The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-12
Allen Makes the Longest
Senatorial Speech
HE SPEAKS FIFTEEN HOURS
Silver Men Express Conf
denCe Of Final Success.

AsHINGrON, Oct. 12.--ln the
senate, he silver men we're not as
severe as anticipated on their opp).
nsnts, only calling for gu rum
about once au hour, allowlrg the
repealites con.i ierable time to
sleep.
Between 6 and I O'clock a propo.
sition to take recess un,h 10
o'clock was rejected by tne silver
u"en on the ground that the repeal
senator's had forced a con;inu us
$. ssion and must abide the con-
sequences.
Senator Aliens power of endur-
ano-. was amazng to all.
A few minutes before s the
quorum was first broken IVY a vote
.hlch disclosed only forty present.
In couple of minutes three more
came in vie y of the vice president
and be- found quorum present.
Wolcott made the point that q
quorum y as not the mi rity of the
mel oels chosen TO ,ne sena.e,
Idaho, Wyoming aud Washington
being only partially represented,
hnt a maj 1ilty number entltled to
be chosen. He a-ked the ruling OF
the chair. The wee president ruled
against the point. Wolcott sp-
ltal.d, and was voted down by 81
to 30, several pairs being broken to
ina ntain a quorum.
A len concluded his speech al
Sis, after having held the flor fol
fifteen hours, the longest continued
effort ever witnessed in the senate
Martin, of Kansas, attempted
70 take the floor. Iust.ai O.
permitting MARTA to go on, Voor
hoes moved to lay the Petfel
free coinage amendment 10 the re
peal bill on the table, and thu
sud ienly precipitated his order q
business. The vote resulted III g
ayes and - nay, not quorum
NJ ,ny Of the silver senators re
trained from voting, Du,ols Being
one of them. A motion to excus
him was defeated Yeas, 81; nays
30. He was not excused.
After some discussion quorum
was secured and the vote to lay thu
PETER amendment on the table, re
suited in d, tea', as follows:
Yeas-Alleu, Camden, Garry
Callom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph
Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gordon
Gray, Hale, ha ~ley, Hill, Hoar
Lindsay, Mcmillan, Mllls, Mitchell
of Wisconsin, Murphy, Platt
J Proctor, Quay, R.usom, Sherman
{ Smith, Squire, voorhees,, Wast
burn, White, of Louisiana-33.
Nays-Bates, Berry, Blackburn
Butler, Call, Cameron, Coke, Dar
iel, George, Hun,on, lrby, Martin
3 Morgan, Pascoe, PETER, Wolcvtt-
r II.
When the chair announced tn
vote and stated the PETER amend
ment to be laid on the table, Woo
I hees was recognized. He stated tn
| p. fer amendment to the Voorhee
r bill was the only one pending, el
cept that offered by the committe
t on finance, which Is the Wilson @
t house bill No. l.
D He said, however, there wer
9 other amendments which had bee
b proposed by senators, but not yt
offered, but these would be in orde
hen offered by their authors. III
said the finance committees amen'
Il ment was now before the senate
y and asked chat Martin, of Ksnsa
Il be recognized to discuss this que
tion, aad MArtin begun his speec
at 1920
Wolcott said there was no q1oru
n present, and 33 Senator'S answere
s to their names.
1t is understood the silver me
intend to put on the screws all da.
u and insist that a quorum remain
a the senate chamber. Frequel
points of no quorum will be mad
At 1880 p. m.-Martin is sti