Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-26
The Republicans in the House Get
= a Quorum and Surprise the
Democrats.
At Roll Call 1865 Members Respond
s to Their Names and Business
T.; is Resumed.
The Democrats, Surprised and Vexed,
Try to Call Caucus, But do
Not Succeed.
They Got q Quorum.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-The result of
to.day's proceedings was a surprise to the
democratic minority, which, after two
weeks successful operation of what has
become known as the ''Mason plan" of OBJ
struction, was confident that it's opponents
could not secure a quorum, but the whips
had been active and word had been passed
around before the house met that quorum
would be present The result of the first
roll call, to approve the journal, was
awaited with considerable nervousness by
the republicans. During the call it was
discovered that MilliKen of Maine, who
had just returned to the city, was not pres
ent, and Immediately messengers and
pages went to look him up. AS the clerk
proceeded, it was also noticed that Mudd
of Michigan had failed to respond, and
Chairman Rowell, of the elections commit.
tee. went himself in pursuit of the alb
sentee. but these apprehensions were
groul;, Yess. as Sweeney. who had hardly
been "a a ..:"ctPi 50 soon. came into the house
just in season to cast the vote necessary to
make aSquOrum. Furthe proceedings were
remarkably expeditions, and O'FarreIl, the
only democratic sentinel, was absolutely
powerless to check the majority in its full
e. SWiHS. n YEA dllu lidy foCS ucCluIllIS tIlhC
ENABLE was not elected showed that there
We're 165 republicans in attendance includ-
ing those VINO did not vote, but were paired,
namely: Bliss, Browne Of Virginia, Cooper
of Ohio. DeHaven, Frank. Mincone, Nc
Kenna, Stockbridge, Waddell, Wade,
Wright and Yardley. T., B. Brown
Of INDIANA, Butterworth, Connell,
Wilson of Kentucky, were the republi-
cans who were absent without pairs and
of these Browne, Finley and Wilson had
leaves OF absence Oh account of sickness.
Speaker Reed stood ready to cast his bal
lot, but did not do SO as a quorum ap-
peared without his vote. The Mille4 case
which followed the Langstone case was
even a greater surprise, and in fact it was
not generally known to the republicans
that the leaders contemplated this move.
The resolution which unseated Elliott and
seated Miller was cleverly framed so as tn
be indlVisible and single vote sufficed to
achieve,What had required four separate
votes il! the LangStOne case. The demo-
cratic minority was considerably vexed
over the result of the days proceedings
and call for a caucus was circulated with
the purpose of endeavOring to unite the
party by way of retaliation upon the policy
of the treatment of the conference report
on hettariH bill, which would require the
republicans to maintain quorum of their
own members to dispose Of that report,
but owing to the lateness of the hour and
the small attendance of democratic mem
bers the attempt to caucus was tempor-
ariIy abandoned although it was stated
that it would probably be renewed o-mor-
row.
LANGsTONE SEATED.
By it's action to-day in seating Lang
stone the house ended what was probably
the most protracted and bitterly contested
election case it has ever decided during the
last days of congress. The democrats
made strenuous efforts to unseat FELTON,
from California, but they were defeated by
the refS}s'l Of majority of the republi-
cans t. vote upon the proposition.
t. II WORK ALMOST FINISHED.
Wa lNNToN, Sept. 2S.-The republican
confei, es On the tariff bill took respite
from t., labors tonight for the first time
in severas days. The situation is now such
that noigood, it is thought, can come of
talkingslthe matter over any further. The
conferees We had turned upon them all
the light. hlat can be ditfused upon the only
items III the bill now unsettled-sugar and
bindingt le-and when they adjourned
at o'clot this afternoon it was deemed
best to lei; g each man alone to think the
| situation, er in the hope that by to-mor-
| row morn one side or the other will
show ad xaosition to yield. Those in IA
yor of adfe!sy on binding twine have gone
| q good 4 IS, they say, in consenting to a
very NTH lower duty than the present
rate Of saents, and they now think it is
time forfree binding tw,ne men to abate
something, at least, Of their demands. An
earnes1sifort in this direction is making
to:nighfsby some Of the conferees ana 9th.
er leaders who are endeavoring to secure
4 the adhesion of western senators to the
bill, Withsa small duty left on, binding
4 twihe. The basis on which the metal and
i glassware schedules, which have been the
cause Of SO much contention, were settled
to-night was that on steel rails sand
structural iron it remain the same as ii
i the honseSbill, and the duty on steel billeti
4 is tixeds at a rate lower thar
4 prov vidsa fer by Fhehset hHss higher thar
thRt fixed by tie senate. These were thre,
Il sOf the pSincspat Items La thia sShedule ii