Heed’s Plan of Compromise,
A prominent republican leader of the
hoase of representatives quotes Speaker
Reed as saying that the house will take
no action whatever upon the silver ques
tion until after the senate has passed the
hill. Then, if it complies with the views
of the administration on the subject, the
house will take immediate action upon it.
Should the hill adopted by the senate con
flict. the house committee on coinage,
weights and measures will be prepared with
a duplicate of the Windom bill or a meas
ure agreeing with its principal features,
and report it. The bill will be passed by
the iiouse and the question thrown into a
conference committee. Speaker Heed says
that when he selects the representatives of
the house upon the committee, he will
only appoint men whose views arc known
to he in accordance with the administra
tion, and they w ill stay in conference until
judgment day before they will yield to the
extreme silver men of the senate.
Such is the report. It is safe to discount
it. The silver question is a
Harden iu tlic Party.
For whichever way they tarn the reaction
will be fearful. If the silver men carry
their point, the exposure the iniquity
of a hill that puts millions into the pockets
of a few and bulls up the price of silver,
will be a hard bill to explain in the future.
To do nothing is equally dangerous. T>
pass the Windom bill is nearly is perilous,
for it is a dangerously close drive to the
edge ot the precipice.
The Senate for Free Coimge.
