Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-18
A SOP FOR SILVER MEN.
The Senate Committee Consid.
 CTS a Bimetallic Clause.
ACTION IS TO BE BEGUN AT ONCE
The Finance Committee Has Made Head way at Last on the Repeal BiIl-A Dull Session of the Senate-More Silver Ora tors In the House Heard From.

tors In the House Heard From.
 WAsHINGToN. Aug. lS.-Action on the silver question is confidently looked for in the senate today. The last meeting of the senate finance committee was attended by every mem Der and conclusions were reached
 which may enable the committee to report
 the repeal bill today. There has been from
 the day the committee first met this ses-
 sion n difference of opinion between the
 silver and antiSilver men that apparently
 could not he reconciled, and although there
 nas been a very free discussion of the mat
 ter these differences are no nearer settle
 ment than when the conferences began.
 The attitude of the chairman, Mir. Noor~
 hecS, however. gave the silver men on the
 committee but little hope, for he said that
 he would vote to report favorably the re
 --". h!l, provided there was a declaration
 Un.ri with it declaring for bimetallism.
 Win Be n BimetalIio Clause.
 The bill. when reported. will contain
 such a declaration. and the vote by which
 it will be reported is estimated by members
 of the committee at to 3, the minority
 consisting of Senator's Harris, Vest. Vance, Jones of Arkansas and Jones of Nevada.
 When the committee adjourned, all had
 been substantially agreed upon but the verbaSe of the bill. and particularly the
 language of the declaration in favor of bi- metallism. It was hoped that this would be disposed of at the meeting this morning and the bill reported. When it Is reported, the chairman will ask that day be fixed for the taking of the vote, and the suGges- tion will be made that this day be almost immediately after the conclusion of the vote in the house.
 A member of the committee opposed to the purchase of silver said he believed the it h, to vote and that there were 26 Republicans and Is Democrats who would vote for the bill, not counting three or four others who might be considered in the same column. Dreary Session of tho Senate. Contrary to general expectation. neither the bill 10 allow national banks to issue notes to the par value of their bonds de posted to secure circulation nor any other financial measure came up in the senate The only new proposition in that direction l was m amendment offered by Mir. German l of Maryland 10 the hank circulation bill, prohibiting national banks from with drawing circulation without previous 50 | days notice 10 the comptroller of the cur renCy and without the approval of the sec retary of the treasury and limiting the az CreEatc amount of such withdrawals to l S3,Oo0,0O0 within any calendar month. | Some two hours time was consumed ia a drrary discussion of the case Of Mr. Man tie claiming a seat in the senate under an | appointment from the governor of Mon tanA, and by unanimous consent the vote | on that question was fixed for p. m. next | Monday.
 Just before the adjournment the joint | resolution for the payment of mileage for | the present session came uP and was passed after an energetic protest against it by Mir. l Vest of Missouri
 The session of the house was an interest | ing one. RIt three speeches were made. The first which was delivered by NIT. Dan | iel O! New \ urk. was addressed to rather empty benches though the views presented in favor of unconditional repeal were we'll l expressed.
 | Then came Nr Cooper. Democrat from
 vida. and he immediately took rank in | ,...- first battalion ot the young orators of | thc house. His >nccch was witty and well l put together. but he rather surprised his | southern colleagues by placing himself | >QuarvlN ln opposition To The free coinage | of silver Sui M tINur of the ppral of the | Shrrn law.
 | Mir. GnldZIrr of Illinois closed the debate
 on the sam" line, and then the house ad | juururl ouI of respect to the memory oi
 the Late J, Logan Chipman of Michigan.