Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-12
THE WEARY SENATE
In Unbroken Session Since Yester.
day Morning.
TACTICS OF The SILVER MEN
They Give Repeal Senators No
Chance to Rest.
PETER AMENDMENT LOST.

| When, at 7:15 O'Clock this morning. Mr.
Shoup called for a quorum forty Senator.
answered to their names This was les.
than a quorum, although three more re
sponded in a few moments This is re.
garded as quorum, but Mr. Wolcott raised
the point that forty-five Senators were
necessary to constitute a quorum A ma
tority Of the Senate, he said, was necessary
to make up quorum, not a majority OF the
Senate as composed by the Senators whs
had been declared entitled to their seats
Mr.. Manderson advocated the point o,
order and contended that forty-five Senator.
were necessary to make quorum.
FOrty-Three Make a Quorum.
The Vice President declared that forty
three Senators constituted q quorum. Mr.
Wolcott appealed. and Mr. Hale moved Il
lay the appeal on the table. The latte
motion was agreed to-yeas. 3S; nays, 5
but ii was regarded as a somewhat strang,
coincidence that decision that forty-thre,
Senators constituted quorum should b'
carried by exactly that vote.
Mr.. Allen then continued his speech
| which he concluded at o'clock.
Mr.. Voorhees, moved to lay the Peffe,
amendment on the table.
Mr.. Woicott suggested that there was ns
quorum present, but forty-eight Senators
were found to be in the hall.
The PETER Amendment Rejected.
The vote on Mr.. Voorhees, motion re-
suited: Yeas. .; nays. Il; no quorum The
vote was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich. Brice. Caffery. Cam
den. Cullom, Davis. Dixon. Faulkner Frye
Gallinger. Gordon. Gray, Hale, Hawley
HILL Lindsay, Mcpherson, Manderson
Mills. Mitchell CWis). Murphy, Platt Proc
tor, Ransom Smith, Squire Voorhees,
Washburn and White Qa)-2s.
Nays-Messrs. Bate. Berry. Blackburn.
Call Coke, Daniel. Hunton, 1rby, Martin.
PETER Vest and Walthall-l2.
A call of the Senate was ordered. and
forty-five Senators answered Here" Mr..
Villas several times called attention to the
fact that the Senator from 1oaho CNr.
Dubois) was present and in his seat, but
declined to vote.
The amendment thus defeated was q
complete free coinage act in itself Il was
intended to supplement the repeal para
graph of the voorhees, bill The amend
ment prescribed the proportions and weight
OF the gold and silver coins to be coined
hereafter and the nature of the alloy, and
provided the necessary machinery for the
coinage OF both gold and silver.
Mr. Dubois silence.
After some discussion on the point OF re-
Quiring MIR. Dubois to vote or to assign his
reasons for declining to vote the Vice Presi-
dent caused the rule on the subject to be
read and then ordered the clerk to call the
name Of the Senator from Idaho. Mr.. Du-
bois' name was then called. but he made no
answer. Then the Vice President said that
he would hear any excuse which he desired
to make The principal reason assigned by
Mr.. Dubois was that a motion to lay on the
table a most important amendment had
been made. thus cutting of debate On it:
and the Senator who had offered the amend
ment (Mr. Peffer) had asked the courtesy
of the Senate to address II for a few min
utes and had been refused. This yir. Du-
bois thought a sufficient excuse.
The Vice President submitted the question
to the Senate whether Dubois should be ex-
cused and ii was decided in the negative
yeas. p; nays, q.
Mr.. Dubois name was again called and he
still remained silent
Mr.. Manderson began to argue the parlia-
mentary question as to the impossibility OF
compelling Senator to vote. How, he
asked, would his mouth be opened IL he saw
fit to stand mute? He was interrupted by
the point of order made by Mr.. Aldrich, tha,
no debate was in order pending a motion to
lay on the table. The point was sustained
by the Vice President, who added that the
recording of the facts of the journal ended
the entire proceeding as to the Senator
refusing to vote.
The vote on laying the PETER amendment
on the table wss then announced as-yeas
s3; nays. IL. So it was laid on the table
The following is the vote in detail:
1eas-Messrs. Caffery, Camden, Carey.
Sullom, Davis. Dixon. Dolph. Faulkner
Frye, Galiinger, Gordon, Gray Hale Haw-
ley, Hin. Hoar. Lindsay. Mcmillan. McPher-
son, Henderson, Mills, Mitchell ONis.), Muir
ply, Platt, Proctor; Quay, Ransom. Sher-
man; smith. Squire. Voorhees,. Washburn
Nays-Messrs. Bate Berry. Blackburn.
Butler, Call. Cameron, Coke, Daniel, George
Hunton, Irby, Martin, Morgan, Pasco
PETER, Vest and WalthaIl-l7.
The vote having been announced. Mr..
VOORHEES, remarked that the only other
amendment pending TO the House bill was
the amendment reported from the finance
committee.
What has become Of all the other
amendments that have been offered?" Mr..
Butler inquired.
There have been no others offered" Mr.
voorhees, replied.
There have been notices Of amendments
given
Mr.. Martin Speaks.
Mr.. Martin (Kans) then addressed the
Senate. He expressed the opinion that the
time had come for democrats to get to-
gether and arrive at some agreement-ses
whether they could do anything to relieve
the party and the country.
At $50 Mr. PETER suggested that there
was no quorum present, and added That re
desired his collea gue's speech to be heard
The roll was called and only thirty-nint
Senators four less than a quorum) respond
ed. The sergeant-at-arms was directed &c
In ten minutes more the lacking four Sen.
ators presented themselves (they were al
| in favor OF repeaD and the quorum was
complete Mr. Stewart had Inadvertently
| strayed into the chamber. but, finding GU,
| how matters stood. he made precipitats
retreat to a cloak room.
Mr. Martin read the newspaper reports
| of the meeting between Secretary Carlisle
and the New York bankers at the house OF
President Williams of the Chemical Ma.
tional Bank, and said that those reports
were convincing testimony that the panic
| had been made to order and had been man
ufactured expressly for the occasion. 1,
had two puiposes-one to force the govern
ment to Issue bonds. and the other to de-
stroy silver = money metal He acQuitte ed
Mr.. Carlisle Of any completely in the con.
spiracy.
While Mr.. Martin was talking another
| suggestion Of the absence of a quorum was
made. at 1o:a. and the roll having beer
| called only thirty-eight Senators responded
| The usual routine form of having the
| sergeant-at-arns request the attendance o.
| absent Senators was again resorted to, with
| the desired result
MIR. Stewart Gets Another Letter.
Mr.. Stewart read to the Senate a threat
ening letter which he had just received. i,
was dated Baltimore. October II. and ad-
dressed him as My dear sir" It says:
"You are now warned not to put your
| foot on the toilers' neck. although you have
him down: for there might be someshine
drop between your feet Chere there is a
rude figure of an exploding boub) thar will