Show HIES IS UNDEGIDED k May Forego the Idea of Sending Send-ing in a Currency Bill HIS PARTY LEADERS ARE AGAINST IT Tariff Question Should First be Settled Belief That a Majority of the Finance Committee Would Report H Recommendations Unfavorably i and That All Attempts to Pass 0 Currency Bill at the Present Time Would Prove Futile Message I May Come Later Washington July 5The proposed message of the president to congress recommending the appointment of a commission to consider ties question of a revision of our currency and national banking laws will not be transmitted today nor for several days if It goes in at all The president Is now undecided whether or not to send in any mes sage for the reason that a number of the most Important leaders of the pany in the senate and house have made strong representations to him o the inadvisability o sending a meg to cnges while the tariff bill is in con PARTY LEADERS MEET Senators Allison and Quay Representative Repre-sentative Dingle and other party leaders lead-ers had a long conference with Presi dent McKinley today They urged him to reconsider his determination to send a special currency message to congress as it would 0 likely to arouse feeling and cause friction that would delay speedy final action on the tariff bill After the conference Secretary Porter Por-ter announced to the newspaper men that It had been decided that it would no be expedient to send in the message today and tfcat it would no g In for several days at least and might be deferred de-ferred altogether during the special session o congress Upon their return to the capitol Senators I Sen-ators AWiscn and Quay denied having conferred with the president upon the advisability of sending in a message upon the question of the currency Senator Allison expressed the opinion that if a message tiiould1 be received it would be extremely difficult if not impossible im-possible to secure action by the senate under existing conditions Necessarily I he sid the matter > oud b referred to the finance commiuti a majority of which would in l irtoraMhttY be opposed t the scheme ior a currency commission and would therefore hold the matter up indefinite f WILLING TO WAIT Independently of the statement of t Senator Allison i is known that the Republican managers of the senate asreed three wetks ag not t z > regs any measure piovldrag for a curerncy commission at the present session of the senate The promise was made at a time when the fate o the tariff bU was by no means certain and when it was in the power of the opposition to at least indefinitely delay action upon that measure Toe agreement provided that there should be no effort on the pai of opnnt of the tariff to unnecessarily un-necessarily delay action and that Republicans Re-publicans should no urge the currency cuinuiiKsion scheme upon congress at the present session though the president presi-dent suould send in a message recommending such commission mending cmssion 1 WOULD BE FUTILE The Republican senators feel that tP any effort to get currency legislation l through ttould be futile Aside from 5 the dilficulay of getting a measure suCh as that picposed by the president out of committee the scheme would I reported re-ported be debated at length and then i upon a vote would I probably I be defeated = de-feated We think we have the votes In the senate to beat such a measure said j St natcr Jones Ark a member of the firance committee bu if it should be reported we should feel that i would be of sufficient importance to demand 1 exhaustive debate 1 think that i would be difficult he added to dispose of It In less time than three or four months Toe prevailing opinion on the Republican Re-publican side of the chamber is that the president will not immediately send a message but that it may come later The f Republican senators seem to be satisfied that all proceedings in regard 4 to the matter be dropped until the final disposition of the tariff Didnt Pay His Debts Washington July SThe senate committee on military affairs today decided de-cided upon an adverse report in the promotion of LieutenantColonel Henry E Noyes of the Second cavalry nominated nom-inated by the president to be colonel The charge made against Colonel Xoyes Is that of failing to meet his financial obligations Pardons Granted and Denied Washington July SThe president has pardoned J H Murphy sentenced to five years for mail robbery A E Schaefer sentenced in Washington to six months for embezzlement Pardons have been denied James Carter of tHis sour Marion Myers of Idaho and John Washington and Simmons Wolfe Vashlngon of Kansas 1 |