The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1893-10-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom oue regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent.
| Washi.eioo. Oct. 9. 1898.
Senator Voorhees, on Saturday gave motto
that next Wednesdays session ofsthe senat
would be made continuous, for The purpos
of trying to get vote upon his bill for tn
repeal of tae purchasing clause of the Sher
maii silver law, and since then every senate
who Is absent. and not paired upon thi
bill has been notified to be on hand Wed
nesday. Numerous attempts have beer
made In the past in the senate to force {
vote upon measures by holding continuous
sessions, but there have been more failure
than successes. and the peculiar circum-
stances surrounding the present attempt
make il almost certnin 10 be failure. NJ
party machinery can be us.d in this con-
test. because there are no party line
observed by the friends and opponents 0
the repeal bill. The question which j.
e.iciting the most interest here is, what
will follow the failure TO reach vote on
the Voorhees, LiIIs One CT two things must
b. done. Ii the bill cannot lie passed il
must either be indefinitely abandoned,
leaving the present law 10 force, or com
prouaise ameEslnsnt that en- b passed be
adopted. Which will it be No man can
at this time answer that question with
absolute certainty. but il being generally
admitted that the present Law is bad one
the probabilities seem 10 favor eomPro-
mise, although number Of prominent
democrats, among them President Cleye-
land, believe that il would be better 10
abandon the bill for a time than to adopt
q make shift compromise.
Whatever Is TIE result, 50 far as The
Voorhees, bill is concerned. the opinion
seems to be increasing daily among con-
seryaiiye nel. regardless Of party affiIia-
tion, that congress must pass a bill author
izing the administration 10 issu< bonds to
increase the gold reserve fund whenever il
may become necessary In order to avoid
| panics. similar 10 the one the country
recently passed through. which may AZ any
time be brOught on By large and contina-
ous exportations Of gold. Men who SIX
months ago opposed an issue Of bonds
under any circumstances are now advocat-
ing that tie authority for iSzning bonds be
given to the administration Il woal6 noi
necessarily follow that the bonds would be
issued. The knowledge that they couId be
issued il Necessary 10 replenish the govern
usent supply Of gold would, in the opinion
Of shrewd fnanciers. Of itself act largely a
: preventative Of the expectation Of gold.
" hen thu house adopted the order clos
ing debate On the bill for the rrpeal Of the
federal election laws. today t0ct 81 and
directing tlaat the voting On the bill and
the amendments proposed thereto shoald
begin tomorrow ard oontinue until the bill
was disposed Of. il vas thought that the
senate would have before this disposed oi
the VOORHEES, repeal bsil and have been
ready to seceive the election rereaI bill.
The democrats ci the hose viii bold :
caucus on the sabiect tonIght. and inasmuch
as il might add additional complications 10
the already sufficiently complicated sitBa-
ton in the senate to send this bill over at
this time the canens may decide that it Ia
advisabi to defer final action on the esec-
iioa bill for time.
Tie Fosd's theatre disaster has been
recalled 10 public nstioe during The pazt
week BY the opsnfng Of the trial of the four
men indicted far criminal negligence in
connection Herewith; by the senate rsso,a-
| tinn for the appointment Of q joint con-
gresSional committee to ascertain the
responsibility Of the government for dama-
gs to families Of Inc victims, and by
beginning os repairs upon the wrecked
building A rusaor that the men Who
Occupied the building asthe time Of the
disaster are to be again pat in ,here to
work as soon as the repairs are completed
has raisse general protest. not only from
the 6ye hundred clerks and their friends, but
from the public al large. Il wonld certainly
ssem 20 be an unnecessary cruelty to compel
these clerks 10 work in that building
again.
President Cleveland and his family
moved out to hi< country residence Saiur-
day afternoon, and shey will remain tlere
until cold weather, the president coming in
to his Office every morning and returning
in the afternoon Mrs Cleveland Is rapidly
regaining her strength and baby Esther is
enjoying good health. Mss Ruth celebrated
her second birthday last week.
| II IL extremely doubtful whether The
joint resolution offered bT Representative
Dasey, of La. for the appropriation ci
Sas.ooo for the relief OF the cyclone suffer
ers on the southern coast gets through con-
gress. Not because irdlvidusl senators and
representatives are opposed TO helping the
sufferers. but because all such appropriations
by the general government have bean op-
posed on principle for many years. on the
theor, that the several states should fur
nish relief to their own,,eitizsns. However
this being an exceptional case the house
committee on appropriations. to which ths
resolution was referred. may igno,e prece-
den, and favofaei5 report it. Should il b
favorably reported it would probably pass.
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