The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-13

that rule was in contradiction oil me con-
sttution.
QUESTION or QUORUM.
Mr. Palmer, Mr.. Mcpherson and Mr..
Hale contended that torty-three was a
quorum ii the senate was duly consti.
tuled.
Vice President Stevenson ruled that
the senate was composed Of eIehty-iive
senators and iorty.three was quorum
Mr.. Wolcott appealed from the dc i
sion. Mr.. Hale promptly moved to lay
the appeal on the table The appeal
was tabled IS to ). The quorum ques-
ton wal disposed OF few minutes be-
fore S o'clock, aud Mr. Allen reappear'
ed lpparentlyHs fresh ~ when he be-
Gan fourteen hours before, While he
talked about the Shylock5 and the Tro-
ian horse. told OF the voyage and landing
Of the Pilgrims on the New England
shore, the senators changed their seats,
and the galleries took opportunity TO
change shifts. When Mr., Allen was IN
the middle OF one OF his hes; sentences
Mr. Wolcott interrupted HIM to ask
from what he was reading. 81 was
reading" replied Mr.. Allen. IRON
slight production OF my own
a HURST OF LAUGHTER.
In burst OF laughter such as one
would hardly expect ut the hour and
under the circumstances, Mr.. WoIcott
said:
81 like it extremely, and supposed
the senator was quoting from some ais-
tinguished author"
At a quarter past S Mr. Allen con-
c!uded his long speech by yielding the
floor to Mr. Martin, OF Kansas. To this
proceeding Mr. Voorhees, tooh eNcep.
ton, and asked Mr.. Allen II he proposed
to farm out the floor.
Mr.. Allen declared he had no such IN
tenlion.
Instead OF permitting Mr., Martin to
20 on, MIR. Voorhees, moved to lay the
Peier free coinage amendment to the
repeal bill on the table, and thus sud-
denly precipitated his era OF business
Senator Aldricn called for the ayes
and nays.
Mr.. PETER asked to be permitted to
explain the amendment, but this prlvi-
lege was denied, and the roll call pro-
cqeded on the vote to lay on the table.
There was considerable sparrng during
the taking OF the vote, and, when the
result was announced, it showed that
the senate was short a quorum by two
votes. This was ocCasioned by the an.
nouncement OF pairs, and By the refusal
OF come OF the silver men present to
vote.
Mr.. Villas made the point ot order
that when q senatorwas present he was
compelled to vote. unless excus ed by
the SENATE. roll call was ordered,
and iorty-ive senators, two more than
quorum, answered to their names.
4 second effort was then made to
secure quorum vote on the amend
ment to lay the pending motion upon
the table. The recapiLuiation. OF the
vote showed only iorty.one senators
present and voting. TIE result was not
announced at the time, and was de-
layed by Mr.. Villas renewal OF his point
of order that senators were present
who had not voted, and that the rules
required them to vote unless excused
by the senate.
A STUBBORN SENATOR
Senator Dubois being the first sena-
tor on the list VINO had not voted,
though present, MIR. Villas directed his
remarks to that senator.
The chair asked Mr.. Dubers to explain
his refusal. This he did BY saving that
he considered the amendment too i'm
pottant to be passed upon without de-
bate. lie said that Mr.. Petler had even
been denied the privilege OF explaining
the amendment. he did not want to be
party to such proceeding.
On a motion to excuse Mr.. Dubois
the ayes ana nays were called, and the
vote resulted 81 ayes and 30 nays.
Mr.. Dubois name was then called
and, Notwithstanding the vote OF the
senate, he did not respond to the roll
call
Here followed discussion as to
whether Senator Dubois could be COM
PEELED to vote. Mr.. Dubois sat in his
seat sIl the time, but his name did not
appear in the list OF voters when an
nounced, as did not the names OF several
other senators on the silver side who
were present all the time.
While this discussion was in pro-
gress the hands on the old senate clock
we're moving on, and the hour OF 8
o'clock saw several senators present
who had not been in the chamber for
several hours, soma of them not at all
during the night, many OF them voted
on the motion to lay the PeHer amend
ment on the table, when therefore at q
quarter past nine when the vote was
announced the result showed that there
we're 50 senators voting. The vote
stood ayes 80; nays II.
When the chair had announced the
vote and stated that the Petler amend
meut had been laid upon the table, Mr..
Voorhees, was recognized. He stated
that the PETER amendment to the Noor-
bees bill was the only one pending,
except that offered by the committee
on finance, which is tho Wilson bill, or
house bill No. !. He said, however,
there were other amendments which
had been proposed by senators bnt had
not as yet bee II offered but these would
be in order when offered by their
authors. He said the finance com
mittee's amendment was now before the
senate and asked that Mr.. Martin, OF
Kansas, be recognized to discuss this
question.
Plea FOR FREE SILVER.
Mr.. Martin, OF Kansas, got the floor
at 9aO o'clock this morning, aud began
plea Tor the free coinage OF silver Az
frequent intervals he was interrupted
by roll calls and delays necessitaied by