Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-12
No Apparent Progress Made by Ad-
miniStration Democrats.
FREE SILVER MEN UNREASONABLE"
Secretary Carlisle Will Submit
Some More Propositions.
SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE

No apparent progress has been made by
the administration democrats of the House
toward forging into shape the new cur
rency bill which some of them had deter
mined to bring forward after a lapse of
about two weeks.
Representative Cox of Tennessee, q demo-
cratic member of the banking and currency
committee. said today that the attempt Is
still going on in an informal way to reach
some basis of agreement on which the DEM
ocrats can unite; that friends of the adj
ministration in the House and the Senate
are talking over the matter, and that al
though they have made little perceptible
progress, they are still hopeful Of results.
More Trouble in the Next Congress.
If this Congress does not solve the prob
lem says Judge Cox, the next Congress,
with majority of silver men in the Sem
ate, will find itself even more hOpelesSly
divided. He believes that the imperative
necessity for doing something will drive the
financial factions of this Congress to make
concessions before the 4th of March.
Other prominent democrats are less san
guine. A democratic leader, who is a men,
ber of the committee on rules. and VINO
supported the Carlisle bill, says that the
free silver men are so unreasonable, as
he puts it, and so unwilling to concede any
prophesy failure for the result of the at
temptS to devise a new bill.
Silver Men Encouraged.
The free silver men find encouragement
for their cause in the situation. Rep
resentative Livingston, of Georgia said to-
day: Free silver has the other fellows
by the horns and will never let CO.
The rumored conference of democratic
members of the House banking and cur
rency committee had not materialiZed when
the House met at noon.
Carlisle Will Try A.ain.
Secretary Carlisle will, before next Tues
day, submit some tentative propositions to
the different factions of Congress, with
the hope, if not the expectation. that they
will prove acceptable and prove the means
of bringing about an agreement.
How radically the changes are and how
widely they differ from the provisions of
the last bill, is not known; in fact, 1t Is
said that the Secretary has hardly decided
upon them yet, and will endeaVcr to obtain
expressions of opinion from different quar-
ters and to ascertain what concessions will
be necessary to embody in bill that can
be passed.
senate Finance Committee.
The meeting of the Senate finance COM
mittee was devoted to a discussion of the
Vest and Mcpherson financial bills, which
were presented yesterday. NO aCIlOn was
taken and the committee adjourned until
Tuesday, when it is expected that Mr..
Jones will have a bill to be considered by
the committee. 1t was stated that the
prospects of financial legislation had not
been frightened materially by todays
meeting.
Senator Jones vas not present at the
meeting today.
The democratic members, who had been
very hopeful that the meeting would de-
velop some expression in regard to the at
titude of the republicans on the committee,
were more or less disappointed with the
result of the meeting in this respect, for
the minority members did not expose their
plans further than to report that they pre-
ferred that there should be evidence of
unanimity among the democratic members
and substantial agreement among them on
the terms of a bill, before the republicans
would feel called upon to actively partici-
pate in the making up of bill.
They found little evidence in the express
sion of their democratic colleagues that
there was liable to be an early agreement.
A leading republican member Of the COM
mittee said after adjournment that there
were as many opinions to the bill for the
occasion as there were democratic members
of the committee. The discussion was
therefore, confined largely to the demo-
cratic members, and while it soon became
evident that it would be impossible to agree
on the basis of the Vest bill, a spirit of
conciliation and compromise was displayed
so prominently as to lead to the formation
of the hope among democratic members
that an agreement might yet be reached.