The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-16

on nln, ana the CeaSeleSs vigil he had
kept, retired to hls committee room
Thursday aft )noou TO get a little sleep.
Senator Dubois, the watchman of the sill
yer men, noted his absence, found out he
was asleep, and for two hours refrained
from making the point of No quorum, on
purpose TO avoid disturbing the rest of
the repeal champion, After two hours
Voorhees, walked and came back to the
chamber and Dubois went on with his
quorum calling But he received the cor
dial thanks of the repeal leader for his
consideration in letting him sleep two
hours undisturbed by a demand for roll
call
CLEVELAND AGAINST COMPROMISING.
If there ever was any hope on the part
of any senator that word would be re-
cGived from the white house indicating
that President Cleveland would agree to
the presentation of a compromise it has
been by this time dissipated. keep up
the fight for repeal" seems to be the
watchword of the President and the
cabinet There has not been so far a
particle Of encouragement to the com
promise idea from the executive or his
cabinet. The President. it is understood,
will not consider any form of comprom-
ise until IL is presented, against hls pro-
test, after it has actually passed both
planned at the last cabinet meeting, Is
that unconditional repeal is the platform
of the Democratic party, the wish of the
people, the mandate of more than two
thirds of the House of Representatives,
and the wish of a majority of the Senate.
The President has never said that he
would not candidly consider any measure
presented to him by the two houses of
congress, but he wants nothing TO do with
nj inn rFrlf a nd hn ANnn
moi believe that the House of Representa-
tives, fresh from the people, is in favor
of another silver purchase law.
FAULKNER FORGOT TO EAT.
To show how earnest the senators were
in their work during the "test of endur-
ance' proceedings, it may be mentioned
that on Friday Senator Faulkner forgot
TO eat With his usual vigor and energy,
he threw himself into the silver fight,
body and soul, and so occupied was he in
watching lest point should be gained by
his adversaries, and in endea voring to
bring victory to his side, that he tasted
from Fridays breakfast until Saturday
morning
81 absolutely forgot to eat" said he,
land 1t never occurred to me that / had
gone dinnerless and supperless TO bed un-
til ! was at the breakfast table next
and suppose tnat was the reason / felt
so bad the next day; but when / go into
a fight, go in to stay, and am generally
one of the last to leave it,"
This incident illustrates the earnestness
with whi ch the fight was prosecuted
Other senator's may not have forgotten to
eat, as Senator Faulkner did. but the
contest absorbed all their mental facul-
ties as well as all their physical powers,
thew n ~
regardless of everything else for time.
CAN COMPROMISE BE PASSED.
It is becoming an interesting question
whether enough votes can be brought to-
gether to pass a compromise measure
through the Senate, even If a compromise
is agreed upon by the moderate silver
men and the repealers. The idea has
been to unite the entire democratic vote
upon a compromise plan, but even this
would carry the measure by only
three majority, if the populist senator's
Stewart, Allen, Kyle and PETER
should vote against the compromise
The votes Of Senators Martin and Irby,
who have strong populist leanings, would
be enough to upset the compromise scheme
by majority of one
The compromise seems more likely to
be sought by a union of all the silver men
with the more moderate repealers. The
question In this case would be: How many
votes could be drawn from the repeal side2
The democratic senators who might be
denominated moderate epealers-Hunton
of Virginia, Ransom of North Carolina
and Faulkner of West Virginia-if they
were TO vote for a compromise, would
still leave the compromisers in a minority
Of FIVE. On the republican side they
would then have to look to Senators Carey
of Wyoming, Manderson of Nebraska and
Chandler of New HAMPSHIRE. This would
give them exactly the requisite number
of votes 10 pass compromise bill by q
majority of one. The detection of Sena-
tor Stewart and Senator Allen would
again upset the plan.
THE SUBSTITUTE BILL.
The substitute for the Wilson repeal
bill, which Senator Cockrell and other
democratic senators are trying TO get in
such shape as will command the approval
of the democratic party in the Senate,
has not yet been completed; but il has
gone far enough TO justify the statement
that it will, in all likelihood. take the
shape of an extension Of the present law
until the first of July, 1895 and the con-
hrmation Of the authority of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to issue
bonds under the act of 1875. The
latter law is, however, TO be 50 modified
as to provide that these bonds shall
draw only per cent. interest, whereas
issuaIce is now authorized at 4, AZ and
5 per cent. interest. 1t is even thought
that the proposed amendment may event
ually be so framed that the designated
limit of interest on bonds may be even
less than per cent. There are probably
five or six of the ultra repeal men who
will never give their assent to this sort Of
a proposition. and the extreme silver men
on the democratic side will accept it with
EVERYTHING UNCERTAIN.
It must be said, however, in all candor
that there is Just now no certainty about
this or any other proposition in the shape
of a compromise being accepted. The
frame of mind in which the Senate finds
itself, renders all calculations uncertain,
and all predictions very risky. A com
promise may be fixed up and adopted in
the next day or two, or the struggle may
yet be indefinitely prolonged. The utmost
that your correspondent can do just in this
present juncture is 70 give what appears
TO be the most probable outcome of the
very much tangled state OF affairs that
now prevails in what has been called the
''mOst dignitied, deliberative body in the
world" All calculations and predictions
may be upset in any twenty-four hours.
The only thing absolutely certain about
the senatorial situation, is that every
thing is extremely uncertain. The air
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