The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-04
BLAND S|DETRACKED.
His Committee Will Not Have
Charge of the Repeal Bill.
PROGRAM OF THE GOLD MEN.
The Voorhees, Bill Not to be Submitted
To the Coinage Committee When 1t
Comes to the House, but to be Given
To the Goldbug Banking Committee.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-The admin
istration leaders in the house are
already perfecting their plans for
dealing with the bill repeating the
silver purchase law when the Voor-
hees substitute comes back to them
from the senate, and they are willing
to accept the Voorhees, bill rather
than risk any delay by throwing it
back to the senate. An impression
has prevailed that concurrence in the
senate substitute could be moved
from the floor without reference to
committee, but the leaders have con-
cluded from an examination of
Speaker Ciisp's rulings in the case of
other bills OF like parliamentary char
acter that he will refer the measure.
He will not refer it, however, to Mr..
Bland's committee on coinage but to
the committee on banking, which
contains eleven members who favor
repeal to five who are against it and
one who is doubtful. The doubtful
member is Black OF Georgia, who
voted with the silver men on the
earlier rollcalls last Monday, but who
swung into the other column on the
final vote for the passage of the Will
son bill.
1t will not take Springer long to get
his committee to submit their report
of concurrence with the senate amend
ment and it will not take the COM
mittee on rules long, if the silver men
/ in the house are in a filibustering
mood, to report special order and
push the bill through.
There appears to be no doubt that
| Speaker Crisp will refer the bill to
the committee on banking rather
than to that on coinage, both from
the nature of the measure and assur-
ances he gave in the conferences
which preced the final agreement for
vote on the Wilson bill. The Wilson
bill and the Voorhees, bill make no
reference to coinage. They neither
curtail existing coinage nor provide
for new, and they do not modify in
any way the provision of the Sherman
law that the secretary of the treasury
shall coin bullion for redemption pur-
poses when he thinks it necessary.
A plan for securing prompt action
had been mapped out by the gold
leaders, which would have accom-
plished repeal almost as quickly
as that which was finally ac-
cepted by the silver men. This plan
contemplated the introduction of a
bill similar to the Wilson bill and the
adoption in the rules of the house of
an order from the committees on
rules providing for vote on given
day. The important point in this
scheme was that all free coinage
amendments were to be ruled out of
order upon the ground that the bill
had nothing to do with coinage. 1t
was to be reported from the banking
committee if reference to committee
if reference to committee became nee
essary and to be treated as acurrency
bill rather than coinage bill.
Speaker Crisp took part in the con-
ferences on the subject and was un-
derstood to be ready to sustain the
point, and it is not doubted that he
will refer the senate substitute to the
committee on banking on precisely
the same grounds. A gentleman who
talked with the president this morn
ing expressed himself as very conf
dent that the Voorhees, bill suspend
ing silver purchases will soon become
law. The gentlemen did not pretend
to quote Cleveland, but he had evil
IDENTIFY received considerable infu-
sion of hopefulness as result OF a