Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-09

Bland moved to go into committee of thu whole to consider his silver seigniorag' bill.
 MT. Resd, however, made the point ot l order, which he has taken advantage oi | before, that the sergeant at-srms had beer l ordered to arrest the absent members | about 16O. and the presumption was tha, many of these members were present and would vote on the question. He asserted that a member could not vote while under arrest, but the speaker replied that ths sergeant at-arms had made no report to ths house and the house therefore had nc knowledge that any members were under arrest. MT. Reed thereupon as question of privilege desired that the sergeant- at arms be required to appear before the bar of the houee and report what he had done under the special order, but the speaker ruled that this was not question of priv. ilegs.
 MT. Reed moved to reconsider the vote by which the resolution ordering arrests was adopted last night, and after consider. ing the matter for some time and reading the authority which MT. Rsed sent up to the desk the speaker ruled that such c motion was in order and could be made.
 MT. Bland, dem, of Missouri, moved to lay this motion on the table, and on this the house divided, 121 to 8S
 Mir. Reed demanded the yeas and nays, and the roll was called.
 On the roll call Mr. Reeds motion was tabled, yeas 182, nays 30.
 At 1:20 o'clock MT. Bland moved that the house go into committee of the whole to consider the silver seigniorage bill, and MT. Tracey, dem, of New York, asked for adivision, which resulted as follows: Yeas 116 nays 60.
 MT Tracey made the point of no quorum, whereupon MT. Bland called for the yeas and nays. and the roll was called. It re suited: Yeas 167, nays 6.
 No quorum appearing, MT. Bland moved call of the house, which was agreed to-. On the yeas and nays several eastern and northern democrats remained silent or voted in the negative, while all the popu- lists and many of the western and north western republicans voted in the sffirma. tive.
 On the second roll call, when excuses were in order, MT. Shaw, rep, of Wiscon- sin, when the name Of his colleague, Mir. Bsbcock, was reached, asked that he bs sx cused.
 "On what excusea" asked MT. Livingston of Georgia.
 "On none at sll," replied MT. Shaw def- antly, "except that he is absent, and de. sire to have him excused"
 Some of the democrats showed signs of fighting, but finally concluded that 1t would be wiser not to press the matter to the point of division and yeas and nays, and all objection was withdrawn.
 Before the completion of the second roll call MT. Bland, having learned that 2lS members had answered to their names, moved to dispense with further proceed ings under the call. This was agreed to, and the question recurred on taking up the seigniorsgs bill and the roll was called. This disclosed the absence of a voting quo rum, the vote as announced being 1G5 10 6. MT. Bland moved call of the house, which was ordered.
 The call showing the presence of 259 members, Mir. Bland moved to dispense with further proceedings under it, but MT. Tracey, dem, of New York. continued ilibuetering, and called for division and then for the yeas and nays on this motion. The demand not being seconded by sufi cient number. was refused, ard MT. Cock not having seconded this requeet, 1t was also refused, and the speaker announced the motion to dispense with further pro- cseding under the call to have been carried. The question recurring on Mir. Bland's motion to go into the committee of the whole, the yeas and nays were demanded and the roll was called. On the last roll call the vote was: yeas, 177; nays, 4; and amid applause from the democrats the house went into committee of the whole to consider the Bland silver seigniorsge bill, with MT. Hatch, dem, of Missouri, in the chair.
 MT. Bland, in opening the debate, ex. plained the provisions of the bill. The ak v,roxfla1 he nt the seigniorage or gain on the coinage of ment under the silver purchase aot of July IA, 1890. As bullion will coin more dol lars than it costs, there is 8 gain going on constantly while silver Is being coined. Some men asserted that there could bs no seigniorsge until the whole amount of the bullion was coined; but neither the score l tary of the treasury nor he MT. Blsnd) held l this view. The bill provides for the issu ance of silver certificates and silver notei ! on the seigniorsge and the remaining silver bullion In the treasury, and that wher | these are redeemed by the silver dollars SC | coined, they shall not be reissued. The bullion was to be coined for redepp l ton of the certificates. The bill was not | to redeem the notes issued under th, | Sherman law, nor would 1t interfere witt l the redemption of theee notes. He though all the bullion in the treasury should b, coined. and as soon as the issued had beer redeemed they should not be reissued | when the silver dollars were once paid ou that ought to be the last of them.
 MT. Bland wss surrounded by the mem bers and was the target at which thei shafts were leveled, but without tskipi any effect upon him.
 At 4:45 he moved that the committe rise, which was agreed to. He then of fered resolution rescinding SO much o the order adopted yesterday ss require that the sergeant-at- arms should arrest an
 members who were absent without leave
 This was agreed to, after brief discus
 sion.
 Mir. Cookery, dem, of Missouri, in bt
 half of MT. DiDgley, rep, of Maine, froI
 the joint committee to inquire into th
 departments, ssked unanimous ooneent fo
 the immediate passage of the bill to regr
 late the making of property returns by tt
 offices of the government. The bill va
 agreed to.
 The house then adjourned.
 IN THE SENATE.
 The resolution heretofore offered by N
 Stewart, rep, of Nevads, declaring 1t to , the sense of the senate that the secretal