The San Francisco call., 1895-12-31
SOME SORENESS
IN THE SENATE,
Reorganization That Fails
to Delight ALI the
Democrats.
HELPED BY POPULISTS.
e.
Republicans Gain Control by
Their Pointed Policy Of
Silence.
SILVER CUTS SOME FIGURE.
Sound. Money" Men Beaten in the
SILVER CUTS SOME FIGURE.
"Sound.Money" Men Beaten in the
Selection of the Finance
Committee.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec 30.-The
reorganization of the Senate com mittees
was effected to-day by the adoption OF az
resolution offered by Mitchell (R.l Of
Oregon, the vote on which was: AYES SO,
noes 2S. The Populists withheld their
votes with the exception of Kyle of South
Dakota, who voted with the Democrats.
The vote was followed by debate, in
which German Cd of Maryland gave ex-
preston to the soreness felt by the SEN
ators of his party at losing the control of
the Senate, and in which some plain talk
ing was done on both sides on the subject
of giving to the free-silver men majority
on the Committee on Finance.
Among the papers presented and re-
ferred were resolutions of the Lincoln
Post of the G. A. r. of Topeka, Kans.,
laundering their services, as PETER (Pop.)
of Kansas phrased it, Sin case we should
have any trouble with our neighbors on
the other side of the Atlantic" They
were referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations.
Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire intro
duced bill to enlarge the Interstate Com
merce Committee by making it consist of
one member from each State, these MEM
| bers to select an executive committee Of
five. Referred.
Chandler also offered resolution, which
went over until tomorrow, calling on the
| Secretary of the Navy for inform alton as
to whether prices paid, or agreed to be
! paid for armor for vessels of the navy are
as low as the prices charged by the same
| manufacturers to foreign Governments;
] whether these prices have been increased
on account of patents, and, if so, whether
the increase has been fair and reasonable;
also, whether any Government officers are
interested in such patents.
The House bill as to bonds was laid be-
fore the Senate, read twice and referred to
the Finance Committee.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Quay (R.) of Pennsylvania, calling on the
Secretary of the Navy for information as
to whether it would be advantageous to
the naval service to contract now for six
| battle-ships instead of two, was taken up .
and agreed to.
The correspondence on the subject of the
vlce-consulates at Erzeroum and Harpoot
was laid before the Senate ard referred to
the Committee Oh Foreign Relations
The resolution naming the committee
membership was taken up and agreed to
| ayes 80, noes %. Five of the six Populists
reserved their votes. namely; Allen OF
| Nebraska. Jones and Stewart of Nevada,
| Butler of North Carolina and PETER of
Kansas. Senator Kyle of South Dakota
voted no.
Allen( Pop. )of Nebraska declared the Pop
ullst party had no affiliation with either ci
the old parties. The Populists had realized
before the meeting of this Congress that
| there was clear majority of the Senate in
favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver
and they had been perfectly willing TO
unite in bringing about the passage of a
free-slver measure. They had sent out
invitations TO the free-silver Senators, but
with the exception of two or three of them
they had not met with the Populists, and
therefore the Populist party had resolved,
as matter of policy, to take no part what
ever in the organization of the Senate.
The Populists felt that the Republican.
party was, as between itself and the DEM
ocratic party, in the ascendancy, and that
the responsibility for legislation should
belong to the Republican party in both
houses as speedily as possible.
Harris CD of Tennessee asked Allen
whether the Populist Senators-an annex
of the Republican party-had not deliber-
ately determined to allow, by their silence,
| a Republican organization of the Senate,
| ana whether, therefore, the Senator from
Nebraska did not understand and know
| that the Populists were responsible for the
result of the vote, as if they had cast their
votes for the resolution instead of sitting
silent.
| Allen replied that when the Populists
came to consider the question they realized
that they held the balance of power in
their hands; and he added with much
emphasis that they were going to utilize
| it to its fullest extent as they went along.
| In the discussion following Mitchell (R.)
| of Oregon remarked that the Republican
| party had a majority in the Senate that it
will be responsible for measures whenever
it has Senators enough to pass them and
only then.
whenever" said Allen, ''you present a