be on hand Wednesday. Numerous attempts
have been made IN the past in the Senate to
force vote upon measures by holding con-
tinuous sessions, but there have been more
failures than successes, and the peculiar cir
cumstances surrounding the present attenpt
make 1t almost certain to be failure. No
party machinery can be used in this contest,
because there are no party lines observed by
the friends and opponents of the repeal bill.
The question which is exciting the most in
terest here is, what will follow the failure to
reach vote on the voorhees, bill One of
two things must be done. If the bill cannot
be passed it must either be indefinitely aban-
doned, leaving the present law in force, or
compromise amendment that can be passed
be adopted. Which will it be? No man can
at this time answer that question with abso-
lutte certainty, but it is being generally adj
mitted that the present law is bad one the
probabilities seem to favor compromise, al
though a number of prominent democrats,
among them President Cleveland, believe
that it would be better to abandon the bill
for time than to adopt a make-shift COM
promise.
Whatever is the result, so far as the Voor-
hees bill is concerned, the opinion seems to be
increasing daily among conservative men, re-
gardless of party utilization, that Congress
must pass bill authorizing the administra-
ton to issue bonds to increase the gold re-
serve fund whenever it may become necessary
in order to avoid panics, similar to the one
the country recently passed through, which
may at any time be brought on by large and
of rrn11 wi m
six months ago opposed an issue of bonds I'M
der any circumstances are now advocating
that the authority for issuing bonds be given
to the administration. 1twould not necessari
ly follow that bonds would be issued. The
knowledge that they could be issued if neces-
sary to replenish the government supply OF
gold would, in the opinion of shrewd tinan-
ciers, of itself act largely as a preventative of
the expectation of gold
When the House adopted the order closing
debate on the bill for the repeal of the Federal
election laws, to-day, Oct. 9th, and directing
that the voting on the bill and the amendments
proposed thereto should begin tomorrow and
continue until the bill was disposed of, it was
thought that the Senate would have before
this disposed of the Voorhees, repeal bill and
have been ready to receive the election repeal
BILL The Democrats of the House will hold
a caucus on the subject tonight, and inasmuch
as it might add additional complication to the
already sufficiently complicated situation in
the Senate to send this bill over at this time
the caucus may decide that it is advisable to
defer final action on the election bill for q
time.
The Fords Theatre disaster has been recall
ed to public notice during the past week by
the opening of the trial of the four men in
dicted for criminal negligence in connection
Herewith by Senate resolution for the ap-
pointment of joint Congressional committee
to ascertain the responsibility of the govern
ment for damages to the family's victims, and
by the beginning of repairs upon the wreck
ed building. A rumor that the men who oc-
cupied the building at the time of the disaster
are to be again put in there to work as soon
as the repairs are completed has raised a
general protest, not only from the five
hundred clerks and their friends, but from
the public at large. 1t would certainly
seem to be an unnecessary cruelty to COM
pei those clerks to work in that building
again.
It is extremely doubtful whether the joint
resolution offered by Representative Davey.
of La, for the appropriation of S25, 600 for the
relief of the cyclone sufferers on the southern
coast gets through Congress. Not because
individual Senators and Representatives are
opposed to helping the sufferers, but because
all such appropriations by the general govern
ment have been opposed OIL principle for
many years, on the theory that the several
States should furnish needed relief to their
own citizens. However, this being an excep-
tional case, the House committee on Appro-
priations, to which the resolution was referred,
may ignore precedent and favorably report it.
Should it be favorably reported it would prob
ably pass.
President Cleveland and his family moved
out to his country residence Saturday after
noon, and they will remain there until cold
weather. the President coming in to his Office
every morning and returning in the afternoon.
Mrs. Cleveland is rapidly regaining her
strength and baby Esther is enjoying good
health. Miss Ruth celebrated her second
birthday last week. {. \. :.