Connecticut western news., 1891-01-21
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 condsnssd Report of Proceedings in Gen. ate and House.
 WASHINGTON Jan. 15.-The senate de- voted the entire day from 10 o'clock until adjournment discussing the financial bill. Messrs Ingalls, and Jones delivered set speeches. At 3 o'clock debate under tho pated in by Messrs. Morgan, Hawley, Vest, German, Call and others. At 5:45 a vote was taken on the adoption of MT. Stewards free coinage amendment, resulting-Yeas, a; nays, 30. The fourth section providing for the issue of $2O0. COG, 900 of per cent. bonds was struck out-yeas, 49; nays, 19- also the first section for the purchase of 12,OOO, 900 ounces of silver at the market price; also the second section limiting the compulsory requirement. of deposit of bonds by national banks to $1.OOO.
 MT. Plumb moved to strike out the third section as to national bank currency and to insert in lieu the following: "That the secretary of the treasury is authorized to replace all sums of national bank notes hereafter permanently retired and can- celed by the issue in lieu thereof of like sums in United States notes of the descrip- tion and character of the United States notes now outstanding and authorized by the act of March 8, 1883, entitled, An act to provide ways and means for the sup port of the government Lost-yeas, 26s nays, 40.
 The senate, after a continuous session of more than thirteen hours, adopted sub stitute offered by MT. Vest for the whole financial bill-yeas, 39; nays. 27. The sub stitute is a positive free coinage measure. and provides that the unit of value in the United States shall be the dollar, to be coined of 4l2x grains of standard silver or 25 S-10 grains of standard gold. MT. Vest stated that his substitute was similar to the free coinage bill that passed the senate last session. '-'
 The senate then greed not to adjourn yeas, 82; nays, S3-and MT. Hoar moved to take up the elections bill
 The senate at l2:l2 a. m. agreed to take up the elections bill and make it unfin- ished business for today. The vote stood S3 yeas, s nays, and the vice president voted in the affirmative. The senate then adjourned.
 When the debate first opened and Sena- tor Ingalls, arose he was greeted by pack ed galleries. Mr. Ingalls, said that there were two portentious evils which menaced the safety, if they did not endanger the exist ence of the republic. Tho first was ignor- ant, debased, degraded, spurious suffrage. festered suffrage, suffrage contaminated by the feculent sewage of decaying nations, suffrage intimidated and suppressed in the south, suffrage impure and corrupt, apa- thetic aud indifferent in the great cities of the north, so that it was doubtful to his mind whether for half century there had been presidential election in this country that expressed the deliberate and intelli- gent judgment of the whole body of the American people.
 The second evil to which he had adverted was the tyranny of combined, concentrated centralized, conscienceless and incorpor ated capital, and the people were consider ing that great problem now. The con- science of the nation was shocked at the injustice of modern society. The moral sentiment of mankind had been aroused at the unequal distribution of wealth and at the unequal diffusion of the burdens, benefits and privileges of society. The people, he said, had suddenly awoke to the conception of the fact that the great bulk of the property of the country was passing into the hands of those whom the senator from Ohio called the speculators of the country. They were not of the country alone.
 They had no politics but plunder and no
  race. One man in this country had in 8 lifetime acquired out of the aggregate of the nations wealth, earned by the labor of all, a sum that exceeded the assessed value of four of the smaller states. We were accustomed to speak of this country as the land of the free and the home of the brave; it would soon be the home of the rich and the land of the slave.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The senate is still in state of deadlock on the Lodge elections bill. The session which began Friday noon lasted all night and extended without break until Saturday night at 6 o'clock, a continuous session of thirty hours. MT. Faulkner broke the record as long speaker. His purpose was to talk on an amendment until the Republican senators were tired out, and he held the floor for twelve hours. He was succeeded by MT. Daniel, who only spoke a short time. Several amendments to the bill were then tabled. At 6 o'clock truce was declared, and the weary statesmen ad. journed until noon today.
 The senate is now on the verge of break ing one of tho most sacred of senatorial traditions-the unwritten rule that debate on any measure may continue indefinitely. What is considered party necessity has triumphed over custom, and though the change contemplated is only temporary iu it's character, it will probably lead, if it be effected, to other radical changes that will be permanent The crisis in the senate it at hand. The fate of tho elections bill will probably be determined at 8 caucus of Republican senators this evening held to devise . mode of procedure during the pendency of the bill.
 At this caucus plans for disposing of tho cloture rule without delay will be discuss | ed, and it is believed that satisfactory arrangement will be effected, although the unsatisfactory proceedings of previous eau cuses in connection with the elections bill do not hold out much hope to the advo | cates of the measure for . settlement o the matter.
 | Senator Aldrich has given notice that b. would on Tuesday call up the rule fol closing debate on tho elections bill. Tha provisions of this rule do not extend be yond the end of the present session. MT Aldrich had been instructed by Repub lican caucus to report and call up the rule and the caucus tonight will be confronted with the task of finding means for dispos ing of it speedily without offending th' public taste. Calling up the rule for dis cussion on Tuesday will probably shov what the Republican policy will be.
 Great Storm at Hartford.
 i HARTFORD, Conn.,, Jan. l9.-The mos severe and damaging ice storm for man years prevailed here yesterday. Hundred of telephone and other wires came down making innumerable crosses, SO that tn electric light company had to shut of an the city last night was in darkness. Bt fore the current was shut off some danaR
 was done by burning out telephones. an Postmaster J. c. Kinney had a very ual