Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-03
BAR TO ADJOURNMENT
Some Successful Filibustering
Done In the House.
THE SESSION MAY BE PROLONGED.

The Coming Tariff Fight In the House Is
Foreshadowed by n Scene In That Body.
The sergsAnt-at-arms Sent Out to Drum
UPA Quorum.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-The first Skin
mish over the tariff in the fifty-third con
gress occurred in the house, and after a
deadlock lasting until $50 in the evening
it resulted in a draw. The senate amend
ment to the urgency deficiency bill pro
viding pay for senate employees during the
recess and the fifty-first congress is now
the only bar to final adjournment today.
The senators on the conference committee
declare they will never recede, and the
house seems equally determined not to &C
cept the amendment.
A resolution to adjourn Friday was re-
ported by Mr.. Catchings of Mississippi
from the committee on rules, and the pre-
vious question was joyfully and vocifer-
ously ordered. a lively debate followed,
in which Representatives Terry of Arkan-
sas and Clark of Missouri opposed any pro
longed recess or adjournment.
Resolved to Adjourn.
The yeas and nays on the adjournment
resolution We're called for and resulted in
its passage by an affirmative vote of 1874 to
81 in the negative
The tieup which followed was occasioued
by the fact that the house passed the adj
Journment resolution before Mr.. Wilson
put in his resolution to authorize his COM
mittee to sit during the approaching re
cess, and 1t was upon that resolution that
was raised the point of no quorum. The
adjournment resolution in the senate was
referred to the committee on appropria-
uons, so that there is good prospect of de-
laying adjournment.
A resolution was adopted revoking leaves
of absence and instructing the sergeant-at-
arms to arrest absentees
For three hours the members of the
house waited patiently for the appearance
of the absentees. Meantime the deputies
of the sergeant-at-arms We're securing the
city with subponaS for absent members.
At 7:4O Mr.. Wilson moved to dispense with
further proceedings under the call. This
was for the purpose of developing whether
or not the Democrats had a quorum of
their own present, the Democrats them
selves voting against the motion. The
vote resulted to $50. Upon the announce
ment Mr.. Reed arose and offered to com
promise.
1t being apparent, he said, that no quo
rum was present on the Democratic side,
and if one were to be obtained the siege
would be much prolonged, he offered, as
protracted fight, counter proposition to
amend the resolution giving the ways and
means committee permission to sit during
the recess so as to permit the chairman to
file the tariff bill, with the understanding
that the reports thereon shall be filed not
less than 10 days later.
This proposition Mr.. Wilson accepted
provided the word tariff before bill be
changed to revenue" The controversy
being amicably settled, the house proceeded
TO untangle the parliamentary knot into
which it had worked itself, after which Mr..
Sayers, from the committee on appropria-
tions, presented the conference report on
the urgency deficiency bill, and asked that
the house insist on its disagreement to the
senate amendment to pay 81 600 to senate
employees for work done during the recess
of the fffty-first congress. He explained
that this money should have come out of
the contingent fund of the senate and that
the last congress had refused to pay IT
The house, by vote of I20 TO 4, decided to
not recede from its position Then at $50
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