The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-05
THE MAJORITY RULE.
VICE PRESIDENT sTEvENscN,S TiMlD.
tTY AND HILLS AuDAClTY.
Senator Gorman's Masterful Patience and
Voorhees, Hot Headed Denunciations
Interesting Sketches From the Senate
Gallery-The Compromise Question.

| Many inquiries Lave beer received here a.
to why the majority OF ths senate has noi
/ long before this settled the repeal Ggai
by forcing vote The people who max;
| these inquiries cannot have read yhe uews
| papers very closely because il bas been masit
very plain in Washington dispatches for tn'
last two or three weeks that under tht
! rules OF the senate a majority has 10 power
to force vote upon sn unwilling minority
| The situation which has prevailed in ths
| senate for five or six weeks has brought
| one result in IT'S train, and this is that
| sooner or later the traditional practice d
| the senate viii have to be radically changed
| and absolute power given the majority II
| rule. As has already been pointed OFT il
| these dispatches. the majority could obtain
| control under the rules as they now stand
| were the presiding officer willing to he the
| instrument Of the majority for this pur
| pose. There was much talk last week that
! Vice President Stevenson would be willing
| to play this role, and it is true that he did
| have such proposition under csrsidera
| tion. But the oiect was abandoned after
few days consultation among the leaders
Vice President Stevenson did indeed listen
| to the propositions that were made TO him
in this direction by the repeal managers
but he ultimately reached the conclusion
that any attempt on his part 10 coerce the
| minority would seal his own political fate.
Many Preside densial Aspirations.
1t is we'll known in Washington that the
vice president hopes to go up higher; not,
| indeed, through the death of President
Cleveland. but by being nominated and
elected rs his successor in 1896. The vice
president is quietly and carefully playing
all his cards with view to the coming
presidential campaign. His policy is es-
sentially one OF caution, almost of mega
tion. Mr.. Stevenson was never a positive
man and has always believed rather in the
efficacy of neutrality. Some of his most
intimate friends think he is making a great
mistake in this matter. They think he had
an opportunity which, had it been i'm
proved by a display OF courage and deter
mination, would have made him the fore
most man ofyhe Democratic party, except
ing, of course, Mr.. Cleveland One Of these
friends of the vice president, an Illinois
congressman. said to your correspondent:
II urged General Stevenson to take the
bull by the horns in the senate and to make
himself forever famous. / pointed cut
that an opportunity had occurred to him
which few men in this world enjoy
showed him that reform in the parliamen-
tary methods of the senate was inevitable
that the people, irrespective of party and
OF views on particular questions were de-
manding it, and that if he were to be the
pioneer of this refGrm it would surely
work to his political advantage. But Mr.
Stevenson could not see it. Naturally
timld, he has been almost afraid to call his
soul his own since he became the presiding
officer of the senate. The policy of neu-
trality may be a good thing on some occa-
sions, but l do not believe a man can win
the presidency of the United States by
display of colorlessness, purposelessness
and timidity. l say this with regret, for
Mr.. Stevenson is one of my warmest
friends, and nothing in the world could
give me greater pleasure than to see him
succeed to the presidency"
Senator Hill Only Wanted a Chance.
Several other presidential aspirants have
had connection with this repeal bill strug-
gle. One of them is Senator Hill. Mr.
Hill has been exceedingly nervous and i'm
patient all through the contest. Though
not very much in love with Mr.. Cleveland
and far from being supporter of the ad-
thing in his power to urge the repeal bill
through. Many times has he said to his
intimate friends that he would give all the
money he had in the world If he might be
vice president of the United States and
presiding officer of the senate for the space
of few weeks. The opportunity of which
General Stevenson does not care to avail
himself, although urged to do So Senator
l. -s.ls
IF had been in Stevenson's place." SEN
ator Hill says, this billwould have passed
the senate weeks ago. and there would
never more be doubt as to the ability of
the majority to rule in this body"
Senator Goroaan's Masterfuiness.
Men are made of various materials Vice
President Stevenson is neutral. Senator
Hill is audacious and positive. Senator
German is quietly masterful. For several
weeks Senator German has not appeared on
the surface except when he had his tilt
with Mr.. Wolcott. So far AS the ordinary
observer could see, he was doing nothing.
He seemed to be on good terms with both
sides, but it is not in Mr.. Germans nature
to be either neutral or Idle. He has been
at work, and successfully, too, as the cham
pion of compromise, having for his argu-
ment the threatened disruption OF the Dem
ocratic party in case one side or the other |
of this battle should lose its all. While /.
Mr. German does not show his hand until
the time comes, be is always alert. active I
and fall of purpose.
That moment is now here. and Mr. Cor |
man Is at the front. Passage OF bill that |
will be on the yhole satisfactory 20 the |
country, and at the same time make sorle /
concession to the silver producing states I
and avert the disaster which hangs over 4
them, viii be z great triumph for the lead I
ership of Mr.. German In the Democratic .
party. His friends think it will make him (
the Democratic nominee three years nence /
Vigorous Senator Voorhees,.
One reason why the plan 20 use the vice /
president in forcing "A vote never amounted 1
to anything vas the fierce opposition thereto /
of Senator VOORHEES,, tha repeal leader. Mr. !
VOORHEES, denounced the plan in language /
that was raese picturesque tkan Jhat wEie1 /
he usually employs No one bus 4 usiser-
able waelp o. plUtocFat weuid eFer thinE
of sucn thing" said A.r voorhees,. No
one bat besottsn. seifsh Inoneybags
would ever propose that tac vice presaGeE.t
of the United States purge himself and
override the trae. itions ard Liberties of the
senate. No ore bat al laferEIa! Ecid w9r-
Shipping seoundrel xould ever propose that
honorable senators should become party 70
such = v.llaiuorss scheme
When it comes 10 using English language
IN g declanatorT or GeLupeaaIcry ssr4se,
Mr.. Eooraees F. wirkcut a :lrai "a The sesn-
ate. y oeE asked q fe. days aro heg~ loEtg
be was willing To eontsc1e the tatsle for
afooadiF iog4a re peal. II ~ ses.- lss Is.sr
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