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TINED STATESMEN.
The Election, Oh the iss.4-Senstov
Faulkner Holds the Floor fer
ht>sSsy Tssiss Hours


4 pEAp-Locx.
WAsnIyeres. ysa lila the Senate
Friday senator Mitchell fOFe-) intror
dseed . bill providing . temporary gov
ernmeat for Alaska The senate passed
ths bill providing u. sEs. ess for the early
completion Of the work for the Improve
msnt Of the mouth Of tbs Columbia river.
Oregon. and sl5.ooo for the e&riy com
pietion Of the canals aud locks Of the
CASCADES of the Columbia river. orsgoa-
Ats o'el-sk the Vice President laid
before the senate g the unfinished
business1 the elections bill and Sena-
tsT Pssco Fla took the door 10 make
IN argument against IT, tie gave no.
tiee OF an amendment which he would
offer TO punish bribery by the payment
Of money OF BY the promise Of proeur-
ing employment for voters and to pun
tsh the use u pay envelopes intended to
influence working-men.
lie yielded TO Senator Hoar Mass
who also gave notice Of amendments
which he proposed 70 offer TO the bill.
the effect Of them being TO give TO the
judge only tho power To determine
whether Federal supervision of an
elsetion Is necessary and 70 give to the
accounting officers Of tie Treasury the
power 20 audit the accounts Of super
yisors as in other cases
Senator Pasco again at 0:lo yielded TO
Senator wolcott Coll, who moved an
adjournment Senator Frye tMe.) do
mapded the yeas and nays, and the re-
suit of the vote was: Yeas, 81; nays, 80,
Senators Stewart New and Wolcott
being the only Republicans voting yea
Senator washburn tMinn.), who voted
Wednesday night against taking up the
elections bill. rejoined his party col
leagues and voted no, as did Senator
Plumb KAN. who was absent when
the vote was taken Wednesday night.
Senator Pasco concluded his speech,
and was followed by Senators Hampton
Is. CO. and Reagan TEX in opposition
to the bin. At the conclusion of Sem
ator Reagsn's speech motion to table
Senator Buffers Is. CO. amendment
that the supervisors, canva,sers and all
election officers shall be regarded as
ministerial and not as judicial officers
was agreed to--yeas, 80; nays, 90.
The amendment offered by Senator
Faulkner (W. Val on the 18th of Decem-
Der was stated by Vice-President Morton
70 be the next question in order. 1t pro-
poses substitute for section IA and to
provide for the appointment by the
court of a board of three persons in a
Congressional district, to be known as
the United States Board of Canvassers.
Senator Faulkner advocated his
amendment and condemned the
action of Republican Senators
in sitting discussion by moving to lay
amendments on the table. Senator
Faulkner spoke until LEO a. m.
Senator Pasco short time before di-
rected the attention of the chair to the
absence of a quorum, and as the call
was being made Senator'S trooped into
the chamber and proved that there
were few more present than needed
to constitute quorum. At the con-
clusion of Senator Faulkner's speech
the absence of quorum was again
brought to the attention of the chair.
The call of the roll showed that
there were only thirty-six Senators
present. only FIVE of that number be-
ing Democrats. A motion was made
by Senator Hoar to compel the
attendance of absentees, but Senator
Harris (Tenn.) made the point of order
that the first motion under the rules
was to direct the sergeant-at-arms to
~
ators.
The presiding officer Senator Wash
burn sustained the point of order, and
Senator Hoar changed his motion &C
cordingly. The motic1 was agreed to,
and list of the absentees was furnished
to the sergeaIt-at-arms, who dispatched
messengers to carry out the order of
the Senate. The Democrats present
were: Senators Cockrcll, Faulkner,
German, Harris and Pasco. Before the
list had been handed to the sergeant-at-
arms FIVE more Senator's, all Republic
ans, had answered. making the whole
number present forty-one, or four less
than a quorum.
The first of the absentees to obey
the mandate Of the Senate was
Senator Call, who came in at $40. Sem
ators Daniels, Jones tArk.) and Dawes
Mass were routed up, and a quo
rum having Thus been obtained Sem
ator German Md moved to suspense
with further proceedings un;er the
call. This led TO an interminable par
liamentary wrangle. in which the quor-
um was again lost.
The hours between q m. and $50
were spent in idly waiting for . quo
rum which did not come. At the lat
ter hour the sergeantatrarms re-
ported IN writing the success or
failure q HIS visits TO the residences of