Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-09-09
CLEvELANO'S STAND.
Repeal Not To Be Mixed
With Side Issues.
NO AMENDMENTS ALLOWED
Free Siluer Men Responsible for Pro-
posed Compromises.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9-The air is full Of
ru:aors of proposed compromises on the
silver question in the senate. The propo-
stions all emanate from those who favor
free silver or bi-metallism. The friends of
the administration in the senate are not
disposed to entertain any schemes which
will embarrass the pending legislation.
mo compromise Is possible" said Presi-
dent Cleveland In the cabinet meeting yes
terday. "It must be unconditional repeal
or nothing"
Some member of the cabinet had
spoken of the effort which some of the sill
yer Democrats have been making to effect
an agreement upon a compromise by an
amendment to the Voorhees, bill, such as
Senator Faulkner has been talking about
in conversation for the last two weeks,
and which he formally presented In the
speech which he made yesterday, and this
was the presidents reply.
1t Is what he has been saying to every
body ever since the suggestion Of a COM
promise was made to him by some Of the
silver Democrats upon his return from
Gray Gables His representatives In the
senate-Chairman Voorhees,, Senator
Gray, Senator German and others all
said substantially the same thing yester-
day when they were asked about the new
outcropping of the old compromise talk.
AS Chairman Voorhees, said publicly In
the senate, they expect the unconditional
repeal bill to pass the senate.
No Compromise.
The presidents expectation Is that this
bill, having passed the senate and having
been concurred in by the house, will he
presented to him for his signature before
the month is out. After he has signed it
1t will be time enough Cor him to consider
such legislation as that proposed In the
Faulkner amendment.
The president does not propose to have
the repeal bill embarra ssed with any
amendments. Even the proposition to
coin seigniorage bullion is to be held back
until the repeal bill is out of the way. II
any amendment providing for the coinage
Of silver should be added to the voorhees,
bill in the senate, it would compel its ref
erence to the coinage committee when the
bill got to the house, and SO involve 1t In
a tangle, from which 1t would take long
time to extricate it.
Nor Is there any reason to believe
that the administration would approve
Senator Faulkner's scheme at any time,
providing as it does, not only for the
coinage of the bullion In the treasury, but
for the continued purchase of silver and
its coinage until 500, 900 has been
added to our silver money.
What siIverites Want.
The fact that the coinage of the bullion
In the treasury would be spread over sew
eral years under this plan, which is used
to recommend 1t as affording time for its
repeal before silver purchase would begin
under it, is regarded as rather an objec-
ton, because the delay thus provided for
could be utilized by the silverites in re-
covering from their present demoraliza-
tion and promoting legislation more favor
able to silver.
The fact Is that the talk of a compro-
mise comes from Democratic senators
whose constituents are for free coinage
and who naturally feel that they must
make some effort to please their constitu-
ents They have no means Of forcing a
compromise upon the majority of the
senate or the administration and no real
expectation of doing so.
Their purpose has been accomplished
by advertising In speeches and In the
newspapers their desire to do something
for silver" This will crafty their con-
stituents, and will mollify any indigna-
tion that may arise when these same sena-
tors vote for unconditional repeal, as they
fully expect to do, when their proposed
amendments are voted down by the repeal
majority in the senate.