Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-13
FOR GOLD STANDARD
Legislation in Favor of Yellow Metal Will
Be Enacted Soon,
BILL TO REACH SENATE BEFORE RECESS
Finance COMMITTEES in Senate is in Course
of Reconstruction,
WILL HAVE A GOLD STANDARD MAJORITY
0Ookrell Says Minority Will Not Resort to
ANY Dilatory Methods
THEY WILL NOT oBSTRUCT LEGISLATION
Congressman Robinson is Quoted as
Saying that Bryan VIII Not Push
sixteen To one Idea Along
ola Lines.
THEY WILL NOT oBSTRUCT LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON, Dec, 12.-(Special Tele-
gram) Gold standard legislation will come
sooner than its friends have anticipated.
The debate in the house will continue "A
week and before the holiday recess the eau
Gus bill will have reached the senate.
Senator Allison says the filling Of va
cancies on committees is progressing so
satisfactorily they may be announced in
few days. This means that the finance
committee, reconstructed with gold stand
ard majority will soon be in trim for prompt
consideration.
The policy of the democrats has been in
doubt until today 1t was thought they
might consume months in prosy speeCsIes
for the purpose of delay, but democratic
senators will not obstruct orderly legisla-
tion; they are in favor of letting the repub-
icans have their way, in the knowledge that
factional opposition is useless, Senator
Cockrell says the minority has no intention
Of resorting to dlatory methods. The demo-
Gratis will confine themselves to an explicit
assertion of their position for silver and
against gold After that no obstacle will
be thrown in the way of the majority. As
soon all those who wish to speak have
finished, vote will be agreed to.
Enough progress has been made in the last
ments to pretty definitely predict that the
republican majority in the upper branch
of congress will be taken care of satisfac-
torily. Three new committees in the senate
have been agreed upon answering to one
new committee in the house, that of insular
affairs, and they will be named: Committee
on Philippines, of which Mr. Lodge is to be
chairman; committee on Cuba, Mr.. Platt of
Connecticut; committee on Porto Rico, Mr..
Foraker
On this change about Senator Thurston,
it is believed, will either go to the head
of the committee on Indian affairs or pat
ents both of which are decided advances
over his present committee.
Bryan and sixteen to One.
In view of the fight which Is to
be made against the currency measure in
the senate and which is now being dis
cussed in the house, the following tele
gram from Wheeling, w. Va, to the Balti
more Herald of this morning is pregnant
with much meaning:
WHEELING. w Va, Dec. 11.--Bocal pol
iticians are considerably interested in a
statement from John A. Pendleton, eX
congressman, that the democratic party
in the next campaign will not attempt to
make issue of silver at l6 TO l. Last
week Congressman John Robinson of
Nebraska visited Wheeling and 1t is al
legged that he informed Wheeling leaders
that Mr. Bryan had concluded that as the
circulation of gold has measurably In
creased there was no necessity for pros
ecutng the 16 to l idea. According to tho
Nebraska congressman 1t was only the in
tention of Mr.. Bryan to advocate silver in
the hope of adding to the circulation OF
money Now that that object has been at
tained by the introduction of gold in large
quantities by recent discoveries no SPECIAL
stress Is to be laid upon the original l6 to
II plan.
Senator Warren today introduced bill
similar to that introduced by Mr.. MondeIl
in the house, providing for an appropriation
of 500 900 for the completion of military
pest at Sheridan, Wyo.
Judge Keysor of Omaha, grand master OF
the Nebraska Masons. is in the city to par
ticipate in the exercises attendant upon the
centenary of the burial of George Washing
ton. This event promises TO be historical
in character, as prominent Masons are ar
irving from all parts of the country to be
present on Thursday, when the exercises
take place at Mount Vernon.
Nat Brown of the Murray hotel was in
the city today on his way to Omaha. lie
stated that Nebraska would give good
account of itself next year politically and
he believed that Bryan would not be able
to carry his state.