The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent }
WASHINGTON. Oct. 9, 1893.

VI INC schueo Wthch oPoHS VeuhcS"a..
next shall close the curtain will he
rung down on the long drawn out silver
contest. Only one thing seems
absolutely clear and certain at this
writing. and that is that the Voorhees,
bill will not be voted upon. That
fact is probably as clear to Senator
Voorhees, as it is TO most other
people, but the pressure from the
White House was 80 strong for the
holding OF Il continuous session that he
announced it for next Wednesday and
notified all absent repeal senator's to be-
on hand. The contest cannot possibly
be long one as Senator Voorhees, will
have to keep forty-one men on the floor
continually while the silver men will
only need two. The general belief is
that the session will soon die for lack
of a quorum.
What will follow is largely n matter
conjecture. 1t is said by those who
oppose any sort of a silver concession
and demand unconditional repeal or
nothing that President Cleveland
would much prefer seeing the Senate
adjourn, if it cannot pass the voorhees,
bill, than to see it adopt compromise.
If the proposition for adjournment is
made made by Senator Voorhees, The
chances are that it will go through
with whoop, as the silver senators
would doubtless vote solidy for it,
believing that the longer the matter
can be postponed the stronger their
side of the controversy will grow with
the people. Strange as it may appear,
it is upon precisely the same ground
that the President favors adjournment
If the repeal bill cannot he passed; he
belives that pDbli: opinion will have
grown so strong by the time for the
meeting of the regular session that the
senate will then pass the bill. But
there is another and very strong
element to be considered, embracing,
perhaps, majority of the senate which
wants some sort of silver coinage
law, something that unquestionably
recognizes silver money, to take tue
place of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law. That is the element
that will work for the present settle.
mert OF the question by compromise,
and at this time the indications
certainly point to their success, what
ever the actual result may be.
The large number of amendment
something like twenty in all--that
have been offered to the Voorhees, re-
peal bill will make necessary an
unusual display of parliamentary
tactics when the voting begins. if it
ever does. OF course everybody knows
that each of the amendments will have
to be voted upon before the vote is
taken upon the original bill, but what
everybody does not know is the order
in which the amendments will be taken
up and voted upon. Ifs compromise
is reached it is not expected that
all Of the amendments will be taken ND
and voted upon. If compromise is
reached it is expected that all of the
amendments will be withdrawn except
that which provides for the COM
promise.
The majority of the house, not to be
outdone by the senate, has got itself
into a wrangle over the bill for the re-
peal of the Federal election laws, 1t
seems that some of the Democrats
think the Tucker bill repeats too much,
and Representative Fitch, of New
York, has less sweeping bill which lie
wiahes to substitute for it. A Demo.
cratic caucus is TO be held tonight to
decide between the two bills, and the
friends of which ever is defeated NAV
absent themselves in order to break
quorum and prevent the bill being
passed tomorrow as originally intended.
The Populists in the house will vote
but whether they will help to make
quorum remains to be seen; their pait y
is pledged in its national platform to
the repeal of these laws, but crcum-
stances have made their r,peal lie.
desirable to them.
The change of front by certain
senators on the question of confirming
the nomination OF J. J. Van Allen to be
ambassador to Italy may have surprised
some people, but it did not surprise
those who ARE posted on the inside
workings of things political. Tn" big
money in every Presidential campaign
is raised by few rich men, for each
party the one, five aud twenty dollar
contributions are a mere drop in the
bucket when it comes to paying the