Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-10
SENATE TO TRY IT NOW
Democrats of That Body May
 Frame Currency Measure.
DEFEAT OF THE CARLISLE BILL.


 liCans e Motion In the House to Order the
 Previous Question Was Lost by a Vote of
 I24 to Iao.
 WASHINGTON. Jan. 1O.-There is much speculation today as to what will be done now that the Carlisle currency bill, which had been under debate in tho house for about two weeks, has been ditched. It had not strength enough to surmount the first parliamentary obstacles placed in it's path.
 The committee on rules, in obedience to the decree of the Democratic caucus on Monday. brought in an order to close gen- eral debate and proceed under the five minute rule until Saturday, when the final vote should be taken, but the sup porters of the bill showed lamentable weakness.
 They were unable to order the previous question. the demand therefor being refus- ed. first by rising vote of 92 to 101 and then on yea and nay vote by 124 to 129.
 The advocates of the bill were dum- founded when they discovered that they had bcen beaten in the preliminary skir- mish, and the order was withdrawn. This was the first reverse the committee on rules had suffered in four years. An anal ysis of the vote shows that all of the 124 votes in favo= of the motion were cast by Democrats. while s2 Republicans. 80 Dem- ocrats anu PopuliSts voted against 1t
 Of the S9 Democratic votes against the motion, it was pointed out that 24 were cast by Democrats defeated for reelection.
 The Republican leaders in the house as- sert that they had agreed to offer no par liamentary obstruction whatever to . vote If they hnd been permitted to vote first on the ninth and tenth sections of the bill. MT. Reed was on his feet for rec ognition, with the draft of O rule in his hand providing for Q vote on the bill &C., cording to this plan-that is, voting for the ninth and tenth sections first The Republicans would all have voted for this rule.
 MT. Walker (Mass.), who had led the Republican opposition, had determined to withdraw his bill, which he had previous ly notified the house he would offer as a substitute. and which was the only plan proposed by a Republican. He says also that no amendments would have been offered to the Carlisle bill by the Repub- licans, although all of them would have voted against the bill
 A Complete Collapse.
 "The collapse Is completa" said MT. Walkor. speaking of the days evsntA There will be no financial lesislation by this congress unless tho senate sends a bill to the house. which seems improbable Twenty or 26 members voted for ths pre- vious question who would not havc voted for the bill All of the Republicans would have voted for the previous question if the rule had provided for voting on the ninth and tenth sections of the bill first
 These sections logically came first and amendments could not have we'll been offered unless their fate was decided ct the beginning of the voting The bill, on Its merits. would not have received two out of five votes in the house on an aver age"
 When the possibility of the Republican congress being called in extrn session was spoken of. Mir. Walker said If congress gives ample authority and gives 1t wisely to the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds, both to maintain gold payments and supply the treasury deficiency. an ex- tra session may be avoided. but at @ great expense to the government present and ultimate, in needlessly high rates of in- tereSt on the bonds issued If the treasury is given no additional authority for the issuance of bonds, with the prevailing want of confidence in tho management of national finances by the administration, it will injure the business interests of the country a thousand fold moro, and fear on extra session will have to be called
 :" As to the effect on business of an ex- tra session, if one Is called to convene i'm mediately on the adjournment nf the pres ent congress. it will give confidence to the country rather than an injury. If 1t is de- layed, as the extra session of this congress was delayed, the administration will prob ably have Q financial panic on its hands. "
 Representative Tracey (Dem.. N. Y.) said: It is evident that. as this house is made up no effort can be made to improve financial conditions of the country except by Q union of a portion of the Democratic party and portion of the Republican par ty. It is useless to Attempt to unite the Democratic party on any financial plan. The test vote taken yesterday was proba- ply larger in favor of the bill than any vote on tho bill itself would be, and the committee probably recognizes this On this occasion the Republicans appeared to have preferred to ally themselves with the faction of the Democracy representing un- sound financial viewA''
 Senate wnl Try It Now.
 Many of the Democratic senators receiv- cd the announcement of the adverse vote on the currency bill as a summons to the senate to take the question up and ind way out of the difficulties with which the country is confronted Senator Voorhees, took the first step for the formal consider ation of the matter by issuing Q call for meeting of the finance committee to be held this afternoon at g o'clock.
 This meeting Is for the purpose of can wasting the entire situation and if possible devising means of improving the condi. tion of the treasury. So far As can Do learned no measure has been proposed for submission to the committee, but the movers for this meeting hope that gsn- eral exchange of views on the part of members of the committee will indicate general lines upon which a bill may bs framed which will stand chance of re- ceiving the approval of the committee and of the senate.
 The Republican members of the finance committee do not regard the outlook as promising for any action at all. and they predict that there will be as great diver gence of opinion as among members, and they also predict that 1t will be quite e impossible for the senate Democrats to agree on any bill presented as 1t has been for the house to agree on the Carlisle bIll
 In the Senate.
 WARRINGTON. Jan. l0.-MR Cockrel (Dem., Mo ). from the appropriations com mittee reported the urgency deficiency bill to the senate. In reply to question by MT. Quay (Rep.. Pa Mr. Cockrell said the committee had made no amendments to the bill as passed by the house relating to the income tax.
 Mir. Quay thought an amendment should be made to the law requiring the publica- tion of the names and salaries of employ. Oes of corporations and in this ooAnecEdoA he created something of . sensation by saying that 8 gentleman high in political position in Philadelphia had said as . req son why he could not preserve pliRhtsd faith, and could not do what ought to bo done regarding an important nomination that he was under Q heavy salary from . great corporation and was compelled to de ! what the corporation desired The hill will be called up for consideration today
 Mir. Pasco Dem.. Ala.l addressed the senate on the NicaraCuan canal hill in