The Portland daily press., 1893-09-09
WHAT WAS SAID.

VITAL WAC SfAtbs
Mr.. HaIe's ;Remarks Which SO Stirred up
the Indiana Members Temper.
Washington, September s.-During the
debate in the Senate today, Mr.. Peffer
offered resolution, which went over I'M
til tomorrow. calling for information as
to whether the national banks of Boston,
New York and Philadelphia had failed to
keep and maintain their bank reserves as
req uired by law, whether they had re-
fused to pay depositors's checks in cur
rency, whether they had asked or received
from the treasury department authority
to make payment by clearing house GER
tificates, and whether any treasury
official is connected with the New York
clearing house, and if SO, under what
law or rule.
At $40 proceedings in the Senate
seemed to come to standstill. No Sena-
or sought the floor, and this led Mr.. Voor-
hees to express the hope that the Senate
would not adjourn so early. He said that
if no Senator desired to speak now, he
would have to ask for vote on the
pen ding BILL
from Indiana would not consent to an
infnediate adjournment. The Senate
had been in session only a little over
three and half hours, and only about
three hours had been taken up in
speeches on the repeal bill. The Senator
from Indiana, after having given up the
II O'Clock proposition, found himself also
in danger Of losing the full morn morning q
embarrass the Senator in any way
because he, (Mr. Hale) could see, as the
Senators on both sides could see, the
difficulties under which that Senator was
laboring. He was in the Senate cham ber
early and late and continuously. But
he had been obliged, by one circum-
stance or another, and from one influence
or another, to give up attempts which he
had made, to bring the matter to head
He (Mr. Hale) was very glad to see the
Sentor from Indiana pushing to have the
Senate spend longer time in session to-
day. 1t was not in any way an attempt
to coerce or to drive Senators merely to
ask for longer sessions. Nobody had SAID,
or had intimated, that the right to full
debate on the question should be re-
strained. But the simple taking up OF
more time each day in order that there
might be fewer days consumed in debate
was not forcing Senators, and was not
crowding Senators. Instead OF session
of three and one half hours or four hours
day, a session of five or six hours would
give O0ndGOrS dIuplo OppOIGlhluy. iiS
trusted that the Senator from Indiana
would see that this suggestion was not
made with any attempt to embarrass
him. Nobody had yet suggested that
evening sessions were necessary, although
in matters of far less Importance than
the pending bill evening sessions had
been resorted to- The Senate had been
in session six weeks and the whole time
had been devoted to this one subject.
He was now simply suggesting that the
Senate should sit for more than three of
four hours day and not prolong the
end. Republican Senators had been in
the chamber early and late, ready to
strengthen the hands of the Senator
from Indiana and to strengthen the
hands of the President. He asked the
Senator from Indiana to see to it that the
debate should not be spread out ano
attenuated and turned away untll IL
came to nothing.
Mr.. Voorhees,, who hadslistened 10 tnese
remarks with impatience ana anger,
said that if the Senator from MAINE
desired to assist, 1T would be more apprecl
ated if the senator had been In his seal
more then one week in the six the Senate
Mr. Voorhees, said he expected to edis-
charge his duty as he understood it.
The Senator from Maine had taken