The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-10
SENATORS READY TO ACT
FAULKNER'S PROPOSITION, WITH
NOTIFICATIONS, TO BE PUSHED.
No Probability that Any Bill Will
Pass that Does Not Make COnces-
sions to the Blandites.
Special to the indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The Carlisle
currency bill was fairly slaughtered in
the House to-day. BY a vote of 129 to
124 the House refused to pass the reso-
luton of the rules committee ordering
the previous question on the bill for
Friday afternoon. But it is an error on
the part of the friends of the bill to
claim, as they do. that the 124 votes
supporting the rules committee is the
legitimate strength of the bill. The bill
itself would never have commanded that
vote. Mr.. Carlisle appears to have been
pitifully mistaken in his estimate of the
strength of his measure. OF the 124
votes cast to-day seemingly in favor of
his bill scarcely hundred would have
voted for the bill itself. More than a
score of Democrats-Dockery, Fithian
Culberson Sayres and others-voted to
sustain the rules committee simply be-
cause the caucus had determined that
the rules committee should bring in the
report it did, and being therefore mere
question of parliamentary procedure.
they felt bound to abide by the will of
the caucus. The bill itself was a totally
separate proposition, and, being a mat
ter of policy and not of procedure, they
would not have been bound by the
caucus.
1t is evident to every one that to-day's
defeat, humiliating as it was. spared
Secretary Carlisle the pain of even
more crushing defeat when the vote
would have been taken. Speaker Crisp
and the rules committee knew they were
defeated before the committee made it's
report. This explains the promptness
with which Mr.. McCreary arose after
the vote was announced and moved con-
sideration of the diplomatic appropria-
ton bill. He had been instructed to do
so by Speaker Crisp before the House
met The apparent stubbornness of Mr..
Cultivate, who had the rules resolution
in charge, is similarly explained. He
knew he was beaten and that it was a
mere waste of time to permit any efforts
to amend the resolution. Hence imme-
diately after it's defeat he withdrew the
report, thus cutting off any chance to
pass it in an amended form. The cur
rency bill being now displaced by appro-
priation bills takes it's place on the
calendar, but as the banking and cur
rency is one of the privileged commit
tees it can be called up at any time
when the appropriations committee will
yield it time. Whether it will be called
up again and in a totally new shape
be placed before the House anew is
grave question.
WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING.
Secretary Carlisle knew of his defeat
before it was announced in the House,
for the vote was sent to him and to the
President over the governments private
telegraph wire between the Capitol and
the White House. He hurried to the
Capitol, but found no encoura cement.
Tonight he is absolutely discouraged.
He persists in his solicitation to the
President to send Congress a message
urging action. He is willing to accept
anything. bill authorizing the issue
of low-rate bonds to redeem the legal
tenders and the coming of the seignior-
age will be satisfactory to him. Indeed,
as already stated. he will approve of
anything short OF free silver.
The men who are behind the conpro-
mise outlined in these dispatches Mon
day night are quick to see their chance.
Unfortunately, the free silver men are
recognizing the absolute ne1plessness of
the administration and are raising the
price of their support. Mr.. Vests hasty
denunciation of the compromise as rot"
has been sharply criticised by some of
the Democratic Senators to-day They
recall that Mr.. Vest was wont to de-
nounce the German tariff bill day after
day with all the severity that his able
vocabulary of vituperation could supply,
but in the end he voled for it. 1t is
hinted that Mr. Vest may be found in
just as silly an attitude again. The
Democratic leaders of the Senate, with
Mr.. German at the head, are in hourly
conference. and a final effort will be
made to do something.
So far as the future of currency legis-
lation is concerned. the situation returns
to the statement in the dispatch of Mon
day night-the new currency bill will
either embody the essential elements of
what is known as the Faulkner COM
ASsEaiss sr there wiz be ne bill. 1t is