Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-16
MORRISON VICTORIOUS.
HIS BILL TAKEN UP BY A VOTE
OF 40 TO 13S.

by the best informed, the tariff reformers
carried the day in the House. The Mer.
rison bill was taken up and discussion Of
1t was launched on the legislative sea-
1t was expected that the vote would be
close, yet it was not expected that the re.
formers would have a majority of only
two, but such was the case. When the
vote was announced there was a burst OF
applause after suppressed excitement.
When the call Of the yeas and nays CON-
menced there was a very large attendance
on the floor. The galleries were crowded.
As the names were called it happened
that there was a big cluster of refOrmers
whose names commence with the first two
letters of the alphabet. The next two
letters furnished an offset. So it went
on down through the whole list.
1t was very close. Never during
the whole call was either side ahead more
| than seven votes. They generally kept
within two or three Of each other. Many
members on the floor were keeping tally
lists, but the vote was so close that they
could not tell when the Ecall was over
which side had it. There was cOnse-
quently gathering around the Speaker
desk as the clerks made out the result.
W hen Mr.. Carlisle announced 40 to 13s
there was silence for a moment then
there broke forth loud applause from the
40, and from the galleries too. This
quieted down and the House went into
| committee of the whole, with Mr.. Cox, OF
New York, in the chair, and the debate on
the tariff was commenced by Mr.. Morri-
son. There is talk among those opposed
to a reform of the tariff of moving
to strike out the enacting clause.
Such motion cannot be made,
however, until amendments are in order,
ond that Will not be until the general de-
bate is closed. 1t Will take more than
two weeks for the general debate. Even
! then there is no chance Of the enacting
| clause being stricken out. The majority
Of the House have decided practically
! that the tariff bill shall pass. Mr.. Ran
dali has tonight analyZed the vote, and
pronounced that the bill will not pass.
He, however, analyzed the House this
morning and predicted that the vote
would be against taking the matter up.
Mr. Morrison and the tariff reform lead
ers say that the bill will undoubtedly
pass, and that the House Will thus de
clare its principles on the question in
vOlved unmistakably before the country.
They are not jubilant, because they have
such small margin, but they are salts
fed,
FOrty-One Democrats voted against con-
sideratiOn and five Republicans voted in
| favor thereof All the Georgia members
| except Messrs. Clements and Nichols
voted. The former is sick and the latter
is absent. Both were paired. Mr.. Glenn
ents would have voted aye and Mr..
Nichols no. The other Georgia members
voted aye. All the South Carolina men,
bers except Smalls. who was absent.
voted aye. Mr.. Davidson, Of Florida,
voted aye and Mr.. Bisbee no.
ANALYZING THE VOTE.
An analysis of the list of yeas and nays
on the question of considering the tariff
bill shows that the affirmative vote was
cast by 1876 Democrats and Republi-
cans. and the negative by 90 Republicans
and 80 Democrats. The Republican affir-
| mativevOte came from the Representatives
of only three States-Messrs. Anderson OF
Kansas, James of New York, and Nelson,
Strait and Wakefield, of Minnesota. The
Democrats voting in the negative hail
from a larger number of States, as fol-
lows:
New York s, namely. Messrs. Arnot,
Hardy, Muller, Robinson, Spriggs, Stevens,
Wemple and Van Alstyne; Virginia 2,
Messrs. Barbonr and g. d. Wise; Penn
syNania IL, Messrs. Boyle, Curtin, Dun
can, Elliott, ErmentrOnt, Hopkins, Mutch-
Ter, Patton, Post, Randall and Storm
California /, Messrs. Budd, Henley, Glas-
cock and Tully; Ohio ), Messrs. Converse,
FOran, Paige. Warner and wilkins; New
Jersey 3, Messrs. FOrel, Fielder and NJ
AdoO; Connecticut 1, Mr.. Eaton; Mary
land l, Mr.. Findlay; Illinois l, Mr.. Fin
erty: Alabama l, Mr.. Hewitt; Louisiana
/. Mr.. Hunt; and Indiana |, Mr.. Lamb.
