Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-10-26
CALLED ON CARLISLE.


The Aid of the Secretary of the Treasury
Invoked to Solve the Silver Question
All Parties Seemingly Convinced That
Come Sort of q Compromise Must be
Agreed Upon-Mr. Carlisle Unyielding.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3u.-Senators Cor
man, Ransom, White, Cockren, Villas,
Gray, Walthal and Bla ,kburn, the
committee appointed to wait on Sec
rotary Carlisle and submit to him prop
ositions looking to . compromise, re-
at the treasury from o'clock until
4:S0 yesterday afternoon. Mr.. German
was the first to leave.
Mr.. Carlisle was seen after his sena-
torial visitors had departed and stated
that he had nothing wha tever to COM
municate as to the nature Of their call
or it's result. The visiting senators
and ambassadors returned TO the CAPT.
tol in struggling order, some of them
first calling at the White House. Sem
ators Camden, Harris and Jones, of
Arkansas, subsequently held a long
consultation with Mr.. Cockrell.
So far as could be ascertained nothing
definite had been accomplished. Mr..
Carlisle, it Is said, was uny1elding
in the original stand taken by him in
favor Of unconditional repeal. No COM
promise was agreed upon last night,
but it was intimated that another con-
ference would be held this morning.
The belief exists in the minds of the
caucus committee that the administra-
ton will concede a repeal, to take eff
feet Mt future date, and that was one
Of the contentious discussed for some
time.
The repeal men want the time fixed
for January, or at the latest July 1,
1895, while the more conservative sill
yer men want it to extend to January
/, 1896, as fixed in Mr. Quays proposed
amendment.
The extremists insist that repeal
shall not take effect until after the
close of this administration, the amount
of silver purchases being reduced in
the meantime to g., OO0, 900 worth each
month.
A representative southern silver scna-
tor said last evening, after the COM
mittee returned, that if they could get
nothing better they would accept July
l, 1896, but pointed out that this was
bad politics. The statement had been
made, he said, that the administration
would favor silver legislation if this
bill had been repealed and democratic
repealers had expressed their in
tention to assist in enacting such
legislation. With the acceptance
of compromise the agitation
would not end. He thought that
within five days after the passage of
this bill two score of financial meas
ures would be introduced, and before
spring congress would be in the midst
of discussion Of the subject that
would be continued till the next cleo
tions, all the time increasing the trou-
BILE attending its settlement,
and bringing about a condition
hazardous to the democratic
party. This was why, he said, the
southern men wanted the question
postponed to a later date in the repeal
ing bill, SO there would be no occasion
to agitate the subject until after the
elections, the people in the meatime
having voiced their sentiments at the
polls. The southern silver men, the
compromise as a temporary lull in the
storm, expecting democratic senators to
put themselves on record to carry out
their sentiments when the proper
time came.
The silver republicans speaking.
through one of their leaders said they
would in all probability accept the
compromise to the extent of permit
ting it to come to a vote, even if they
could not support it.
The repeal republicans adhered to
their former position of being ready to
vote for unconditional repeal, and de-
clined to state their views upon any
compromise so long as it was an intan-
gible thing. "If the democrats came
together and agreed among them
Selves" said one of the eastern repub-
licans, a senator known for his politi-
cal astuteness, ''they could pass the
bill without the assistance of the re-
publicans.