St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-13

! several hours, some of them not at all
! during the night, many of them voted
on the motion to lay the PETER amend
| ment on the table. When, therefore, a
quarter past nine the vote was an
| nounced the result showed that there
| were fifty senators voting, seven more
than quorum. The vote in detail was
as follows:
Yeas = Messrs. Caffery, Camden.
Carey, CullOm, Davis, Dixon, Dolph,
Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gordon,
say, Mcmillan, Mcpherson. Mills,
Mitchell (Wisconsin). Murphy, Plat,
Proctor, Quay, Ransom, Sherman,
Smith, Squires, Voorhees,. Washburn,
White Iouisiana)-22.
Nays-Messrs. Bate, Berry, Black
burn, Butler. Call, Cameron, Coke,
Daniel, George, Hunton, Irby, Martin.
Morgan, Pasce, PETER, Vest, Walthal
II.
When the chair had announced the
vote and stated that the PETER amend
ment had been laid upon the table, Mr..
Voorhees, was recognized. He stated
that the PETER amendment to the Voor-
hees hi II was the only one pending eX-
cept that offered by the committee on
finance, which is the Wilson bill, or
House Bill No. l. He said, however,
there were other amendments which
had been proposed by senators, buthad
not as yet been offered; but these would
be in order when offered by their au-
| thOrs. He said the finance committees
amendment was now before the senate,
and asked that Mr.. Martin, of Kansas,
be recognized to discuss this question.
Mr.. Martin, of Kansas, got the floor
at $3.50 this morning, and began a plea
= for In frnn aCfrn r civ f-A
Quent intervals ne was interrupted by
ROLL CALLS
and delays necessitated by the absence
of quorum. During one of the inter-
walls Mr.. Stewart read letter warning
him to desist in constructing Iegisla-
ton" or he might be blown up with a
dynamite bomb. There was some
laughter at the letter, which no one
took seriously. Mr.. Martin then re-
Sumed, making an attack on the East
ern bankers, whom he called slave
drivers and Shylocks.
The programme of the silver senators
is to have Teller or Jones follow Martin
nd Stewart to follow them.
Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Pugh and
others who remained away from the
senate last night came in during the
| morning prepared to take up the work
whene yer necessary. and Teller, VOL
colt, Dubois and others who had been
in the chamber all night went away to,
If possible, secure rest. The silver men
| assert that they are in condition to go
on indefinitely, and sey that now that
the physical test has been begun, it
| shall be carried to its legitimate concIu-
| sion. Consequently, when some Of the
repeal senators, at 6 o'clock this morn
ing, offered them respite in the shape
of four hours recess. until 10. they de-
| clined to accept. Continuing his speech,
Mr.. Martin declared that if the presl-
dent had, during the recent campaign,
written such a letter as he recently
wrote Gov. Northen, of Georgia, or had
Democratic senators in that cam
paign made such speeches to the
people as they had made in the
senate on the financial question,
| the Democratic party, in the parlance of
| the day. would not be in it. Laughter.
| Mr.. Jones (Rep., New expressed doubt
as to the presence of a quorum. But
| thirty-seven senators answered to their
| names. Senator Jones, of Nevada, after
suggesting the absence of a quorum,
did not announce his presence when his
| name was called. In fact. none of the
senators who are from what are called
| the silver states, responded On any of
the recent roll calls.
MIR. VOORHEES,
is taking advantage Of every opportun-
| ity offered to secure rest, so as to con-
serve his powers as far as possible.
| There has been some comment upon the
| fact that he was absent at two or three
roll calls last night, and it was asserted
that he had made an agreement with
! the silver men not to attempt to reach a
vote during the night. With Mr.. Allen
constantly on the floor, there would
| have been no chance to get vote if he
had been present all the time. 1t also
appears that the attendants at the sena-
! tors room, when they found him there,