The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1893-10-04
Looks Blue for Repeal.


wAsHIss7oS. Sept. 29.-stiIl the question
Of silver purchase repeal remains AT the front
n the Senate the past week has been little
more than a reysst iiion OF the previous weeks
since the session began. The net result Of
all Efforts thus far to bring the Repeal bill
10 a vote in the Senate is an agreement which
vent into force this week to extend the
length Of the daily sessions of the Senate
two hours, but with no suggestion Of date
for closing the debate All steps for con-
,iauous session Or the adoption Of closure
rule have apparently been 81 iessi temporar-
lis abandoned. The press of ihe country
continues to shower adverse, inpatient,
even denuneiatory criticism Upon the Senate
because Of the delay. Il Is noteworihy,
however. that where's the Larsher criticism
was until recently reserved for the minority
silver men, ii is row largely directed against
the majority because Of their failure to force
the fixing Of limit 10 the debate. The
features Of the week have been the personal
abuse or President Cleveland by Senator
Stewart, of Nevada. and Senator cAneTon's 5
deserlion Of his party and his siste oy going
over 10 the free silverites-
The House meanwhile was allotted the
time from September 20 10 october 10 10 the
discussion Of the bill to repeal the Federal
Election Laws. Il is expected that unless the
silver purchase repeal bill is disposed of by
the Senate before the Election bill is sent
over from the House, the latter measure
viii bring matters in the Senate TO a crisis
The House, Ways and Means committee has
closed its tariff hearings. and it is intimated
that the committee viii be ready to report
tariff bill sometime in November.
WILSON'S PARADoxIcAL TALK.
Representative Wilson, chairman Of the
House Ways and Means committee, talks
in paradoxes about the new tariff bill. He
starts out by saying that the new bill viii
be exactly what was promised by the Chics-
20 plaiform-a tariff for reTenue only, with
out any incidental protection, and then
winds up with the assertion that no estab-
lished American industry viii be injured By
the bill Now, any school boy knows that
one or the other OF these statements IS
wrong. 4 tariff for revenue only is q tariff
that viii the most largely increase the i'm
partaiion Of foreign goods, and the more for
eign goods consumed in the United States
the less demand there will be for domestic
goods OF the same kind, and the natural
/ consequences viii be closing American fseto-
ries. The only theory upon which Mr.. VIII
sons statements can be reconciled is that be
does not consider &" established" those Amer
ican industries that require protection from
foreign competition. There is going to be E
biz fght in the Democratic party on this
questionable number of Democratic pro-
tectionists IS larger than many suppose and
events are making daily additions thereto.
COMPROMISE TALKED or.
A compromise is being freely discussed
among Senator'S and very earnest attempt
is being made 10 bring one about. The
public announcement by Mr.. German in
the Senate that bis disposition was favora-
bic 10 the immediate passage, after dispOs-
ing OF the voorhees, bill, Of measure Of
benefit and accommodation to the silver
men is : verihcstion, of what the silver men
have been told privately that the repealers
were willing to agree 10 it. The silver men
have, however, shown an unEillingness to
accept such uncertain promises as these,
feeling that they did not carry with them
the assurance of favorable action By the
President Of any measure FOR the benefit Of
silver which Congress might pass.