The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-21
Voorhees, Joins Hill to Force a Vote
In the Senate.
H0W TO BREAK THE DEADLOCK.
Further Rumors and Schemes of Com
promise Which Would
Appease tho silver senators-what
Dubois Thinks of the Situation.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.--There Is a per-
ceptible increase of hopeful anticipation
round the senate chamber this morning
that repeated conferences may suggest
some means of breaking the senate dead
lock and permitting action Of some kind
to be taken on the pending silver bill
Yesterdays two hours informal conference
between the senate steering committee
and Secretary Carlisle was followed, it is
said, by a further informal consultation
out at Woodley, Mr.. Cleveland's country
home, between the president, the secretary
of the treasury and Secretaries Gresham
and Lamont. When the senate committee
and Mr.. Carlisle again informally come to-
gether. as it is expected they will do some
time during the day, it is hoped PROPOSE
tion may be evolved which will command
sufficient support to secure not only an
agreement to bring 1t to a vote, but to pass
1t. The difficulty OF bringing 1t to vote is
still the one to be surmounted.
Question OF Dates.
Statements originating from divergent
sources agree that the basis of all the
compromise propositions now on foot is tho
repeal of the Sherman law at some future
day. January /, 1895, July i, 1895, and
July /, 1895, (the last as mentioned in
Senat or Quay's proposed amendment
offered in the senate yesterday, have all
been more or less publicly discussed. The
latest suggested date is July /, lS94-the
beginning of the new fiscal year, and it is
intimated that measure to stop silver
purchases at that time il passed by house
and senate would not meet with an execu-
tive veto. There are other suggestions
going with 1t as to continuing the au-
thority to the secretary of the treasury to
ssue bonds when necessary to maintain
the gold reserve, but at lower rate of in
terest than that prescribed In the specie
resumption act, the withdrawal of small
notes from circulation, etc. All these de-
tails will have to be very nicely adjusted
before the question can be sprung upon
the senate in any shape likely to meet
with success, and then the question will
once more recur, "Can vote be obtained
on the proposition, and howi"
Dubois on the Situation.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, one of the
most aggressive of the silver leaders, being
asked how he viewed the situation, said
as he understood it the plan was to con-
tinue the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act to the 1st of January, 1895. The
southern senators he believed would favor
this and the western senator's, though they
would not vote for it, would not fillibus-
ter against it, but would let 1t go through,
and he believed there would be clear ma
jority In favor of it. He thought the
silver men, both west and south, would
resist any proposition to suspend the pur-
chases on the 1st of July next. On the
whole, he said, the silver men were pretty
well pleased with the situation.
Latest Scheme.
1t Is rumored that there is now scheme
on foot to formulate silver bill which
shall secure democratic and republican
votes sufficient to pass 1t over the presi-
dents veto. This grows out OF the belief
that the president will not approve any
compromise whatever.