The herald., 1893-10-13
REPEALERS KNOCKED OUT.
Silver Men Win the Fight
in the Senate.
Voorhees, Compelled to Run up
the White Flag.
The Continuous Session Ended at
lao This Morning.
A Compromise Amendment offered That
Is 6etisfactory to the siiveritss.
Aliens Speech Breaks
the Record.
BY the AsaocIsted Press.

oy the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.--The weary
struggle in the senate goes on and on,
and tonight little progress seems to have
been made towards q settlement. The
silver men still have the upper hand
and control the eituation. The frat in,
timation OF the weakening OF the repesl
forces was the decision OF Voorhees, to
move for recess tonight from 10 .. M
until II tomorrow. He reckoned. how.
ever, without the silver men, who, an
nounced that they would not yield the
floor to Voorhees, to make the motion
and thus he was obliged to abandon the
plan.
Many stories of a compromise are in
the air tenight, but the unqualified
statement OF both sides 10 the fight noH
in progress must be decided before any
can be broached with suc-
cess.
The ecene is brilliant one. The
setting for the fierce struggle in progress
on the floor in the dazzling glare OF artil
fetal light .sis one to impress the mind
and fsscinete the eye. The galleries are
banked TO tbs DOORS Below, on the
floor, is the wreck OF Che great parlia-
mentary battle. Haggard faces around
betoken the long strain to which the
attempt to force the silver men to yield
by test of brute strength, has subjected
the senate.
ALLEN BREAKS THE RECORD.
Ali night long Senator Allen of Ne
braeka held the floor, interrupt
ed by an occasional ill-tempered
colloquy or roll call which
dragged the sleeping senator's from the
adjoining cloak room. Gray dawn at 6
q. m. found Allen still holding
forth in the great struggle against
unconditional repesl. ~ he has
been doing since darkness fell larx
r1gt9y He bad hfoken all previous rec.
ords; for twelve hours and hall he had
held Tho floor contip upusly. The longest
time any senator had previously Occur
pied the fo1r wac on the ocgasion OF the
force bill light in 1891, when Faulkner
remained on guard Il bours, although
be had breathing spell during ths abb
sence of q quorum. Alien seemed al
most as fresh SO when be bsgan. His
voice was still loud and atrong, and the
great strain seemed not to have affected
his physical or mental vigor.
The effort was made shortly after by
the Rnti-siIvermen to reach an agree-
ment with the silverites for recess un-
I'll 10 O'Clock, but the latter declined
the Offer. As the hours passed, Senator
ALIENS powers of endurance amazed the
auditors.
THE QUESTION OF A QUORUM.
Shortly after z O'Clock Shoup made
the point of no quorum. Roll call de-
veloped the presence Of only 4O:msm-
bers--thres short of quorum. These,
however, were soon supplied.
Wolcott made the point that 43 was
not quorum, as Idaho, Wyoming and
Washington were only partly repre-.
sented and 43 would not be majority
with their full representation.
The rule was then read to the effect
that majority Of the senators chosen
and sworn shall constitute aquoYum.
Manderson said the present rule was
stances in 1864 when Is southern stated
were unrepresented, but contended that
the necessity for it was past.
Vice President Stevenson ruled that
| the senate, as constituted. was COM
posed Of IS members, and that 43 was .
quorum.
Wolcott appealed from the decision.
Hale moved to lay tho appeal on she
! table. f
The appeal WAS tabled, So to s. Allen,
Mauderson. Martin, PETER and Morgan
voting in the negative.
ALLEN CONCLUDES HIS sPEKcH.
Then Allen, apparently 40 fresh a
when he began IA hours ago, resumed
his address. It WAS now far from argu-
ment upon the question at issue, but ID
filed in the time. Alien concluded ct
8:15. Martin of Ksnsas was to follow
him, but Voorhees, eutd0nly inter posed
with q motion to lay tho PETER free
coinage amendment to the repeal bill on
the table, and roll call began thereon.
The result showed two short of q quorum
owing to the announcement of several
pairs, and the refusal of some OF this
silver men present to vote.
Villas made the point Of order that
when senator 10 present he must vote,
unless excused. A roll call was ordered,
showing 45 senators present. The roll
wss then recalled on the motion to lay
PETERS amendment on the table; only
Al senators voted.
Dubois being the first senator on the
roll and present who refused to vote, the
chair called on him for an explanation.
Dubois said he considered the amend
ment too important to be passed upon
without debate.
A vote on motion to excuse Dubois
resulted 81 ayes, 20 nays. Dubois nams
was again called and he still failed to re-
spond. Then followed discussion
whether Dubois could be compelled to
VOTE. but the point was soon dropped.
pEFFKR's AMENDMENT DEFEATED.
Meantime other senators came in and
st 8 :l5 = ballot was announced showing
so senators voting. The result OF tho
haliot MAS AZ follows:
Yeas--C Gallery. Camden, Carcy, Cul-
lom, Davis, Dixon, Doiph, Faulkner.
Frye, Gsllingsr, Gordon. Gray, HAiss
Hawiey. Hill, Hosr, Lindsay. McPhsr.