New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-13
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THE SENATE ADJOURNS.
VOORHEES MAKES THE MOTION
THE TEST OF ENDURANCE, RECOILS
UPON IT'S AUTHOR.
4 BREAK IN TIE FIGHT LAST.
TIE SILVER MEN TALKED ALL DAY AND NIGH5
AND MR. STEWART WAS READY

| MIR. ALLEN BROKE ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
AND Mr.. STEWART WAS READY
| 10 GO or TILL SUNDAY.
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRBrxs]
Washington. Oct. 13.-At 1:4O a. m. the Ser.
geant-at-arms submitted report which showed
that two Senator's were absent from the city.
twelve excused by the Senate, four unable to
attend on account of illness, nine in the Capitol
who made no answer to the summons, and six
teen reported at their homes as absent and could
not be found.
Immediately following this report Mr. voor.
hees said that, in view Of the report of the Ser
geant-at-arms. it was evident that no further
business could be transacted tonight and he
therefore moved that the Senate adjourn. There
was opposition, and the Senate at las a. m.
adjourned until II o'clock.
Washington. Oct. 12.-After thirty-seven hours
spent in continuous session Mr.. Voorhees's test
of physical endurance in the Senate is be-
ginning to show most plainly its doubtful effect.
iveness as means Of settling grave legislative
questions. 1t scarcely be said that the
trial Of bodily strength" between the majority
results than those justly anticipated by every
intelligent and experienced observer Of Senato-
rial methods Of parliamentary procedure In
trenched behind the extraordinary obstructive
privileges granted by the Senate rules. a suf-
fciently numerous and determined minority can
never be dislodged from defensive position
which II is resolved to maintain at all hazards
and any resort to the forlorn hope Of physical
force to uncover such minority Is almost in
evitably doomed to be hopeless failure.
Mr.. Voorhees, will be lucky indeed If, in the
face Of all present indications, he can retire from
his experiment of coercion with either credit or
dignity, for If the ant-repeal forces choose to
press the advantages which they have OBJ
tanned i'm the course of the struggle so far
they have it in their power to carry the test
of endurance to a point which will result in Q
more than humiliating retreat on Mr.. Voor-
hees's part from the field of encounter to which
he boldly invited the ant-repeal leaders in
his glowing periods of Wednesday,
To-day. after plunging headong into the cam
paign Of physical exhaustion" he seems to
have made the similarly crushing discovery
that during the effort to secure a quorum the
greater portion Of the minority may con-
venenty absent themselves from the chamber
while the painful burden of maintaining q
quorum in attendance falls with relentless
effect the shoulders of the majority. who.
to almost their full number, must be continually
present and guard. Impressed with the
hardship of this inequality of conditions In a
supposed test OF endurance" the Democratic
leader made an ingenious protest to-day
against fragrant violation of gadiatorial
etiquette. His plaintive eloquence was un-
availing. however. and with an envious and
irriiated glance he the leaders OF the
opposition slip in turns out of the chamber
to rest for hours. while he and his associates
We're chained to their seats by constant calls
of the Senate.
LOOKING; FOR WAY OF RETREAT.
II is no wonder that the weary and dsgusted
chairman of the Finance Committee. after
some twenty hours of this sort of suffering,
should seek some means Of withdrawing hon.
orably from this unequal contest. BY noon
to-day he was holding conferences with Mr.
Faulkner and Mr. German. and with the lead
ing friends OF repeal on the Republican side.
to devise some scheme of retreat which would
appear to be merely the sounding of tem-
porary truce. 1t agreed that a recess
might perhaps be taken without obvious
render from o'clock, even from some earlier
hour in the afternoon. until tomorrow morn
ing and this plan would probably have been
adopted if Mr.. Voorhees, could have induced
any Republican Senator or any colleague on
the Democratic side to offer the motion for
the recess Reluctant to do himself after
his bravado of yesterday, he pleaded with his
eutenants on both sides TO make the sug-
gestion. urging that it would be physical
for himself and others
o endure another night of continuous session.
But Republican repeal Senator cared to take
he responsibility of retreating from the en-
ounter with the silver forces and the Demo-
ratio friends OF repeal insisted that the motion
or recess, to avoid all suspicion Of secession
II lukewarmness on their part. should come
rom the leader of the repeal cause himself. AZ
o'clock it generally understood that
ecess would be moved at midnight by Mr.. Voor.
ees but before that hour arrived a change had
ONE the face of the situation which made
uch action practically impossible. Mr.. Stew.
TT, securing the floor about o'clock, began Q
peech of indefinite length, with the avowed in.
enton Of holding the Senate I'm session UNI
II the repeal leaders should themselves cry for
uarter. and under tn sse circumstances there
no telling how and when Mr.. Voorhees, and
is associates will be able to escape from an
nforced participation in the endurance test"
arried. az it is likely to be. by the anti
epeaers themselves to unwelcome and un.
,oked-for termination
THE CONTINUOUS SESSION" FAILURE.
Mr.. Stewart. 1t is said has threatened to con.
nue. the exhaustion process through to-wor.
Nv and Saturday. unless the repeal leaders
lrow up the struggle unconditional!y What.
YER may be the conditions under which the
continuous session ends. IL is not probab bIe
lat another will be Immediately undertaken
1 the Judgment of the majority Of the repeaL
aders to continue the fight successfully n
Ill be necessary to bring in a closure rule Of
'me sort and attempt to pass that rather than
rugge uselessy against the hopeless obstacles
progress contained in the Senate rules
Mr. voorhees, expressed himself with great
tterness to-day in denunciation Of the puyt.
ges offered to obstruction in the Senate coda
I'd II is understood that he will now turn bis
tention to securing those notifications in
e rules which are absolutely essential to the
'ssage of unconditional repeal. oompromise
ay Of course. come in at any moment TO end
g contest. But it is believed that a compro-
ise on which the two Democratic factiona