Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-22
STUCK ONCE MORE
O0nocTats Still Holding the Fort
in the Senate.
STAYING OFF THE oLoTURE RIFLE

iactics Uses Up Another
Day with Adjournment at Mienipbt-
no quorum of Republicans present
heed, In the House, the Object IF
more Abuse, and No Business Com.
Pie'eo-A review of the Situation
senator Cameron Buyer of Silver.
WASHINGTON CITY. Jan 2o-Tba fe,bt
o'ei 0iie cioture rule was begun in the
senate yesterday as soon as that BODY had
oeen called together, German demanding
tne reading of the whole journal. and that
IL be read slowly so that he could follow
IL. Then he moved to strike out that part
Oh the record which declared that Aid
richs motion to proceed with considera-
zion OF the cloture rule was determined
IN the affirmative" The senator from
maryland explained that he did not make
TINS motion for the purpose of interfering
Win the cloture resolution, but simply to
nave the record conform strictly to the
proceedings of the senate, so that an en-
try could not be made to declare a motion
carried when the vote had not been put to
the senate. German, in further explana-
zion OF his position, read from The Con
gresslonal Record the exact language Of
The debate which ensued prior to adjourn
ment, the point being corroborated by
The Record that the vote on Aldrich's
motion was not announced to the senate
the last statement made by the chair to
the senate on the vote being in the words:
The ayes appear to have it."
Morton withdraws His Ruling.
German proceeded to speak upon the
motion and Spooner asked permission to
ask question, when Butler objected that
under the ruling of the chair Tuesday
German could not yield without unanimous
consent, and insisted upon his objection
although German appealed to him to
Withdraw it. There was long calloquy,
and Aldrich stated that he had no obiec-
ton to the journal being amended, but
Morgan insisted that it must be done
formally 10 show that the "rights of repre-
sentatives of the people shall not be
stricken down" The vice president cor
roborated the statement that he had said
"The ayes appear to have it, and later
withdraws his ruling that senator had no
right to yield to another without unani-
nous consent, admitting that it was
erroneous.
demanded the Ayes and Noes.
German demanded the ayes and noes on
his motion to correct and the Republicans
insisted that they were not necessary
Sherman thought it was pretty hard upon
the careful and experienced journal clerk
(SpencertO make record rejecting upon
the accuracy OF his work. German retort-
es that he had no intention OF rejecting
upon the journal clerk or other officers of
the senate. He believed that the officers
had done their entire duty. Morgan made
an extended speech on the rules and prac-
tices of the senate, during the course of
which he denounced the practice OF taking
senators off the floor as a wrong and an
outrage.
Eustis Lets Himself Loose.
Eustis said he deemed it his duty to dis
cuss briefly the pending question and the
question involved IN the elections bill, be-
cause he believed that the senate was ap-
preaching a revolutionary crisis He spoke
of the elections bill as a political polyphe-
mus intended to devour and destroy the
liberties of the people. 1t could not have
originated in the classic brain OF the sena-
tor from Massachusetts. There was such
thing, he said, as a woman giving birth to
a monster, "A being that had no recogniza-
BILE human feature. The thing breathed,
inhuman monster could ever have had an
adaptive parent But the senator from
Massachusetts had assumed all maternal
obligato nS and responsibilities for the
pending Dill-that hideous, inhuman mon
ster. He had caressed it; he has taken it
to his bosom; he had warmed it in his fond
embrace, and he had freely given to it it's
adaptive mothers milk.
The Galleries Moved to Laughter.
Hoar, addressing the senate, said that
after several weeks of debate, after indi-
vidual speeches prolonged not only
through four or five days, but through
nights, the senator from Louisiana had
broken the silence and addressed himself
to the question whether the journal shall
be corrected He said he thought it the
most extraordinary spectacle-he would
not say of impudence or insolence, but of
colossal assurance - considering the
ground the senator from Louisiana had
stood upon until the state of Louisiana
had spewed him out of its mouth Hoar,
as he was speaking advanced in the direc-
ton of Eustis, shaking his index finger
vehemently, and the latter, as if to escape
the vengeance OF the Massachusetts sena
tor, moved farther away, amid great
laughter from the galleries.
Vest Talks Against Time.
Vest then opened fire on the elections
bill, and declared that it was an assump-
ton to say that the Democrats were vast
ing time and that the cloture rule was
necessary in order to obtain vote on the
bill. He didn't oppose the bill as parti-
san; if he were acting on that line he
would vote for the bill, because il would
help his party. 1t was very evident. how
ever, that what Vest had to say didn't in
terest the senate, not even the Democrats,
for at $50 there were lot IA score of sena-
tors present and business was suspended
to wait for quorum, which did not APP
pear until $40, when Vest continued his
speech
Another Democratic Strategem.
Vests speech continued for "a couple of
hours longer, the Democrats having hit
apon new device to give Vest occasional
rests. The device was to note the absence
of a quorum aud demand rol-call each
t;n,a Tba trnuhla was that tbe RpDuh-