The following pairs were announced:
Messrs. FOllett and Nichols: Fyan and
| Rankin; Morgan and Cook; Shelley and
Burnes; Campbell, of New York, and
Gibson; Lewis and COvingtOn; Broad
| head and Dargan; Hill and Clements
Reagan and Motion, and Rodgers, of New
York, with Connolly; White. of Mime
sofa, and PettibOne; Robinson, of Ohio,
and Morrill,; Cullen and Thomas; Cal
kins and Davis, of Illinois; SmalIs and
Mccormick; HOlton and Bayne; Brumm
and HOuk; Browne, of Indiana, and Ste
venson; and Wait and Brewer, of New
York. No statement was made of the
character of the votes that would have
been cast by these members if they We're all
present and impaired, but from the known
sentiments Of most of them it is presumed
that all these first named would have
voted aye, and those in the second list no.
| The following named members who were
absent had no pairs announced: Messrs.
Bowen, Campbell of Pennsylvania, Hoop
er, Hutchins, Laird and Sumner of Cali
fOrnia. LOwery was present. but was not
in his seat when his name was called.
He afterwards requested leave to vote in
the affirmative, but under the rules of the
! House this privilege could not be ac-
corded. Up to the hour adjournment this
afternoon more than eighty-fiYe Repre-
sentatives had placed their names on the
list Of the Chairman of the committee Of
the whole for recognition to make
speeches on the tariff bill. The
motion to close the general debate
will be IN order in the House, pending
the motion to 90 into committee of the
whole, which is a prerequisite of eontinu-
ing consideration of the bill each legisla-
tive day. But, although the narroWness
of the majority by which it was taken up
to-day suggests the possibility of success
in such an attempt to force the final issue,
| leading opponents Of the measure to
say that they Will offer no obstruction to
a full general discussion. The duration
of the debate of this nature is variously
estimated at from ten to twenty days.
The best informed opinion inclines
to lower the estimate as the
House will doubtless order some
and many of the speeches will be printed
in the Congressional Record without more
than a nominal delivery. The progress of
the debate will probably be interrupted
however, from time to time to admit
speedy action on one or two of the uncon-
tested appropriation bills. AS soon as the
general debate is closed and the bill is
declared open for amendments and for
discussion in committee of the whole, un-
der the five minutes rule, and at any
time whatever thencefOrth while it re-
mains in committee of the whole, the
motion to strike out its enacting clause
will be in order from any member
and must be Immediately decided
without debate. This motion, the leaders
of the opposition say, will be made by
some Republican Representative immedi-
ately upon the closing of the general de-
bate, and they profess entire confidence
that it will he successful. They assert
that number of Democratic Representa-
tives, reckoned as high as twelve. who
voted to-day to allow the bill to be dis
cussed, will then vote squarely against it.
On the other hand, active friends of the
BILL while admitting that the vote upon
the passage of the bill is likely to be very
close, assert that it will command at least
as much strength as it did to-day, and
that they believe it viii gain votes by dis
cussion.
THE VOTE IN DETAIL.
The following is the detailad vote to-
day on the question of consideration:
Teas-Messrs Adams of New York, Aiken,
Alexander. Anderson. Bagley, BallentIne,
Barksdale, Beach, Belmont, Bennett. Black
burn, Blan chard, Bland. Blount, Breckin-
ridge Buchanan. Buckner, Cabell, Caldwell,
Gambler. Carleton, Cassidy, Clardy, CLAY,
Cobb, Collins. COsgrOve, Cox of New York,
Cox of North Carolina, Crisp, CulbersOn of
Texas Davidson, Davis of Missouri, Deus
ter, Dibble. Dibrei, Dockery, DOrs-
heimer, Dowd Dunn, Eldredge, Ellis,
Evins of South Carolina, Forney, Garrison,
| Geddes, Graves, Green. Greenleaf, Halsell.
Hammond, Hancock, Hardeman, Hatch Of
Missouri. Hemphill. Herbert, Hewitt of New
York, H0blitZell, Holman, HOuseman, Hurd,
| James. Jones of Wisconsin. Jones Of TcNas.