The Irish standard., 1893-10-28
THE FIGHT ENDS.
Advocates in the Senate OF Free
Silver Decide to Surrender.
Without Further Attempt ut Obstructioa
the voorhees, Hill for Unconditional
Repeal VIII He Passed -Pro-
oeedings In the House.
IN THE SENATE.

after a lively tilt between Senator But
Ter, of South Carolina, and Senator
Hill, of New York, in which the former
invited the latter to fstic encounter
with him, the journal was approved
and the repeal bill was then taken up,
for the first time since Monday. Sen
ator PETER then resumed his speech
against the bin, begun on Friday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2l.-The senate de-
voted four hours and half to execu-
tive business yesterday, confirming the
appointment of j. j. Van Allen as am
bassador to Italy, and also gave the
seal of it's approval to the appointment
of Mr.. Kilbreth as collector of customs
at New York During the brief period
that the doors were open and the public
admitted to the galleries few nnim-
portant events occurred
WAsHINGroN, Oct. Ex-senator PETER
(Kan.) occupied the time in the senate
yesterday in q speech against the silver
repeal bill
WASHINGTON, Oct 24.-At no time in
the last sixty days of the silver strug-
gle has the condition of affairs been
more chaotic than it was yesterday.
President Cleveland has DESTROYED the
last vestige of hope for compromise
by his authoritative statement that I'M
conditional repeal is the only settle
ment of the question which will be sat-
isfactory to him. He says further:
1.-The financial question has ceased to be the
great one before the United States senate. The
paramount Ques ton now is, whether the ma.
jority of the senate shall be permitted to legis-
la or whether a minority will compel the ma
jority to abdicate its functions. This is vital
issue involving fundamental principle of our
government, and it must. be settled before un.
conditional repeal, tariff or any other subject
to which the majority wishes TO address itself
can be considered"
Speeches against the silver purchase
repeal bill were made by three senators
from silver states-Jones and Stewart,
of Nevada, and Teller, of Colorado.
WASHINGTON, Oct 25.-After strug-
gle lasting seventy-six days Senator
Harris (den,., Tenn.), acting for the
silver democrats, informed the silver
republicans in the senate yesterday
that the democrats, after taking all the
circumstances into consideration, had
decided that their best course was to
drop the fight against the silver repeal
bill and allow it to come to vote.
There are twenty-seven amendments to
the bill and test vote on one of them
will probably dispose of all
The House.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. The house
adopted resolution making the
bankruptcy bill special order for
next week Mr.. Wheeler. from the
committee on territories: called up
a bill requiring land grant railroads to
maintain stations at town sites estab~
lished by the interior department in
the territories. The morning hour ex-
pired before the measure was disposed
of. The remainder of the session was
devoted to services in memory Of the
late Representative Mutchler (Pa)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-ln the house
yesterday the attorney general trans
mitted information relating to the I'm
ion Pacific railroad, joint resolution
was passed to remit half the duty ON
goods exhibited and sold at the worlds
fair.
WASHINGTON, Oct IS. Bills were in
troduced in the house Saturday to pro-
vide for an international maritime con-
ference to formulate regulations better
to protect and care for animals in
transit on ocean vessels, and to in
crease the penalty for embezzlement
by directors and officers of national
banks. ta5
WAsH1NGroN, Oct. 24.-The public
printing bill, resolution distributing
s237, 900 now held by the receiver of the
Mormon church for the charitable pur-
poses originally designed, and bill
appropriating $4,000 to construct a
revenue cutter for service on the great
lakes were passed by the house yester-
day. The Oates bankruptcy bill was
taken up for consideration without q
limit being fixed for general debate. A
bill was introduced amending the civil
service law SO as to provide for an equal
division of offices among the states and
their congressional districts.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-In the house
yesterday the time was occupied in dis
cussing the bill to establis a uniform
system of bankruptcy in the United
States .....
Negroes Lynched in Louisiana.
SHREVEPORT, La, Oct. 25.--Kear
Knox Point, Bossier parish, 20 miles