Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-25
WILL GO RIGHT ALONG
The Business of the House After
the Repeal Vote.
NO C0ERCIVE MEASURE LIKELY
That Policy Not Approved by More
Experienced Members.
LEGISLATION NECESS AIRY.

The proposition of certain Of the most ar
dent repeal men to have the House lay aside
all other business after having acted on the
Wilson repeal bill and to adjourn over three
days at a time as a coercive measure to
| force the Senate to prompter action, is prov
Ing to be very unpopular thing in the
House. Among the stronger men in that
body the suggestion is rather severely criti-
cised. All matters of policy and expediency
aside 1t is not regarded as becoming in the
House to organize itself into a committee
on coercion to influence the other branch Of
Congress. Moreover, the popular impress
sion appears to be that such a course will
be very poor party policy. In some Quarters
the proposition is received with considerable
Indignation. Leading members Of the House
on both sides Of the silver question insist
that the House will have done its duty when
It has disposed Of the question Of repeal and
that IT will be exceeding the propr1ety for
them to attempt to dictate to or many way
interfere with the action of the Senate.
Would BE Resented by the Senate.
Such a course for the House would be re-
sented by the Senate and probably cause an
irritation there which would injure rather
than advance the cause Of repeal 1t is
very strongly stated that this Congress was
not elected merely to consider the silver
question. and that the repeal Of the Sher-
man law is but one Of the many things
tLty are CalleQ upon 10 CONSIDER, ThlS be-
ing disposed of, there are other matters de-
manding immediate attention. and 1t Is
urged that idleness on the part Of the
House. while the Senate is fighting over the
Voorhees, BILL would be inexcusable There
Is a popular impression among democrats
In the House that they are pledged to as
prompt action as possible on the tariff bill,
and that the opportunity offered by this
special session for the consideration Of that
matter before the opening of the Iirst regu-
lar session should be availed Of The indi-
cations are that the advocates II .dleness
on the part Of the House will be In a dis
credited minority.
Eager to Go Ahead With Other Busf-
A number Of members who are very anx-
ious for the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman law are eager to 60 ahead at
once with other business and believe that
1t would be extremely bad policy to do
otherwise. 1t is not necessarily expected
that other legislation will be perfected.
but IT Is urged that the democratic party
would be discredited before the country
out any progress being made toward the
general legislation to which the party Is
pledged; 1t may be very true that some
OF the democrats who took an active part
in the campaign which elected this Con
gress and Mr.. Cleveland on a platform
piedging them to revision and reduction
ton law. the repeal Of the state bank tax
and other matters Of like principles are
now AFRAID to face the question. But the
more experienced men in the party are
thoroughly convinced that there is nothing
to be gained by temporizing, and they be-
1ieve that delay of action will Indicate a
cowar6ice. which would make the country
suspect that they were not confident Of the
propriety Of legislation which they have
been advocating. The spirit of go-ahead at
once appears to be by all odds the most
popular in the House, and popular too
where the greatest power lies.
VIII Go Right On.
The indications are on every side that
the work of Congress will so right on just
as If the regular session had begun. In ad-
dition to the measures for the increase Of
ably be some legislation necessary to make
some disposition Of the bulk of silver bull
ion stored in the treasury vaults. and 1t
Is proposed to take up the question of the
repeal of the state bank tax and a bill
for the repeal Of the federal election law.
Meanwhile 1t Is expected that various
measures Of general and special legislation
mttees, just as occurred at the regular
session. Early in September estimates for
appropriation are expected by the House
appropriation committee, and when they
ton bills will begin at once. The urgent
deficiency will. and probably the District
of Columbia can be- perfected and be re-
ported very speedily. Meanwhile the COM
mittee has two or three minor special ap-
propriations which they are called upon to
and means have not decided whether they
will have hearings on the tariff, but the
probabilities are that they will. This will
consume some time. but 1t Is believed that,
to report their bill not later than the middle
of November