Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-25
The Force Bill Receives Some
Hard Knocks.
Senator Stewart Dances On Its
Frame.
Senator Morgan Jumps on 1t With
Both Feet.
Senator Sanders Vents His Spleen on the
Newspapers in Speaking in the
Force Bills Defense.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Ae8OCl8teO IIccS OAophSCAcS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-When the sem
ate met at IL q. M. today, in continual
tion of thursdays session, there were
but forty-fve senators in attendance, ex-
actly quorum. Stewart took the floor
to address the senate on the closure
resolution, but yielded to motion by
Frye for executive session, on the as
surance that it would not occupy more
than Eve or ten minutes.
In executive session the senate con-
firmed the nomination OF, N. P. Hill, OF
Colorado; William A. Russell, of Massa-
chusetts. and Lambert Tree, of Illinois,
as commissioners to consider the estab-
lishment of an international coin or
coins.
The legislative session was resumed
at IL 25, when Stewart offered the
amendment of which he had given no.
tice on Thursday last. 1t contains three
propositions, the first being to strike
out of the proposed rule the words,
land the question shall be put upon the
amendments, if any are then pending.
and upon the measure in its successive
stages, according to the rules of the SEN
ate, but without debate" and substitute
the words, land debate on the pending
amendments, and such amendments as
may be offered while the measure is
under consideration, shall be limited as
provided under rule 81" the second, to
i,,oort in, tho coptonoo v,rovi1.nv that ,,o
motion shall be in order but motion to
adjourn or to take recess, the words,
Ito recommit with or without instruc-
tions or to lay on the table; :" and the
third being clause that the pending
proceedings under the proposed rule
(rule 17) shall be suspended. Rule s,
referred to in the first proposition, pro-
vides for an order of business after the
morning hour, and rule II is that when
an amendment proposed to any pending
measure is laid on the table, it shall not
carry with it or prejudice such measure.
Faulkner demanded the yeas and nays
on the amendment, and they were or
dered.
Aldrich asked unanimous consent,
first, to limit the debate to one-half
hour, then to limit the length of speech
es to one hour each, and to have vote
taken on Monday next. Each of these
requests was refused. Objection was
made on the Democratic side.
Stewart then argued against the rule
and the elections bill. The principle OF
the latter, if carried into effect, he said,
would be more prejudicial to human
liberty than secession itself, because
secession would have still retained local
governments. He went on to argue at
length against the constitutionality OF
the bill The proposed rule, he said,
could not be adopted without the viola
tion of all rules, and without taking from
the floor some senator entitled to it.
Those who opposed such proceedings
stood by the precedents of America for
100 years, and the precedents of Great
Britain for 300 years, and those prece-
dents had never been violated, except in
one single instance, when violated to
suppress the home rule struggle in Ire
land. Ii the rules of the senate were
violated, the senators would hear a
louder voice than they had heard in the
last election.
In conclusion, Stewart appealed to the
Republican senators to stop their mad
career before they stepped over a preci-
Sanders then proceeded with speech
in advocacy of the proposed rule and of
the elections bill. He reminded the
Democratic senators that there was
difference between freedom Of debate
and unlimited debate. He declared
that the elections bill was a bill of
peace. 1t might be beaten, but that
would be simply postponing the ques-
ton. Ii beaten, then congress would
adjourn on the 4th of March next, leav-
ing deep and grievous wrong ranking
in the bosoms Of 10 per cent. of the
people of the country, with the con-
seriousness that injustice was being
perpetrated in the light of day.
Referring to the newspapers opposi-
tion to the bill, Sanders said no news
paper had been appointed a tribunal to
express the popular will; their opinions
were as variable as the shades by the
light quivering aspen made" He did
not know how better to characterize the
condition OF the public sentiment which
they produced, than to call it condition
of moral clamlniness. The people them
selves had, however, expressed with no
uncertain sound lin the national plat
forms of the Republican party) their
purpose and desire that the amendments
to the constitution shall stand as bull
wark and shield against all forms of
oppression, no matter how humble the
individual oppressed might be.
Morgan spoke in opposition to the
proposed rule. He said some senators
had made themselves conspicuous in ut
tering calumnies against the south, but
the south had not used money in their
elections, although silver dollars would
do much in carrying elections there
because what was it that could not be
bought of the Republican party in the
south? How was it on the other side OF
the line? What was the meaning of
those disgusting expressions which en-
anated from Republican-perhaps a
to Crying the fat" out of
the manufacturers, and "blocks OF fve"?
What was the meaning of those enor-
nous subscriptions OF money made by
men who stood at the very head OF the
What wonderful development,
piety, sanctity and purity! What use
was made Of that money? There could
not be a question that the money way
used.
A recess until Monday was taken.
House Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-In the house
this morning 1876 members (more than
quorum) having responded to their
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