Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-05-15
CONGRESSIONAL
MONDAY. MAY 3.

sSendte--In the senate most of the day
was occupied with the debate on the
shipping bill. Bills were favcrably re-
ported amending the house bill granting
q pension to the wisow of Gen. Judson
Fitzpatrick and TO adopt international
regulations for preventing collisions at
sea- A bill was introduced by Senator
Van VTyck to restrict aliens and foreign
companies in the ownership of public or
other lands, and another by Senator
Plumb to prevent the acquisition of real
estate by aliens. The agricultural APP.
preparation bill was reported to the sem
ate the committee increasing the APP
preparation for sorghum experiments
from SIG, 600 TO $4,000, besides adding
500 600 for artesian wells to reclaim arid
lands and $4,000 to encourage silk cul-
ture.
House-In the Virginia contested cleo
ton case of O'FeTrell VS.. Paul was set
tied, the house by strict party vote
! (the democrats in the Affirmative seat
| O'FerTell, who, it is said, will vote
against striking out the ehacting clause
/ of the Morrison tariff bill A joint res
olution was reported aPpropriating Sl0
600 for the expenses of the visit of the
Siamese embassy, but it went over
under an objection from Mr.. Weber.
/ The evening session was devoted to the
tariff debate.
/ TUESDAY, MAY 6.
! lSendte-The senate, after the morning
hour took up the shipping BILL but adj
/ journed without. coming to a vote.
HouSe-When the House met to-day
/ the morning hour was dispensed with
and the House went into committee of
! the whole, with Mr.. Cox in the chair,
ON the tariff bill.
After the bill had been discussed for
| five hours, the debate closed and the
chair directed the clerk to read the bill.
The audience, which throughout the
day had crowded the galleries almost to
suffocation, hushed the hum of CONVEX
sation, and watched with intense in
terest further proceedings on the floor
AS the clerk began to read,
MIR. CONVERSE LEFT HIS SEAT
in the last row of seats and walking
down to the bar 90 the House, stood
nervously lingering a piece of paper
which he held in his hand. When the
reading of the first paragraph had been
completed, there was an embarrassing
pause. Converse was engaged in ear
nest conversation with Hunt and did
not appear to know all eyes were fixed
upon hin.
Mr.. Kasson, fearful that the time
when the motion to strike out the en-
acting clause would be in order would
expire before Mr.. Converse's attention
could be attracted to the facs, rose and
inquired of the chair whether the proper
time had come to- make a motion.
Before the chair could respond, Mr..
/ Converse, pushing to the front, moved
/ to strike out the enactlng clause. This
was the signal for volley of Kisses and
groans from the democratic side, this
/ demonstration being met by rounds of
! applause from the republican side.
THE SCENE IN THE CHAMBER.
was ore of intense excitement and con-
| fssion, to which the galleries rendered
no little aid by loud tokens Of approval.
/ Tellers being ordered, Converse and
/ Morrison We're appointed by the chair.
/ Before taking his place, Morrison called
to the clerk of the house. who was
standing by the speakers desk, and eX-
claimed, "cerk, see that no I'D scoun-
/ drel who is paired goes between the tel
1 lers."
The clerk promising to see fair play
should be had, Morrison took his station.
giving Converse very cool shake of
hands as he stood opposite that gentle
man. Then the
VOTING BEGAN,
and the tellers announced the affirma-
4 tive vote to be 1856. The first man to
pass in the negative was Regain, of
1 Texas who had been brought in on an
/ invalid chair in order to cast his vote.
He was heartily applauded by his
I friends and received many congratula-
tion upon his apparent recovery from
his late severe illness The negative
vote was announced as l51, and then
/ Geo. d. Wise, of Virginia, voted in the
affirmative, making the vote stand 1856
to l51.
Then cheer followed cheer from the
republican side, and the cheers were
taken up by the galleries aud reverber-
ated from every nook and Granny in
I the hall. Ladies stood up and waved
/ their handkerchiefs and men their hats,
Morrison, yielding gracefully to the in
evitable, walked smilingly to his seat,
and the tariff bill was dead.
On Mr.. Converses motion the COM
mittee rose, and the chairman reported
/ its action to the house. The speaker
stated the question to be on striking out
1 the enacting clause, and Morrison and
Turner, of Kentucky, calling for the
yeas and nays, it was agreed to-yeas
/ 1859, nays 1876, as follows:
YEAS.
Adams, H., Harmsr Patton
Anderson, Hart 49,, payne,