The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-10-14
SATURDAY. OCTOBER II, 1898.
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Inc last act OF the senatorial farce
is billed for this week. When the SEES
sion of the Senate which opens We'd
nesday next shall close; the curtain
will be rung down on the long drawn
out silver contest. Only one thing seems
absolutely clear and certain at this
whiting, and that is that the Voorhees,
billwill not be voted upon. That fact is
probably as clear to Senator Voor-
hees as it is to most other people, but
the pressure from the White House
wal 80 strong for the holding of a con-
tinous session that he announced it for
next Wednesday and notified all alb
semi repeal Senators to be on hand.
The contest cannot possibly be a long
one as Senator Voorhees, will have 30
keep forty-one men on the floor con-
tinually while the silver men will only
need two. The general belief is that
the session will soon die for lack of a
quorum.
What will follow is largely a matter
of conjecture. 1t is said by those who
oppose any sort of n silver concession
and demand unconditional repeal or
nothing that President Cleveland
would much prefer seeing the Senate
adjourn, if it cannot pass the Voor-
hees bill, than to see it a compromise.
If the proposition for adjournment is
made by Senator Voorhees, the chances
are that it will go through with a
whoop, as the silver Senators would
doubtless vote solidly for it, believing
that the longer the matter can be
postponed the stronger their side of
the co%ntroversery will grow with the
people. Strange as 1t may appear, it
is upon precisely the same ground that
the President favors adjournment if
the repeal bill cannot be passed. He
believes that public opinion will have
grown SO strong by the time for the
meeting of the regular session that the
Senate will then pass the bill. But
there is another and very strong ele-
ment to be considered, embracing, per-
haps, a majority of the Senate, which
wants some sort of a silver coinage
law, something that unquestionably
recognizes silver money, TO take the
place Of the purchasing clause Of the
Sherman law. That is the element
that will work lor the present settle
ment OF the question by compromise,
and at this time the indications GER
tainly point to their success, whatever
the actual result may be.
The large number of amendments,
something like twenty in all, that
have been offered to the Voorhees, re-
peal bill will make ecessary an I'M
usual display OF parliamentary tactics
when the voting begins, if it ever
does. OF course every body knows
that each of the amendments will
have to be voted upon before the vote
is taken upon the original bill, but
every body does not know is the order
in which the amendments will be
taken up and voted upon. If a com
promise is reached it is expected shat
all of the amendments will be with
drawn except that which provides Cor
the compromise.
The majority of the House, not to
be outdone by the Senate, has got it.
self into a wrangle over the bill for
the repeal of the Federal election laws.
1t seems that some of the democrats
think the Tucker bill repeats too
much, and Representative Fitch, OF
New York, has "a less sweeping Bill