St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-07
DURING ITS READING
Republican Senators Give the
Message Their Undivided
Attention.
On the Other Side, However.
Little Attention Was
Attracted.
Only a Few Members Of the
House Followed the
Clerk.
One Of the PopulistS Wants a
Large Supply Of Paper
Money.

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the sixth page.
WASHINGTON, Dec. c. 6.-Immediateiy
after the reading of the brief journal or
yesterdays proceedings, ,EXecutlveClerk
Pruden was announced with mes
sage from the president of the United
States" Senator Mccormick entered
upon the reading of 1t with considerable
abatement of his usual rapidity OF ut
terances. There were nearly sixty SEN
ators in attendance. Senator Hill, of
New York, one of the prominent ab-
sentees yesterday, was in his seat at the
opening of the session today. Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina. entered the
chamber during the reading of the mes
sage.
Senator Villas, of Wisconsin. and one
or two senators held pamphlet copies OF
the message in their hands and followed
its reading with attention. This was
particularly noticeable in the case of
Mr.. COckreil. of Missouri, who studied
the figures presented with close care
Mr. Mcpherson, of New Jersey. moved
down to the front rank so as to be with
in hearing, and Mr.. Palmer, Of Illinois,
took position OH the Republican side,
occupying Mr.. Frye's seat in the front
row to escape the buzz of conversation
which interviewed between his custo-
mary seat and the clerks desk. When
Mr.. Frye came in he changed over to
place Of
Equal Advantage
on the other side of the aisle. Noticea-
Dle changes in the customary arrange
ment OF the message naturally attracted
attention.
In all previous executive messages
the affairs of the state department,
which has no other way OF cOmnuni-
eating with congress except througlLthe
president, have generally been gwen
precedence. Mr.. Harrison'S su3ordina-
tiOn of them in his closing message 10
his preSentment of the tariff issue was
quickly noted. There was a perceptl-
bic increase of interest when these
passages which so pointedly discussed
relations with Canada were reached.
Mr.. Cullom, of Illinois, exchanged
whispered comments with his neighbor,
Mr.. Dixon, of Rhode Island; Senators
Sherman and Morgan, the two chiefs
of the foreign relations committee,
listened attentlvely, and Mr.. Hoar
dropped the newspaper he had been
looking at and followed the reading
closely.
EX-Speaker Reed dropped in while
the reading was going on and heard the
message read In the senate instead OF
the house. The reading OF the message
occupied about an hour and half. AT
its close, Mr.. Henderson, chairman OF
the committee on printing, offered
Init for nj |
the use of the senate, which was adopted
without objection.
Interested Republicans.
The commercial and business statiS-
tics given i'll the first part of the mes
sage and the sarcastic paragraphs as to
the supposed effects of tariff for rev.
enue seemed to meet general approval
Oh the Republican side of the chamber,
while they attracted little attention on
the other side. During the reading,
Democratic senators were for the most
part chatting liStleSSly with each other,
or attending to their correspondence,
while the Republican senators, on the
contrary, paid the president the COM
pliment of giving to his message their
undivided attention.
The various other subjects discussed
in the message, however, seemed to
have very little interest for senators on
either side. The Democrats made no
pretense of listening and the attention
of Republicans showed marked falling
off. Seals in the diplomatic gallery
were occupied throughout the reading
of the message by the Spanish minister
and by the first secretaries of the Ger
man and Russian legations.
The reading of the message was con-
cluded at 1885. having occupied an hour
and half. Five of the eighteen sena-
tors who were absent yesterday were
present today. They were Messrs.
Graw, Hawley, Hale, Ransom and San
ders fen thousand copies of the presl-
dents message were ordered to be
printed in pamphlet form for the use of
the senate.
En- the House.
In marked contrast with the bustling
scene of yesterday was the meeting of
the house today. There were few per-
sons in the galleries, and upon the floor
the members seemed to have settled
into the old routine. In feeling man
ner and amid the devOut attention of all
the members-whO remained standing
the chaplain alluded to the recent afflic
tons which the president had suffered,
and invoked the divine protection on
IIe U6T6dNeu OllCo. MI. 1(dS LOl, vi
Maryland, introduced bill for the bet
ter protection of commerce and to
establish a national quarantine. Re
ferred.
At 1915 Mr.. Pruden, one of the presi-
dents secretaries, presented the annual
message, which Clerk Kerr Immediately
began to read. The reading OF themes
sage met with little attention. Many
OF the members left the hall, preferring
to study the recommendations of the
president at home. Those who re-
manned entered into conversation or de-
voted themselves to a peruSal of the
newspapers.
There was a few exceptions to the
general rule. MI Hooker, of Missis-
sippi, was an interesting listener from
beginning to end. He left his seat in
the rear of the chamber and occupied a
desk directly III front of the speakers
chair, and paid the closest attention.
For a short time he had as his COM
panions MeSSrs. Herbert, of Alabama;
Dingley, of Maine, and Butler and
Dolliver, of Iowa. When the question
of the tariff was reached Mr.. McMillIn,
OF Tennessee, Strolled down one of
the aisles ana listened intently, but
his criticism of the excerpt was a
mere smile. He then resumed his seat
and paid no further attention TO the
message. The discussion OF the Indian
question arrested the attention of MI
Simpson, of Kansas. for few minutes,
and he then turned to his colleague, Mr..
Otis and thereafter heard no word of
the message.
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