The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-20
REPEAL IN THE SENATE.
Voorhees, Tries to Force 1t to
a Vote,
BUT GETS NO SATISFACTION.
Anti-Repeal Men Declare That They Will
Antagonize the Bill by Every Legiti-
mate Means-Pennsylvania Democrats
Indorse the Cleveland Administration

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-The situa-
ton in the senate on the repeal bill
reached crucial stage this morning.
Voorhees,, the leader of the repeal
forces, after sensational denuncia-
ton of the New York bankers and
defiance to persons that had been ac-
tive in questioning his movements,
demanded of the minority senators
to name date for final vote.
Dnbois of Idaho met the demand
by positive declaration that the an
ti-repeal men would oppose the pas
sage of the repeal bill sby availing
themselves of every advantage af-
forded them under the rules and
usages of the senate.
Voorhees, retaliated by giving notice
that he would tomorrow move for
longer and more nearly continuous
session, so the situation in the senate
appears to have resolved itself into a
mere question of endurance.
Immediately after the senate met
the repeal bill was taken up, and
once more Voorhees, sought to obtain
an agreement as to when the vote
should be taken. Time, he said,
should not be misspent in miscon-
STRUNG the public mind in regard to
the organization of the senate. In
dong this he addressed himself to the
great body of intelligent public opin-
ion, as well as in some quarters to a
dense, Opaque degree of ignorance.
Ignorance in some respects was in
nocent; in others malicious. He
then reviewed the history OF the rules
OF the senate from its creation, show
ing that for seventeen years from
1889 the senate amongst it's rules
made provision for the previous
question. 1t was tried fully, and in
1906, when Thomas Jefferson was
president, it was deliberately aban-
doned and never claimed or admitted
from that hour to the present. lam
now arraigned," said Voorhees,, "be
fore public opinion for not terminal
ing this debate. AS well might / be
arraigned for not terminating the tide
of the ocean or the northwest winds.
In abandoning the cloture rule, the
government OF this great country
placed upon us sense OF proprieiy,
patriotism, Difference to public senti-
ment, and the public interests of each
senator, and of the body itself, with
the assurance in the minds of those
then in the senate that no senator
would be found to abuse the patience
of this body or outrage public busi-
ness or public interest. For eighty
years this body has been a law suffi-
cient unto itself; it has never been
found wanting in peace, or in war, so
that the criticisms of certain class |
will fall as harmless upon this body
as they fall upon me. For as con-
Germs personal criticisms of myself, l
may as well embrace this moment as
another to say that they are met with
absolute stern defiance. / have
served the people of Indiana many
years and have had no explanation
required when have gone home to
them, and treat with scorn and i'm
measurable contempt the suggestions
coming from New York bankers or
anywhere else as to the motives
which govern me. respond to that
kind of criticism by saying it comes
from class whom the Saviour of the
world never spoke Of with repect, nor
do /"