St. Paul daily globe., 1893-10-13


below, came in. flashed his eye about
the chamber, and observed that only
twenty-five senator were present. Again
the cloak rooms were deprived of their
occupants. Forty-eight senators this
time answered "here"
ROUTINE SENATE REPORT.
AT 6 q. m. the day broke in the East.
The first pale streaks of the dawn'S
early light kissed the folds of the stars
and stripes, which fly above the senate
while that body is in session, still at the
masthead fluttering in the blaze of light
that flowed upward through the stained
glass ceiling of the senate chamber.
The national capitol below was sleeping
peacefully, but the gray dawn found
MIR. Allen still holding the fort in the
great struggle against unconditional re-
peal as he had been when darkness fell
from the wings of night twelve hours
before, He had broken all previous
records. For twelve hours and forty
five minutes he had held the floor con-
unuouSly. The longest time senator.
had previously occupied the floor was
on the occasion OF the force bill fight in
1891, when Senator Faulkner remained
on guard for twelve hours. The West
Virginian, however. had two hours
breathing, spell during the absence of a
quorum.
MIR. Allen seemed almost as fresh as
when he began. His voice was still
loud and strong, and the great strain
seemed not to have affected his physical
n rnanta1 wi, Tho OH Il
was Strewn and Uttered with paper, a
few
BELATED SPECTATORS
in the galleries dOZed. Senator VOor-
hees sat in his seat reading. Senator
Mitchell was writing industriously at
his desk. Senator Dubois, alert and
very much awake, occupied the sentinel
tower for the silverites, while to the
right and left of him MIR. Caffrey, of
Louisiana. and Gen. Hawley, of Con-
| nectIcut, were fast asleepIr their chairs.
in The rear of the chamber Senators
Quay, Higgins, Lindsey and Lodge
were stretched out on the lounges. Sud-
denly Mr.. Turpie, of Indiana. came
into the chamber and sought to make
the point of order that Mr.. Allen was
transgreSsing the rules of the senate in
reading newspaper extract which re-
1ected on the house of representatives.
This aroused some of his siumbering
colleagues, but Mr.. Blackburn who was
in the chair, promptly overruled the
point OF order. The senators sank back
again to repose, and Mr.. Allen pro-
ceeded.
AT $3.50 a. IN. Mr.. Wolcott rounded up
the senate again, forty-eight senators
answering to their names. By this time
the day had blOtted out the garish yell
low light that Illuminated the chamber,
Vice President Stevenson had returned
to the chair refreshed by his long rest,
the senators read the morning papers,
chatted with fair degree OF Sprightli-
ness, and the senate seemed once more
thoroughly awake. The flowers on tue
desk of Senator Martin, of Kansas, who
was to follow Mr. Allen, renamed
where they had been placed twelve
hours before, dropping. it is true, but
adding a tone of freshness to the re-
animated chamber. The lady who had
sat throughout the night in the gallery
was reinforced by four others who came
in
AT DAYRREAK
The silver men were not as severe on
their opponents as it was thought they
would be, for it was believed and eX-
pected that the silver men would insist
that the advocates of repeal should con-
tinuously maintain quorum within the
senate chamber. This they did not 90,
as after every roll call the quorum i'm
mediately disappeared. and often an
nour elapsed before the demand for the
presence of the senators in the chamber
was made; thus they were enabled to
catch considerable sleep during the
night.
An effort was made between and Z
O'Clock to reach all agreement to take
recess from that hour until 10 O'Clock.
The proposition was made to the silver
men, who took it under adYisement and
fully decided to reject it, They said
that the repeal senators had forced the
continuous session, and would be
obliged to suffer the consequences, and
the silver men would not aid in any
effort to take a recess or adjourn
had been reached. Senator Aliens
powers of endurance were absolutely
amazing. His wonderful staying Quali-
ties made every one who watched him
go on for hour after hour, tireless and
undaunted, admire his abilities and his
indOmitable energies. About IL O'Clock
Mr.. Palmer Interrupted him while
speaking OF the poverty and distress of
the people, to remark rather sneeringly
that the Nebraskan seemed able to give
only words; he wanted to give them
actual relief.
MR.. ALLEN
turned savagely upon Mr.. Palmer and
declared that he lad given to the poor
of his means, given until he had kept
himself poor, and he did not want to be
chided on that score. The alteration
that ensued led Mr.. Palmer at one point
to say that he would give 500 to some
charity, whereupon Mr.. Allen declared
that, although Mr.. Palmer was four
times as wealthy as he, he (Allen)
would give like amount. Fif-
teen minutes later, Mr.. Shoup made
the point of mo quorum" only
forty senators appeared, three short
of quorum. The quorum had broken
down for the first time. On motion of
Mr.. Faulkner, Sergeant-at-Arms Bright
was directed to bring in absentees.
Within two minutes three more sena-
tors had come in and answered to their
names. The vice president announced
that quorum was present. Mr.. VOL
eott suddenly sprang to his feet and
made the point that quorum was not
majority of the senators chosen to the
senate, Montana, Washington and Wy
oming being only partially represented,
but majority of the number chosen.
He asked the ruling of the chair. The
vice president had the rule read, to the
effect that majority of senators chosen
and sworn shall constitute quorum.
Mr.. Henderson explained that the con-