Should the Voorhecs bill get through
the Senate all right, and according to
present indications it will, it will
then have some trouble in the Houe '
Butthe trouble in the House will lie
principally that of securing.! quorum
of repealers, the silver men having1
served notice that they will not help '
...i. it. An attempt is : now being 1
made to get the numerous absentees
in their seats by Monday. Should it I
succeed the bill can be put through
the House in short order, owing to
the existence of cloture.
The Democrats of the House do not
fancy the idea of having in
fin,, ., w, rr,ni , nf tl,. ... r.n. tariff
hearings before the Ways and Means
Committee; the arguments presented
in favor of protection are too nearly
unanswerable to suit them The House
Committee decided that only 2,000
copies of the book should be printed
for the use of the House, it being
understood that the Democrats
would suppress as many of them
as possible. The Senate Committee,
at the suggestion, it is said, ol a
Democratic Senator who thinks protection
a good thing, notwithstanding
the Chicago platform's assertion
to the-contrary, amended the resolution
so as to raise the number to
4,000, one half to be for the use olthe
Senate, and it has been so adopted.
Little opposition will come from
any quarter to an immediate adjournment
of Congress as soon as the silver
question shall have been disposed
of. There is a general disposition on
the part of the Senators and Representatives
to go home and talk it all
over with their constituents before
the beginlng of the regular session.
And it is more than probable that
some of them will hear some unpleasant
things when they get back home.
