People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — SILVER ALLIANCE. [ARTICLE]

SILVER ALLIANCE.

A Coalition of the Entire Senate Oppoi ■ltion to Goldbuglsm. The following item of news is suggestive as a sign of the times: “Washington Correspondence: The final agreement among Democrats, silver Republicans and Populists in the senate, looking to a permanent coalition, was reached at a meeting of representatives of their parties held in Senator Gorman’s committee room at the capitol to-day. “The agreement had its origin in the effort to reorganize the senate committees, but is destined apparently to reach far beyond this situation, and in fact to the future proceedings of the senate on all matters, if not to the extent of shaping party policies throughout the country. “There were present at the meeting: Democrats, Senators Gorman, Cockrell, Walthall, Jones of Arkansas and Murphy; silver Republicans, Senators Cannon and Mantle; Populists, Senators Allen and Pettigrew. “With reference to the matter of the senate reorganization, it was decided that the combination should hold out for the assignment of Democrats to all the places on committees heretofore held by Democrats, while it was agreed that the Republicans should have the places hitherto filled by Republicans. This will give the Republicans all the committee chairmanships vacated by the retirement of Senators Cameron, Sherman, Dubois, Squire, Mitchell of Oregon and Brown, but it will give the combination about seventy vacancies, while it allows the Republicans only about thirty. “The combination decided against making any concessions, even that providing for allowing the Republicans to fill one of the three vacancies in the committee on appropriations* “The silver Republicans say that their principal incentive in entering the coalition is to protect the finance committee, which they feared might become an anti-silver organization in case the Republicans were allowed to have their own way in committee organizations. All intention to interfere with- the passage of the tariff bill through the senate through the combination of Democrats, silver Republicans and Populists is denied by the parties to the agreement.”