Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-03-31
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS

The house expended session in listening to & |
question of privilege debste between two Aassa-. |
The house elections committee decided 70 re-
port in favor of seating Noyes, the republican
contestant from New York, in place OF hocEWeu,
the democrat now holding the place.
Senator George, Of the committee on aeEle ~
ture, reported to the senate substitute Tor
Mitchells bill for the announcement of silk Gull
tnre. The substitute provides tor the estao.lsl-
ceeding five silk experiment stations, 70 be part
Of the agricultural e1psr nssnt stations now es5
tablished. Five thousand dollars is appropriated
In accordance with a resolution previously
adopted the house devoted the greater part of a
session TO the consideration OF resolutions OF re-
spect 70 tie memory OF the late seDafor, fIo5nD.
The hrst speaker was Mr.. Funston, followed Dy
Mr.. Broderick. The latter was listened 10 atten-
lively, partly because it was his nrst speech In
These two extended speeches were followed by
short addresses by Messrs- Davis, Gus and BAKER
Townsend of Colorado, Gate of Arkansas, Post OF
Illinois, YOumans of Michigan, Wilson or Mis-
souri, Henderson of Illinois and Caruth OF Ken
There is considerable criticism concerning the
speeches made by Davis and Otis as It IS sad
that they both talked politics, a thing which has
never before occurred in congress upon Ike oc-
Mr.. Funston has introduced bill for the cree
ton OF a public building at Lawrence, Kan. An
appropriation of $4,000 is made for the site and
the building complete. There Is no show Tor
the appropriation at this session OF congress:
1t Is the practice whenever, members time
expires under the rules while he is making
speech, 10, by common consent, permit the
speaker to finish out his speech in the Congress
cause of trouble ia tie house, as members are
charged with using language WHICH Is not parlla-
mentary or courteous, and sometimes untrue;
The house passed the army appropriation Dill
after amending it so as to prohibit the payment
Tor the transmission of troops and supplies over
/ lines net owned but controlled by the Union Pa
eitie or Southern Poetic, beng thereby embraced
/ IN the Pacific system. The Pacific system Is com
PEELED 70 do this service for the government on
account of its Indebtedness 10 the United States,
MI
oyer those links IN its system which were not
aided by the government
producers of cotton the internal revenue tax col
leeted twenty-five to thirty years ago.
The senate passed the bill to amend the statutes
as to prohibit the introduction and sale of in
toxieating liquors in the Indian country.
| The house committee on rivers and harbors
completed the consideration of the regular river
/ and harbor appropriation bill. 1t approprlates
SzOOOOGOO. which Is 500, COO less than the amount
| carried in the bill reported by the committee IN
the last congress. The greatest feature is the ex-
| adopted by the last congress, of the placing Of
some OF the most important protests under the
| The house is holding day and evening sessions
to discuss the silver bill; Mr. Bland, its author,
/ both democrats and republicans; while, SO far,
only democrats favor the passage.
Amendments have been offered TO provide t1at
pensions shall be paid in gold, should free coin
age of silver become the law also TO restrict free
amendments seem to be offered to form texts for
speeches rather than with expectation that they
The senate passed the bill for the relief of set
tiers upon the public lands.
| The senate fixed the amount in the bill for the
Improvement of the Mississippi river at SIS TO-
700, and passed II.
I45,ol6 for the completion Of canal for locks at
| the Cascades, Columbia river; also the bill for
| $50 ao6, for other improvements on the Column
Two resolutions adopted by the National board
OF trade were presented ~ Senator oeAreiil enc
| asking congress to establish q uniform bill OF
/ ladlng, and the ether approving congressman
] enforcement of the prompt unloading of freight
cars, amending the interstrte commerce law SO as
to equally protect the rights of the business COM
munity as compared with the transportation
The senate reached the Indian appropriation
bill, which came back from the house with the
provision ST. zen out which required that army
officers be detailed as Indian agents.
A substitute for this provision was offered d.
Getting the president TO appoint Indian citizens
OF the United States as Indian agents, when, IN
ms !udgLneht' 5uen appolhtnelnt might eohtii ~
ute to ATTACH Indians to civilization and 70 the
government of the United States. No action was
In the house the debate on the silver bill con-
times to the exclusion of all else. During the
debate consent was asked for an extension OF
time for the debate to continne beyond the time
fixed by the committee on rules. Mr.. Simpson,
of Kansas, objected on the ground of the failure
of time to representatives of the peoples party.
The silver discussion continued amid exciting
attention and with tull attendance OF meInber
| Mr.. Tracey's persistent hlibustering tactics IN
his effort TO secure vote On his substitute bill
Tor an international monetary congress, FORCED
the committee rules 70 bring IN rule sup
pressing the hlibusterers and naming the day and
hour when nothing viii be In order butaTote on
the passage of the DILL.
In the debate Taylor. of Ohio replied to Hatch,
of Missouri: He was surprised TO see the gentle
man from Missouri (Hateh) stand hers and say
the silver law of 1878 was the greatest infamy OF
TINS century and that It was done by the repub-
hcan party, by republican congress and & re-
publican president. And yet the gentleman knew
that not a single democrat voted against thai
measure In the senate; that Allen Il. Thurman
voted for it laPplausel; that Bayard voted for il
Applause land the only votes cast against 1t were
cast by republicans. English, of New Jersey, anc
! Castle, of Minnesota, opposed the bill.
At the time previously fixed the speaker recOg
nized Mr.. Bland to move the previous question
Whereupon Mr.. Burrows moved to lay the pend
l precedence of the motion of the gentleman from
Missouri (Mr. Bland), and demanded the yeas nC
The char decided in favor of Burrows, anC
then, amid intense excitement, the clerk began
, to call the roll on Mr.. Burrows motion, which
: brought the question 10 a square test vote. TIT
excitement became intense as the call progressed
ana members plainly showed 1t in the restless
manner with which they moved about anC
I crowded to the space in front of the speakers
T desk.
At the conclusion of the roll call the excite
ment was at fever heat.
1t took some time TO verify the vote but final
ly, amid great excitement, it was found to stan'
5 14S TO I47. Speaker Crisp arose to announce tn
| vote, but before doing SO directed the clerk Z
! | call his name. This was done Crisp voted no
/ thus making a tie and defeating the motion T.
| lay the bill on the table.
During the entire struggle the Kansas delega
| ton, republicans as well as alliance men. vote
4 | with the free silver mea on all hlibustering mo
r motion was made to reconsider the tie vote
and Bland movedto table the motion to recon
| slider.
r The motion to table the motion to reconside
| was rejected-yeas, 145 nays, 40.
: Then it was the turn of the anti-silver men {
applaud, and they did so with a vim.
| The speaker stated that the vote REQUIRED o
, | the motion to reconsider, and Reed sprang to b.
! feet and demanded the yeas and nays and 70
r | call.
l Then the thunderstorm which has been brood
r | ing over the house for some time burst, and fc
p / twenty minutes cyclone ragged supreme through
= / out the house.
( When the vote on the motion to reconsider wa
q | finally verified it stood 1sOto 1iS.
The house finally reached the pending vot'
I on the passage of the bill but ilibustering pr
I | vented vote before adjournment.
: The senate spent most of another session di
i | cussing the Behring treaty in eLecutiT
session.
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