The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-04
HOW THEY WILL VOTE.
A Large Body of Senators Who VIII Con-
sent to Repeal of the Sherman Law
Only on Conditions.


Cincinnati, Aug. 3.-A Washington
special to the Commercial Gazette says:
While it is given out in certain quarters
that the next House will repeal the
Sherman law, there is nothing in evil
dence up to date to authorize the state
ment. No correct poll of members of
Congress has been made on that ques-
ton, although efforts have been made to
get one. It seems almost certain that
without the aid of the Republican votes
the task can not be accomplished.
But the great question that looms
portentously is: After the repeal,
what? There are not over dozen
Democratic Congressman in Washing
ton tonight, and yet every blessed one
of them has panacea for all OF our IL
nancial ills from the farmer Livingston,
of Georgia (Alliance-Democrat), down to
Jerry Simpson (Populist). The ink of
Livingstons' signature was scarcely dry
upon the register of his hotel this morn
ing before he sought a newspaper man
and uncorked himself. Here is a sum-
mary of his scheme: Settle the policy OF
Congress by resolution; then proceed
with legislative measures in detail, be-
ginning with the unconditional repeal of
the Sherman law. Next he would pre-
sent resolution prepared by himself de-
claring it to be the policy and purpose OF
Congress to provide a b1-metalIlc cur
rency and to preserve the parity between
gold and silver.
Following this and a part of which 1t
would be, he would advocate the abolish
ment of the 10 per cent. tax on State
banks. and supplement it with national
currency, issued to the State banks, which
shall be first guaranteed for redemption
by bonds filed by the bank to secure the
State; secondly, by the State itself as
Stunning the responsibility for redemption
and thirdly by the United States, with
this other security behind it, to secure
the people In other words, he would
to the State banks. This is a very old
scheme, which alleged fnanciers have
urged on the government ever since the
oreenb back craze of twenty years ago or
more. In addition to this, the Georgia
statesman demands free coinage, and
claims that the Southern people are with
him. If this be SO, and they can manage
to impress their wives on their repre-
isentatives in Congress the outlook for
financial legislation of remedial character
is gloomy. The truth of the matter is,
that as soon as the Fifty third Congress
is ready to do business the box Of pam
dora will be opened and Congress will be
smothered with the schemes of half
baked fnanciers. 1t is a regrettable fact
that as the South and certain portions OF
the West are in debt to the East, and
being in "hole," it would seem as IT
they intended to pay those debts with an
inflated and deprecated currency
Turning to the United States, there IS
expected from that body. The Demo-
cratic members can do nothing toward
the repeal of the Sherman bill without
the aid of Republicans. The. following
Senators will doubtless vote for repeal !:
Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Camden, Chand-
Ter, Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Frye, Gal
linger, Gibson, German, Gray, Hale,
Hawley, Higgins, Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge,
Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Mitchell wis. },
Morrill,, Palmer, Platt, Proctor, Quay,
Washburn, White Ola. )-33.
The following will vote against repeal
unless satisfactory substitute is first
agreed upon: Allen, Bate, Berry, Gall,
Cameron, Cockrell Coke, Colquitt, Dan
Hunton, Irby, Jones, (Ark.), Jones,
(Nev. J, Kyle, Martin, Mitchell (Ore. J,
Morgan, Pasco, PETER, Pettigrew, Roach,
Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie,
Vance, Walthall, Wolcott, and White
(Cal. )-36.
Blackburn, Dolph, Carey, Caffrey,
Faulkner, Hansbrough, Hill, Henderson,
Mills, Murphy, Perkins (Cal. }, Ransom,
Vest and Voorhees-15. The deciding
vote lies in this doubtful column.