Arizona silver belt., 1893-10-21
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evening, Oct t1th, when the Senator from Indiana announced in self-eonf- dent terms the programme or the re- peal forces. I've will see,n said he, who fails in this transaction"
 Senator Dubois, of Idaho, speaking for the silver Senators, said "You know as we'll when yoti start as you will know when you emerge from the struggle that you must fail With conditions as they eSist iii Che Senate there is no hope of faHioal legislation, You are as likely to pass bill for the free coinage of silver as to absolutely destroy silver. It looks as though you We're trying te convince some one out side or this chamber of something which you yourself know to be impos- sible. Even if you succeed in eonvin' cing these outside parties the result | will hot justify tha oFdeal which you will compel Senators to undergo. If you eohelhde to abandon appeals to i reason and sense and to risk a settle ment of this great question to test of which side can stand the most punish ment, we desire to give notice now that we shall protect our side by every means in our power. We will insist that you furnish the quorum, and that you keep it constantly in this chamber, if it takes innumefable roll-calls. The responsibility of what is to follow must rest on you, as well as it's physi- cal effects on individual Senators"
 As was stated in last weeks BELT would be the case, the silver men had considerable advantage over their opponents, and they were free to ad. init their pleasure over this condition. While they could rest in the commit tee rooms and Hobbies, leaving only on guard one speaker and Mir Dubois to see that quorum was present, it was obligatory on the part of their oppo- nents to remain continuously in their seats in order to maintain quorum. At 5:15 D. m. Senator Allen, of Nebras- ka, took the floor, and began speech which will always be memorable in the annals of Congress, not alone remark. able as the longest sustained effort at oratory in the history of either house, but also as a forceful and connected elucidation of his financial views, vigorous plea for silver. There were few interruptions except at intervals of an hour or more, when Senator Du- bois would raise the question of mo quorum and sleepy Senators would be rounded up aud brought into the chamber to answer to the roll call
 At o'clock Thursday morning Sen ator Allen concluded his flew re- marks" apparently as fresh as when he begun fourteen and three-quarters before. Alter the Pfeffer amendment had been voted on and tabled, the de- bate on the repeal bill was resumed, Senators Martin, Teller and Stewart doing the talking, until 11:5O p. m., the repealers, exhausted and exasper- ated by the successful tactics of the silver Senators, temporarily abandoned the contest by moving an adjourn ment. It was signal victory for the silver men, and Mir. Voorhees, must have been painfully reminded of his biblical quotation, addressed to Sena- tor Dubois at the opening of the con test on Wednesday: "Let not him that girdeth on his armor boast him. self as he that putteth it off"
 The contest of endurance on Wednes- day night and Thursday practically decided the fate of the repeal bill, and it is to be confidently hoped that the silver Senators will not now listen to any oyertures from the repealers look ing to a compromise.
 It is amusing to note the righteous indignation of Eastern newspapers which refer to the contest as "a ridi- culous fiasco," "a national reproilch, '" ''the present disgraceful and discour- sging condition of things in the Sen ate" They seem to forget that the tactics of the minority are not new ir the proceedings of the Senate, that John Quincy Adams, in 1s42, talked for eleven days, with brief respites, OH the right of petition, that Garret Davis, of Kentucky, during the reconstruc- ton period talked for ten hours con tinuously, and that the same tactics have been employed in the Senate on several occasions since, notably in the debate on the force bill when Senator Falkner spoke for thirteen hours.
 | It may be easily imagined that the failure of the continuous session ex- pertinent has greatly displeased Presi- dent Cleveland, but it has also in creased his stubbornness, and Wash ington dispatch of the 18th, says that appearances would justify the state ment that the administration has taken another occasion to announce and em- phasize it's opposition to any deviation from the course originally mapped out and it's determination to exhaust all it's resources before accepting 8 eompro' mise. Voorhees, has been urged to stand firm and keep his forces in line. Learning of the determination of the repealers, the silver forces decided to dlibuster and require an absolute quo rum at all time, and thereby show the frtility of attempting to force unusual 4 hours.
 The Arizona delegates got in their work on the Los Angeles Irrigation Convention by securing m endorse Ir ---