The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-28
CLOSURE NOT TO Be TRIED.
A Majority Of the Senators Not in
Favor Of It.

Many Senators Who Will Vote for Re-
peal if the Bill Comes to Vote
Would Prefer Not to Have.It Reach
Vote-No Truth in the Story Of a
Trade Between the Republicans and
Advocates of Repeal on the Tariff
Question-The Vice President Wont
Apply Gag Law.
Washington, Sept. 27.-When the sub
1ect of closure in the Senate has been
talked about, it is generally on the suppo-
sition that majority of the Senate is in
favor of it, and that they could adopt and
enforce it if they wanted to; that they
are withheld therefrom by respect for the
rules, or the time-honored customs, or by
regard for the feelings of their fellow
senator's who differ from them; or some
thing of that sort But il is not so. There
is another, and better and a stronger
roason than all these why clos
ure has not been and will not be
adopted. That reason is this A ma lority
of the senators are not in favor of it. OF
those who will vote for repeal if the bill
comes up, there is quite a number who
are not anxious for it to come up. They
feel that they must vote for it when the
issue is made and they nave to vote either
for or against it; but they would be very
glad to be relieved of the responsibility Of
voting at all. Hence they will not favor
closure.
HOW THEY STAND.
OF those who will vote for repeal if it
comes to vote, there are a number who
ppDIlN want IN for. IL and M yErnU11I
be very glad to have the opportunity to
do so; but they do not now, and never
WILL favor using force to bring it to a
vote. If a vote could be had ia the ordi-
nary way in which the Senate comes to
vote, they would welcome it as a happy
solution of the present dilemma; but
they will not consent TO anything that
looks like bringing force to bear on their
fellow w-senators who differ with them
Take away these two classes from the re-
peal senator's and you will have left
minority of the Senate. A careful estimate
gives 36 senators against repeal and 40
for it. The two classes described above,
who will never agree to closure, are in
cluded in the forty y-nine The probability
of passing the repeal bill without amend
ment, or compromise, or concession of
some kind, appears as remote as it ever
was
RUMORs OF DEAL WILD.
For some time there have been rumors
that deal was in progress between some
of the republicans and some of the re-
peal men, by which the repeal men would
obligate themselves to cooperate with
the republicans in retaining protective
tariff on certain articles in return for the
services which the republicans render to
the repeal men in assisting the cause of
repeal. This alleged coalition has been
talked about for some time. ] do not
think there is anything in it, The re-
publicans are not aiding repeal because
they want to accommodate any democrats,
nor because they are going TO get
some tariff concessions in return:
but because they are in favor of repeal;
they cannot vote any other way their
party obligations will not allow them TO
vote otherwise. Besides, no democrats
could afford to so into any trade of that
sort. Trades of this nature are so dam
aging to the participants that they are
very seldom engaged in; they are 50 likely
to inJure those who make them, that they
are not worth what they cost You may
depend on it, there is no trading in the
Senate over this matter and there is no
way to change any vote in the Senate.
The senators have made up their minds
how they are going to vote, and there will
be no change.
THE vICE-PREsIDENT's PART.
1t is well understood that the plan of
stopping the debate in the Senate by hav-
ing the Vice-President refuse to recog-
nize, at certain time, any silver senator
who rises to speak, has been abandoned,
if, indeed, it was ever contemplated. 1t
is well known that the Vice-President
will not consent to anything of the sort.
So that is out of the question. The de-
cisiOn of the Vice-President is not only in
accordance with the views of most of the
senators-as is supposed-but is also in
accord with what is understood TO be
the general custom that has pre-
vailed with the occupants of his Office.
In fact it is thought by many that the
Vice-President has not much power, nor
many rights anyhow. The history OF the
Office shows that its occupants have not
considered themselves as vested with as
much power and influence as ought by
rights, to belong to the second officer in
the natiOn-the one who is first in the
line Of succession TO the presidency.
A MEDAL OF HONOR.
The Secretary of War has awarded a
medal of honor to Capt. Ernest A Gar
lington, of the Seventh cavalry, for dis
tinguished gallantry at the battle of
Wounded Knee creek, in South Dakota,
on Dec 20, 1890. Capt. Darlington, if I
mistake not, is a son of the late Gen. Gar
lington, who entered the confederate
army from South Carolina and resided
many years in Atlanta after the war.
The clerks who were detailed from the
general land Office to assist in the opening
of the Cherokee strip are returning to
their desks in Washington. They tell
tales of the intense hardships endured by
the settlers in the strip. They say it is a
long way from Paradise. People had to
buy water for their teams No rain has
fallen there since last March People
who live in Georgia may as well be con-
tent Some countries may be better in
some respects, but there is no country
that averages up as well.
FOURTH CLASS POSTMAsTERs.
The number Of fourth-class postmasters
appointed each day now numbers only
about half as many as it did few weeks
ago. The suppositiOn is that material for
making changes is growing less. If the
Postmaster General would turn his atten-
tion 10 his own department, he would inI
some excellent material there to make re
movals out of. He has not come up TO the
full measure of the expectation Of his
party in this respect Secretaries Car
Isle and Smith have done nobly, bet
there are complaints against the others