New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-12
THE HOUSE GETS TO WORK.
DEBATE ON SILVER BEGUN
a FINAL VOTE ON THE REPEAL BILL EX.
PECTED ON AUGUST 2s.

pEMANDED-ELEVEN DAYS TO BE DE-
VOTED TO oRATORY, THEN VOTES
on HALF DOZEN AMEND.
MENTS TO BE TAKEN
rBr TELEGRAPH TO THE rKIBUyEI
| Washington, Aug. ia final vote on the
imposition to repeal the bulion-purchase pro-
vision Of the silver law will probably be taken
IN the House of Representatives on Monday,
August 2s. If the free-coinage Democrats had not
insisted upon encumbering the subject with ex-
traneous matters, and if the House had set to
work promptly as soon it organized, a
vote might have been taken the repeal bill to-
morrow. Instead of that, three days We're wholly
wasted and eleven days more are to be devoted
10 an Improbable debate. No intelligent observer
believes that repeal has gained a single Demo-
cratic vote a result of the negotiations which
have been in progress since Monday Everybody
knows better. Everybody also knows that re-
neal would not have ghost of chance in the
House of Representatives except for the Repub-
uans, who will probably give it many votes
a the Democrats will, although the latter out
number the former nearly two TO one.
Yet the desire Of the Republicans for speedy
.ction has been studiously and completely ig-
pored ty the Administration leaders. although
dsy, to serve them in their negotiations with the
.nti-Administration leaders. To-day, when the
republicans asked the slight boon of an hours
time in which TO debate a proposition which in
yolves fortnghtS delay and virtual waste of
ten DAYS. the "sound-mOney" Democrats TO man
united with Bland and the anti-Administration
nction in refusing il. The dreary debate will 60
on and the country must continue to suffer while
demagogues and patriots air their orator. in the
halls of Congress. Whatever may be the result
Of this debate. it will not be of any benefit TO the
cause of repeal, and the chances that ii will
be harmful
USELESS ENTANGLEMENTS.
Never was good cause coniidcd 10 weaker or
more incapable hands than the pending measure
has been. Mr. Wilson, who offered the repeal
bill to-day, or Mr.. Cochran any other sound
money! Democrat might have offered the sam
measure on Tuesday, and demanded It's cons;dera-
ton without entering into any engagements OF
hampering himself with any enanglemcnts with
the free-coinage faction, and most OF the sound
money Democrats knew it, MIR. Rayner, OF
Maryland. for example. must have known 1t. an
il the emergency is so great. the danger so lmml-
nent as he pictured it to-day he is open 10
censure for his neglect of duty. The excuse io'
DELAY has been that if the "sound-money' Demo
out the recommendation of the President the op-
posing Democratic faction would resort 10 fill
clustering. This excuse is not valid. 1t was In
the power of the Speaker of the House at any
time TO appoint Committee On Rni"s- and ioi
that committee TO bring in special order wnich
would have quickly stopped fibustering against
a measure in which the whole country feels 81
deep and lively an interest
Tie real reasons for the delay were, hrst,
desire to produce a seInblance of Democratic
harmony in regard to the mode of procedure an"
second the rival ambitions and personal 1ealo'i'le
of the self-constituted leaders OF the Aiminlstra
ton Democrats TO these causes and the weak
surrender TO the demands of the iree-silver Demo
Gratis. the country the delay and suspense oi
the next fortnight.
CONCESSIONS TO THE FREE-SlLVER MEN
When the representatives OF the rival Dculo
cratic factions met in conference TINS morhiiis
there was little or no doubt that they would
reach an agreement inasmuch as the AdihIhiSId'
tjon leaders had agreed 10 concedc pretty much
everything that the fiee-silver faction llad oe-
manded. They had also temporarily escaped
from tbe difficulty CAUSED by rivarles among
themselves by agreeing to place the parliamentary
control of the bill in the hands of Mr.. "iIsoh'
Of West Virginia who is generally regarded d.
the coming chairman of tine Ways ana MEANS
Committee, and who had not taken part Ill t'ic
general scramble for precedence among tie sell
constituted leaders OF the repeal movement. INV
truce was signed before the sitting. OIL the ii 'usc
began at noon, and IT was asreeI that 'ile oi'i''
which had been prepared by the respective lac'iohS
should be- at once introduced, to9ethcr WIFI '''
erder of procedure, and immediate consluera'loh
demanded 1t was also arranged that IN case OF
Q serious hitch in the proceedings the COMMITTEE
On Rules should immediately report the coae oi
rules and demand its adoption mat emeiseh'S
did not arise, and the programme was caifleu ou'
10 H.. letter Mr. Wilson introduced and de
msnde1 immediate consideration oi the OH u
,epeal the bullion-purchasc provision, with
prov,o that il shall not impair nor III any man
her affect the egal-tendcr quality of the standard
silvo, dollars heretofore coined, AMI also that
stbo f,,,b and credit of tht United States are
hereby nlcdned TO maintain the parity oi the sii
and silver coin of the United States at the present
legal ratio or such other ratio as may De es-
tablished by law
THE TERMS OF THE TRUCE.
Mr. rland then offered, in tine form OF an
order thc truce which had been agreed TO by the
Representatives of the hostile De"o''"''
and which provides follows
/, il ordered bv th. House that House Bill NO shai
Be taken w for Immediate consideration anu 0o''
fW fourteen DAYS During such consideration h'Rn.
sessions may he held for debate only at the rcIues' "
aher side the daily sessions 70 commence at - u IL"
md continue until D. m. :, ,,.oo >,
Eleven days Of the debate on the D'. W w ',.,,og
eenera debate under the rules Of the last House
General dete the time TO be equally divided between 'hc
two as the Speaker may direct The I''' Uni
debate may be devoted TO the corsldera'io" VI u"
od the amendments a. herein provided uHD' ~ ,hn
tvemInutc rule OF the House as It's coh'm'''o' '" ~
whole house General leave print is hereby Rr"''N
The shall taken first on al ameho'c''' y, .,
ts for the coinage silver at the present rato' " -
nk. then a separate vote 10 be had on S'''''' o. -
neat rro,o,Ing ratio of IL / tnat fail>' o" w
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