New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-16
NO PROGRESS IN THE SENATE
REPEAL DEBATE FLOWS ON
REPUBLICAN FRIENDS OF THE BILL ARE
GETTING FESTIVE.
voo,prrs,s iNpEoisIvE LEADERSHIP OF
THE AxrrsrLvER FORCES GIVES NJ
PROMISE OF SPEEDY ACTION

pnoursr OF SPEEDY ACTION
Washington, Sept l5.-Ihc senate ''"'9
,rnreriable progress to-day toward .o'e y" ."s
voorbcss rereal bill, the debate OF inc '"'' .,
wseks flowing on, il anything VIII"
sroothness and fuller promise OF in"e""'', 80
FINANCE A significant face aooue VII. "e
was that for the greater part oil ''e a.'e'uoO"
=, was sustained by two Senators WIZ 'ano'
neal Ncssrs Lindsay, Of kentueRy' anu hisea9'
OF Delaware BY their hearty pd'"o'p"'-o"
The discussion the anti-iepeai sue was ',o'0'
..o,norarily a, least-f,om the impa'ation OF
b,ockins progress and the eject OF '"'s re'"i "''
,.l.,nIv noticeable in the highly improved temper
Of the Senate and the ai'oge'"er i'''o'N
character of to-day's debate
Senator Uigginss entry into the dlscusso"'
frankly explained as it was, may be taken 70 III
a,o.,. that the Republican friends Of repeal are
uo,,;nc little FESTIVE under the vaclllatine AM,
sna.e;s,ve leadership of Mr.. VOORHEES,, ana 1eel
., Oh. nemocra,ic majority will not insist oh
.c,;on' they are themselves properly aDsoi'eo
f,om any Obligation not 70 present the fepuo-
Nc.n view of the pending measure Tor 'hc
ediGca,ion of the country at large as well a.
tbe,r own constituencies Senator Allison "i'''
IN fact. follow Mr. Higgins with speech VI,
tho sound-money side of the silver question: "n'
il Is not unlikely that a number OF otnei "o"
inent Republican Senators will speak wi'nih VIC
next weel, or two in the same interest
indefensible action of the Democrats IN '"e
House Of Representatives on the Tucker OH uoo,
not encourage the Republican fricnds OF iep'"'
10 sit silent any longer under the Deino''"'
ro,,cv NJ inaction i'm the Senate ana theie j.
now 10 reason to expect that they VIII coh'en'
IN eaace themselves In debate hereafter IN 'he
vain hone OF Fastening a vote on the voorhees,
bill.
Mr. Lindsay, of Kentucky, is the successor oi
Mr. Carlisle and appeared to-day in the functon
NJ special pleadcr for the Secretary OF the treas
urv. who is generally looked on by his FORMER
colleagues as having hopelessly forsaken the imam
cisl teachings OF his great predecessor, nut AIT
Lindsay declared himself in favor OF the voorhees,
bill. and sought 10 convict his older Democratic
colleagues. Messis Vance, Pugh and Morgan, and
the rest of nsistcncy, in that they opposed the
enactment Of the Sherman law three years ago ana
opposed it's repeal now 1t cannot be sail, how
ever. that the chdlike ingenuousness with which
MIR Lindsay interpreted unconditional repeal to
mean in the Administrations programme. but a
first step toward the realization OF the 1rec-coih-
age pledges Of the Chicago platform, gtcatiy Itn-
pressed the more wary anu sccptlcal OF uis D,n,o
fr,.,ic associates Mr. Lindsay may really have
relieved lis own assertions about Mr.. tleveland :
snpposod attitude toward further legislation
friendly 10 silver. and his prophecies may haNc
carried conviction with converts OF newborn
zeal like Mr. Voorhees,; but they fell TOT the rest
on douhting and unsympathetic ears.
Mr.. Higgins made an able and iGdruetlye arg
p,ent in favor of the repeal as an act OF SOUND
financial wisdom essential 10 rearfaneemcht OF
~" ,nne,arv sr.,eu, of the world As Tomorrow
bas been sef apart for eulogcs on Senator stan
f"rc and Monday ia n local holiday-the lOoth
anniversary Of the selection OF Washington CIV
tt
Nm will I've practically laid aside iiorn now uHnl
Tuesday next. Lee