The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-09
cleveland FOR REPEAL.
The President Has Thus Very En-
phatiCally Declared Himself.
1T MUST Be UNCONDITIONAL.
That the Object OF the Measure May BE
Attained - He declares That " No
Compromise Is Possible" and That
at Must BE Unconditional Repeal"

WASHINGTON, Sept 9-"No compromiss
is possible" said President Cleveland in
the cabinet meetinv--yesterday. 1T must
be unconditional repeal or nothing"
Some member of the cabinet had
spoken of the effort which some of the sill
yer Democrats have been making to effect
an agreement upon a compromise by an
amendment to the Voorhees, bill, such as
Senator Faulkner has been talking about
in conversation for the last two weeks,
and which he formally presented in the
speech which he made yesterday, and this
was the presidents reply.
1t Is what he has been saying to every
body ever since the suggestion of a CON-
promise was made to him by some of the
silver Democrats upon his return from
Gray Gables. His representatives in the
senate-Chairman Voorhees,, Senator
Gray, Senator German and others all
said substantially the same thing ycster-
day when they were asked about the new
outcropping OF the old compromise talk.
As Chairman Voorhees, said publicly in
the senate, they expect the unconditional
repeal bill to pass the senate.
No Amendments
The presidents expectation is that this
bill, having passed the senate and having
been concurred in by the house, will be
presented to aim for his signature before
the month is out After he has signed it
1t will be time enough Cor him to consider
such legislation as that proposed in the
Faulkner amendment.
The president does not propose to have
the repeal bill embarra ssed with any
amendments. Even the proposition TO
coin seigniorage bullion is to be held back
until the repeal bill is out OF the way. IL
any amendment providing for the coinage
of silver should be added to the voorhees,
bill in the senate, 1t would compel its ref
erence to the coinage committee when the
bill got to the house. and so involve Il In
tangle, from which it would take long
time to extricate 1t.
Nor is there any reason to believe
that the administration would approve
Senator Faulkner's scheme at any time,
providing, as it does, not only for the
coinage of the bullion in the treasury, but
for the continued purchase of silver and
its coinage until S20o000,0O0 has been
added to our silver money.
The Chief Objection.
The fact that the coinage of the bullion
In the treasury would be spread over sew
eral years under this plan, which Is used
TO recommend it as affording time for it's
repeal before silver purchase would begin
under it, is regarded as rather an objec-
tion, because the delay thus provided for
could be utilized by the silvertes in re-
covering from their present denoraliza-
tion and promoting legislation more favor
able to silver.
The fact is that the talk OF a compro-
mise comes from Democratic senators
whose constituents are for free coinage
and who naturally feel that they must
make some effort to please their constitu-
ents. They have no means of forcing a
compromise upou the majority of the
senate or the administration and no real
expectation of doing so.
Their purpose has been accomplished
by advertising in speeches aud in tho
newspapers their desire Co 'do something
for silver" This will crafty their con-
stituents. and will mollify any indigna-
tion that may arise when these same sena-
tors vote for unconditional repeal, as they
fully expect to do, when their proposed
amendments are voted down by the repeal
majority i'm the senafa