The Worthington advance., 1894-02-08
IN VlASHINGI
BiL LLi3.ls PASSED.
Democratic TarifY n14nsurs Now Goes t0
5S3as tiie Eenmt Z. aH ~ gesl88as

| Nh At6 O'clock Thurs day ght,I Mt the con-
3cl nsion Of one Of the grandest, most irn-
| posing and most imnressive scenes ever
Witnessed in the American capitol, the
| Wilson tariff billErassed the house Of rap-s
resentatiyes by 4 vote OF :,,o4 to 40 The
events leading up to it wore almost lnpar-
allelcd in our annals. At IL O'Clock, fter
preliminary skirmish OF an hour over the
barley schedule, the bill was ~ ported to
the house and the closing speeches were
made. XII II ~ # 538 81
Such vast concourse MS assembled to
hear the last arguments upon the great
economic issue about to be submitted for
dnal arbitrament to the representatives OF
been seen within tho precincts Of the ma
tion's legislative capitol. Nothing like II
was ever known In the history Of the old
stinhabitant OF the capital.
For hours before the debate began the
corridors leading to the galleries were 9
surging mass Of human nifty, which finally
became so great that men cried out in ter
ror and women tainted in fright. Il WINS
estimated that over 10000 persons at
tempted to gain admittance to the CALLER
les Of the house. Their seating capacity
Is about 5000, and every available seat
was occupied long before the gavel
dropped. The people were lined against
the walls and banked against thu doors;
SO great did the crush become that the
members Of the house secured permission
to bring their wives upon the floor.
4 Three hours Of debate preceded the vote
on the bill. Tho participants were OK
Speaker Reed, Speaker Crisp and Chair
man Wilson, Of the ways and means com
mittee a ,;ts tsss,
Whom sx-Speaker Reed, the republican
champion, sppesred IN the house his
friends on the floor and In the galleries
made such . demonstration IS IL witnessed
only at great political conventions upon
the occasion Of = party fsvorite's appear
ance upon the platform. .ss} This scene was
repeated on the democratic side whom
Speaker Crisp appeared, and finally when
Chairman Wilson arose to speak. g,(s III
The last amendment to be votsd upon
was that providing for the income tax,
Mr.. Cochran demanded the yeas and nays
upon this amendment Il was significant
that the republicans refused to second the
demand for. the yeas and nays, but enough
democratic arose (dfty-one) to order the
+roll-call. Il was then found that the in
come tax could not be voted upon as . sep
arate proposition, tho speaker deciding In
accordance with precedent, which he
cited, that the internal revenue amend
ment having been reported as single |
amendment could not be divided. The |
vote, therefore. was upon the entire re1ec- |
tion Of the internal revenue amendment
The repu blicans, with few exceptions,
refused to vote, but tho mendmcnt, In |
Guiding the income tax, was adopted -1sa
to 50. 4E 5is g s a 0 .5;.
Then came the Anal vote on the bill it.
sell, on which = yea and nay vote was
asked and granted BY y rising vote The
roll-call was watched with marked atten-
tton, and frequent burs IS of applause
greeted accessions TO one side. or the other.
Bsltxhoovsr Of Pennsy ylyania was the iarst \
70 win applause BY his yea vote. indicating I
that the Pennsy lvAnians were falling into
line. Immediately after this, Blanchard
Of Louisiana, was applauded as he voted
yea and showed that the Louisianan oppo-
sition to the bill was not in tact I
Z Mr.. Cockran's vote in favor of tho bill
brought out tumultuous cheering The
climax Of the demons tration was reached
when the name Of Mr.. Wilson, author of
the bill, was reached, the democrats cheer
Ing vociferously as fnal recognition of 4
his leadership. The speaker asked that
his name be called and he answered in the
Affirmative. Then the speaker announced:
ION this quest ton the yeas xre 2O4 and
The nays are 40 and tho bill is passed"
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