Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-10-12
LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME.
AS it Appears in Washington on the
Eve of Continuous Session.

AS it Appears in Washington on the
Eve of Continuous Session.
A consensus of legislative opinion,
taken ON the eve of the continuous
session, indicates very clearly that the
great majority of Senators, irrespec-
tive of political afiiliation, are at last
thoroughly committed to the belief
that the night session experiment has
become an absolute necessity for the
accomplishment of an immediate. or
early, settlement of the veKed fnan-
cial question, which now so fully and
exclusively pre-empts the time and at
tention of that body. Opinions differ
as much as to the probable length of
the continuous sessions as to what the
result of it will be. The silver men
are counting upon its continuing for
forty-eight hours, making their plans
accordingly. AS soon as the contin-
uous session shall have been entered
into the Silver men will make their
first motion for adjournment. Not
with any real hope of the motion pre-
vailing, but simply to place themselves
on record and establish their legiti-
innate cause of complaint.
After an adjournment motion is
voted down some one of the silver adj
voCates will take the floor and speak
until relieved by some other Senator
ofhke views. The leaders on the sill
yer side say that so far as they can
control their forces they will insist
that the majority shall maintain a
quorum. Estimates of the number
who can be relied upon to refuse to
make a quorum range all the way
from fifteen to thirty. OF the Others,
some will be absent, SO that it is evil
dent that the repeal men will have to
continuously be present in quite
large numbers to prevent adjourn
ment, if undertaken.
The majority of Senators admit
that compromise is the most probable
result of the night sessions expert
nent, but Senator Voorhees, and his
immediate followers say the bill will
90 as reported. A careful canvass OF
the Senate shows that if vote should
be reached upon the bill as it stands,
that it would carry majority OF IL,
and that the vote would be as follows,
supposing all the Senators to present
ayes 4S, nays 81.
Later-Washington, October IL
The Senate has at last entered upon
the final attempt to force a vote on
the repeal bill. Mr.. VOORHEES, an
nounced at O'Clock that the
friends of the measure proposed to
keep the Senate In continual ses-
sion until some action was taken and
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, for the anti
repealers stated that they accepted the
challenge of the Senator from Indiana
and served notice that the friends of
silver intended to use every con-
stitutional means to defeat a
vote of the bill. Senator Dubois
stated further that there were 20 SEN
ators in favor of repeal, % against and
for a compromise of some sort. He
said that vote would never be taken
and that the Senators knew it,
The indications point to aprolonged
struggle lasting probably through the
night. Senator Allen of Nebraska
now has the floor and will speak until
10 o'clock, when Senator PETER, of
Kansas, will speak the balance Of the
night.
This is the program of the silver
men, and they are fully prepared to
carry it out. There is great deal of
i'll feeling on both sides and hot de-
bate may be expected at any time. A
prominent Southern Democratic SEN
ator has just stated thatin his opinion
compromise is sure to be made, and
that it would probably be proposed
before morning.
AN ARKANSAS GIRLS FATE.