The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, August 20, 1880,
The house today passed the Wilson
bill for the unconditional repeal Of the
purchasing clause OF the Sherman sill
yer law. but this was merely prelim-
mary skirmish to the great Legislative
battle that is to be fought in the senate
over silver. Some ugly talk is being
INDUCED in by some Of those who voted
for repeal in the house, on the promise
that further silver Legislation should at
once follow. because OF the movement
now under way to prevent the house
undertaking any other financial legis-
lation at the extra session. and II the
movement succeeds there will be more
Of the talk. An examination OF the en-.
tire debate in the house will show that
large majority OF those who voted for
repeal announced themselves as BIZ
metalists. and many Of them stated in
their speeches that they would vote for
repeal because they expected silver
legislation to follow. A bill for single
gold standard could not get forty votes
in the house.
Although there is doubt, notwith-
standing the positive prediction Of snch
sen ,tors as German. Hill, Morrill, and
Allison, rs to the outcome of the silver
battle in the senate, there is little or
none rs to the fate of the Wilson bill.
which has Just passed the house. 1t
will be pigeon-holed by the finance
committee, to which it will be referred
as soon rs it goes to the senate. The
fight in the senate will be over the
Voorhees, bill, which after providing for
the repeal OF the purchasing clause of
the Sherman law declares il to be the
policy Of this government to maintain n
bimetalic currency.
The administration is making every
effort to secure votes for the Voorhees,
bill from the southern senators who
have been classed among those
opposed to unconditional repeal, and
this week President Cleveland is COM
ing back to Washington to help.
Numerous gains are claimed but the
only names yet mentioned are those of
Senators Call aud Pasco, of Florida,
who are said to have agreed to follow
the example Of Senators Voorhees, and
Hall in making free coinage speeches
and then voting for repeal. The work
is. however, only half done when
majority of promised voted have been
obtained for the Voorhees, bill. The bill
cannot be passed unless it be voted up
on, and it cannot be voted upon until
the consent of practically all OF the
senator's has been obtained. Efforts
are now being made to reach an agree
ment as to the length OF tir1e the bill
shall be debated and to set q day for
taking the vote, but some of the sena-
tors will have to undergo great change
of mind before anything definite comes
OF them. The senators from the silver
states say it will be time enough to
talk about setting time to vote utter
the subject has been debated a reason
able time. 1t is understood that the
administration senator's made an un-
successful attempt to make deal with
the republican silver senators to secure
the setting Of date to vote on the Vor-
hees bill, in return for their promise to
let the tariff alone during this session OF
congress.
The proposition for the repeal of
the tax on state bank currency
is practically dead for awhile, as
a majority of the house commit
tee on banking and currency, to
which the bill providing for the repeal
was referred, is opposed to the bill.
The same committee also has before it
the bill providing for the exchange of
U. s. bonds for currency whenever
their owners were willing to give up the
interest for the use of the currency,
and so many objections have been raised
against it that its favorable report to
the house is doubtful.
The new rules for the government of
the house have been completed. While
thew are not 40 strict az those used by
the last republican house, they are
much stricter than those used by the
last house, and any extended fillibust-
ering will be very difficult, if not i'm
possible.
Senator Lodge has introduced bill
that would, hit were law. accomplish
more practical reform in the civil SER
vice than all the laws now on the
statute books have been able to do up
NJ ia time IT, providaa fnr faL;uoy tI,a