The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-02-26
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS
Another Season Of Inaction Pre-
dotted in the House.
THE sE1GNIoRAGE BILL FIGHT.
The Majority. Unsbie to Agree ,,n q Mode
of Procedure. VIII Hold Another Caucus.
The Tariff Bill May Not Reach the Sem
ate This Week,

The Majority, Unsble to Agree s'n q Mode
of Procedure, win Hold Another Caucus.
The Tariff Bill May Not Reach the Sem
ate This Week.
WASHINGTON, Feb 26-The battle over
the Bland seigniorage bill will go merrily
on in the house this week. Despite the
repeated revetVes Mr.. Bland has met in
his attempts to<rocure quorum he is as
determined as ed to fight it out on this
line il it takes allVyinter. II he does not
succeed, however, in the course OF few
days II is not probable that the speaker
and his associates on the rules committee
will permit his bill to longer block the
path of business. As the opponents of the
measure have now adopted an open fill
clustering policy rule was formulated by
the committee on rules this morning to
prevent this and bring the vote down di-
rectly to Mr.. Bland's motion. A caucus
will be held tonight or tomorrow to con
slider the question OF an amendment to
the rules which will either give the speaker
the power to count a quorum or place it
in his power to compel member to vote,
with the alternative of finding him.
While 1t would seem from the number
that signed the caucus bill-ll6-that a
majority of the Democrats favor some
method preventing iilibustering, some of
4 the leading members do not desire to push
such modification of the rules at the end
! of this long fight With 80 majority they
think they should first vindicate their
ability to extricate themselves from the
present humiliating position, and after
ward, they argue, the events of the past
two weeks would furnish ample justifica-
/, tion for such modification of the rules.
i The outlook for the week is, therefore,
:, full OF contingencies. The struggle over
:. the Bland bill may drift into big parlia-
mentary contest over II change in the rules,
!, in which event there will be some bitter
opposition manifested from the Demo
. cratic side II the proposed rule contem
plates lodging in the speakers hand the
power to count a quorum.
1 Pending the result of the silver fight
4 the Democratic opponents of the measure
no matter what they may favor with re
gard to change of the rules as an abstract
8 proposition, will contest anything which
o is designated to lesson their powers of OBJ
structing the seigniorage bill. If the sill
= yer bill is gotten out of the way before tn,
q end OF the week the contested election
b. cases and appropriation bills will follow.
The senate has made but little prog
, ress In its efforts to clean up TIN
| calendar in advance Of the Forthcoming
discussion of the tariff bill in the senate
. If the opportunity is afforded it will con
:. tinue its work on the calendar during tn
/ present week. There are so many specia
Y orders, however, some of which have BEEF
brought over from previous weeks, that /
= is probable comparatively little progress
g, will be made this week. 1t Is probabl
that at least two days will be necessary +
= dispose of the bill to provide new gov
r eminent printing office building, and ar
y other to the bill for the Encouragement @
}. the Florida judicial districts.
- The Hawaiian resolution introduced b
Senator Turpie and the Stewart bond resc
y. luton are also undisposed of, the pendin
h motion on the latter being to refer to tn
o committee en- finance, which will probt
: bly, be done with but little speechmakinl
c The speech on Hawaiian affairs, of whic
u Senator Turpe has given notice, is as ye
) undelirered, but 1t is understood that
! will make an effort to get the floor durin
- the present week.
m Even though the tariff bill should nc
y get into the senate during the week theI
need be no surprise II there should
=, more OF less reference in the senate to ths
i subject 1t bids fair to be busy wee
v and one of varied interest.