The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-03-02
CONGRESSIONAL
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
Given

Given
The session OF the senate on tho 20th was oi
little interest Senator Daniel concluded his
speech on the Hawaiian matter. A sQuabble
ensued on the question as to who should read
Washingtons address on the anniversary oi
the birth OF Washing ton. and the selection was
left 10 the president of the senate Pending
consideration OF the bill to provide more &C.
commodation for the government printing OF.
nee the senate adjourned. -. The deadlock In
the house on the Bland seigniorage bill was
continued all day and an adjournment finally
took place without breaking it
For two hours on the 2ist the senate WAS en-
gagged in an acrimonious discussion, brought on
incidentally by the tariff question Senator
voorhees,. on question Of privilege. denied
certain newspaper reports, and Senator Chand-
Ter made an inquiry which proved to be tho
spark in keg OF powder. For the time being
senatorial courtesy was ignor and Messrs
Vest Voorhees, and Chandler fired hot shot Just
as ordinary mortals would do or have done
The fuss was over q newspaper report that tho
committee having the tariff bill in charge Was
under the influence OF the president Senator
White Call then addressed the senate on the
Hawaiian matter. in which he severely criti-
cised the conduct of Minister Stevens Sena.
tor Teller replied and the senate adjourned. -.
The time Of the house was occupied in futile
attempts to consider the Bland seigniorage
Dill, but the flibusterers defeated all the ef-
forts to do so A motion that the house sd.
1ourn until Friday CThurs sday being Washing
tons birthday brought out the remark by Mr..
Bland tRat If the democratic party cannot
do business it had better not fritter awav tta
time on holidays" Adjourned until morning.
THERE was n slim attendance when the sem
ate met on the ed Senator Martin (lan) Of.
fered o resolution instructing the finance com.
mittee to prepare bill for free coinage Of silver
ut l6 to l. He also offered a resolution for the
election OF United States senators by the poo
nln ahs g.,
read by Senator Martin Adjourned until
Monday. -. The deadlock on the Bland bill in
the house and the arrest Of several members,
notably MessrS- Cummings and Sickles, of
New York, precipitated rumpus that lasted
until adjournment and the anniversary of
Wash1ngton's birthday was passed In a bitter
quarrel, and amid disorder the house adjourned.
THE senate was not in session on the Esd 49,.
The house met with the tangle OF tho past few
days as bad as ever. A number Of members
were still under arrest and the fight over tho
regularity OF the warrants for arrest was re-
sumed and the speeches were very bitter, es-
pecially that Of Mr.. Bland who declared the
structionists to be no better than anarchists
and revolutionists- Finally Mr.. Bland offered
a resolution dn order to strafghten the tangled
that all members under arrest be released
The resolution carried and the doors Of the bas-
tile were thrown open. Pending the effort to
secure quorum on the seigniorage bill the
house took a recess An evening session was
held but no business transacted
THE senate was not in session on the 24th. ....
The house continued in the deadlock on the
seigniorage bill ana after a brief session and q
failure to secure a quorum adjourned until
Monday, having squandered the whole week in
Efforts to secure the requisite quorum to trans
act business
THE senate held a brief session on the goth.
letter from the secretary Of the treasury to
the Encouragement was read as to whether
silver certificates were 'lawful money" and
the reply OF the attorney general. giving a
negative opinion Mr.. Morgan, chairman OF
the committee on foreign relations. made an
announcement Of the report of the committee
relative to Hawaiian affairs The senate
passed the joint resolution providing for the
appointment of q commission to the Antwerp
international exposition and then went into
executive session. Soon after the house met
Mr.. Bland seeing trat he could not secure q
quorum and limit debate on his scigniorage
bill, concluded to allow the debate on
the bill to proceed ut the same time declaring
that he would return to the assault. Two sen.
sational speeches followed, one by Mr.. Pence
(CoL), who denounced the republicans for sub
mitting to the crack OF ex-Speaker Reeds
whip and warned him IL the election Of presi-
dent was thrown into the house in 1895 he
would rue his filibusterpg course, and the
other by Mr. Fithian QIL), who condemned In
the severest terms the action OF his democratic
colleagues who were taking part in the fill
buster. The debate throughout was exciting
the house being in committee Of the whole, and
the house adjourned in anything but q good
humor