The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
O'rou " REGULAR Core poudenrn
WASHINGTON Oct. Q 'g3

to have used in speaking of the Sem
ate. The test of physical endur-
ance which is to begin in the Senate
on Wednesday of this week is in
tended to force vote on the repeal
bill. At least that IS the impress
sion that Senator VOORHEES, wishes
the public to get Of it. But its real
purpose is to demonstrate to Mr..
CleyelanG the impossibility of fore
ing vote and to get him to listen
to the advice of his cabinet and
many of the shrewdest Senators and
Representatives in his party and
consent to the adoption of COM
promise amendment that will secure
the votes of three ourths of the
Senators. In holding continuous
session the unconditional repeal
Senators play their last trump card;
they will have to keep fortv-one
Senators continuously on the floor,
as the opponents of unconditional
appeal have given notice that they
will only keep two Senators on the
floor at a time-one to speak and
one to watch the others-thus al
loving the rest of their force to rest.
The session which Will begin We'd
nesday at eleven a. m.'may possibly
be kept up for as long a period as
forty-eight hours, but it will sur.
prise no one here if it fzzles out be-
fore daylight on Thursday morn
ing, for lack of quorum. The
twenty-five Republican Senators
who are counted for unconditional
reveal have adopted no program,
bu it is believed that few of them
wili feel it incumbent upon them
selves to endanger their health by
II naming in their seats all night,
particularly when they know that
nothing can thereby be accom-
plished.
Opinion differs as to what will be
done after it has been shown that a
vote cannot be forced by a contln-
uous session of the Senate. If Mr..
Cleveland's idea be followed Con-
gres' will at once adjourn, not take
recess, he having stated his belief
that 1t would be better for Congress
to adjourn until the beginning of
the regular session in Deem Der
than to take a short recess. But
the general impression is that a
compromise amendment will be
adopted before next SATURDAY. night,
thus giving Mr.. Cleveland an op-
portunity to carry out his implied
threat to veto anything other than
unconditional repeal that might be
sent to him.
There is trouble in the House as
we'll as in the Senate. The bill for
the repeal of the Federal election
laws, instead of soldifying the
Democrats of the House as it was
expected to do, has made new
split in their already badly split up
ranks. The Tucker bill, which is
the one under consideration, repeats
every single Federal statute dealing
with elections, and a considerable
number of Democratic members of
the House think it too radical. A
caucus is to be held tonight to de-
eide the dispute. The caucus will
doubtless decide in favor of the
Tucker bill, but it is very doubtful
whether that bill can be passed to-
morrow, according to program.
The Republicancs will not vote to
make quorum and the House may
find itself without one for an indef-
mite period by reason of the absence
OF Democrats opposed to the bill.
Senator PETERS latest bill is the
king pin of all that have gone be-
fore in the long line of absurd
propositions, and 1T is only fair to
Mr.. PETER to say that he does not
favor this monstrosity, but intro
duced it "by request The bill
starts by directing the coinage of
all the gold and silver now in the
Treasury and the coinage of all of
either that shall be offered until the
aggregate of $4,000, 0OO,OOO shall
be reached, but that is merely sort
of preamble, as it were; the gst of
the bill is that proportion which
provides for universal prosperity,
by appropriating 5000, 900, 900 to
be distributed pro rata according to
population among the States and
Territories, the same to be spent in
the improvement of public high
ways, building school houses, etc,
in wages of "a day of eight hours
to each person engaged in the work.
The bill further provides that all
citizens of the United STAGES offer
ing their services shall be employed.
1t would be more sensible, and more
beneficial, if Congress would appro-
pirate money to maintain kinder
garten of political economy, and
compel the regular attendance
thereat of those Senators and Rep
rasnO tativnc who chow hv tno Doturo