The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-10-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16, 1898.

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dition OF the VOORHEES, unconditional
repeal bill. II il dead, and almost
everybody knows it, but few OF its
nearest friends still refuse to believe it
or TO consent to .he final disposal OF
the corpse. President Cleveland. the
chief physician and mourner, insis' 5
that it is still alive and that il the chief
nurse. Senator Voorhees,, and the as
sistant senatorial nurses will follow his
directions and give the medicine pre-
scribed by him that it may yet be
restore TO robust health. This opinion
however, is not shared BY his associates
and consulting physician, Secretary
Carlisle, who has prepared substitute
for the defunct bill, which he would
prefer to one prepared by the silver
men if, as lie believes, a substitute is
bound to be accepted or all hope of
financial legislation abandoned.
Secretary Carlisle's proposed amend
ment, which is evidently intended to
capture the vote Of the anti-repeal
southern senators, is substantially as
follows: The repeal of the purchasing
clause OF the Sherman law; the pur-
chase of 90,000,000 ounces of silver
one fourth to be purchased annually !;
the coinage of the seigniorage in the
treasury; the repeal of the tax on state
bank currency, and authority for the
secretary of the treasury. at his discre-
ton, TO issue Sl50,000,0 900 in bonds to
purchase gold. This amendment will
not he likely to get any republican
votes, because of the proposed repeal
of the state bank tax, but with that
clause out it would lose votes among
| the southern senators.
There are number of other com
promise amendments prepared and in
course OF preparation, in fact there are
so many Of them that their very number
and diversity is acting as preventative
of action, and may result in nothing
being done, although the general i'm
preston among senator's of all opinions
is that some one of them will be passed
by the senate this week. Conferences
are hourly being held and ::as soon as
any amendment that can command
majority sufficiently large to prevent
fillibustering against it is agreed upon
it will be at once passed by the senate.
That may be today, tomorrow, or any
day this week but if no agreement is
reached this week it is altogether pro-
bable that the whole question may be
thrown over to the regular session, as it
is daily becoming more difficult to keep
the senator's who are anxious for one
in Washington, and the moment it
becomes apparent that no agreement
can be reached adjournment will be
forced by lack of quorum.
One result of the physical endurance
fizzle in the senate is the proposal of a
large number of amendments to the
senate rule, all having one end in view
the curtailment of privileges enjoyed
under present rules by the minority.
Whatever may be done in the future
there is no probability that any OF the
proposed amendments will be adopted
at the present session. The reason is
obvious. .,--
In times of excitement some foolish
things are always done in congress, but
Representative Harter, of Ohio, would
have gone down in history as the
originator of the most foolish thing ever
done if some of his level headed coilea-
CUES had not nipped the scheme in the
bud. He drew up petition asking the
democratic senators to Immediately pass
| the Voorhees, bill. and started out with
the intention of securing the signatures
thereto of all the democrats in the
house, but the bad taste of the scheme
was so apparent that the leaders of his
party soon put stop to it and convin.
ced Mr.. Harter, after more or less
argument that it would be highly i'm
proper for the members of either branch
of congress to send petition to the
other asking action either for or against
any measure.
The debate in the house on the
Chinese question, which ended this
afternoon by the passing of the Nc
Creary bill providing for an extension
of the time within which Chinese may
register in accordance with the Geary
law and otherwise modifying the pro-
visions OF that law, was not participated
in by many members, but it was at
times very earnest. The California
members bitterly opposed the bill and
served notice on both the democratic
and republican parties that the bill