The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-02-08
WILSON BILL PASSED.
MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS IN
LINE ON FINAL VOTE,


LINE ON FINAL VOTE,
Only Seventeen Standing Out Against the
Party Measure = The Income Tax
Amendment Adopted. Wool Schedule
Goes Into Effect Dec. 2. The Closing
Debate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. AT 6 o'clock
last night, at the conclusion of one of
the grandest, most imposing and most
impressive scenes ever witnessed in the
American Capitol, the Wilson tariff bill
passed the house of representatives by
vote of 2O4 to 14O. The events leading
up to it were almost unparalleled in our
annals. At IL o'clock, after prelimin-
airy skirmish of an hour over the barley
schedule, the bill was reported to the
house and the closing speeches were
made. Such vast concourse of people
as assembled to hear these last argu-
ments upon the great economic issue
about to be submitted for final arbitra-
ment to the representatives of the Amer
lean people, had never before been seen
within the precincts of the nations leg
islative Capitol. Nothing like it was
ever known in the history of the Oldest
tnhabitant of the capital. For hours
before the debate began the corridors
leading to the galleries were
Surging Mass of Humanity
which finally became so great that men
cried out in terror and women tainted
in fright. It is estimated that over 90
600 attempted to gain admittance to the
galleries of the house during the day.
Their seating capacity is 5000 and every
available seat was occupied long before
the gavel dropped. The people were
lined against the walls and banked
against the doors, and SO great did the
crush become that the members of the
house secured permission to bring their
wives upon the floor.
Shortly after the house convened at IL
o'clock, the crowd in the immense gal
lery on the north side of the chamber
became so great that there was immi-
would be pressed over the railing into
the house below. Those in the CORR
doris kept crushing into the doorways,
and those still further back pressed for
ward until the stairs and aisles of the
= galleries
Were Literally Packed
with mob of restless, impatient men.
The crowding at the doors continued
until Speaker Crisp, who had been ner-
vously noting the dangerous packing of
people, interrupted the roll call long
enough to say that it was in the interest
of safety to human life that the door
way should be cleared. He asked the
b, doorkeeper of the gallery to clear out
some of those who stood in the entrances,
90 as to make those already inside as
comfortable as possible without being in
danger. It was next to impossible.
however, to at once execute this order,
as there was absolutely no room for the
ejectment of those who had found en-
trance into the aisles, but the policemen
kept pressing back the people until they
had materially reduced the danger that
was ~ very oPP0AeAS.
Reed Opens the Debate.
When Mr.. Reed, the first speaker,
arose at last to deliver the final plea for
protection. the overhanging galleries
were black and dense with tho specta-
tors who thronged them. Every inch of
space upon the floor was taken. Only
10 members of the house were absent.
Many grave and reverend senators and
other distinguished personages were on
the floor, and in the galleries were Mrs.
Cleveland, Mrs. Stevenson and other
ladies of eminence and distinction.
Then for three hours the oratory of the
champions of the two economic systems
followed-Reed, Crisp and Wilson
while their partisans made the air vocal
with their shouts of approval. The vote
on the final passage of the bill was a
surprise. Amid the most intense en-
thusiasm, Democrat after Democrat
who had been counted upon to vote
against the measure
Recorded Their Votes
in the affirmative. Only Y Democrats
of all the boosted Democratic opposition
to the measure stood out to the end and
voted against it. AS each one cast his
vote it was greeted with applause and
cheers on the Republican side. Those
who vote against it were Bartlett, Camp
bell, Covert, Cummings, Haines, Hen
dirk, Schermerhorn and Sickles of New
York, Cadmus Of New Jersey, Sperry
and Page of Connecticut, Geary of Cali
fornia, Sibley of Pennsylvania and De
vey, Meyer, Price and Robertson of
Louisiana. The majority for the bill,
"a, exceeded the most sanguine expecta-
tons of the ways and means committee.
When the speaker announced the vote,
cheer followed cheer upon the Demo.
cratic side. Papers, hats, congressional
records, and in fact everything which
Democrats could lay their hands upon
were flung in the air, and amid a per-
feet pandemonium of joy the house ad-
journed.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Wilson's re-
marks, the speaker announced that there