The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.


son bill for the unconditional re.
peal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, but this was
merely preliminary skirmish to
the great Legislative battle that is to
be fought in the senate over silver.
Some ugly talk is being INDUCED in
by some Of those who voted for re.
peal in the house, on the promise
that further silver legislation should
at once follow, because of the move
ment now under way to prevent the
house undertaking any other finan.
cial legislation at the extra session,
and if the movement succeeds there
will be more of the talk. An exami.
nation of the entire debate in the
house will show that large majority
of those who voted for repeal an.
nounced themselves as .metallists,
and many of them stated in their
speeches that they would vote for
repeal because they expected silver
legislation to follow. A bill for a
single gold standard could not get
forty votes in the house.
Although there is doubt, notwith-
standing the positive prediction of
such senators as German, Hill,
Morrill, and Allison az to the out
come of the silver battle in the sen.
ate, there is little or none as to the
fate of the Wilson bill, which has
Just passed the house. 1t will be
pigecn.holed by the finance commit
tee, to which it will be referred as
soon as it goes TO the senate. The
fight in the senate will be over the
VOORHEES, bill, which after provid-
ing for the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law, declares
it to be the policy of this govern
ment to maintain a bi-metallic cur
rency.
The administration is making
every effort to secure votes for the
Voorhees, bill from the Southern
senators who have been clas,ed
among those opposed to uncondi-
tional repeal, and this week Presi
dent Cleveland is coming back to
Washir gton to help. Numerous
gains are claimed but the only
names yet mentioned are those Of
Senators CAN and Pasco, of Florida,
who are said to have agreed to fol-
low the example of Senators Vor
bees and Hill in making free
coinage speeches and then voting
for repeal. The work is, however,
only half done when a majority of
promised votes have been obtained
for the Voorhees, bill The bill can
not be passed unless it be voted
upon, and it cannot be voted upon
until the consent of practically all
of the senators has been obtained.
Efforts are now being made to
reach an agreement AS to the length
of time the bill shall be debated
and to set day for taking the
vote, but some of the senator's will
have to undergo great change of
mind before anything definite
comes of them. The senator's from
the silver states say it will be time
enough to talk about setting a time
TO vote after the subject has been
debated reasonable time. 1t is
understood that the administration
senators made an unsuccessful at
tempt to make deal with the Re.
Publican silver senators to secure
The setting of date to vote on the
Voorhees, bill, in return for their
promise to let the tariff alone
during this session of congress.
The proposition for the repeal OF
the tax on state bank currency if
practically dead for awhile, as a
maj ori.y of the house committee on
banking and currency, to which the
bill providing for the repeal was
referred, is opposed to the bill.
The same committee also has before
it the bill providing for the ex
change of U. S. bonds for currency
whenever their owners were willing
to give up the interest for the use
of the currency, and so many OBJ
iections have been raised against il
that its favorable report to the
house is doubtful.
The new rules for the govern
ment Of the house have been com
pleted. While they are not &c