The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-13
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In the meantime other senators
came in and at 9:15 a ballot was an
nounced, showing fifty senators vot-
ing.
The result of the ballot was as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Cafrey. Camden, Carey, Gull
| lom, Davis, Dickson, Dolph, Faulkner,
Frye, Gallinger, Gordon, Gray, Hale,
Hawley. Hill. Hoar, Lindsay, McMil-
Murphy, Plat, Proctor, Quay, Ran
som, Sherman, Smith, Squire, Voor-
hees, WOODBURY., White. Total-33.
Nays-Bate, Berry, Blackburn, But
Ter, Call Cameron, Coke, Daniel,
George, Huntoon, Irby, Martin, Nor
gan, Pasco, PETER, Vest, Walthall.
Total-17.
PETERS amendment was laid on the
table
the Voorhees, bill was the only one
pending except that offered by the
Committee on Finance, which is the
Wilson or the House bill. There were,
however, other amendments proposed
by senators but not yet offered. These
would be in order when offered. He
said the Finance Committees amend
ment was now before the Senate and
asked that Martin, of Kansas, be rec
OSIllZSQ " QlScuSS the question:.
1t was 8 o'clock when Martin began
a plea for the free coinage of silver
At frequent intervals he was inter
rupted by demands for roll calls, when
it became evident that a quorum was
not in the chamber.
During one of the intervals, Stewart
read letter warning him to desist in
''ebstructing legislation or he might
be blown up with dynamite. The
reading merely provoked a laugh.
At 1:30 Martin was still speaking
The programme Of the silver men is
to have Teller or Jones follow Martin
and Stewart follow them. They assert
they are in a position to go on indef1-
nitely and that the physical endurance
question having been forced on them
they are determined to carry it to a
legitimate conclusion.
Stewart, Jones, Pugh, Morgan and
other silver men who were not pres
ent last night, taking their regular
rest, came in this morning, while
Teller. Wolcott, Dubois and others who
were in the chamber all night went
home to sleep and rest. They have the
| best of the situation, as they only
need enough men to keep the talk GO
| ing, while the opponents of silver
must at all times be ready to muster
quorum. In this the silver men do
| not aid them, as they decline to re-
| spond on calls of the roll to establish
the presence of a quorum.
| The hours dragged YEARLY along
till $50, when an incident occurred
which demonstrated the helplessness
of the Senate under the present sys-
tenn of rules.
Voorhees, arose, chatting under the
continued roll calls of the silver men,
forcing their tired adversaries on the
I1srl
Frye, of Maine, who was in the chair,
to what extent the privilege of calling
| for quorum could be abused.
Under the rules said Frye, t'there
| is no limitation, and the chair knows
of no power in the presiding officer to
place a Imitation
Voorhees, sank back into his chair,
and the roll call brought forty-four
unwilling victims into the chamber
AS soon as the announcement was
made Quay, of Pennsylvania, suggest
ed the absence Of a quorum. He did
| it, he said, because the decision of the
chair put it absolutely in the power of
any one Senator to block legislation
THE Senate Of the United States, -
said Frye, with gravity that caused
the galleries to litter, SIS the most
dignified legislative body in the world,
and he proceeded, ''the trainers of
1
would violate the proprieties or de-
| cencies of the Senate"
1.-THE theory of the constitution" said
| Quay, disgustedly, may be as stated
| by the chair, but our recent expert
ence has shown the Senate is very diff
ferently constituted"
| He Their withdrew the suggestion,
but Carey, of Wyoming, who evidently
desired to show the country exactly
|
peated it.
| At 9:45 dubois blandly suggested
| that only seventeen Senators We're
present. Forty-siX Senators appeared
| Before Stewart proceeded, Harris, of
Tennessee, presented an amendment,
which he said he would offer in due
time. The amendment provided, first,
for the coinage of all the silver bull
lion in the treasury representing gov
eminent seignorage into full legal ten
der dollars at the rate of $3,000000 per
per month; second, when the seignor-
age was coined the secretary of the
| treasury shall purchase per month bull
/ lion sufficient to coin - dollars and
coin the bullion into legal tender dol
lars; third, all paper notes or certif-
Gates of less denomination than $40
shall be redeemed ana not reissued,
| and national bank notes of a less de-
nomination than SO shall be redeemed,
and national banks required to substi-
/ tute notes Tor that denomination;
fourth, two and half and five dollar
gold pieces shall no longer be coined,
and when received at the. treasury de-
partment are to be recoined as eagles
and double eagles; fifth. holders OF
standard silver dollars will be able to
| exchange such dollars on presenta-
ton for notes Of the same legal tender
Equality as such silver dollars, which
will be held for their redemption. The
amendment created much interest
lit being assumed that it furnished the
| first specific compromise proposition
growing out of the continuous session.
Allison wanted to know whether the
omission in the second section of the
number of dollars to be coined was in
ltentional.
Harris said the amount was left
blank so that any Senator might have
an opportunity to test the sense of the
| Senate.
| It seems that Harris for the Demo
cratic free silver Senators and Teller
flor the Republican silver men had been
circulating this amendment as a basis
for a compromise, but with what sue
cess cannot be learned, before the
amendment was introduced.
Harris talked with Secretary Carlisle
who came in short time before.
| 1t is understood Carlisle has not yet
Isatisfied the repeal men would have
to capitulate and urged them to con-
tinue the fight. He was willing, how
lever, that the amendment should be
introduced in case a compromise be-
came the only alternative except de.
lfeat In this indirect way, it would
lseem the administration, as far as
Carlisle speaks for it, showed the first
sign of weakening