Show CONGRESS AND LEADING QUESTIONS the fifty first fi rat congress is fast nearing a close it has only a tew lew hours more to live the senate it is reported fl finished consideration of the sundry civil an and legislative appropriation bills on the night of the alt for the industrial home in this city tile the usual was appropriated senators plumb and vest vigorously opposed this appropriation plumb is a republican and one of the th three roe w who ho voted agal the mcki mckinley nley bill vest is an old time democrat for the redistricting and reapportionment of utah 1000 was also appropriated pria ted the present congress will expire witti without out doing anything on the silver question the fifty r second congress will meet in december the que aton is will that take up the silver issue the house will be overwhelmingly democratic ocra tic the senate will be republican by a small majority the senate of ot course bourse is for free and unlimited coinage of silver alver will the democratic house align itself on the side of free silver if so what action will president harrison Har rleon take it is well known that he be is opposed to free silver but the san ban francisco Cro note says say that if a free coinage bill should pas under the circumstances president harrison Harri aon would approve it that paper also contends that the democrats will gladly paw pass a free silver bill so that silver would not enter into fiato the campaign of of 1892 and it asserts that the first thing to be done by the next democratic house will be to paw pass a silver bill by doing tats all impediments to the nomination of grover cleveland for the presidency by the democratic convention in 1892 will be removed there are a num number berof of orthodox dem democratic 0 newspapers which hold that no candidate so openly pronounced against free silver as cleveland can be put in nomination with that question unsettled the Aron fol s further says if these conjectures prove drove truette true the campaign of 1892 will biff be fought on a single issue that of the esris and it is better that it should be by no kind of ingenuity can the silver question be made property properly a partisan question while the lines liner have already been drawn so closely on the tariff that it is a recognized and well understood political issue there are honest differences of opinion among republicans on the silver question but bui it can hardly be claimed that one can be a republican without being a protectionist we may well afford to lot let the democrats paw pass a free coinage bill in Dee december ember or january next if it clears the field for the campaign which will begin in thedor the following summer rummer for there ksevery la every feeling of confidence among republicans that by that time the new tariff law will have so commended itself to the people as to insure a sweeping victory for pro projection botlon at tha thayo November vember election |