The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1896-01-16
IN WASHINGTON.

IN WASHINGTON.
Tho feature Of the republican
senatorial caucus was . discussion Of
the sdvisability Of amending the
house tariff bill by adding . FREQ
coinage amendment to II in tho sem
ate. This discussion was confined
largely to the free coinage wing Of
the party. The result Of the meet
ing was the adoption Of Senator
Cuay's resolution, expressing the
sense Of the caucus to be that the
finance committee should report the
bill as It came from the house, with
Q few verbal changes, which will
not alter the meaning Of the measure
In any essential feature. There was
no roll-call on this, but there were
. few dissenting voices. There was
no formal effort to bind the sepstqrs
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attempting to secure . pledge Of
support was under discussion that
the silver question came mp. 1t was
sprung by . question al to what the
silver republicans would do in case 9
free silver amendment should be Of
fered to the tariff bill in the senate.
Senator Teller announced his in
tention TO vote for q silver amend
ment II offered from any source,
without announcing any purpose
of presenting such an amendment
himself. He talked very earnestly
on tho sub. .ect, saying that he bad,
when the Mckinley bill was be ore
congress in 1890, foregone the op-
portunity to amend that measure
with free coinage provition on the
representation that the bill with
such an amendment would be vetoed
only to be told aft rward by the
friends of the bill that the Sherman
silver bill was passed as the only
hope of defeating free coinage. He
declared he would not again be plac-
ed in that predicament. Br. .ef 81 eech-
es we're also made on this feature OF
the question by Senators Dubois,
Mantle, Shoup and others. There
was a general expression Of opinion
among the silver senators to show
that there were not to exceed half q
dozen who would hold out against a
unanimous agreement to refrain from
voting for q silver amendment, and
this SLOWING was such As to lead the
anti silver men in the caucus to CON
clude that ii those who had express
cd themselves against the policy oi
amendment could be induced to vote
against these amendments, regard.
less Of the action Of their colleagues
they could de eat . silver amend
ment whom offered. T ere was {
general expression Of opinion thai
the bill, whether amended or una
mended in the senate, never woult
become law. Several senators OK
pressed the opinion that 1t could no
receive executive sanction.
A request from the committee OF
Judiciary calling upon the attorne!
general for information as to what
steps, II any, he has taken to enforc'
tho laws of the United States agains
trusts, combinations and conspir
acies, and what further legislation
II any, Il needed in his opinion t,
protect the people against the same
was made by Mr.. Henderson o
Iowa.
He explained that this was sub
stitute for q resolution introduced b.
Mr.. Hubt ard, OF Missouri, asking tn
attorney general why lie had no
enforced the anti trust law, whicl
assumes astate OF affairs concernin
which the committee had no evi
dence, 20 It was unanimously agree
upon the substitute. A resolutio
embody ing the request was adopted
Among the bills and resolution
introduced In the house were th
following;
i BY Mr.. Tracey (rep.), OF Mi souri,
A joint resolution giving congres
power to levy graduated inheri
tance tax on all inheritances an
sstates whose value exceeds 800,
loco.
By Mr.. o. W. Stone, Of Pennsyl
vania: A bill repeating the sectio
OF the Wilson tariff law relst ng ;
the use OF alcohol in the arts.
| A bill has been introduced In th
senate reyiving the grade Of lieu
tenant general Of the army for Gen
eral Miles.
VENEZUELA.
From the st. Louis Mirror.
Eight states are In the union.
Population Of Venezuela IL 2,121,
sss.