Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-10-18
A COMPROMISE CAUCUS.
Arranging For an Important
Conference of Senators.
DEBATE IN SENATE WAXED HOT.

Dubois, Morgan, Hill and Others INDUCED
In . Sharp Exchange of Repartee-Th,
House Passes the National Bank Bilr-A
Brand New Silver Bill.
/ WASHINGTON, Oct. IS-The prospects o.
compromise are stronger today than they
have been at any time during the session
4 Senator Sherman's latest speech caused
some of the Democrats to ask whether il
! was not time for them to agree upon united
action. Before the decision had beer
reached to take a recess Mr.. Vest began
/ circulating among his colleagues petition
addressed to the chairman of the caucus
asking him to issue a call for the caucus
/ The CALL which Mr.. Vest had drawn up
was carefully worded, and every man who
I signed it thereby pledged himself to abide
by the decision of the caucus. 1t was no
ticeable that when this paper was presented
to Democratic repealers they declined, after
reading the caption, to sign the request.
1t requires D Democrats-a majority OF
the majority-to make this call effective,
and according to the count of the silver
Democrats they have just that number.
This estimate includes Mr.. Kyle and Mr.
Martin, who are, the southern men claim,
more Democrats than Populists Mr.. Vest
hopes to get some of the repeal Democrats
to sign his paper.
Caucus Means a Compromise.
1t is said that when MIR. voorhees, moved
to take recess, and, as he said, poured
oil on the troubled waters" he knew of
the contemplated caucus and thought it
best not to push matters pending the at
tempt of his colleagues to get together
When asked the point blank question
whether or not the administration Demo
Gratis would enter this caucus one of Mr..
Nn1rhaaSt NaSf -far-- oosl
could be no doubt that if the majority or
dered the caucus all Democrats would par
ticipate in its deliberations. Not having
signed the caucus pledge, they could be
free to act for themselves, and while some
would not go to the extent of binding
themselves beforehand, this senator said
no expected much good to grow out of the
conference. The mere fact that caucus
was held, if it should be held, was, he said,
significant of itself.
If the fight for unconditional repeal is to
be continued on the lines now laid down, a
caucus was absolutely unnecessary. \ eau
Gus could, he thought, mean but one thing,
and that was compromise.
OF course, until Mr. Vest secures the re-
quisite number of signatures to authorize
Mr.. German to issue the call, repeal SEN
ators will not discuss the probable results
of this bringing together of the clashing
ldSblOuS
1t is probable that the caucus will be
held this evening, but possibly not until
later. Repeal senators will not admit that
the caucus will act contrary TO the present
attitude of the administration, for they
deny that the silver men are in the major
ity.
Senators Indulge In Repartee.
a most interesting and important de-
bate took place in the senate. Mr. Dolph
had made point on Monday evening that
the two Populist senators-Allen of Ne
braska and Kyle of South Dakota-had not
answered to their names, although they
were present, and he contended that their
presence should be entered in the journal.
Around that question the parliamentary
struggle wdged all day and bristled with
bitter sarcasms, jibes and personalities.
Mr.. Dolph, having expressed himself as
tired of all the obstruction, was told by
Mr.. Harris that if he was tired he had bet
ter sit down and rest. and that would be a
relief to the senator himself and to the SEN
ate. Mr. Hoar made statement that ION
all questions which affect the welfare of
the American people, by rules, through
rules or over rules by the senate, through
the senate or over the senate, the irresisti-
BILE will of the American people will have
its way"
Mr.. Hill argued in favor of Mr.. Dolph's
contention, aud said that the art of "how
not to do it" seemed to be the effort of the
senate. Mr. Morgan spoke of Mr.. Hill as
a New York politician who had introduced
the heresy of counting a quorum when he
was president of the New York senate.
Mr.. Hill retorted ironically that there were
no politicians in Alabama. There they
were all statesmen, and he twitted Mr.
Morgan's expressed reverence for the con-
stitution of the United States by suggest
ing that for n certain portion of that SEN
ator's career he had been supporting an
other constitution.
Morgan Loses His Temper.
Mr.. Morgan spent good deal of time
over what he called a coalition between
Democratic and Republican senators, and
when Mr.. Washburn denied that there was
any such coalition he was tartly stopped
by Mr.. Morgan who said that he had not
had thought in his mind of the Mime
sofa senator as one of the Republican lead
ers. Then an allusion to the influence of
national banks in getting up the coalition
was resented by Mr.. Gray, who said that it
was not true, and when Mr. Morgan asked
him whether he wanted to make a per-
sonal matter of it, Mr.. Gray modified the
remark by saying that so far as he was
concerned it was not true.
Mr.. Washburn having declared his re-
solve NOT TO be SranpedeQ or lnSulted, he
was, tohd~by Mr.. Morgan that he was re-
sponsibls for what he said either IN the SEN
ate or outside, and he added: You under
stand Unexpectedly responsible"
The great speech of the day was made by
Mr.. Sherman. He criticised the Democrat
ic senators very severely for their failure to
come to some agreement among themselves
and counseled them to do so.
Without arriving at any decision on the
question the senate adjourned.
MT. Phillips Silver BILL