New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-21
SILVER MEN BACK DOWN.
,c,,rv DECIDE NOT TO BLOCK THE APPRO-
PEIATION BILLS
.rr.iD OF FORCING AN EXTRA sEssIoN-MR
CHANDLER MAKES TWO SPEECHES
TIE INDIAN APPROPRIATION
BILL ADVANCED.

fRy TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.l
Washington Feb. 2O.-The silver managers III
-. senate seem to have accepted the decided
oheck they sustained in the Senate last night a
oo,,n,ete and final rout. Mr.. Jones. of Arkansas.
tho nominal leader Of the movement 10 pass an
rrastricted silver coinage bill. openly confessed
This morning the hopeless failure of his briei
o.ronagn and gave notice that the silver leaders
r,ouId make no further struggle to pass the bill
r,bch bears his name at this session Mr. VOL
sa,,s manifesto apparently. is also to be allowed
IN slumber the calendar, for no one even asked
- have It acted on to-day. the Senate hailng
with relief the first opportunity to drop the empty
and prohtless wrangng of yesterday afternoon
and evening and give some attention to the real
business Of the session-the passage of the re-
naming appropriation bills Until most % these
belated measures are safely out Of the way there
is no probability of any further attempt to pass
the Wolcott resolution. although the silver man
ayers may try 10 commit the Senate to an APP
prevail of this meaningless piece Of bravado dur
ing the closing hours of Congress. A., however
the silver leaders have desire to force an extra
session they VIII be more or less hampered IN
their tactics for IL will be in the power OF manu-
f,I of Senators from now TO dictate wna' sia'i
mr. shall not be done up TO March a. ana III 'iie
present temper OF the Administration Seha'oi'
is doubtful whether even Mr.. Wolcot' > resoiu''''
would be allowed to pass. except al the co9' - al
extra session OF the LINth Congress
Senator Chandler Rep- \. ID had "eI-Hs"
monopoly of the attention OF the He''a'e 'o-"'''
in SO far at least. as politica\~cohUoVers! was
concerned. He made two speeches. one Oh '"'
suver question and the other the Likelihood
and des,rabili;y Of an extra session IN Apll OF
Nav next. In the first speech he took an adj
Of inn a
stated his belief that the adoption Of the single
gold standard had helped to produce the hnancial
,roubles The time was approaching, he SAID
when /, would be necessary for the kepupnCaA
Marty 10 present some affirmative measures OF Di-
rnetallisn: otherwise the American voters Woulu
decide between gold mOnometalllsln as the one
alternative and silver monometaihsm as 'h9
other. 49, -, ,,,ora
nositive character 1t was made on an amend
mont IN the Indian Appropriation bill. ana 10 lhe
noint that all the amendments proposing general
ierislatjon on appropriation bills were reporter
by the Committee on Appropriations WIN the ue-
sign and purpose Of provoking discussion pre-
venting the passage of the appropriation Dliis'
and thus making necessary the noldinS Oh an
oxfra session of Congress. He expressed the pe-
lief and hone that the President would call an
extra session as soon possible after the Atm OF
March and suggested as work Tor mat session NV
passage of a bill TO construct lhe MAJ , u.
Canal not through private company, pu' oy
public money; the annexation of the Hawanan
Islands and a searching investigation into the
conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury! uhue'
the direction of the President In the most re-
markable fiscal transaction that ever TOOK pidoe
in the history Of the Government. by Whch d
loss of 80 900 600 was caused 10 the Treasury anu
people of the United States"
Mr. Power Rep. Mont) presented the creaeh-
,;aIs 90 his successor Thomas Henry Carter The
credentials having been read, Mr.. Hoar Rep.
Mass) criticised their form. They did not SCI
forth ne said the fact OF the due election OF the
new senator but they went on to say that the
Governor commissioned Mr.. Carter as senator
rrho Governor of a State. Mr.. Hoar added hao no
20 commission the Sultan Of Turkey. The creden-
tiaIs were placed on file 1870
The regular consideration Of the Indian Appro-
nriation bill was then proceeded with.
cau.r.i ~ the amendments reported by the
Committee on Appropriations were the subject OF
r,,nnine discussions but none presented any 1ea'-
,,ra ~ general interest Progress was made as
far as mage GO Of the BILL about two-thirds OF H.