The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-14
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SILVER TO HOLD THE FLOOR.
A Week Of Hot OratOry at Wash
iIgtOl.

! The Speaker Has Already Recorded
the Names of Nearly Hundred
Members Who Win Make Deliver
anoes, Pro and Con, on the Absorbing
Theme Engaging the Extraordinary
Session-M Meanwhile, the Senate will
Sit Book and Await the Issue in the
House.
Washington, Aug 13-Congress has
| settled down to debate with a degree of
| expedition almost unknown in it's history
and with an apparent determination to do
something that promises well for the out
come Fortunately for the majority in
the Senate, the action of the Houseon the
| silver question relieved them from the me-
cessity Of speedy and perhaps ill-advised
action.
TIME ALLOWANCE VALUABLE TO THE SENATE
The democratic caucus committee,
charged with the preparation of plan
! that should secure the adherence of the
united majority, win therefore commence
| its labors with more determination than
would otherwise have been possible, and
it is not expected now that they viii per-
feet their work, which involves consulta-
tion with many senators at each stage,
much before the House has acted
THE SILVER QUESTION ANTEoEDENT.
The finance committee will probably
wait upon the action of the caucus COM
mittee, and so the silver question is not
| likely to figure in a formal way in the
| proceedings of the Senate this week. It
is entirely possible, and even probable,
that speeches will be delivered upon the
| subject, but if so, they will be based upon
/ GIL ff,Fr duo
| by Senator Lodge, calling for a vote upon
| the repeal of the silver-purchase section
| of the Sherman act, and not upon a bill
| regularly reported from the finance COM
mittee and ready for immediate action
THE MANTLE CASE MAY TAKE THE FLOOR.
There is a strong disposition in some
quarters to fill in the time during the
week by the discussion of the Lee-Mantle
senatorial election case, which is in O
| privileged position, and can be called up
at any time, to the displacement of other
business
FORECAST OF BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE.
The programme in the House has been
| definitely fixed by the adoption of the
order introduced Friday last by the
republicans. The time will be devoted
| exclusively to the consideration of the
silver question under the rules of the
last House governing general debate.
! Notwithstanding the apparent lack of in
terest in the discussion manifested by
| members Saturday, the number Of apph-
cants for recognition already on the
speakers list demonstrates that the pc
riod allotted TO the debate-eleveu DAYS
under the general rules and three days
under the fvefininute rule-willabe occu-
pied
swARMs OF swELTERTNd ORATORS.
There are now between ninety and
hundred names enrolled by the speaker,
| the greater majority of whom possibly
expect to talk the full hour allowed by the
rules There are a number, however,
who have stipulated for shorter periods,
| generally twenty minutes or half an hour.
| If it appears that the time for debate
will be too short to accommodate all who
wish to speak, night sessions will be held
| to lengthen the period; but this expedi-
| ent, it is believed, will not become neceS-
sary before next week, with the expira-
tion of which the debate will close.
ORGANIZATION NOT NOW IN SIGHT.
Since the House entered upon the dis
cussion of the silver question Friday, un-
der an order which will not exhaust itself
until the close of next week, the proba-
bility that the organization of the House
by the adoption Of rules and APP
pointment of committees would not
be completed for two or three
weeks has changed into almost a certain
ty. AS yet no call for meeting of the
| committee on rules has been issued al
though one may be tomorrow or Tuesday.
One of the members Of the majority of the
committee when asked about the prospect
| for acting on the rules, said that until the
present order of the House had exphed
there was no need of rules.
TO HAVE UNINTERRUPTED SWING.
1t was not possible to break in upon the
| silver debate with another over the adop-
| tion Of rules, even were the new code
ready to be reported. So, in his opinion,
the committee would not be in hurry to
prepare their report.
The member further remarked that the
| probabilities were that the rules of the
House in the Fifty-second congress,
which had been referred to the commit
tee for consideration, would not be ma
terially changed; in fact, he expected
but few changes Of any nature from the
| system under which the last House was
| directed.
POSSIBLY CONFERRED on THE RULES.
Secretary Carlisle spent an hour or two
with Speaker Crisp in his old room at the
| capitol last Thursday, and they probably
touched upon the subject Of rules in tho
course Of their conversation. Nothing
could be more natural than that Mr..
| Crisp should solicit an opinion from his
| predecessor in the speakers chair, and
| especially from one who won such high
reputation as a presiding officer as did
| Mr. Carlisle, and any suggestions the sec
| retary saw fit to make would doubtless be
most carefully considered by the commit
| tee
| THE MAJORITY CONTROLS CLOSURE.
! There is but one rule about which any
| general interest attaches, that one Cow
! erning closure. The best obtainable 0pin-
! ion is that there win be no radical change
! from the rule in force in the last con-
gress, which gave the House power to
! end debate or prevent filibustering upon
anV prOpOsitiOu whenever the majority so