The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-18

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE journal
OF yesterday having been read obiec ton
to 1t was made by Dolph, (Rep., Ore, J
on the ground that it did not show the
fact that Senators Kyle and Allen, who
had not answered to roll call, although
they were in the chamber, should have
been entered as present although he
had at the time called attention to the
fact.
de spoke of the extraordinary specta /.
Gle presented by the Senate. 1t has
been in session over ten weeks, with a
Democratic majority and with twenty
six Republican Senators who were
ready to follow the chairman of the
financial committee on any course he
mil ht suggest II Senators could talk
indefinitely and could read from books
and newspapers without limit and if
the Senate was not to amend the rules.
they would have to drift down current
OF endless talk without accomplishing
anything. He was ''tired" of this. he
said.
Harris suggested sarcastically that If
the Senator from Oregon was tired the
best remedy for him was to sit down and
rest.
Butler tauntod Dolph with not having
shown backbone when he had got to
deal couple of years ago with the
newspaper correspondents on the cues
ton OF executive sessions. He con-
tended that there was no authority in
the presiding officer to do what the Sen.
ator from Oregon wanted him to do The
session would be very much prolonged
If the Senator from Oregon would at
tempt to apply the lash and arbitrary
Iule.
Dolph declared that the committee OH
rules ought to present to the Senate a
bill or reasonable rule limiting do
bate; that the presiding officer ought,
after two or three days discussion, put
1T to vote Of the Senate. and that, ii a
majority of the Senate adopted it, it
should be put absolutely in force. That
was the only way the Senate would ever
obtain an amendment to it's rules
Hill said that he would venture to
contribcte word or two to the discus
sion. In his judgment the chair should
exercise his own sense and If Senator
sitting in front of him refused to answer
to his name and was recorded as present
who was wronged by that? 1t only ran
counter to some old tradition from past
- OS' hOAO w 40 iO oCnUltuCHG III no
reason in 1t, and there never had been.
Was any harm done by counting tho
Senators who were present and did not
vote?
Morgan said that the question before
the Senate was one Of great Importance
and one that had been frequently dis
cussed in both houses. He was not sur
prised, he said, that the Senator from
New York had championed the rulings
OF the speaker OF the house (Reed) on
that same question. The Sentor had
been instrumental, when he presided in
the senate of New York, in the intro.
ductlon of that heresy, not only into
tho Democratic party, but also into the
constitutional rights Of the legislative
government bodies. The majority of a
could take care of itself.
Does the majority here take care of
itself?" Washburn asked.
Morgan-The Senator has been here
in a majority before, abiding to The
anti.option bill, and was not able to
take care of himself
Washburne-I have always been able
to take care of myself in this body and
oven more.
Morgan-I have not seen it worked
out in that measure.
Washburne-TheS Senate passed it by
handsome majority, but it failed in the
House for want Of two-thirds IN a iority.
Morgan went on to speak Of the ALI
ance and coalition formed in the SEN
ate at the time Of the Malone and Rid
dleberger CONTROVERSY.
he again paid his respects to Hill and
said that he did not wonder that poll
tician born and raised in New York,
where arbitrary force was the moving
agency in all political machinery, both
Democratic and Republican. should, at
least, come to believe that there was
nothing else to be done in politics ex-
cept simply to get majority Of votes
and then use the power which they
gave. The present coalition, he said,
had been created by the national banks,
for the purpose Of destroying silver
money.
Gray denied the assertion, and said
that he was urging the passage of the
repeal bill not because the National
banks wanted it but because the bone
and sinew OF the country wanted it,
Morgan in the course OF further re-
marks said: propose to offer an amend
ment to the bill to strike out all after
the enacting clause and insert the whole
mot part) of the Sherman law.
After an extended personal encounter
with Washburne, which difficulty having
been left behind without any evil re-
suit, Morgan went on with his argu-
mont. In the course of 1t he referred
to Mr.. Sherman as one of the leaders OF
the coalition on the Republican side,
and said that he never had followed and
he never could follow the lead of that
Senator on any subject, political or
financial. He also concluded with the
coalition of what ne called distinctively