The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-04
Last Nights Dispatches.
xLvI CONGRESS.
SENATE.

uounced unfinished business. the land in
severalty bill. as the regular order.
Mr.. Morgan moved to postpone the
order until tomorrow. Agreed-yeas 81 i,
nays 20
| MIR. Elmupds moved to reconsider the
vote just taken. but upon being reminded
by Mr.. Eaton that as he had not voted for
postponement he was not entitled to
make the motion, Mr Ednuuds withdrew
his motion. and Mr.. Morgan moved to
proceed with the consideration OF his reso-
luton
Messrs. Hoar, Window, Booth and
| Couklipe onnosed the motion as having
the effect 10 displace the pension and sp-
preparation bills and other important busi
ness pending before the Senate. The
| motion carried.
MIR. Edmunds move an amendment to
make ahs resolution read. that In the
opinion Of the senate neither the senate
and House of Representatives nor the
President Of the senate are invested by
the Rconstitutions with the right to make
the count.
| The amendmen was voted down-yeas
Is nays 2S-a patty vote. M. Davis. OF
illinois. did not vote.
Mr.. Ingalls, said he believed the Pres
ldent OF the Senate had the right to
count the votes in the sense of omputlng
them. but had no right to count in the
sense of determining judicially what were
votes.
Mr.. Blaine said he thoaght the resolu-
tion would meet the views of both sides of
the question IL it should declare who
should count or re ject the vote.
Messrs Morgan and Thurman replied
to Blaine, the former stating that the
Senate at the last session had assumed
Ia position upon it in the Morgan rule.
A vote was taken upon agreeing to the
resolution, when the result showed 80
ayes to one in the neg tive (Whytej the
Republicans excepting Conkling who
voted for the resolution abstaining from
voting.
BY direction of the chair (Anthonyl
the roll was called, pursuant to the rule
to ascertain the presence of a quorum,
when forty Senators responded. Thur
man asked that the names OF Senators not
present be taken down.
| Mr., Biane-Under what rule? That is
a request never before heard made in
| the Senate,
Mr.. Thurman said the rules required
Senators present to vote or ask to be ex-
/ cnsed when they must state the reasons
for their excuse.
| At this point the Indications for a pro-
| tracted session were very apparent as tbs
| minority evinced disposition to continue
the obstructive policy inaueurated early in
| the day.
| Mr.. Morgan suggested to the Republi
| lican side that they relieve the Democrats
present from their pairs with absences,
| and upon receiving no response to
his suggestion, moved TO adjourn.
| Agreed to.
Adjourned.
| WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-Mr. Cox offered
| an amendment fixing the number of rep
resentatives at 3O7. Ordered printed.
| Mr., Sberwin. member Of the census
committee. took the floor on the bill
There was no reason that the apportion
| nent should not be made this session,
since all data were iu on which to make the
calculation. Comparing various bills
| which had been proposed, he showed that
at 30l, the number first suggested by Mr..
| Cox. the Democratic states would gain s
| representatives and lose 2. net gain Of 6.
| the Republican states would gain 10 snd
lose s. a net gain of 2. At the number
| selected by the majority of the committee.
| the Democratic states would gain IL and
lose none. the Republican states would
gain l9 and lose 4, a net gain of 6. At
| olS Tue Uuu UcE EeCOD QlSDQeu Dy tue Ut
nority, the Democratic and Republican
states would each gain l3 He argued
in support Of the latter bill. contendlng
uathetn atioaIly as we'll as politically. it
would nete exact justice to every portion
of the country. For that reason il should
com mend itself to every fair minded man
Oh the floor.
Mr.. New inquired If 3le would not
leave q larger unrepresented population
than 30l. 307 or 3Il.
| Mr, Sherwin replied that it left slight
y larger number otEpscple unrepresented
than did one of the other nun bers, be
| forgot which.
Mr. Crowley opposed an increased repre-
sentation.
| Mr.. Ryan. CT Pennsylvania confined
himself chiefly TO the discussion of an
amendment which he proposed to offer to
| TO put an end to what he termed iniquit-
oes gerrymaudering which had been
praciiced 10 several states. iustancing
particularly The evils which q w frou it in
his own state. The matter then went
over,
| Mr.. King introduced bill nppropriat-
irg $50 600 for the purchase and distribu
ton OF seed cane. Referred.
| Adjourned.