New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-07

,s NOTION DEFEATED BY VOTE OF
Nh -. oa-Sor A TEST OF THE sENATES
r,,xc on THE SILVER QUESTION.
inv TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBUNEl
...,,cton Feb. C.-Mr. HIPS motion 10 take up
sr-.r purchase Repeal bill now on the senate
the en- ,vas defeated today by vote of AZ to
csleh0Ai strange, adverse majority than bad been
"S-a ..a on either side o. the chamber. The vote
snuep,.- IN no sense test OF the feeling OF the
wa ~ The silver question. 1t has been pointed
Sen' these dispatches. from the very beginning OF
oa' .sont session. that no antiSiiver leslslatlon
'ne 10 nossblc this winter. No bill for the repeal
W. W. sherman act of 1890 has had at any une
!" congress rcassembled the slightest chance OF
A.om,ng law. Realizing this fac'' lrehuS Oh
r ~, an the Republican side have made no srenu-
ans effort to secure cohs'uer'i'i io' any o ''o''"'
,-or million purchases.
~" ,ne stoppoce of these purchases seemed TO be
,.,,v desired by the President-c elect and had been
r..ntIv tamorcd for by his particular representa-
~. IN Congress, Ii was only natural tnat the
.unt 10 secure a repeal Of the Sherman act shonli
:" ,.t TO be initiated on the Democratic side
y. more so that from that side came the greatest
.<,t,on 10 repeal. NO leader OF the Cleveland
w IN the Senate having the courage to put the
" ON record for or against Mr.. Cleveland's views
tho silver question. Mr.. HILL In response TO the
.w.nt Of New-York State and doubt to dspel
49,, .u uncertainty as to what Democratic Senators
80 ond were not disposed to yield TO the wishes
:, tho President elect, decided last Friday TO make
=. his own responsibility the motion for con>idcri-
Atom and thus disclose TO the public the actial
.,.,s Of feeling In the Democratic party In the
Senate s...,. xuo,, .,o
..-, necessities Of the situation But three weeds
- .,a session remained. An order OF business had
-, eccepted and was already in force which carried
rsrbaps twice as many measures as could possibly
:. considered before March a. To set aside this
.,oc-am1Ie and endanger all the bills now on the
nst simply to plunge the Senate into silver debate
hch coud lead TO nothing seemed 10 those Interested
IN uending legislation impractical ana foolish Mr..
uns MOTION therefore. arrayed against isell not Ohy
,e ful strength of the silver forces in the Senate,
,. also the votes of those Senators opposed to free
.onare and even TO the continuance OF the present
svstem OF silver purchases, who did not care 10
sacrNce practical results In legislation TO vain AT
tempt 10 secure relief under impossible condiuons
So although Mr.. Hi got the support OF eleven other
democratic Senators who We're anxious to pes" as the
afepds' Of the next President he found the Senate
senerally very Indifferent about the success of his
motion and the majority of nineteen cast against it
voud probably have been increased to twenty three
had q full poll Of the body been secured.
Mr. HIPS motion had the good effect however~and
this NAV have Of the chief purposes Of the New
York Senator In making it-of showing very clearly
lust what strength the Democratic side of the
senste Nj. Cleveland may be able to command after
March for his silver policy. OF the thirty eight
Democrats now In the Senate, but fourteen were
wiling to meet Mr.. Cleveland's wishes in regard to
repeal even to the extent Of voting to consider the
Sherman BILL or allowing themselves to be paired in
favor OF the motion. Of these three. MIR. Vest, Mr..
Mills and Mr.. Faulkner are ardent free-coinage men
and were simply standing in'' In complimentary
way with the coming Administration. Twenty Demo
cratic Senators voted against Mr. HIPS motion; three
paired against 1t and one, Mr.. COlquitt, was
absent without pair.
Mr.. Cleveland has following. them the silver
question Of about one-third OF the party strength
In the Senate and judged by the vote cast to-day,
his silver policy must be regarded condemned by
at least two-thirds OF the Democratic leaders whom
he has been employing for three months all known
methods Of pressure and persuasion. With the
changes which to in the Senate after March
g. the strength Of the Democratic silver forces Will
DO stu further increased, and tie outlook for anti
silver legislation will therefore be even more dis
ooungng after Mr.. Clevelands Inauguration than 1t
Is now
As has been said above, the vote ON Mr.. HIPS
motion must not be taken as test of the feeling
Of tho Senate OH the silver question: nor can II be
said to show, except on the Democratic side. t.,
party strength for against silver. OF the % vote
cast for the Hill motion, IL came from the Democratic
side and IL from the Republican. Seven Reput
leans and two Democrats were paired In support OF h
motion. Twenty Demo rats twenty Republicans ant
the two Farmers Alliance Senators voted against thu
motion Three Democrats aud six Republicans wer
hatred against Il. -Four Sen8tors-Mcssrs. Washburn
Warren and Casey, Republicans, and Mr.. Colquitt
Demooratwere absent and impaired Among the twenty
six Republicans opposing the consideration OF he D
for The sake Of maintaining intact the present pro
eramme Of legislation were Messrs. Carey, Cuilom
Dolph, FELTON,, Hansbrough, Mcmillan, Henderson
Perkins, Platt Stockbridge and Wlson-eeven In all
who have always voted against free coinage and would
n.rhsrs support repeal bill now II they saw an!
favorable chance of its passage. Their votes 10
the Hill motion would have carried 1t to-day, but the!
were reluctant TO give any time usaessly TO shVe
debate when so little time Is left for the other CUISINES
Of the Senate. ,,,,
Before the vote was taken his motion, Mr. Hi
made a speech explaining his views on silver. h'
declared In BRIEF that he favored bmetallic coinage
and opposed the purchase scheme as one obstacle !"
attaining q coinage parity between the two metals
The New-York Senator failed to say however whether
he favored the coinage OF silver the present ratio
or an altered one Much interest was shown in th'
vote and the galleries were filled with spectators
during Mr. HIPS speech and the subsequent roiicsh
Before Mr.. Hill began his remarks Mr.. Hoar In
Qured as TO the status Of the bill to repeal the Sher
man act =
Mr. said he had stated last week that during tn
morning hour to-day he would make motion to TAX
up the BILL and he contemplated making such monoh
Other Senators desired to speak on the subject ah'
he thought be ought not to submit speech ana incl
TO press the question to a vote. He should make ''
motion which he had contemplated. but he should asl
TO have the bill laid the table fol- lew DAYS ah'
then made special order so that other senator's wh'
desired TO speak might have opportunity to do 20
Mr. Allison did not want to interfere with the regu
lar proceedings but he hoped that the Senator IRON
New-York would make such motion at the conci'
don Of his speech would give other Senators al
opportunity briefly to express their views on ''H
important question.
Mr.. Hill took the floor and began his speech. III
SAID that when the Sherman act was passed, two an'
4 half years ago. he had been exceedingly shock@'
and alarmed; and that four months before his eiec
ton TO the Senate he had gone to the CITY OF Ne"
York and there publicly taken Issue against the piii
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