The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-10-19
OUTGENERALED.
A Parliamentary Job Set Up BY Teller
and Dubois.
The Anti-silverites walked Right Into the
Trap-A Nice Constitutional Question
Involved of the Chinese
Extension Bill lin the House.

WASHINGTON, Oct 16.-The tangle
which the senate final y found itself in
Friday night and which resulted in
the adjournment of that body was the
outcome of cleverly laid plot origin
ated by Senator Dubois and executed
through the help of Senator Teller
The silver men knew that on roll call
where pairs would have to be recog-
nized that the repeal members would
not be able to obtain quorum,
though on call of the senate in
which pairs can be violated quorum
was present The difficulty then be-
came to obtain roll call. Senator
Teller examined the rules and discov-
cred what proved to be successful
manner of bringing about the desired
end. 1t is a rule of the senate that ex-
cept by unanimous consent a public
document can not be read in that body
if it has been previously read. Mr..
Teller during call for quorum ex-
planned his scheme to Mr. PETER, who
was speaking and a few moments later
Mr.. PETER from the mass of manuscript
public document and began to read
WiUn Rreat uenDerdC1OQ.
Immediately Mr.. Teller was on his
feet and objected to the reading He
raised point of order against the
reading and after some debate the
chairman gave his decision, from which
an appeal was taken and a roll call Or
dered. This was what the silver men
were looking for and on the roll call it
was developed that no quorum was
present. II was then that the repeal
men stepped into another trap. Mr..
Villas tried to force Mr.. Dubois to vote
and long debate ensued. An effort
was made to take vote that the sem
ate should not excuse Mr.. Dubois from
voting and on this roll call another lack
of quorum was developed and the sem
ate was forced to adjourn. The pending
question now becomes the effort to
have Mr.. Dubois vote and it is the in
tentiQn Of Mr.. Villas to have Mr.. Dubois
eensured. ~, ,2r' 49,
This, it is stated, will bring out q
nice constitutional question which will
develop debate which the silver men
claim will last for a month at least,
and thus the time of the senate will be
given to another question and the time
of the senate will be this much oc-
cupied.
In the house Friday bill was passed
increasing the number of the army
officers detailed as military instructors
of state institutions from seventy-five
to one hundred.
Before the debate on the Chinese ex-
tension bill was resumed, an agreement
was reached by the friends and foes of
the measure to vote on the bill Monday
at 3 o'clock. In yesterdays debate the
east was pitted against the west, ire
spective of party lines, the former sup
porting and the latter assailing the
measure.
Mr.. Rayner, of Maryland, made a
most brilliant speech in advocacy, dur
ing which he attacked the decision OF
the supreme court and declared it was
almost the unanimous opinion of the
American bar that the Geary law was
unconstitutional Mr.. Mcguire, OF
California, made a reply on behalf OF
the Pacific coast. He claimed that the
advocates of the bill had shown the
cloven foot. They did not want the
Geary act extended; they wanted it
nullified by an adverse decision of the
supreme court. Mr.. Bowers, of Cali
fornia, and Messrs. Draper, Morse and
Mccall of Massachusetts were the other
speakers