The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-03
The House Adopts q Resolution
to That Effect.
SENATE PASSES CHINESE BILL.
Indications That Tariff Bill Is Nearly
Ready for Report.
Reed Ties Up the House 60 show the
Democrats How Easy It IL Under
Their Rules-The silver Mea Pre-
pariag 20 Continue the Agitation.

wAsHrxsros CirY, Nov. 2-In the house
nal Gen. Catchings reported resolution
for fnai adjournment at So'eiock tomor-
row. The resolution was carried by q vote
Of i34 10 So.
Wilson, chairman of the ways and means
committee, asked unanimous consent for
consideration OF q resolution to permit the
committee 20 sit during adjournment and
file with reports any bills. anu providing
that if fled such bills and reports shall be
mailed 10 each member. Reed objected,
explaining that the minority should have
fair and decent opportunity TO examine
and prepare a minority report on bill of
such importance as the tariff bill before its
presentation.
Kilgore reported favorably Rawlins' bill
for the admission of Utah into the Union.
Catehings, from the committee on rules,
presented a special rule for the eonsidera-
ton of Wilson's resolution Reed said the
resolution was unsatisfactory in character
and unreasonable in its demands. IL
would be unjust TO the minority TO expect
them TO get together and in few days
prepare and report on the bill. Wilson
said the resolution was designed TO give
the country the benefit of the earliest pos
sible information concerning proposed
legislation and get the bill through sill the
preliminary committee stages, 50 its con-
sideration could begin immediately after
the regular session convened There was,
he continued, no mystery about the prep
aration of the tariff bill. He had himself
invited every Republican member of the
committee. with the possible excep-
tion OF Reed, who was absent.
to come TO the committee room
and see what was going on Reed re-
sponded briefly and then vote was
taken. The Republicans refused to an
swer to their names aud there was not a
quorum, the yeas being I57 and the nays
l. Catchings at once entered a motion to
reconsider the vote by which the house
agreed to adjourn Friday. Wilson of West
Virginia moved q call Of the house with
the intention 20 get quorum to pass the
resolution. The call developed the
presence of ei4 members. At 3:15 Execu-
tive Clerk Prudent announced the presi-
dents approval of the repeal bill. A reso-
luton was adopted reyoking leaves of
absence and instructing the sergeant-at-
arms TO arrest ahsentees. For three hours
the members waited patiently for the ap-
pearance of absentees. At TAO. Wilson
moved to dispense with further. pro-
ceedings under the call. The vote
resulted to $50, and upon
the announcement Reed arose and
offered a acompromise. He offered a counter
proposition to amend the resolution so as
10 permit the chairman to file the tariff
bill with the understanding that reports
thereon shall be filed not later than ten
days. This proposition Wilson accepted,
provided the word tariff before .biil''
be changed to revenue"
The controversy being amicably settled,
Sayers. from the committee on appropria-
tions, presepsed a conference report on the
urgency deficiency bill and asked that the
house insist on its disagreement TO the
senate amendments to pay 81, 900 to the
senate employees for work done during the
recess of the Fifty-first congress. He ex-
planned that this should have come out OF
the contingent fund of the senate, and the
last congress had refused TO pay it. The
house. by vote OF l20 to &. decided not TO
recede from its position. The house then
adjourned