The morning call., 1893-07-26
Southern Senators Abhor
ClOture.
COCHRAN VERSUS HILL.
Cleyeland's Old Enemy to Be the
Leader in the House of Rep
resentatives.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.


the Democratic Senators who agree with
him on the financial question the necessity
Of the adoption Of some cloture rule which
wiz enable the majority in the Senate to
reach q vote on the question within
reasonable time. Cleveland realizes that
the greatest danger in the way of a speedy
repeal OF the Sherman law lies in the pos
sibiity Of an indefinite filibustering cam
paign in the Senate.
Out Of this position on the part Of Cleve-
land Is said to have grown a consider
bic conflict between him and the Demo-
cratic Senat tors 1t was due to absence of
any clotlre rule and the inability of the
Republican majority 70 adop. one that the
Democrats were enabled to defeat the force
bill during the Fifty-frst Congress.
At that ime it was said that Clevela nd
had very little sympathy with the fright
and anxiety of Southern Senators, and the
fact that he gave utterance to no opinion
on the subject, and gave no evidence Of
sympathy, was one of the arguments used
against his nomination. amoog the South
ern delegations at Chicago. And though
the argument was utterly Intellectual, tie
Southern men retained the belief that
the force bill was adopted.
The Southern Senators, however retain
q very vivid recollection of the folce-bill
tight and the dangers that surroLnded
them. and there is no term in p4Fliament-
airy usage more distasteful to tEem thal
that of cloture. Mr.. German was the
leader IN the fight against the adoption of
a cloture rule at that time, and. of course,
cannot consistently favor one now. He is
believed to be in full sympathy with Cleve-
land on the financial question, but it is
understood that they are utterly at odds on
the question of cloturp, and there is said
to be considerable friction between them
OIL that question.
There is the keenest interest in the at
titude of Senator Hill and his close polit-
cal associates on the silver question. Re-
cent gossip has it that Hill will push to the
front as the leader of his party in the up
per branch Of Congress, when the question
of repeating the Sherman act is reached,
and that Representative Bourke Cochran
will occupy a similar position in the
House; but the proba biity is that they
will be found leading different factions in
the Democratic party. They agree in only
chasing clause in the Sherman law should
be repealed. Each of them processes to be
bimetallist, but Cockran's studies and
natural inclination cause him to side with
those who declare that they are willing
that bimetallsm should be the policy of
the United States whenever the Govern
ment finds that the European nationsiar
ready to join in adopting it.
Hill is an aggressive bimetallist. His
opinion is that we should morally coerce
the European nations into a recognition of
silver as money. If we cannot do that we
should maintain that position alone and
be defiant of British and continental
legislation in respect to silver.
The senior New York Senator has been
preparing himself for the coming fight By
a careful study of the financial history of
the United States. and especially of the
relations of the Democratic party to the
use of gold and silver as coin money. 1t
is expected that he will take issue with
President Cleveland. excepting that he
will agree with the President that the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law sboulc
be repealed. But, unlike Mr.. Cleveland
aud also unlike the position which Bourke
Cochran will take il the House, Hill will
claim that this should be repealed In order
that it may be possible to return immedi-
atey to free bimetallic coinage; and, as
leader Of those who favor this proposition
in the Senate, Hill expects to take his
place and hopes for greater achievement
as the outcome Of this battle than any he
has gained through mere party d scipline
and the manipulation of Office. His posi-
tion is that free Dlmetallic coinage is the
Democratic doctrine and has been from
the time OF Jefferson.
Mr.. Cochran. too. has been studying
hard. with the result that he is convinced
that the views which he now takes re-
feet the best business sentiment in New
York. But it is more important to know,
perhaps. that his views also reflect the
wishes Of Mr.. Cleveland to a great extent.
and that the President counts upon Mr..
Cochran more than upon any other one
man, excepting possibly Judge Wilson.
for the maintenance Of his opinions upon
the floor of the House.
1t is one of the most remarkable of the
many strange whrlgigs of political for
tune which have been developed since
Mr. Cleveland became a political force
that Cockrsn. WHO made the historic
speech in denunciation of Mr.. Cleveland's 8
political pretensions and who labored
for many days at Chicago that his
then friend. Senator Hill. might be nomi-
mated for the Presidency, should now be
Mr.. Cleveland's chosen leader in the lower
house and the ons expected to propose and
maintain certain policies which Hill in the
Senate can be counted on to repudiate and
antagonize, for Cochran will advocate the
Immediate suspension of the silver pur-
chasing clause Internationally. He is
quite in favor Of the passage of joint
resolution authorizing the President In his
discretion to suspend the Sherman law
when ever he thinks that its operation
tends to make it impossible for the Gov
ernment to maintain the parity between
gold and silver. which another clause in
that law commands.
The following from the Evening News
is at variance with the general opinion
among politicians here:
"Bland will be chairman OF the Commit
tee on Coinage. Holman of Appropriations
and Springer of the Ways and Means. and
Crisp will organize the committees very
much as he did before. The Democratic
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