The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-10-20
SILVER'S WEEK.
The Senate Sure of Another Round
of Silver Talk.
EVENTS FAVORABLE TO COMPROMISE.
A Patched-Up Measure Likely to Pass That
No One VIII Father-SeyeraI
Speeches Unfin-
fshed.

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! Voorhees, repeal bill, or substitute for
it, will again this week command the
exclusive attention of the senate, but
| the indications now are that this will
be the last week for the present given
| to the subject in the senate. If the
| compromise does not encounter
unexpected obstacles, n substitute
will be prepared for introduce
tion by the middle of the
week 1t is a part of the programme
not to introduce the bill until asSur-
ance of sufficient support to secure its
passage is received. Consequently,
| when the bill is once presented in the
senate. it will be generally understood
| that the end is in sight. There will be
some brief speeches in explanation if
not in defense of the measure and some
long speeches in opposition to it.
Being a compromise measure, it will
represent no one mans views, and it
will not be satisfactory to anyone. 1t
will be composite picture of the Opin-
/ ions of Senators Cockrell, Jones, of
| Arkansas, Harris. Faulkner, German,
! Gray, Hill and many other democratic
senators with a snap shot at the theo-
! ries of some of the republican senators
as well. As a consequence no one will
see himself in it.
No more will it be familiar to the
liking of any one section of the coun-
try. but it will probably go through as
introduced and become a law. The
senators from the silver producing
states will be the most vigorous in
their expression of disappointment.
Yet it is barely possible that some of
them will vote for it. They will do so
if necessary to get the bill through,
and in doing so will not he inconsistent
They will take the bill as a choice of
evils if it should prove to be at all
favorable to silver. As a matter of
fact. as the bill is now outlined it is
really more favorable to the white
metal than the silver men have hoped
for at any time since Senator voorhees,
announced his adherence to the re-
pcalers. 1t is prObab BILE. however. that
the senators of the silver producing
for the bill.
The compromise workers are not yet
hopeless of securing the assent of al
most all the repeal leaders on the demo-
cratic side, and of making the substi-
tute as party measure, just as under
the advice of Senator GOrmaus they at
tempted at the beginning of the session
To make the original bill. If they do
not get the support of the entire party
II tie senate. they will probably get
sufficient number of votes from among
the repeal republicans to guarantee
the success of the bill.
There are known to be several repub-
licans on the repeal side whose unfriend-
linesS to silver is of so mild n kind that
thev will be more than willing to see it
retain a fair degree of recognition in
this country. If. therefore the bill
should come in with a limitation in
point of time and amount of the silver
purchases, with Il provision for bonds
for the preservation of the parity of
gold and silver and without any refer
ence to the removal of the state bank
tax. as it now promises, IL wOIld secure
support from the repealers on that side
of the chamber if necessary for its pas
sage. The democratic senators who
are holding on the most stiffiy against
the compromise are the personal cham
pions of the president, like Voorhees,,
Palmer. Mills Smith and Villas.
The belief is the house viii accept
almost any substitute the senate will
adopt and q majority incline to the
opinion the president will sign the bill
when it shall reach him. There are a
great many members of the house who
voted for repeal who desire an opportu-
nifty to show that they are not so an
tagonistic to silver as their former vote
would indicate. They also want the
qucat ton settled. There is also gen
eral belief that when the bill is once
signed there will be a speedy movement
in congress looking to a recess until
the beginning of the regular session on
the first Monday in December.
The outlook, therefore, for the SEN
ate this week is that Senators Jones.
PETER and Martin will conclude
speeches already begun; that Senators
Voorhees,. Allen and Stewart may also
have some concluding words to utter
and that the compromise bill will be
brought in and while it will possibly
be Immediately accepted, there viii be
some more oratory before it is put
through.