Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-10-21


TO and in an instant the senate cham
Der was deserted after a continuous
session of thirty-elght hours and forty
minutes.
washington. Oct. lin the senate
this morning no less than three notices
of resolutions to amend the rules were
given. and Mr.. Hill. democrat, Of New
York. advocated a change Of rule of
which he had heretofore given notice
as TO the counting as present senators
who are present and are paired.
The first half of today's session was
occupied by Mr.. Morgan, Of Alabama,
in a personal explanation defending
himself from a charge Of ignorance OF
scripture, made by a New York paper.
and from structures by the Montgom-
cry Advertiser for opposition TO the
unconditional repeal of the Sherman
Ter.
The tansle resulting in adjournment
of the senate last night was the result
of a cleverly devised scheme, the work
of Dubois and Teller.
The silver purchase repeal bin was
taken up at l2:45 and the v]ice-presi-
dent set about d~iscntangling the par
liamentary twist into which the senate
rot itself last night. BY a vote of %
TO 81 the senate refused TO excuse Du-
bois. The name of the Idaho senator
49, #1t,., .,T1,1 n.ILF. ,-.vgosn.1 81,
his seat silent.
There was a roll call because at a
like stage Of proceedings last night no
quorum voted and no less than - re-
Sponded, being % more th1n a quorum.
ard by far the largest number that
has appeared during the session,
At no time during the day were
there more than a hundred members
present in the house and the discus
sion of the bill for the suspension for
six months of the provisions of the
Gcrry Chinese exclusion bill was
rather embarrassing.
Washington. oct. 1G-In the senate
the house joint resolution fixing the
qualifications for voting ana holding
office in the Cherokee strip was taken
up. An amendment by Hoar restrict
ing the right to vote, and hold office
to citizens Of the United States, was
ayr ed to.
A motion by PETER TO strike ont
the word male 50 as TO allow wo-
men to vote. was rejected, 40 to ..
The affirmative vote included Allison,
Carr, Dolph, Frye, Gallinger, Hoar,
Kyle, Peher and Teller. Faulkner
moved to strike out that part of the
resolution to which Hoar's amendment
attached, and thus the amended rcso-
luton passed.
1t entities all male residents on the
DIST of October who have been resi-
dents thirty days and are over p years
of age. 10 vote ana hold office at mu-
nicipal elections for the organization
Of city, village and town governments.
The debate ON repeal, which was
characterized 10y growing discomfort,
was continued all the afternoon.
The silver senators clogged the
li-'l~ fllfNNNtllN l'i tihbtll fM' NtlAl =
and would probably have continued
to do SO but for an understanding
brought about r.tween the opposing
forces to check administering ON the
promise from some of the leaders of
the repeal side to attempt to arrange
matters 50 as not TO make another
effort to secure night sessions.
In the house, debate ON the McCrcary
bill to extend the provisions Of the
Geary Chinese exclusion act six months
was resumed. Blair lRep, y, IL, who
was nominated to the Chinese mission
by Harrison, but whose e%Xecquatur
was not granted by the Chinese gov
eminent on account of his hostile eX-
prpsSionS towards the Chinese when
the exclusion act was passed in 1889.
spoke I'm favor of the bill.
The Chinese exclusion bin passed
the house with Geary's amendment
as to p~hotographing Cinnamon and de-
filming Chinese merchants, 1G7 TO O..