Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-21
The Date Seems to Be the Only Point
Now In Question.
A CHANGE IN THE SENATE RULES
Which Will Admit of Cloture Will
Be the Remedy Applied In Case
a Compromise Fails to Materi-
alize-Senator Hill Leads the
Force Favoring a Change In the
Rules-Thinks He can Get a
Majority to Agree With Him.
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Special TsleSrGm 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, October 2O.-Shall the
repeal Of the Sherman law go into effect
July 1st, 1894, or January 1st 1895?
Shall the Wilson Voorhees, bill carry an
amendment authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury TO issue bonds IL Ia his
judgment such an issue becomes neces-
sary in order to maintain the gold re-
serve and the parity Of gold and silverP
These are the two points, 1t appears to-
night, which still remain unsettled in
the negotiations for compromise be-
tween the advocates and the opponents
pof unconditional repeal.
II the two sides come to an agreement
on these questions, it is believed the
whole trouble would be over and the
long contest in the Senate would come
to a speedy end.
All day the efforts to reach an agree
ment went on, and still continues to-
night, but without final result The
common belief is, however, that all diff
ferences will be arranged,by tomorrow,
and that compromise will be an accom-
plished fact. The opponents Of repeal
argue that they have
YIELDED A GREAT DEAL
in consenting to permit the repeal to
20 into effect at the beginning OF 1898,
and say the administration is yielding
practically nothing in insisting that re-
peal must go into effect on July lst
next. They say this Is no compromise,
but only a concession.
AS for the ad administration, as far as can
be learned, it has given no promise to
accept repeal that will go into effect on
July 1st, but Senators who are close TO
the administration take it upon them
selves to say the President would not
refuse TO sign bill of this kind. And
they no doubt are right, for as the anti
repealers declare, this would be little
more than a concession, which the Pres
ideDt could consistently make In view OF
the intimation In his message that II q
definite time was fixed when silver pur-
chases would cease. much OF the evil ef-
fects of the operations Of the Sherman
law would be eliminated. On the ques-
tion OF authorizing bond issue, there
may be more ifficulty In reaching an
agreement. Several southwestern SEN
ators are very hostile to the idea OF
issuing new bonds. But in this they
are inconsistent, because the present.
NECESSITIES OF THE TREASURY
aud the continuation OF the silver pur-
chases which they so much desire, will
probably make the issue Of bonds i'm
perative in a few months. While the
outlook tonight seems strongly to favor
the belief that compromise will be
reached, that result is by no means
certain. There Is danger that the
negotiations will break down at the
last moment as they have done before.
In that event. the fight will again go
on in the Senate, this time for change
in the rules that will permit coture.
Senator Hill, who still stands out for
unconditional repeal, declared this sf-
ternoon he would vigorously push the
fight for change in the
rules, iu order TO get the repeal
bill through now and the tariff bill
later on. He said he had no doubt he
could get a majority OF the Senate to
support him in the fight for cloture and
with such majority victory was sure
in a few days. While the silver men and
some Of the compromisers deny this,
their anxiety to reach 3 compromise
now indicates that they fear cIoture
will be successful.