New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-12
THE SENATE'S LAST RESORT.
REPEAL NOW DEPENDENT ON THE PHYSICA
STRENGTH OF IT'S SUPPORTERS.
THE BARBARoUs METHOD AT LAST ADOPTED BY
THE "DELIBERATIvE BRANCH" TO SETTLE
TILE NATIONS FINANCIAL POLICY-COM.
PROMISE STILL LOOKED UPON AS
LIKELY TO BE THE OUTCOME
NO SIGN OF THE END
AT MIDNIGHT.
rpY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBrNE.l

launched at s o'clock this evening on the Sen
ate, and at this writing the repeal and anu
repeal forces are still engaged in determining
the fate of this important and far-reachinf
piece Of legislation by recourse to the pueril'
and unenlightened methods Of the tan-barF
track or the dime-museum platform a large
and eager crowd of spectators fiocked to the
! Capitol to see the most august deli5erative
body in the world put aside for the time It's
boosted dignity and descend to secure action
on a bill before It. to ridiculous and sense
less trial OF persistence and endurance In hold
ing down without interruption the Senate
| seats.
1t must be said that the first stages Of this
| absorbing and congenial competition offered
little to interest or amusc the lookers-on who
journeycd to the Senate Chamber to enjoy the
promised spectacle of a majority imposing It's
will on a minority by holding its victims in
| their places until they were ready to cry quits
from thirst hunger and drowsiness, ana so
| weld To a vote Much Of the moral. not to say
dramatic effect Of the inauguration of the con-
! tinuous-sesson plan was destroyed by the de-
| cison OF the minority to welcome rather than
| oppose the exhaustion test, so that when MI
| Voorhees, announced his programme, and Mr.
Dubois and Mr.. Harris for the opposition ac-
cepted 1t without demur. and. on the contrary
challenged the leader Of the repeal forces To
carry the competition to the furthest limit of
phvsical endurance 1t was not easy to tell off
hand which was the vctmzed and which the
victimizing element in the competition
II had been generally understood that the
anti-repealers would at least make one motion
TO adjourn at the outset as formal protest
AGAINST .coercion Their change OF plan.
agreed on late this afternoon was therefore
,l,,,- r.fAr IN
leave no loophole of escape from the test of en-
durance" for those on either side who would
have preferred to shirk it's application, the
antl-repeal leaders seeing in the trial OF
strength and its more than probable failure a
means Of extorting more favorable terms for
silver than are at present offered by the manp-
ulators of the various Compromise move
ments.
MR. VOORHEES, LACK OF CoNFIDkNcn
That Mr. voorhees, and his nominal support
crs entered to-night's contest with neither con-
NJ nee nor courage was made orly 100 eV-
dent by the incidents of this afternoon. All
dav Mr. Carlisle sat in his Office in the Treas
ury. receiving calls from representatives, "i 'he
various shades Of compromise opinion on the
Democratic size and comforting with them
on the lines that compromise ought to take
10 l. most dtfflltblf ~ 'it' .N'''''''''''''''
Mr. Ransom. a member Of the Democrats
.'stooring committed" formerly a free-coinage
man then a convert" to unconditional re-
,.al and now wavcring toward compromise.
was the first TO arrive at the Treasury for con
s,,ltation He was followed by fenator Har
ris one Of the anti-rcpeal leaders. who Is now
actively engaged in patching up the differences
I'm III. party on silver so as to get solid
Democratic vote for some substitute bill
Last but most important # all. came Mr..
German. the author and champion OF the COM
promi,. policy from the beginning. now az
ever determined that tn, Democratic ranks IN
the Senate shall not BE- split upon the rocks
Of unconditional repeal
With all these Senators Mr. Carlisle talked
and planned for legislation TO follow the sur
render Of the Voorhees, bill at the end of the |
test Of physical endurance" while the author
Of the bill himself conscious Of tn plans and
PURPOSES Of his colleagues. sat gloomy In the |
Senate chamber contemplating the unwccome
and hopeless confess on which he was
soon 10 enter. carrying with him the luck
less fortunes OF unconditional repeal An hour
or two after while he was assuring the au-
dencc In the galleries that he had no TN ought
of compromis. from the beginning. and would
die fighting in the last ditch
for uncOniltlOndl nI"dl, HlS H'''''lH ''"''
read I'm the evening papers this cheering state
nent from his lieutenant on the Democratic
aide the whip" Of the party and secretary
# the caucus. Mr. Faulkner of West Virginia.
COMPROMISE" STILL SAYS MIR. FAULKNER.
81 do not see anything in the situation to
cad me to expect anything but defeat The
session will probably drag along until after
midnight possibly until late in the day to-
morrow but finally we shall have To ADJOURN
After we have been defeated I'm our effort To
ecurc "A vote. our hands will be freed. and we
an then begin the consideration of the terms
f a compromise. This has not been possible
,eretofore because of the difficulty of getting
h. conflicting opinions together With the
act established however. that vote on un-
onditionnl repeal cannot be had this difficulty
yilI be- eliminated and compromise can be
r.ctcd It is absolutely certain that the bill
,jl bc passed in one form or another If nothing
lse is accomplished at this session. There will |
ertainly be no adjournment until this has been
one"
II was this general acceptance on all sides OF
he belief that the impending contest was to ac-
ompsh only the ruin Of these hopes in whose +
ehalf it was undertaken that gave the chlei
ouch Of interest to the rather spiritless pro- I
cedings with which the test of endurance
'as begun. On the anti-repeal side 1t gave an ,
ir of triumph and sef-satisfacton 10 the speech v
Mr.. Dubois, wholly at variance with the
urface aspect of the situation. while. on the ,
Dntrary. It tinged with genuine pathos the h
apologies offered by Mr.. Voorhees,
,r the failures and backsdngs of his tortu-
rs leadership A captain without following =
party manager without authority. "A parlia- u
entary leader without power to impose his
ishes either on the majority or the opposi- q
on the Indiana Senator stood before the Sen II
te touching figure Of despair and helpless !
ess. his own confessions and excuses serving
lly to emphasize the falseness and hopeless :,
ess OF his nominal position.
OPENING OF THE STRUGGLE r.
Never was a decisive parliamentary cam | Il
iign on the part OF supposedly controlling d
ajority started under more melancholy and -
scouraging auspices Mr. Cockrell had :,