The Bessemer indicator., 1893-09-09

charge of tho bill, Affected to abandon It.
Some days Afterwards in the absence of Re
preventative Potter OF New York, who had
discovered the fact that the bill demonetized
silver Mr., Hooper presented substitute for
the bill which he fal-ely claimed contained
none OF the objectionable features OF the orig
inal bill, The substitute was passed under
tho erroneous belief produced by Mr.. Hoop.
er's statement, that the substitute WAS devoid
Of the objectionable provisions OF the original
hlll The substitute a. II came from the house
contained the slNtcentlssection provision for
dollar OF 3sl grains over profit
Morgan moved that the Senate go Into exc
cutive session and although the anti-silver men
opposed the motion It carried by n vote & to
2s and the Senate Afterwards adjourned.
wednesday. sept. 9th.
SENATE RESOLUTIONS were reported from
the committee on privileges and elections
granting 5000 each 10 John B. Allen, Wash
lngtou, Lee Mantle, Montana, and A. {.
Beekwilh. Wyoming, for their time and eN-
peuse ln prosecuting their claims 10 seats in
The Senate. The resolutions were referred
to the committee on contingent expenses,
Mr. voorhees, announced that he had de-
oided not To sek the Senate to change the hour
OF meeting to II O'Clock Mr.. voorhees,
stated that he would ask to have MIR Nor
gan, resolution for n special committee to
investigate the financial condition of the
country referred to the finance committee.
Mr. Morgan strongly opposed any such ae,
ton He made "A speech in which he said
that he declined 10 recognize Mr., sherman
the leader Of the Democracy The repeal
bill was then taken up, by vote OF "a to II
Mr. Stewart resumed his address In opposition
TO it. After u few moments MIR. Teller arose
and asked for a call OF the Senate. fifty-nlue
senators appeared When the presence OF i
quorum was developed, Mr. Teller tcmpor-
arily took ;he floor lie said that he dld not
suggest the absence of a quorum for the pur-
pose of delaying the business OF the Senate.
but because he thought the question was
great enough TO justify them In insisting
that there be q quorum present while the bus
lness of the senate was transacted. He
wanted the supporters of the bill TO hear the
arguments Of the silver men Mr., stewart
then resumed the floor lie read
newspaper articles and authorities on matters
of finance, and when his voice slightly failed
him, Mr. Allen of Nebraska and MIR Mitchell
OF Oregon and tue reading clerk were called
TO his assistance. The Seuatc adjourned be
fore he had finished
Hor-E The House completed the cOnsid-
Grafton Of the rules to-day, aud they were
adopted with only two important changes
from the form IN which they came from the
committee The first change placed the Com
mttecs on Banking and Currency and Coin
age Weights aud Measures on the same loot
ing with the Ways and Means and Appropria-
tluns committees, clothing them with power
to report at auy time The second restores
the size Of the quorum IN the committee OF
the whole to the old number, majority OF
the House The Rules committee made a
complete surrender on the latter proposition
and General CatShlngs' announcement this
morning of The fact that the committee had
decided 10 retreat from It's position in favor
Of reducing the sizt OF the quorum TO 100
mcnber- gave rise 10 the most entertaining
debate OF the day. II was participated Ia by
the leaders on both sides. The Republicans
led by Mir Reed urged the propriety of adopt
ing the rules of the Flfty-iirs Congress, but
the Democrats denounced these rules rs nr-
htrary and voted them down by vote % to
las The House then adjourned until satur-
day.