St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-12
SENATORIAL SEIGE.
All = Night Session Of Our
House OF Lords.
TEST OF PHYSICAL ENDURANCE
Eetween the SilvePites and
the Repeal Forces.
FLOOR AND GALLERIES FILLED.
Voorhees, Announces the Ad-
ministration Policy, and
1UR6LS IEdDe TIE 81 VEP WEN
FLOOR AID GALLERIES FILLED.
DUB0iS LEADS The SILVER MEN.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The usual
methods by which controversies over
legislation are settled by an agreement
10 come to 4 vote nave failed 10 carry,
and the world is now watching the de-
clsion OF q great financial question by
Test OF physical endurance not unlike
the games OF the Romans. Like the
ancient athletic feats. the multitude
fills the seats OF the ampitheater and
waits the outcome. Itmay end tonight:
II may continue for days.
This peculiar condition is a necessity
under the rules by which the senate
operates. There is no manner III which
a vote can be forced except by tiring
out those whose speech-maklng OBJ
stUucts a natural and parliamentary set
Element. The method is not new one,
as it has heretofore been Tesorted to on
numerous occasions.
AL day long there were evidences of
preparation for the fight. Few senators
were in the chamber, but a glance into
the cloak rooms, and a peep into the
committee room showed many of them
sleeping on the couches and sofas. huS-
banding their strength Tor 4 siege which
they appreciated would test most
severely every energy which they could
muster. Forces on both sides of the
battle were divided so as to be able to
give each other relief by taking up the
defense of their position in turn. The
great number OF employees OF the senate
were likewise separated into relays III
anticipation OF Il
CONTINUOUS WORK.
The seTgeant-at-aTms. Col. Bright. has
every man on his pay roll within call
Tonight Relays of dJorkeepers are pro-
viGed for the galleries. and a reserve
force Is ready to guard the doors on the
senate floor. Four men are ready and
waiting to hunt up senators and request
their attendance. The address OF every
senator has been carefully revised uD to
date. and the sergeant-at-arms has COM
piled a mass OF interesting information.
as 10 the usual haunts OF senators. in
order that those who drift away may be
tracked to their lairs.
II The committee rooms couches and
blankets had been prepared and every
thing possible TO make comfortable the
situation which senators found them
selves in was done.
As the hour OF 6 o'clock approached.
at which It was known the signal guns
for the beginning OF the contest would
be sounded. the gradnal filling up of the
seats on the floor and in the galleries
made it evident that the tight was
to 90 on and that the public
would watch it through. When
the house adjourned many of
the members entered the senate and
took seats on the sofas about the wall.
Speaker Crisp was among the number,
and was evidently keenly interested in
the situation. The galleries at o'clock
did not contain an unoccupied seat, and
in tie doorways was mass of humanity
CLAMORING FOR ADMISSION.
Every moment the crowd was in
creasd by new arrivals, until passage
through the corridors became almost an
impossibility. and thousands, tiring OF
their efforts 10 gain view OF the pro
ceedings. turned hOmeward.
The hum and buzz of conversation in
creased until the voice of Senator Aller
president warned the occupants of The
galleries that quiet must be obtained
and that unless it was the ga!lerie:
would have 10 be cleared.
When Senator Dubois arose 10 make
his statement of The position the anti
repeal men would take a hush fell ovel
the assemblage. and until Mr.. Vool hee:
had made his reply. and Sen
ators Harris and Butler mad made
plain their positions there was unusua
quiet. The silver men had a consider
able advantage over their OppOndent:
and they were free to admit thei
pleasure over the condition, Will
they can rest in the cOmrittee room
and lobbies leaving only on guard on
speaker ana Mr.. Dubois to see that
quorum is present. it is obligatory Oh
the part of the friends of repeal to re
main continuously in their seats in ordc
10 maintain quorum.
When the senate met only twelv
senators we're present to hear the chap
lain'S prayer opening q legislative bod
which may continue for more than on
calendar day. The repeal bill wa
taken up at l1:45 a. m, and Mr.. Cocl
relI Dem. Mo-. although quite hoarse
resumed his speech against the bi
begun on Monday. Mr.. CockreL sal
the opponents of repeal stood today an
Would stand
THROUGHOUT THE STRUGGLE,
ready and anxious to pass the pendin
bill with amendments. Cockreil, at 81
O'Clock. yielded the floor to Mr.. Smit
dem, \. j., who addressed the senat
in favor OF repeal. He said he had n
6ance to vote on the pending bill be
cause of an indisposition on the part c
the majority TO deprive the minority c
what seemed to be considered its right
the right to rule. Whether the fact tina
the Sherman law was still on the statut
books was because of the unanimitv c
opinion that it should be repealed b
would leave to be answered by som
one who was more familiar wit
the time-hOnOred traditions of the SCI
ate than he was. Laughter. NJ
Smith denied that silver had any right:
neither had colo. The people had
right to use silver, but silver had L
right TO use the people. The outpourIn
of public sentiment for free cGinsge WI
the result OF mass meetings held in Co
oradoi Nevada and Idaho, at whIc
blOodthirsty resolutions were adopted