Evening journal., 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 Scene In That Body.
The sergeant-at-arms Sent Ont to Drum
Up n Quorum.

WASHING TON, Nov. 3--The first skir-
mish over the tariff in the ffty-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 ffty-frst congress Is now
the only bar TO final adjourn nent today.
The senator's on the conferels, committee
declare they will never recede, and the
house seems equally determineS 20 ac-
cept the amendment.
A resolution to adjourn Friday was re
ported by Mr.. Catchihgs 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 were called for and resulted in
its passage by an affirmative vote Of 1874 to
50 in the negative
The tieup which followed was occasioned
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 It 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-
| tions, 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 wasted patiently for the appearance
Of the absentees. Meantime the deputies
Of the sergeant-at-arms were securing the
city with subpenas for absent members.
At $40 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 9 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
the size Of the transaction did not warrant
protracted fight. a counter proposition to
amend the resolution giving the ways and
means committee permission to sit during
the recess 80 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 S21, 900 to senate
employees for work done during the recess
Of the fifty-frst 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 a vote Of 100 to T. decided to
not recede from its position. Then at $50
the house adjourned.
In the Senate.
The house joint resolution allowing the
Columbian museum at Chicago to accept
or purchase articles for its own exclusive
4se free from customs duties was passed
by the senate, all other portions Of the res
olution being struck out. A conference has
been asked on the disagreeing votes.
The senate bill to grant right of way to
the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and South
western Railroad company through the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma territory
was reported from the committee on Indian
affairs and passed.
The house bill providing for constructing
a steam revenne cutter for service on the
great lakes not to exceed SIT, 600 was re-
ported and passed
The senate discussed the cyclone relief
resolution, and strong argument was
made in its favor by Mr.. Call. Mr. Stewart
introduced another free coinage silver bill.
Mr.. Hoar made an effort to obtain action
on the bill for the relief of the sufferers
from the cyclone on the sea islands and
along the coast of South Carolina and
Georgia. The third reading Of the billw
objected to by Mr.. Cockrell, and the vice
president ruled that under therule it could
not have its third reading just then.
Then a motion was made by Mr.. German
to refer the bill to the committee on apprO
priations.
That motion was discussed until {
o'clock, when the bill went over without
action, and the Chinese bill was taken NJ
as unfinished business. The Chinese bill
was passed without division.
. The Chinese bill is the house bill an
amended 1t extends for six months tn,
time under which Chinese can register un
der the Geary law and for the deportation
D after this time of any Chinese laborel
found in the United States without Ger
e tificate of registration. 1t provides tha
( the word laborer shall be construed 4
mean skilled and unskilled laborers, whil
aChinese merchant shall be a Chinaman de
voted exclusively to mercantile pursuit.
+ and not engaged as laborer at all
r II changes the provisions of the Gear!
l. law concerning witnesses in that instea'
l. of requiring a white witness it require
that the witness shall be other than Chi
naman Pending the order Of deportation
the Chinaman 70 be deported cannot b
bailed Certificates of registration are 4
4 contain the photograph of the applicant
Tariff Bill Not Yet Reported.
WAsHINGToN, Nov. 3-The committe
on ways and means, having charge of tn
r tariff bill, have not yet reported thei
Z, rough draft to their associates, and unit
IL | 4. odfoprnad ftav will nrObabl