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Show its .if v"' of untlni-hM li.u-iucw, srrilch would be within with-in two days after being reached in, the or. der of consideration. Mr. Bland, leader of the silver men, says that there was no occasion for tlllibusiering. lhe silver, question, he said, teemed to give some of Its opponents hydrophobia. The silver men do not intend to present the petition peti-tion to the rules committee asking a special order for the silver bill until Mr. Catching returns. Whether or not the special rule will be given before the tariff i taken up he could not say. Personally he though! it would be much better to get the silver question out of the way tlrst, but he should not antagonize other demoerata if they wanted to take up the taritf lirst. On this question of whether the tariff or silver shall come up tlrst It is evident that the democrats are greatly divided. No conclusion con-clusion will be reached for several days, and meanwhile the anti-silver men believe thai the greater the delay they can secure the better. Mr. Bartiue of Nevada said that he thought about ten republicans in the house would vote for free coinage, but did not like to say positively. I'illihustering in the House. Washington, Feb. 17. The donations of westiern farmers and millers to the starving millions in Russia have at last served a prac- i Ucaf purpose in tlie house. Thej served as a I'lfjdgeon for the gold men yesterday to o p( ie for tivo hours the stfady march of the 1 iwcr house towaiJ tree coinage legisla-tinn. legisla-tinn. In yesterday's strugglo polities had no p ice, the tillilmterer aTiu-41.- nirnodents bein( alike members of the denPTCTatie partj , Mr. Trac y ( N'. ir.) led the tight agalr sttbe consideration of the resolution autht ti.iug the transportation of food donations dona-tions to the starving Russian, but did it aim) y because he desired to keep as many mean ires as possible in tho way of the ' Hlanolfrce coinage bill. There aie now the Kusslliii relief resolution and several other measmres on the calendar of unfinished 'usini-s, and it is the plan of Tracy and his tollowlrs to filibuster against all these mea-"ules. in order to prevent the free coin-age coin-age sill ever being r-oched mi lh - calendar and pissed by th. hoose. Theiren coinage I men Jiav. however, force a vote on tlie I Blandlhill before it can pass to the calendar |