The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-23
SILVER AGITATION.
Plans Of the Administration In Dealing
with the Much-MOOted Sill
yer Question.
The Fight in the Senate Promises
TO BE a Long and Bitter
Struggle.
Tariff Debate Is Now Occupying
the Attention of the
Senate.

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congress. The president and the secretary
OF the treasury both realize this. MI.
Cleveland was the first to see the danger
GUS reefs over whlch the silver waters oasn-
ed, and he at once took steps to avoid what
he considered a hidden reef.
SO far the plans OF the administrators
have not worked well. III the truth were
known, there Is no more pronounced goid
basis adherent IN the country IMAM the pres
ent occupant OF the Whlte house. put
Mr.. Cleveland Is wise even Deyond DIS Gay
and generation. He mas an almost uniim-
ited quantity OF 'sand' IN MS makeup, ana
WIN IL Is such q generous sprinkllhS OIL
Judgment as 10 result IN his ticklngto any
enterprise ne emoarks In until IL mas met
WIN success.
The Presidents Fears.
But the president is not the man to run
his legislative head against a stone wall.
Not he. Instead he will content himself
with it within the bound of possibility.
That is why he has had Secretary Carlisle
at the capitol so many times endeavoring
to bring about q compromise with the silver
men. The president realizes only too well
that a majority of the Democrats of both
houses are silver men. He knows that, I'M
hampered and unsought, but left to follow
It's own inclination, congress would pass
a bill to remonetize silver. This he wishes
to prevent, and before even a discussion OF
the question has begun he has set to work
to bring about a compromise.
The president evidently understands the
situation thoroughly. The silver question
is by no means dead. Its fires are burning
slowly, it is true, but nevertheless surely,
like those of a charcoal pit, and they are
burning in many places, only needing q
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But any argument that can be Drought
forward canno disguise the situation. 1t is
dangerous to those who believe in a single
gold standard and extremely hopeful Tor
Carlisle, acting under instructions from the
president, has already offered a compromise
TO the silver men. This Mr.. B~land-"Silver
Dollar Bland" as n is called-has posi-.
lively and emphatically refused. Mr.. Bland
has stacked up against a losing game too
long by far not to have II few parliamentary
tricks of his own.
The silver men unauestionably have a
majority i'm congress. That is now admit.
ted by every one who has studied the pres.
emit complex situation. The SO called
Sound money men of the east realize this
and are preparing to contest every inch Of
ground. In the senate the silver men have
even a better chance than they nave in the
lower house.. In fact, their battle is prac
tically won before the skirmish.
Representative Bland said to the writer
that he had every confidence that the presi
dent will not veto his bill. He believed, be
said. as he had always believed, that thert
was a majority in the senate in favor of the
!, free coinage of silver, but whether these
: men could be led to vote openly against the
policy of the administration was quite an
other question.
But, said Mr.. Bland, at is a fight to 6
finish. We will never give up init our eff