Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-26
WORK OF CONGRESS
or PROCEEDINGS OF TIM
6I SENATE AND HOUSE.
.r.ed Record of the Iraportant
S-....ctions of N National Law
'n.r.-The Work Done I'm Both
branches.

Branche"
uosh;nrton, April 1S.-There was a
,oroa attendance on both sides of the
'e' hen il met to-day, in anticip ttion
heu 10 fight over the adoption of the
o. ouorum-countihg rule. and the gal
new were also unusually well filled.
INF . single preliminary the house
:, nged into the contest. In order to pre-
PIT Pm, parliamentary complications Mr..
"a. b;pcs, from the committee on rules.
.aonrrj recognition before the journal
~ ,oad. and, alter withdrawing the
- ,.ported from that committee last
~" ,saav, he Immediately presented the
-. agreed upon just before the house
TIL nod The report was read from the
.,a,L,s desk. and was as follows.
"a mend rule Is, by inserting between
..aos / and 9 the following as clause =,
saS change the number of clause = to
.,Inon every roll call, and before the
i, ming thereof, the speaker shall came
20 ,oamhers. one from each side of the
.ona;ne o~nestion if practicable. who shall
p,La their places at the clerks desk, to
| toll the names OF at least enough men,
,ars who are in the hall of the house
drrinr the roll call, who do not respond
whom added to those responding to make
: ouorum. When a quorum does not re-
snond upon a roll call, then the names of
4 those SO noted at present shan be re-
.orted 70 the speaker, who shall call the
&ist 70 be filed the the clerks desk and
accorded in the journal, and determining
Me PRESENCE Of a quorum to do business,
,hcsa who voted, those who answered As
,r,spnt aad those so reported as present
tbou he considered. Members noted VIII I'll
tbeir names were called, RECORD their
,otps. potwithstandinsQA5e provisions of
rlause ! of this rule.
amend clause l, of rule s, by adding
his to the following words: And on a
FoIl call should he not vote he shall
answer 'pr, sent" so as 10 read every
men Der SD; II be present within the hall
the house during its Sittings unless
fu, sed or recessarily prevent I'd, and
khal vote on such question put unless
E has a direct personal or p~ecuniary in
kprest in the event of such question, and
In a roll call should ne ! OF vote he shall
RnSwer present.
A long discussion followed regarding
&he time to be allowed for debate, the
Democratic opponents of the new rule
kantfng at Least a day. The Republican
aders, Reed and Burr rvs, took no part
the discussion. 1t was finally decided
limit the debate to two hours for zach
de. Later. however, Mr.. Wells was H.
Eced to withdraw his opposition to la
nous consent. After the expiration CT
be time allowed for debate a vote was
ker which resulted in the quorum
uniting rule being adopted by the house
a vote of 212 to AZ, the Republicans
bling for it.
4The Republicans all voted for it and it
IS ad~opted-212 to Al. The Democrats
! DO voted against it were as follows:
|. Abbott. Btrnes. Black (Ga.), Bland,
lekinridge Ky.l, Bryan, Bynum, Cape
! 1T, Causey, Cobb (A!a.), Conn, Cooper
! ex.l Covert, Cummings, Dunn, D. IT,
7 |, row, English IN. j., Epes, Goldscn,
y fady, Hall (Minn.l, Hines, Holman.
! rnter, Kilgore, Lane, Lapham, Leste-,
& Rlory, Martin Qnd.), McAleer, Nc
!. PIG, McMilin, Reilly, Russell GA,
\. sn, Stevers, Talbot (Md.), Tracey,
= !. Ener GA, Warner, Wells, Wheeler
y |as Whiting, Williams Qll.), Williams
lss.l, Wise-47.
y IT, Reed was Immediately surrounded
a. his party friends and given an ovd-
w. Some of the Democrats got up a
'4 nter demonstration over Mr.. Catch
Joy ne senate resumed consideration of the
o. 4 OIL. 1t was agreed that next week
OBJ |cte will be taken on the time when
le oil will come up for passage.
ashington, April 19.-Mr. BANDS
ID page committee met to-day for the
uine since the seigniorage bill strug-
ns ana was treated to a genuine sur
0 n1 = representative Meyer of Louisiana
st present to urge his bill for coming
Of " seigniorage, and for low interest
ccOEj In doing SO he stated authori-
Vey that the measure had the ap-
ensd al, and was in part suggested by
0 gu vary Carlisle, and in the judgement
a aa ~ secretary would be signed by the
IRE d 1oehf. To this extent the bill was
SOS n rueu as an administration one, and
n n ausiactorily overcoming the objec-
rbad o. Mr.. Cleveland's veto of the
ahd n OIL. The bill, Mr.. Meyer explained,
~ Id Meu ior coming the seigniorage, but
n ppended the resumption that 3 per
,ola oVnds would in future be issued in
fr5 " the liz and 5 per cent bonds.
I, pn ] mousse to-day resumed consideration
"a : q, consular and diplomatic %appropria-
..r,s wi The excitement of the past
cens Gays has subsidies.
,,sss ue senate MIR. Morrill, delivered a
ON ! IN opposition to the tariff bill.
~ Euahoer II. w. Dickens, United
h w. navy, who attended the duke of
~ s4a at the representative of this
y Shen that nobleman visited the
iair last year, was granted per-
OF ~ 70 accept the decoration of the
3 IN ~ naval Merit, Of the third class,
-vclupj Tue king of Spain.
was
yer 81 !,
Of q Mngton, April 20.-The house is
: very slow progress with the dip
gropI and consular appropriation bill.
peacg1 ue entire time was devoted to
roprry (;;as over the old straw in the
occur s"s controversy. The text used as
at sD ~ the debate--a motion to cut
red AL saiary OF the Hawaiian minister
,oks \, suea when the vote was taken
u'ision. About 4 o'clock half
.aoeishir of the house suddenly
emass0 81 u q 10 attend the opening ball
|ad s Me season, and when this was