Daily Republican., 1884-05-07
THE GREAT CONTEST.
EXCITING SCENES FOLLOWING
THE VOTE Oh THE MORRI.
son TARIFF BILL.

After the debate closed on the Morri
son tariff bill yesterday buzz ofexcite
ment ran through the House.. Their
was momentary pause after the clerl
read the first clause Of the bill, anc
Kasson rose and looked expectantly a.
the Democratic side of the Chambe fol
o motion to strike out the enactine
clause of the bill. He had not long h
wait. Converse, of Ohio, came down
the aisle past Morrison desk to the open
place in front of the Speakers chair,
and, catching the eye of the chairman,
moved that the enacting clause be
stricken out.
Tellers were demanded, and the
Chair appointed Mr.. Converse and Mr..
Morrison. The gentlemen walked 10
the head of the centre aisle, shook
hands and the supporters of the motion
filed between them. One hundred and
fifty six men were counted In favor OF
the motion. Then those opposed TO 1t
passed between and their number was
l5l. As the Chairman OF the committee
announced the vote the opponents of
Morrison bill fairly howled with de-
light.
They cheered, clapped their hands
and cheered again with all the en-
thusiasm that marks the proceedings of
a ward convention. A motion was
! made that the committee rise. 1t was
adopted, and the Chairman OF the COM
mittee reported to the Speaker the
action of the committee, and the yeas
and nays were denan 1ed on the adop-
ton of the motion. The roll call fol-
lowed. There was breathless silence
| a. name after name was called by the
clerk, and vote after vote was recorded
for aud against.the motion.
ANOTHER OUTBURsT OF APPLAUSE.
Only once was there an exception,
and that was when Regan, of Texas,
so feeble as TO require the support of
two men TO help him into the House
from his sick bed, feebly gave his vote
against the motion to strike out the
enacting clause. The vote of each
memb Der WAS watched with the closest
attention, and 80 close was the tally no
one could correctly predict the result.
The negative vote was announced as
151, and then George d. Wise, Of Vir-
ginis, voted in the affirmative, making
the vote stand l56 to 151. Then cheer
followed cheer from the Republican
side, and the cheers were taken up by
the galleries and reverberatsd from
every nook and Granny of the hall.
Ladies' stood up and waved their hand.
kerchiefs and men their hats. Mr..
Morrison, yielding gracefully to the
Inevitable, walked smilinRly to his
seat, and the Tariff bill was dead.
The Committee arose and the chair
man reported its action TO the house .
The Speaker stated the question to be
on striking out the enacting clause. and
Messrs. Morrison and Turner, of Ken.
tucky, calling for the yeas and nays,
1t was agreed to-yeas, I59 nays, 1856.
When Mr.. Young's name-the last on
the list-was called, Speaker Carlisle
said to the clerk "Call my name"
The name was called and the Speaker
voted "nay." The vote was received
with cheers by the friends CT the mea
sure. Before the vote was announced
the clerk read the names of four pains
the smallest number Of members TT
corded ~ paired for years Bennett
nay, Ocheltree yea Muldrow nay
Valentine yea Nicholas nay, Riggs
yea Wood and John ID. White.
"The vote on the pending bill is los
yeas and 1876 nays" said The clerk Up
on the announcement of the result there
was n repetition OF the scene that fol.
lowed tho announcement of the vote by
tellers. The Republicans and successful
Democrats rose TO their seats and gave
cheer alter cheer. Some waved papers
abovr th-ir heads, while others added
to the confusion by q continuous clap.
ping OF hands. In the galleries mon
and women again cheered, the latter
also vigorously waving their handker-
chiefs,