The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-11-04
THIRD CONGRESS-
tpROCEEDTNGS or rae SPECIAL
SESSION OF CONGRESS-.

eNOCk1NO1N62 OF VHE SRECIA4
SESSION OF CONGRESS-.
CONDENSED Record OF the Business
Deing Transacted by our National
Observation-Disclosures Report Day
by Day. ~
Washington, Oct. Ex-senator Voorhees,
give notice of an amendment to the rules
when the senate convened. 1t provides
that when a bill or resolution pending in
the senate a. unfinished business shall
have been debated thirty days, any SEN
ator may move to fix q time for taking
a vote thereon. Such motion shall not re
amendable nor debatable, and if passed,
the: pending bill or resolution shall b.
voted upon at the time fixed. This Is
considered to mean that. the fight IF the
repeal men will be- continued AMI that
by a closure rule will secure the passage
of the repeal bill. The compromise men
arc said to be at sea-, being unable to
agree upon the bond question and when
the Sherman act is to be dispensed with.
A hill was to have been fixed up lest
night, but it failed to materialize. Tho
most of the Gay was spent by the penate
in secret session. The nomination Of Van
Allen rs ambassador to Italy was roll.
firned.
Seven or eight Democratic senators Wis.,
tied Secretary Carlisle and submitted to
him q proposition to take the place of the
repeal measure now before the senate,
which they thought practically all of the
Democratic SEM tors would support. Sec
rotary Carlisle dissented from some of
the terms of the proposition and showed
wherein they would in practical operation
be Objectionable. There is excellent rea-
con for saying, however, that before the
middle Of next week the repeal bill will
pass to take effect rot later than Oct. l,
1884, probably with a provision author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
issue bends not exceeding $2W,OOO,@
and coin the s~eigLoIagc ntw In the treas
ury. This, it is said, would not be con-
sidered a surrender by the administration,
and it is stated on reliable authority
that the bill passed in this shape would
not be Objectionable to the president.
Nothing of Importance was transacted
in the house.
Washington, Oct. 23.-The silver ques-
ton will probably again this week occupy
the attention of the senate to the ex-
clusion of every other subject, unless it
be some minor matter like the confrma-
ton of presidential appointments. Even
though the compromise bill be brought in
there is little prospect of concluding the
consideration of the question before a
week has passed. There is a possibility
that the compromise may fail, though all
the probabilities are in favor Of its sue
cess. If it should fail the throttle will
- Al,s.~~ ,-3lc o~oo o~oSp on1 ~ ono
can foretell what the week might bring
forth. Such a state Of affairs would be
almost certain to force the senate into
a fierce fight over the rules. 1t is proba-
BILE that Senator Voorhees, will make a
summing-up speech during the week it
the compromise amendment is introduced.
The course of events in the house
will hinge upon the result of the effort
to put through the compromise at the 9TH
er end Of the capitol. If the compromise
should reach the house before the consid-
GRAFTON of the bankruptcy bill, which is
made q continuing order beginning to-
day, is disposed OF, that order will be
vacated to the end that prompt action
may be had on tho financial measures.
1t is not expected, however, that the
compromise bill will reach the house I'M
der the most favorable circumstances
until the latter end of the week. Unless
it becomes apparent that there might be
unreasonable delay in the committee the
bill will be referred under the rule to the
coinage, weights and measures commit
tee. If there 10 A disposition to hold it
there a. motion will be made to concur
in the senate amendments when the bill
is taken from the speakers table. The
..&x:k,,1n ~ tho ponn1lsNOn -fnxVyor I TIM
bill will be governed by the course of
the Republican senators. The silver Dem
ocrats, too, except perhaps a few extrem-
lists will follow the lead of their political
brethren of the senate. In fact, no sort
of doubt seems to exist about the house.
1t will pass and pass with expedition
any compromise that goes through the
senate.
Washington, Oct. 24.-Silver compro-
mise is dead. This fact was shown In
the senate when the men who had been
engineering the compromise deal failed
to offer their measure as expected, md
all that is now left to do is to continue
the fight on the old lines and wait until
a vote can be had on the repeal bill now
before the senate. This, it is thought,
will be the latter part of the week.
Those. who were expecting to see the
Democratic. compromise bill introduced
into the senate and speedily passed
through that body found, when the senate
met ut 10 o'clock, that they were more
than likely to be, doomed to d~isappoint-
ment, and as the day wore on the indi-
cations became still more marked. The
compromise bill, over which senators
were SO sanguine Saturday, will never be
introduced in the senate. The reason
for this change in the situation Is found
in the fact that the ccmpromisers have
been unable to get a sufficient number
of pledges to guarantee the passage OF
the bill in case it should be introduced,
and they have said from the beginning
that they would bring in no bill unless
its passage could be assured before Its
introduction. Statements differ as to the
exact number of Democratic senator's
who have signed the agreement, but the
best authority obtainable places the mum,
Der. at thirty-nine, or four less than a.
majority. These four they have thus
far found it impossible to obtain on the
Democratic side of the chamber, and all
overtures Ito the Republicans have SO
far been repealed without exception. Sem
ators Jones md Stewart continued their
speeches, which were listened to by less
than a quorum.
In the house the bankruptcy bill was
taken up and discussed. Several speeches
were made attacking the measure, and
II ID doubtful II It passes. ri
Washington, Oct. Ex-senator Harris,
acting for the silver Democrats, informed
the silver Republicans that the Demo
Gratis had concluded that after taking all
the circumstances into consideration that