Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-22
Pandemonium in Both House
and Senate.
The Senate Remains in Session
Till Midnight.
An Adjournment Taken Without the
Approval of Tuesdays Journal.
The House Journal Approved After
Stormy Scene Reed Throttling
Free Trade.
Associated Press Dispatches.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-In the senate
today, as soon as the journal of yester-
dry was read, German moved to correct
it by striking out the words stating that
Aldrich's motion yesterday to proceed
to the consideration of the resolution as
to the closure was determined in the
affirmative. He asserted that ballot
occurred, but that the result of the vote
was not announced. He read from the
record to sustain his position, and ex-
pressed his belief that the senate would
not permit journal to stand which de-
clares falsehood.
Aldrich said he was willing to concede
that the vice-president had not declared
the motion carried, and he had no OBJ
lection to the motion to amend the
journal.
The vice-president said, from his recol
lection, he was Of the opinion that he
did not formally declare the vote az
carried, though he had stated the ayes
appeared to have it; and he would there.
fore again submit the question.
After long discussion, Eustis tool
the floor and spoke against the elections
bill. He said it was aimed at southern
communities and the southern states
It was intended to revive, reorganize
and re-habilitate the Republican party
in the south. 1t was intended as sec.
ond reconstruction measure, and it de.
served the failure of the first recon.
struction measure.
Eustis referred to the Boston riot
against the execution of the fugitive
slave law, and said never in any south
ern state had there been such exhibition
of fierce, determined and relentless op-
position to federal law as that in Mass
achusetts, and that riot. he said, was
ef Boston, and in the face of that record
stantly arraigning and condemning
states.
Hoar replied to what he termed "the
diatribe OF the Philippe senator from
louisiana" and thought it the most ex-
traordinary spectacle of colossal assur-
ance he had ever witnessed. General
Sheridan, when in command of the de-
partment of the south, declared that
more men had been murdered in the
state of Louisiana for their political
opinions than had fallen on both sides
during the Mexican war. 1t was state
whose annals were known by its terri
BILE and bloody history.
Carlisle addressed himself directly to
the, question of the proceedings of yes
terday, and of the motion to correct the
journal.
Vest gave review of the proceedings
in the senate at the time that the clos
ure rule was first proposed, and said it
was opposed then by the leading Repub-
licans, and he also quoted from Hoar's
article in the Youths Companion, in
which he says: SIN that assembly (the
senate of the United States) speech is
absolutely unfettered."
He also referred to articles in Repub-
lican newspapers all over the country in
condemnation of the elections bill. He
said if the Republican senators passed
the bill. and especially as they proposed
to pass it, by trampling on the rules of
the senate. not five states of the union
would give them their electoral votes.
He warned the Republican senators that
they were playing with edged tools, and
they might inf1ict mortal wound on the
south and on the whole country.
At 6 O'Clock motion to adjourn was
lost. The absence of aquorum was
noted, and the sergeant-at-arms was
directed to request the attendance of
the absent senators.
The time of the senate was taken up
in roll calls and in the delivery of Vests
speech in sections, and at midnight the
senate adjourned. leaving the subject of
the approval. OF Tuesdays journal to
come up again tomorrow