The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-07
SENATORS WORK
important Subjects in Order
of Business.
Skeleton Of Force Bill Resurrected to
Defeat CIoture.

WASHINGTON. Dec. TAT the close o,
Yesterdays Domooratio caucus. Senator
Faulkner, the secretary, gave out the
following;
1.-The Democratic caucus directed the
steering committed ~ prepsse an order
of business which would present for the
consideration OF the senate ths following
subjects of legislation: A bankruptcy
bill; bill for tho construction Of the
Nicaragus canal; currency bill; bills
for the admission Of Arizona and New
Mexico; blll involving the interests Of
the Indian territory; for the consider
alton Of the joint resolution Of the house
OF representatives for the election OF
United States ssnators By tho people, and
such other measures, including the ap.
propriatleas bills, as the steering COM
mittee may deem important; that In their
report of the caucus the steering COM
mittee shall provide the order in which
the above snhjeots OF legislation shall bs
considered"
Tho caucus was In session from .
o'clock until 4:2o p. M, and almost
the entire TIME was devoted to tho
discussion Of the first proposition of Sena-
tor Daniel instructins the committee on
rules TO bring In an amendment for
cloture, and the speeches were at times
very spirited
Senators Vest, Villas, Berry and George,
made speeches favorable TO the PROPOSE.
tion, while Senators German, Morgan,
Palmer. Harris, Pugh and others, opposed
~ with vigor and warmth.
Considered the Future.
The speeches were In the same vein as
those which have been made In the senate,
except that the speakers discussed party
questions with more freedom, pointing
out the fact on one side that the Demo
crats would soon be I'm the minority In the
senate, and probably In need of the pro-
lection which she present afforded, while
on the othsr side the advocates of cloturs
urged the importance Of the supple
inentary tariff bills, and admitted very
frankly that there was no posi- bility Of
such action without rule for the limita.
tion of debate
The opponents of a change evidently had
the best OF the argument from the begin
ming. It Is understood that they even in
voked the ghost OF the force bill, and
urged that IL tho Republicans should get
into power they would revive this meas
ure.
Senator German took the lead In press
ing the views In opposition 10 cloture.
Senator Palmer, who had heretofore been
an advocate of clotare, indicated q change
of positior. tand made vigorous protest
against the adoption Of the resolution. He
said the Democrsts would lose their ma
lority Ina the senate within q few weeks,
and said it would be the acme of foolish
ness To tie their hands at such a critical
time. The pretest against the proposed
xrrna sn hat xrh unta
was taken. no one considered 10 necessary
TO ask <sS the ayes and nays.
Gave Up the Battle.
With the cloture provision defeated, tho
friends of the tariff bill gave up the fight,
considering it unnecessary co make an at
tempt 90 revive their con nsideration in view
Of the opposition of maiority Of the Re.
publicans, and because of the fact that
any determined opposition under the pres.
ent rules would insure their defeat Hence
it Is that those bills do not appear IN the
official list of bills 10 be presented for tho
consideration Of the senate.
The order for the preparation OF cur
renoy bill by the finance committee car.
ries with 10 instructions to take the rec.
concentrations OF the president and secre-
tary Of the treasury into consideration.
The order Is also broad enough to include
eny other suggestions of financial char.
acter which may be presented. and the
senator's favorable to silver, who were
present In tho caucus, say that 10 Is also
understood that feasible proposition for
the utilization OF silver is TO be included
in any currency scheme presented DO or
by the committee.
No meeting Of the steering committee
he's yet been called, and there has conse-
ouently been no argument as to the order
in which the bills agreed upon shall be
taken up.
Congregational Deings.
The entire time Of the house was occu-
pied in the discussion Of the railroad pool
ing bill, 90 which there appears 20 he o
great deal OF opposition. No action, how.
ever, was taken on the bill. Messrs.
Cooper (Fla) Gresham (Tex) Morse
lMass.) and Daniels On. ~ took part In
the debate.
The former directed his opposition to
the section giving the railroads the power
TO carry questions relating TO the revooa-
ton of pooling orders into the courts. and
offered substitute giving the inter-
state commerce commission absolute
control of all pooling contracts Messrs.
Gresham and Morse favored the bill, while
Mr.. Daniels attacked it on the ground
that that IL would subvert the objects of
the interstate commerce law.
Representative Draper of Massachusetts,
introduced a bill making compulsory the
use Of automatic couplings and arrange
ments for steam heating.
The senate had a brief session and then
adjourned over until Monday Mr. Vest
had intended TO urge action on his plan to
secure cloture in the sen2te, but there was
no disposition among the senators TO set
tle the question at once, and Mr.. Vest re-
luctantly let the question go over.