Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-22

The House Will Allow Two Weeks For De-
 bate on the Election Law Repeal Bill,
 and a Vote Will Re Taken Oct. IO-Many
 New ConsuIs Named by the President.
 WASHINGTON. Sept 22-The first hour of the session of the senate was occupied in a discussion of the resolution offered by Mir. Platt of Connecticut for the establish ment of a closure rule. Mir Platt made such a strong and clear argument to show the necessity for such rule that Mir. Noor- hees felt called upon to express the debt which the senate and the country owed to him for it.
 The junior senator from Massachusetts Mir. Lodge, also supported the proposed rule, although he foresaw that it would place in the hands of the Democratic ma jority the power to pass bills changing the tariff and repeating the federal election laws. He insisted that if senatorial cour- tesy permitted unlimited debate the cour- tesy must be reciprocal and must permit votes to be taken. .-.....-..
 White Had Few Auditors.
 Amendments to Mir Platt's resolution offered by Mir. Hoar and Mir Hill, and the resolution went over until today, when Mir. Teller will argue against it.
 The repeal bill was then taken up and ar argument against it made by Mir White of Colorado, who spoke for over four hours. Many of the Democratic senators gave him an attentive hearing, but nine-tenths of the seats on the Republican side of the chamber were vacant during most of the speech After he took his seat, and after MT George declined to go on with his speech in the evening, a motion was made by Mir. Voorhees, to lay on the table Mir Peffer's amendment to the bill.
 The motion was opposed by the minority who resorted to filibustering. After an hour or spent in that way Mir. Voorhees, withdrew his motion, but the general dis cussion went on until 1:30, when the senate adjourned.
 The journal of Wednesdays proceedings in the house was not approved until the hour of adjournment. Mir. Reed discovered some flaws in it and called the speaker $ at tention to them. They were attributable to the journal clerk, the speaker not hay ing had an opportunity to examine, the journal, and placed the speaker in a rather awkward position.
 In his decisions on Wednesday he studi- Ously refrained from declining 10 recognize motions because they were "dilatory" mo tions, but because they were motions" MT. Reed thought that the entries of the clerk were proper, even though they might not be accurate ones. The question of ap- proving the journal was post poned, but later in the day was agreed to.
 Two Weeks For Debate.
 In the meantime the committee on rules reported n resolution providing for the con sideration of the federal election law on the 26th of September, the debate to continue until Oct. 10, when a vote should be taken. After q brief discussion the resolution was adopted
 \ report from the committee on accounts assigning the committees that should be entitled to session clerks, was taken up, but without disposing uf it the house ad- jOurned
 Among the bills introduced in the house were the following:
 By Mir. Rayner: To amend the interstate commerce act so as to authorize the issue of interchangeable 5000 mile mileage tick cts, with special baggage privileges attach ed for the especial benefit of commercial ] travellers
 By MT. Somers: Appropriating $l75, 900 for the construction of a revenue cutter on the great lakes
 By Mir. Smith: For the admission of Ari- zona into the Union as a state