The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-09
VILL NOT HAVE CL0TURE.
The Startling Innovation Meets
with Little Favor.
SILVER SENATOR'S MAY TALK
The President Said to Be Discussing
Compromise.
Amendments Considered Looking to the
Purchase and Coinage OF Silver
Bullion In Reduced Amounts
Power for Carlisle.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-The late ex-
tremity, the cloture, is not to be invoked
by the American Senate. A heavy ma
iority of the members are in favor of
unconditional repeal, but this majority
has been carefully polled and it is declared
the conditions are not such as to warrant
such radical departure from the time
honored traditions of the Senate that
would be necessary to secure cloture of
vote. The conference daily held between
the president and leading senators par
ticipated in almost invariably by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Carlisle, has been
full OF promise, not of the passage of the
bill Internationally repeating the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act, but of
this bill amended by such additions as to
give it the undeniable garb of COM
promise. One by one the senators
who openly expressed themselves in favor
of unconditional repeal, and they are
nearly three-ifths of the United States
Senate, have been consulted as to the adj
visibility of cloture rule, and the result
has been that less than 80 of the Sc sena-
tors have expressed themselves in favor
of resorting to such extreme measures.
This startling innovation from the tradl-
tions of the Senate, therefore, will not be
a part of the record to be left behind by
this extraordinary session. With the
proposition for cloture finally abandoned,
there remains but two alternatives for the
repeal senators-compromlse or defeat at
the hands of the filibuster; not in the
open guise OF filibusterers, but in repeated
demands for call of the Senate and resort
to other parliamentary proprieties to pro-
long indefinitely the debate. No one can
doubt of these two alternatives the one
promising the greater benefit appears
likely to be chosen, and that is for COM
promise. A series of conferences is to be
held from time to time until the end OF
next week, when it is hoped clear ma
jority will be found welded to the propo-
sition which will not be opposed by the
minority with enough vehemence to lead
to tilibustering opposition. The propo-
Sition of compromise now under discus
sion and meeting with greater favor, pro-
vides that coupled with the bill repeating
the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act there shall be q law directing
the secretary of the treasury to buy
monthly considerably reduced amount of
silver bullion and to actually coin this
bullion into money. The secretary of the
treasuryis also to be given power to protect
all the gold and currency and money OF
the United States and to make it inter-
changeable. In addition to this the ma
fional banks of the United States are to
be permitted to issue national notes to an
aggregate equal to the face value of
United States bonds on deposit. Conces-.
sions to state banks were also discussed.
The four separate and distinct subjects
with which it is proposed to repeal the bill,
in the various compromise amendments
thereto, represent the four factions into
which the United States Senate may be
said to be divided at this time. None of
these factions would get what it has been
demanding by this legislation, but each
would get slight concessions and some
consolation from unconditional repeal,
and each faction would retire from the
conflict free from the onus of defeat and
with the laurels of partial victory to be
placed to its credit.