Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-10-21
LITTLE PE1GE;Uss MADE.
Eiost Of the Pay in the Senate Occu-
pied in Roll Call.


pied in Ho:I Call.
WAsH1NGTCE, Oct. IS. The leaders
Ct ihe opposing forces in the silver
campaign We're present at the opening
of the session. On tie one side Elr.
Voorhees, Dem, Indy and his chief
lieutenant, Mr.. Faulkner (Dym., ".
Va.(, wcle in consultation over their
plans, and on the otter side III. Jones
(Rer, New was ready to resume his
attack nj on the rel cal Liil, and was re-
ceiving Limits and Suggestions from his
fellcw ci.ieftains-Mr. Teller Gsep.,
Coio.) ard Nj. Stewart C2er. Nev.)
These respective grouls had frequent
exchanges, icr instance, two Rel luoii-
can senator's (Mr. Cullon of illinois
and Mr.. Allison Of loH;) took MI.
F, r!i nn's pace beside Nj. voorhees,
and lad an calne,t consultation With
him, willie Tie Nebraska Pcpulist, Mr.
Alien, crossed over 10 tie Republican
side Of the q ;,nler and excl angvd
views vi II Senators, 10, es {Ney.), Tel
Ter ard Stewart. these were the pre-.
l.ninaIies
10 the Eleventh Week
Of the extraordinary session Of con-
gress. and ,lle eighth week Of tire SEN
ate debate On tie bill. While they
were taking place tie attention Of tie
senate was diverted TO house Joint
resolution, assed on the 11lb inst, fx-
ing tie qualifications TO vote and 20
lol fTice in tie Cherokee outlet. O.
r., at tie fist MI njc:p.l elections
MIR. PETER & c!,., han.) moved to strike
cut the Word s'luale' SO as to admit
women 10 tie right Of 81, tf..age in Okla
Iona. and Mr. Hoar (2er., Mass. e1-
resscd tie hope that the amendment
would le agreed to. On the other hand,
Mr. Faulkner expressed the hoIe that
il vou;a lie voted dow u, and the yeas
ana lays were called for by MIR. Teller.
i he PETER amendment was rejected
ayes, 8: nay, 40.
Lodges EcsoiU.;on.
Mr.. Lodge {Rer., Ma.f.) called up lis
resolution for an amendment to tbs
rules Ga plan 10 close debate ana come
TO vote ard Il lrclili;ion against
written speecles) and aGdr, ssed the
senate n on i. The necessity Of a
power to dose teJate had teen, be said,
recognized Of late years in the house Of
commons and in the American house Of
Representatives.. He spoke at some
length OF he question and a general
debate followed participated in by
Messrs. Stewart, Teller, Voorhees,, Vest.
Eoar, Hill and others. At | o'clock,
i'll ont action on The amendments the
rereai bill was taken up.
Mr.. Jones (Rep., Ne>.) took the floor
for tie lurloe CT continuing his
speech against the bill, winch he be-
gan last Saturday, and continued until
v:45, hen he asked the indulgence OF
the senate and said he would have more
10 say in day or Two.
4 Parliamentary SGuabble.
Mr.. PETER Pep, Kan.) tl-en took the
| floor and continued the speech which
he began last Friday. He had not
,.adc much progress. however, when
J e yielded temporarily to Mr. Palmer.
he latter gentleman got into pariia-
mentary sGuabble with the other two
POI ulist senators (Mr. Kyle Of South
Dakota and Mr.. Allen of Nebrasla.)
The origin of it was a remark by Mr..
Palmer that he had been kept in the
chamber night after night listening not
to debate but to speeches which (as the
newspapers asserted) were made to con-
sune ;ime. MIR. Allen objected to this
and an angry ,ollcquy followed. NJ.
Cullom then stel ped in as reac, maker
and Mr.. PETER went On with his
speech.
AT 6 p. m. motion to adjourn was
made by Ny. PugL (Deln.. Ala.) and
was voted down by yeas IS, nays 50.
I'iliLus: ing Begins.
In 70 minutes afterwards the plan of
Gucr"ln compelling was Legun by MIR.
Kyle. Forty-fve senators responded
and Mr.. PETER delivered another shor t
section of the speech. Five minutes
had not elapsed until Mr. Pettigrew
(Rep., S. d. challenged the presence OF
a quorum, and senators had again to
come in from the committee rooms and
cloak rooms. This time a. senators an
swered. At GAO Mr.. Power (Rep.,
Mon.) suggested tie absence of a
quorum. The roll call disclosed De SEN
ators-cne less than quorum-bnt be-
| fore the serseant-at-arms could be Gil
rected 10 request tie presence OF aD-
sentees two mere senators came IN,
making Gre mere than d quorum.
Mr. voorhees, moved that further
proceedings under the call be dis
pensed with.
| Weary Eou Calls.
Mr.. Dulcis asled for tie yeas and