Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-10-28
CONGRESSIONAL

Washington, oct. 1G.-Tn the senate
the house joint resolution fixing the
qualifications for voting and holding
office in the Cherokee strip was taken
mp. IN amendment by HOar restrict
ing the right 10 vote, and hold office
TO citizens Of the United States, was
ayr ed to.
>. A motion by PETER to strike out
the word male" 80 as to allow wo-
men 10 vote, was rejected, 40 to ..
The affirmative vote included Allison,
Carr, Delph, Frye, Gallinger, Hoar,
Kyle, PETER and Teller. Faulkner
moved TO strike out that part of the
resolution to which Hoar's amendment
ATTACHED, and thus the amended reso-
luton passed.
1t entities all male residents on the
Dist of October who have been resi-
dents thirty days and are over u years
Of age, to vote and hold office at mu-
nicipal sections for the organization
Of city, village and town governments.
The debate on repeal which was
characterized By growing discomfort,
was continued all the afternoon.
] The silver senators clogged the
wheels effectually for about two hours
and would probably have continued
to DO so but for IN understanding
brought about between the opposing
forces to check fnibustcring on the
promise from some of the leaders Of
the repeal side to attempt to arrange
matters 81 as not to make another
effort to secure night sessions.
In the house, debate on the McCreary
hll to extend the provisions Of the
Geary Chinese exclusion act six months
a resumed. Blair REP. y. ID, who
was nominated to the Chinese mission
by Harrison, but whose execquatur
was not granted by the Chinese gov
eminent on account Of his hostile ex-
p%ressions towards the Chinese when
the exclusion act was passed in 1889,
spoke in favor of the bin.
The Chinese exclusion bin passed
The house with Geary's amendment
as to phOtographing Cinnamon and de-
timing Chinese merchants, 1G7 to ..
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the day was spent by the senate in
a discussion Of the rules. Technically
the repeal bin was not under discus
sion at all, the pending question being
on the approval of the Journal, Mr..
Dolph having raised the question that
the record was not correct in that it
failed to show the vice president had
not counted rs present two senators
who sat in their seats and refused
to respond to their names OF ono Of
the many roll calls last evening.
Mr.. Hin said that he would venture
to contribute a word or two to the
discussion. In his judgment the chair
should exercise his own sense, and if
q senator sitting in front Of him re
fused to answer, his name should be
recorded as present. Who was wronged
by that? 1t only ran counter to some
old traditions from past ages. There
was no sentiment in It,; no reason in
IL, and there never had been. Was
any harm done by counting senators
who were present and did not vOtet
Whose rights would be invaded by it?
If 1t was the duty of senators to re
main in their seats, it was their duty
to take part in the transaction of public
business. The art of How not to do
it," seemed 10 be the effort Of the sen
ate The proper way, he suggested,
was whenever a senator declined to
vote. although he was present, to raise
a point upon it and TO present it to
the regular presiding Office. Of the
senate. He would not DO indirectly
what he would not do directly, and
therefore he was not in favor Of add
ing to the rules or making any new
decision by a correction Of the journal
The question, he said, should come up
SQuarcly. If the regular presiding off
Ger, the vice president, decided that
the senator should be entered on the
journal as present, the other side might
take an appeal. But. if he decided diff
ferently. following the reasoning Of
the senator from West Virginia, Mr..
Faulkner, the other side which pre-
scented the question might take NJ ap-
peal and have the question decided
by the senate. That was the ordinary
and proper method of d~iSposing Of it.
Mr., sherman then called attention
to the important legislation which had
to be disposed Of. The senate, he said,
had been in session over three months
and not a single measure Of import
auce had been passed. The house of
representatives performed its duty, but
the senate was staggering along unable
70 have a single vote on any important
question. He added: IF this contin.
lueS the senate will be a marked body.
1T VIII no longer command the respect
Of an intelligent and active people.
We must decide this silver question
some way OF other. If you (meaning
the democratsl cannot do it and viii
retire from the senate chamber, we
viii fix it on this side of the chamber,
and do the best we can with our silver
friends who belong to us and who are
blood Of our blood and bone of our
bone. But yours is the proper duty.
and, therefore, / beg of you. not in
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