Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
A CRISIS IN THE SENATE.
Today the Silver Men Hope to
 Force a Compromise.
ELECTION REPEAL BILL PASSED.

With a Rig Majority the Tucker RIIl Was
 Put Through the House by the Demo-
 crRts-Thc Republicans Saw That It Was
 Useless to Try to Break the Quorum.
 WASHTNGToN, Oct. Il.-As the eve of the est of physical endurance approaches there appear to be manifestations of uneasiness on the part of some of the administration senators, and this feeling was evinced in numerous conferences between administra- tiOn and antiadministration Democrats, a number of these conferences taking place in Mir Voorhees, room.
 The attitude of the Republicans is caus- ing the Democrats some alarm. Whether they will go to the extent of remaining and assisting through the weary watches of the night in maintaining quorum is ques- tion that cannot be definitely answered.
 The Silver Mems Programme.
 A prominent Democrat who has been identified with the repeating forces said that it was a significant fact that the great Republican convention of the state of New York the other day failed utterly to refer to the silver question, and that two such distinguished Republicans as Chauncey Depew and Pierpont Morgan had come out in interviews advocating acompromise In the face of such things, he said, the Re publicans could hardly be expected to go to extremes in indorsing a Democratic admin istration
 This Democrat rrpudiates the idea of any attempt to adjourn without doing any thing or even to take an extended recess, saying that would be the most Suicidal policy the party could follow He believes that the only issue that can come from the struggle is compromise and is hoping that some tangible agreement may yet be of fered before it is too late
 He, however, expects the battle to be over by the end of this week should it be so, there will be plenty of work for the senate, for the bill to repeal the federal election laws came over from the house only short time after it passed that body
 According to the programme of the sill yer men, they will make a motion to ad- journ today when the usual hour of 6 ar rives, which motion will of course be voted down by the repealers Then Mir Dubois, speaking for the silver men, will state their position, after which the debate will pro ceed, A. R. Martin of Kansas opening.
 He will probably be followed by Mir Stewart. Mir. Dubois will remain on guard and insist upon the presence of a quorum The silver men will remain and aid in keeping up the quorum until about II o'clock, when, as one of them put it last "
 This means that the silver men will with draw and force the repealers to have their own quorum present. Should any attempt be made to adjourn or take recess, the silver men will AntagoniZe it and insist upon q continuous session until some agreement has been reached
 The Tucker Bill Goes Through.
 The house passed by the overwhelming majority of yeas 2ul. nays 100. the Tucker bill to repeal the federal election laws
 The Republicans had intended to refrain from voting on the final passage, but when the Democrats mustered IS3 votes on the hrst amendment proposed they saw that it was absolutely impossible to break quo rum and yielded as gracefully as might be Inc vote was strictly party one, but the third party men joined with the Demo crats. The house then adjourned
 Senator Squire of Washington gave no. tlce Of an amendment to the silver pur- chase repeal bill It proposes the coinage Of silver for private owners to the amount Cf S2,oOOOo month, not To exceed $lOO.- 0O0, 0,OO0 in all-the owners to receive in coin only the commercial value of the bullion on the day of deposit. and the difference to De retained by the government as Seignior. age. It also proposes the issue of five wear per cent bonds to the amount of S2OO, ,0OO,- OoO the proceeds of which are to be used Tor the redemption of nited States notes
 There were two speeches delivered on the repeal bill-the first by Senator McPher- son and the second by Senator Cockrell, Mir. McPherson'S speech was in support of the bill He declared il to be his belief which was shared, he thought, by two thirds of the people of the United States who had any opinion on the subject. that the sherman law was the main cause, the true cause, the only visible cause of the business troubles of the country.
 Mr, Cockrel's speech was in continua- ton of the one which he began yesterday and was directed against the pending bill. He ridiculed the idea of the sherman law having had any significance in bringing about the financial panic, and attributed 1T rather to the legislation Iu establish gold monometallism in European countries and in the United States. But as to interna- Ilonal bimetalliSm, that, in his opiniun was an impOssibility, a mere dream, as i'm practicable as a universal language He spoke for five hours and had not then come to an end of his speech.
 The house bill to repeal the election laws was received during the day