Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-12
IN CONGRESS.
Condensed Report of the Weeks Proceed
inEs an the Senate and House.

tn&S IN the senate and House.
SATURDAY.
WASHINGTON, April a-The senate
was not In session on Saturday.
When the house met Speaker Crisp
was again greeted with applause at his
declining the Office of United States
senator to which the governor of
Georgia had appointed him The
struggle over the O'Neill-Joy contest
was not resumed IN the house. Several
unimportant bills were passed and the
remainder ofothe session was given to
euiogies upon the late Representative
O'Neil. of Pennsylvania, and the house
adjourned
MONDAY
WASHINGTON, April 8.-After the
disposal of routine business in the sem
ate yesterday. the tariff bill was taken
up and made unfinished business Mr..
Voorhees, opened the debate in favor OF
the bill and spoke for two hours, at
the conclusion of which the senate
went into executive session and then
adjourned.
The house was engaged all day in
| another futile attempt to secure q quo
rum in the O'Neill-Joy contest Fill
clustering was resorted to and MIR.
O'Neill's friends announced that the
case would be kept before the house
| until disposed of. The house adjourned
without doing any business Ten dem
| ocrats persistently voted against
O'Neill all day, three being from his
! own state.
TUESDAY.
WASHINGTON, April AIN the senate
yesterday Mr.. PETERS resolution direct
ing the finance committee to prepare
| bill for the repeal of all laws which
give the secretary of the treasury the
power to issue bonds went over. and
the bill to give effect to the award of
the Paris tribunal on the Behring sea
| question passed. The tariff bill was
then taken up and Senator Allison
spoke in opposition. After an executive
session the senate adjourned.
The deadlock in the house in the
| O'Neill-Joy contest was broken by the
| democrats securing quorum and seat
ing ONeill by vote of 155 to %, the
repu refusing to vote and nine
democrats voting against him After
Mr.. O'Nein was sworn in the English.
Hilmon contest was taken up. but the
quorum disappeared and the house adj
| journed without final action.
WEDNESDAY.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-After the
| presenta ton of petitions and the trans.
action of minor routine business in the
senate yesterday lively debate was
precipitated by the presentation of
memorial from the Philadelphia board
of trade praying for adequate duties
on sugar The tariff debate was then
resumed and Mr.. Allison closed his
speech in, opposition to the pending
bill Mr.. Mills followed in favor of the
| Ill Il Al
| not such as ne desired.
Ii the house the English-Hilborn
contest again came up and filibustering
commenced, but finally the resolution
seating English was adopted and the
| contestant was sworn in, II democrats
and poEalists voting against the I'M
seating of Hilborn. Then the question
came up of passing the seigniorage bill
over the presidents veto. and while
| the opponents of the bill were earnestly
discussing the manner of proceeding in
! debate that was expected the confusion
! was so great that no one addressed the
! speaker and Mr.. Bland announced that
he was willing to take vote. The
! speaker ordered the roll call and shut
/ out all efforts to debate the question,
/ and amid great confusion the roll was
called and the veto sustained, the
measure being "a votes short of the
necessary two-thirds. The house then
] adjourned
| THURSDAY.
| WASHINGTON, April Elm the senate
yesterday Mr.. George Miss }, introduced
a resolution which recited the de-
pressed condition of the country, the
increased value of money and low price
| of agricultural products and directed
the judiciary committee to introduce a
| bill reducing all official incomes 20 per
cent not protected by statutes The
resolution was referred. After dis
! cussing the Russian thistle bill for a
time the tariff debate was resumed,
but the senate cut off proceedings by
going inro executive session.
| The house refused to accept the SEN
ate amendment to the bill requiring
railroads in Oklahoma to esta blish sta
tions at government townsites- The
senate bill to give effect to the Paris
award in the Behring sea case was
passed The house then took up ap-
propriati ton bills in committee of the
, whole.
FRIDAY.
| WASHINGTON, April THE usual
mastery inactivity" characterized
the proceedings of the senate yester-
| day. When that body met a quorum
was not present The tariff bill was
taken up at 2 o'clock. and Senator PEI
fer commenced his speech. After
speaking two hours it was discovered
that only a 'corporars guard was
present and Mr.. PETER suspended his
speech until next meeting. Then it
was discovered that the tariff bill had
never been read in full and a motion to
have it read resulted in 6libustering
and the senate adjourned.
A lively tilt took place in the house
between Mr.. O'Neill (Mo.)-who had
been seated day or two before in
| place of Mr.. Joy-and Mr. Morgan
| (Mo). Mr.. O'Neill read newspaper
interv .ew in which Mr.. Morgan gave
his reasons for voting against the seat
ing of O'Neil1, that there had been
some kind of an agreement between
| the parties, which Mr.. O'Neill denied.
Mr. Morgan retorted sharply, and said
he had hoped mir ONein would be
content with devoting himself to the
duties Mr.. Joy was elected to dis
charge" The house then considered
the post office bill until recess, and in