St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-14
THE SENATE ADJOURNS
Without Reaching a Vote on
Repeal.

Repeal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA, p. m.-The
room OF the senate committee on ap-
preparations has been the scene of most
OF the conferences which have taken
place, and Senator Cockrell. the chair
man of the committee on appropriations,
has rapidly come to the front as the
moving spirit i'll securing a compromise.
He has not in this work had the active
cooperation of MeSsrs German. Vest and
Faulkner. Their object has been to
find means of settling the question so as
to preserve autonomy of the Democratic
party and to grant such recognition to
silver as money as may be possible.
They have had before them all the
amendments so far offered and have
been getting up a patchwork, which,
when it is turned out, will prove to have
some of the features OF all, with pos
slbly some of those in the present
law. 1t will, in all probability,
provide for the coinage of the Seignor-
age of silver now in the treasury and
tor the continued purchase and coinage
of silver at the rate of from 100000 to
S3,000,000 per month for a specified
time, and for the redt :: ion of all
paper currency except silver certificates
and OF all gold coins of smaller de-
nomination than go. All tne- is being
done is being done by the Demo-
cratic senators. 1t seems probable that
the measure will encounter the oppose
ton of the solid Repu! Gah party in
the senate. The silver Republicans will
make vigorous objections to all limita-
lions of purchase to period within the
term of Mr.. Cleveland, but probably not
filibuster, as their efforts will be futile.
There have been attempts on the part
of some senators to have the bank tax
removed. and on the part of some
others to have provision for the
issuance of bonds included in the
proposed substitute, but at last advices
neither proposition was agreed upon.
The president has not yet given his con-
sent to any compromise, but the leaders
of the repeal forces still say, for pub
LEGATION, that they will not be party to
a compromise, but they are nevertheless
participating III the effort to arrange
one.
At 1850 p. m. the senate adjourned.
At 1850 O'Clock, morning session, Mr..
VOORHEES, made the usual motion that
the senate proceed to the consideration
of the bill to repeal the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act. This was
done, and MIR. Stewart (Rep., New took
the floor. After expressing his gratifi-
cation that the silver senators had not
pleased the British masters of the peO-
pie of the country, Mr.. Stewart re-
sumed his speech which he had left Off
at o'clock this morning.
The first suggestion of the lack of a
quorum came from Mr. PettigreW, of
South Dakota, at 1915. Eighty-five
names were called by the clerk, to which
there were tifty-four responses. eleven
more than quorum.
Mr.. Stewart expressed his displeasure
at the annoyance which the delay caused
him, and then went on with his speech
l lie senate Is SILL i'll session at 1920
p. III. Upon ummportant amendments
the yeas and nays were called for, only
thirty-sevLn voting, the silver men re-
fusing to vote.
The senate is still in session. Sena-
tor Harris says he believes his party in
the senate able to devise bill with suf-
ficIent unanimity to put it through as a
party measure.
Senators Pngh and Jones, leading
silver men, talked in the same strain.
The repeal leaders are apparently as
determined as ever to go forward with
the bill Gnamended.
At this hour, IL p. M, a quorum is
present in the senate and the debate is
dragging along without any particular
interest.
Senator Stewart ceased speaking at s
O'Clock and was succeed by Mr.. PETER.
The galleries are practically deserted.
The president remains firm for uncon-
ditional repeal. and Mr.. Voorhees, will
hold out as long as he can keep a
quorum. The failure of the thirty-eight-
hour session that brought up early this
morning, however, without accomplish
ing anything beyond a demonstration to
the country that the silver men were
capable of Staving off a vote on the
Voorhees, bill indefinitely, has dampened
the enthusiasm of the weary and
broken repeal senators and they have
returned to the fight disheartened and
discouraged. Meanwhile the efforts of
the compromises to find a common
ground goes on.
The basis seems on the Harris and
Vest amendments, but there is a wide
difference of opinion as to whether a
bond provision should or should
not be adopted. If the president
continued to reject all propositions
looking to compromise nothing is left
but an adjournment of congress, unless
the leaders should decide to go ahead
and pass compromise measure and
send it to the White house and place
the responsibility of vetoing or signing
it at Mr.. CleVeland'S door.