The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-19
IFlIR lHE BIG FIGHT.
Situation After the Conclusion
Of the Long Session.
MESSRS. FAULKNER 8 KENNA
Suddenly Loom Up as Leaders--.SIr
moar's coursc...slatters in a Mix
cd Condition Concerning
the Election Bill.

fight on the EleCIlous oiiA las NJ IA5t I'D
snmed q determined aspect. It's con
sjJeyotiOn waa commenced on the sscont
Jsv Of the present session OF Congress
The management of Mr.. Hoar, who hal
had it in charge, has been a subject o
much discussion from the standpoint o
both i.s friends and It's foes. He hal
been publicly upbraided on the floor O
the Senate by his party associates for hi
failure to indicate by persistent effort
determination to use all available
means to secure lis passage. The cor
ridors have been filed with talk ol
"cloture" and the lobbies have resound.
cd with charge aud counter charge oil
extreme resorts TO defeat II.
TIE LONG DEBATE.
Thursday Mr. Hoar gave notice that
when the Senate met Friday at ten
o'clock, he would insist upon its remain.
inc in session until the bill was dis.
uosed OF finally. The Senate assembled
Gpie.ly Friday morning 0t 10 o'clock,
according 10 this programme, and re-
NAMED in Begsion until six o'clock Sat-
rtday evening, when on Mr.. Hoar's own
motion, Il adjourned until Monday at
II, During all OF Friday the debate
went on. 1t continued on the main
snbiect and It's Incidents until ordinary
adiourning time In the evening, when q
motion to adjourn was eubmitted by
Senator WolcoLt, OF Colorado, a Repub.
liCan. The motion was voted down and
discussion was resumed.
LINES sQuARELY DRAWN.
Later IN the evening a suggestion was
made by Senator German that the ses-
sion had been sufficiently protractcd,
that no obstruction bad been placed in
the way, and the suggestion for q recess
until Saturday was made. The response
from Rr. Hoar indicated that In his
Judgment it had been in the nature CT q
dilatory character and thus between
these two Senators, the issue seemed TO
be souarely drawn. At ten o'clock Fri
day Senator Faulkner took the floor.
The bill and amendments, which were
accumulated on his desk, indicated that
he was equipped for an all night siege II
required, and so 1t turned out 70 be;
He held the floor from ten o'clock until
ten. During this continuous II hours
his time was alternately occupied by the
discussion OF the bill and its proposed
amendments, and by awaiting the Dem
ocratic demand for quorum.
QUEER ACTIONS.
It was a singular incident Of this all
night session that the first development
Of want of a quorum was brought
about by moiion Of Senator Sanders,
Of Montana. This gave cause for some
remarks by Democrats, who discussed
the action Of the Montana Senator,
which caused embarrassment 70 the bill,
in connection with the frat vote OF the
Senator from Idaho to substitute the hlt'
yer question. Those three Senators
from new States, in whose admission
Mr.. Hoar had taken q prominent ana
conspicuous part, although Repho-
liCan supporters Of the bill, has con-
tlibuted IN a large measure TO Its embar-
easement and delay.
Senator Faulkner took up the bill in
detail and discussed its features from the
standpoint Of lawyer, as he said, with
continued vigor and eaInestnt ss,
and always in q manner that indicated
that time wss matter OF no couse-
quenCe TO him. Many were surprif ed
that his physical endurance could stand
the strain, but in his seat in the Senate
all day Saturday he manifested NO Up
preciabIe wear. BE was at times inter
rupted, and this seemed to an outsider
as II the pnrpoDe was for an oceaGlonal
breath.
KRNNA's ATTACKS.
Senator Gray interposed q time or
two, and he yielded, on one occasion, TO
his colleague, Mr.. Kenna, who made q
bold and aggressive assault upon the
treatment BY Senator Hoar OF certain
amendments offered by that Senator and
which, as MIR. Kenus insisted, hsd been
declared BY Senator Hoar 10 be commit
tee amendments, when he bad subse'
0uentIy admitted that the committee
had never been in session since these
amendments we're offered. This episode
attracted marked Gttention and was
subject OF free comment. Mr.. Hoar e1'
planned that he had conferred with mem;
bers OF the majority Of the committee and
asserted that the amendments were OF
such character as that they would COM
mand the support OF the minority. MIR,
Voorhees, seized upon this opportunity
ana assailed the propriety OF assumption
by the Senator from Massachusetts, to
sneak Of the minority without consulta'
ton with them. This incident led to
subst quent statement by MIR. Teller, who
opposed the bill, that he had aCquiesced
in the proposed amendment.
A DISCOVERY.
1t was also discovered when the gem
eral debate seemed to have ceased and
the Senate was confronted by the first
amendment by Mr.. Faulkner, that with
all the prints and reprints Of the bill in
parallel columns aud otherwise, there
we're but few senstors who had an official
copy Of the bill which the Senate was
considering. Amendments bad been
offered by the various Senators, reteTr!ng
10 page, section aud line, and come ot
thes,, related 10 one text and some TO
another. Mr.. Faulkner's amendment
developed this fact andled 70 consider,
able general discussion. all this seemed
to embarrass the progress OF both debate
and the bill. In The course Of Mr.
Faulknef's speech some pleasing pas.
sages occurred between himself anG
Senator Spooner. When the waRs OIL 9
quorum was developed an occasional
amusing incident occurred, but Senator
Faulkner occupied himselt In speakinR
when speaking was in order and IN
biding his time when the Sergeent'at'
Arms was in search Of absent Senator'S to
invite their preaence.
TIE SENATE DEADLOCK.