The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-09-15
An Organized Effort to Lengthen the
Session.
Patriotic Statesmen Still Paw the Am,
bent Air.
THE SENATE is STILL HARD AT IT
No Pension Legislation to Be Considered
During the Present Congress-, Says
tn. Pension Committee.

III tuc SlLudlIOu respecting dCCIth upoI
the silver repeal bill in the senate fo
two or three weeks yet. The silver mel
are a little more hopeful TO night thar
they have been at any time during thu
past week. They have perfected ar
organization to defeat a direct vote. i
is organized delay. Senator Jones, Of
Nevada, says he has prepared a speecl
which will consume four days, and tina
he can then consume four days more i
necessary by having read certain volumes
Of the Congressional Record as q I part OF
his remarks. Senator Dubois, of Idaho,
says he also is loaded to the muzzle and
can consumes week if necessary. There
are almost a score of silver senators to
speak yet.
\ branch of the silver mems pro,
grammc is to precipitate as many extra,
neOus issues as possible in the senate,
like the propositions made to day by Mr..
Stewart, of Nevada, to name a senate
committee to investigate the question
whether any senator owns national bank
stock. All of these issues will serve to
kill time, arouse counter feeling and have
a tendency to divide the repeal column,
which has O a majority of ten or twelve
in the senate. Then it is the belief Of the
silver men that debate, which will be pre-
cipitated in the house this week upon the
intensely partisan bill, repeating all laws
allowing federal troops and deputy
United States m~arshals at the election
polls and giving the states absolute iuris-
diCtion over and control of all elections,
will have the effect of driving republican
senators from the repeal ranks as the
silver repeal bill is an administration
measure" There is no doubt that the
election bill will arouse intense feeling in
congress and draw the party lines taut,
but it is not likely to turn republican
senators from what they believe to be a
nonpartisan and patriotic duty-support
the repeal bill.
Meanwhile President Cleveland says
there shall be no compromise upon silver,
that it must be unconditional repeal first,
and then consideration of financial meas
ures and propositions to take the place
of the present law. Just now the out
look is dubious and promises a prolonged
and spirited contest.
If the senate would dispose Of this
matter without further delay the com
plete restoration of financial confidence
would come at once, but there is little
reason to doubt that the senate will ulti-
mately concur in the action of the house.
There is unquestionably a majority Of
that body favorable to repeal, and it
is not to be supposed that they will sub
NIT indefinitely to efforts of the minority
to defeat their will.
Great surprise was expressed among
the republicans in congress when thew
learned that the senate committee on pen
sions had agreed by a strict party Vote
the republicans all voting in opposition
to consider no pension legislation what.
ever during the present congress-. 1t was
understood that this action was at the
suggestion of President Cleveland, who
did not want to continue his record of
vetoing pension bills. The GLOBE cor.
respondent this afternoon asked Repre- {
sentative Picker, of South Dakota, who s
is one of the leading pension advocates
the lower branch of congress-, what ,
the present status of affairs at the
office under the modified order f
- 1-pClIlcl, anu WnoJDpr |
he thought pensioners would now be
given a fair chance to have their claims
acted upon. Major Picker said
Under the last modification of Com
missioner of Pensions Lochren under
that he will rate pensions exactly
Commissioner Raum was rating when
l9 was commissioner. In other words,
t Is Il complete reversal of the orders to q
uspcnd pensions and a return to Raum's )
nd Mobiles practice. If the order that
low stands is carried cut in good faith
customers should receive pensions as in =
be last administration. One very sig \
iticant fact, however, is that from March D
, 1898, TO August 26, 1898, there were =