The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-13
FIRST VOTE TAKEN.
voorhees, Forces the Rejection OF
PETERS, Amendment.


PETERS Amendment.
AT quarter past o'clock Mr.. Allen
concluded his long speech by saying that
he yielded the floor to Mr.. Martin, of
Kansas. To this proceeding Mr. VOORHEES,
took exception, and asked Mr. Allen If
he proposed to farm out the floor. Mr.
Allen declared he had no such intention.
Instead of permitting Mr.. Martin to go
on, Mr.. Voorhees, moved to lay the PETER
free-coinage amendment to the repeal bill
on the table, and thus suddenly precip-
itated his era of business. Senator Aldrich
called for the yeas and nays. Mr.. PETER
asked to be permitted to explain the
amendment, but this privilege was denied,
and the roll call proceeded, with the vote
to lay on the table. There was consider
able sparring during the taking of the
vote, and when the result was announced
1t showed that the Senate short q
quorum by two votes. This was occasioned
by the announcement of pairs ami by the
refusal Of some of the silver men present
to vote: Mr.. Villas made the point of order
that when Senator was present he was
Senate. A roll call was ordered, and forty
five Senators, two more than quorum
answered to their names
a second effort was then made to secure
quorum vote. on the amendment to lay
the pending motion upon the table. The
recapitulation of the vote showed only
forty-cne Senator'S present and voting. The
result was not announced at the time and
was delayed by Mr.. Vilas's renewal of his
point OF order that Senator's were present
who had not voted, and the rules required
them to vote unless excused by the Senate.
Senator Dubois being the first Senator on
the list who had not voted, though present
MIR. Villas directed his remarks to that Sem
ator. The Chair asked Dubois to explain
his refusal. This he did by saying that he
considered the amendment too important to
be passed upon without debate. He said
that Mr.. PETER had even been denied the
privilege of explaining the amendment. He
did not want TO be party to such pro-
ceedlng. On a motion to excuse Mr.. Du-
botS the yeas and nays were called. and
the vote resulted: q yeas and % nays. Mr..
Duboiss name was then called and, not
withsta nding the vote of the Senate, he
did not respond to the roll CALL Here fol-
Dubois could be compelled to vote, In which
some technical parliamentary questions
were involved, but the point was quickly
dropped. Mr.. Dubois sat in his seat all the
time, but his name did not appear in the
list of the voters when announced, as did
not the names of several other Senators on
the silver side who were present all the
time. While this discussion was in progress
the hands on the old Senate clock were
moving on, and the hour of o'clock saw
several Senators present who had not been
In the chamber for several hours some of
them not at all during the night. Many
OF them voted on the motion to lay the
therefore, at s:15, when the vote was an
nounced, the result showed that there
were fifty Senator'S voting, seven more
than quorum. The vote in detail was as
follows:
feas-Caffery. Camden, Carey. Cullom,
Dixon, Davis, Dolph. Faulkner, Frye, Gal
linger. Gordon. Gray. Hale. Hawley, Hill,
Hoar, Lindsay. Mcmillan. MCPHERSON Man
derson, Mills. Mitchell of Wisconsin, Muir
ply, Plat; Proctor, Quay, Ransom, Sher-
man, Smith, Squire, VOORHEES,, Washburn
White of Louisiana-33.
Nays-Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Butler.
Call, Cameron, Coke Daniel George Hum
ton Irby, Martin, Morgan, Pascoe PETER,
Vest, Wolcott-17.
When the Chair announced the vote and
stated that the PETER amendment had been
laid on the table, Mr. VOORHEES, was recog-
nized. He stated that the PETER amend
ment to the Voorhees, bill was the only one
pending, except that offered by the commit
tee on finance, which is the Wilson or
House bill No. 1. He said, however, there
were other amendments which had been
proposed by Senators, but had not as vet
been offered, but these would be in order
when offered by their authors. He said the
finance committees amendment was now
before the Senate, and asked that Mr.. Mar
tin, OF Kansas, be recognized to discuss the
question.