Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Mr., Allen continued 10 occupy the floor be-
ing interrupted with an occasional question
or some member raising the point of no
quorum when the electric bell would sound
and the sleepy-eyed Senators would pour in
from the cloak rooms. Hobbies ana commit
tee rooms by every entrance. After ans
wering the roll call most of them would dis
appear only To be called out In the same
manner half an hour later. Thus the mat
ter stood until after Il. IN. when w Allen
yielded the DOR to Mr.. artln, OF Kansas,
having held the moor continuously for i44
hours, the longest time ever known, and
which won +. Allen much admiration. Mr..
Voorhees, declined to allow Mr. Martin To
proceed anu brought business aspect by
moving to lay the Pener free free coinage
table. +. Peger desired TO explain tue
amendmets, but was denied the privilege,
The vote On tho motion To table showed two
votes short of quorum Air Dubois of
Idaho declined to vote and point or order
was raised that member present must
vote unless excused; motion TO excuse
him was defeated, but stlll Mr. Dubois re-
fused TO vote. IL was clock when a
quorum was discovered and the Ieher
amendment was tabled. MIR. oOrheeS said
that the House repeal bill, as offered by the
committee on finance, was in order, ana MIR.
Martin, OF Kansas, was recognized To speak
upon II. lie started in at once on free
coinage of silver. curing the speech ~.
Martin declared that III the PRESIDENT had,
during the recent campaign, written such "a
letter as he recently wrote GOV, NOrthcn,
OF Georgia, or had Democrat Senators in
that campaign made such speeches TO the
people as they had made in the Senate on
the financial question, the Democrat party,
in the parlance of tie day, would would not
have been in 1t The call OF no quorum
was made almost every half hour during
the morning aud when noon came Mr.. ar
tin sti!l had the floor and held IL until 4.ui
p. m, when he said he would close for the
time being, but hoped to resume AT some
future time as he had not touched on many
important points +. Morgan of Alabama,
gave notice of an amendment TO the repeal
bill. Mr.. Teller, of colorado, resumed his
unlini he'd speech OF several DAYS before,
but soon yielded TO Mr.. stewart, OF Nevada
kOll calls for quorum now came faster
than ever. At 10 p. m. I. Harris of Ten
neS~ee, presented AN amendment " Inch pro-
Nided: Fir,t-fOr the coinage of all the
silver bullion In the Treasury representing
the government : selguiorage into fun legal
tender dollars NJ the rate OF 5.UOOJn pei
month. Sccond-When this seigniol axe
shall have been coined the secretary Of the
Treasury shall purchase each month bullion
suu.cient to coin blank dollars and 10 coin
the bullion into legal tender dollars
Intrd-Ihat all paper notes or CERTIFICATES
of less demon nation than SO shall be re-
deemed ana not rcsSucd and that national
bank notes of le $ denomination than tll
shall be redeemed ana the national
BANKS required 10 substitute notes OF that
denomination, Fourth hat the so,
and :, gold piece, shall no longer be
coined but whom received at the Treasury
shall be recOlucd as eagles and double
eagles Fifth-Tuat the holders of standard
silver dollars shall be able TO exchange
such dollars on presentation for note
ties as sucn silver dollars which
shall be held Tor their redemption
Z his amendment created much interest, If
being naturally assumed that IL furnished
perhaps, he urst concrete aud specific com
promise proposition growing out OF the con
linuous session IL seems that r. uarriS
for the democratic free sil er senators, ano
+. Teller. for tine Republican silver men
had been circulating this amendment n o
basis for compromise and H. had been sane.
tiDupl DN Ibn nnmlui-l ration through
rotary Carlisle r. Noicott a kea for z
rOll-call. hirty-nine senator, replied, and
upon the request of 7. oorhees, the names
OF the ab>entees were read Another cal
! at a.: - p. IN. brOugh; only four senators &C
| the chamber. IN hOut passed ana stlll the
| senate WAS without quorum. It l:j Mr.
4 MOlcott made the point OF no quorum. Al
! 80 "A. m the senate hacked I've of a quorum
| ~ - "A. m. the sergeant at-arms reported
| that two senators were absent from The
! city. twelve "ad been .cused by the sen
! ate. four answered summons by the state
ment that they were too i'll 70 attend nine
/ IN the apttOl made no answer ana siNtecf
were reported "a absent from their resi-
! dcnceS and could not be found r. Noor
! hces Immediately arose ana said: +
! Pres ident, fee that Ia done my duty
] in this matter an Without comment ! nON
/ move that the senate al iOurn. The mOuOI
/ was unanimously aIrce 20 and at l:j "A. IN
! the senate chamber was deserted after
| continuous ses ion Of 5, hours and 40 min
| utes. The result was greeted by the silvcl
| men as victory a, II was conceded That ~
4
] pas ed and they could dictate almost every
! term OF compromise
HoU~E--Tbe House began the considera
! ton OF the cCreary bill TO extend the pro
visions OF the Geary Chinese exclusion &C
! for six months under a special order pro
| Viding that IT. shall be considered until dis
! posed Of +. cary made splendid speecI
! In opposition TO the new measure and made
| vigorous attack upon the oaicers OF tu'
! administration. g -pecially Attorney-Gen
erak Olney, for failure TO enforce the Gear!
J law. tF. Brickner OF Wisconsin. secures
| the passage Of a resolution authorizing tn,
| state OF Wisconsin To erect in statuary hal
/ statue to fere Marquette the missionary
/ other business not or general importanc,
was disposed Of.
sESATE.--Fifty-eight day.--Mr. Voorhee
| made another attempt TO hold continuou
/ session, but the repeal men were too mucl
| disheartened by their previous defeat ant
a quorum could not be obtained-the silve
men refusing to respond To the roll calls
! IL now seems that compromise Is the onl.
way out OF the difficulty.
| SENATE-F ifty-ninth day. Various i'm
| portant amendments TO the rules were of
! fered and went over. The propose to for
| bid reading by Senators OF speeches, eithe
| written or printed. to permit the countin
| of Senators present and not voting; to dis
| qualify senators interested in nationa
| banks or national bank stocks from votin
| on any bill ahecting coinage or currency
! to provide for closing debate on any bill O
| resolution by the same arrangement as
! now in operation in the House OF Repre-
! sentatiyeS. The silver purchase repeal bill
| was taken up. The tangled question O
whether Nr. dubois could be forced TO vot
| when present came up but remained un
| settled. Mr.. G err had a number OF docu
! mcnts read as a part of his speech and the
| yielded the toOr to r. Jones, OF Nevada
| VINO opposed the repeal bill. There were
| Senators present--the largest number 70
! many days--and r. Jones secured the clos
| est attention for several hours. During
| short stop Mr.. Voorhees, took occasion {
say that in order To ease many minds 1
certain directions he would say that h
had only begun to fight HoUsE.--N
I session.