The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1896-02-22
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Republican TangIe san rnsAn@ie.;-
fhe silver ProbIem-A. r. As in COm-
gresS-OtIser Topics Of Interest
[From onr Regular correspondent.I

The much-tangled position of the Republic
cans with regard to their tariff bill has not
improved. After the report of the free-coin-
age substitute by the Senate Finance Com
mittee the first great effort of the Republicans
was to get the bill recommitted 10 the same
committee by the action of the Senate, with
the hope of obtaining different report; but
since it became manifest that all the P0pulists
would vote solidly with the Democrats to pre-
vent such action, Mr.. Quay has not been dis
posed TO press his motion for recommittal.
The next movement in the difficult game
was the effort to take up the bill as reported
for consideration, in the hope that the Senate
would vote down the ree-silver substitute and
thus bring the horizontal party measure be-
fore the Republican Senate. This was tried
on Wednesday and was personally engineered
by Mr.. Aldrieh and other of the leading Re-
publican straiegsts, but proved abortive. In
fact it was a most humiliating repulse of the
dominant party in the Senate. Four Repub-
licans, including the chairman of the Repub
can national committee, voted against the
consideration of the one distinctive party
measure of the session. Dubois, of idaho,
Carter and Mantle, ofMontana, and Teller, of
Colorado, were the reciteitrant four.
Imagine the chairman of the Republican
national committee voting against his party
and in favor of free silver on a leading party
measure, and You will form some correct
opinion of the figure the silver question is
likely 10 cut in the next campaign. There is
no shadow of doubt that Mr.. Carter and the
dozen other silver Republicans who are bring
ing such serious embarrassment upon their
party are loyal partisans, and that they are
not pursuing this course voluntarily or heed
lessly, but out of Difference TO the strong
opinions of the constituencies which are be-
hind them.
There will be much coquetting with the r
repressible silver question and much serious
consideration thereof by both of the great
parties between this and the time of meeting
of the national conventions, with a result
that cannot now be foretold. The silver men
are playing stronger hand in this Congress
than ever heretofore, whatever may have
been said to the contrary. The policy Of the
silver Republicans seems to he to make the
emancipation of silver the condition prece-
dent 10 their support of the protective doe
trine, and this policy, it is said, will be pur-
sued in tho national convention.
Strange as it may appear, there is pre-
vailing impression in Congressional circles
that the President would not veto the Repub-
lican tariff bill if ii were to pass the Senate.
Ii is this apprehension, in connection with
the policy above mentioned, which is under
stood to prompt the silver Republicans in the
strong stand they have taken against their
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