Evening star., 1894-04-12

voCed with the democrats in favor of the
demand
The announcement of the vote. l4l-1l.
showed that the democrats were 81 short of
a quorum.
On motion of Mr.. Catchings, a call of the
House was ordered.
Another Point of Order,
During the second call of the roll (the
call for eXcuses) the situation was further
complicated by an ingenious fli5ustering
expedient resorted to by Mr.. Reed When
the name of Mr.. Hull Qowa) was reached,
his colleague. Mr.. Gear. asked thai he be
excused on account of important business
Mr.. Reed objected, whereupon Mr. Gear
moved that he be excused Mr.. Catchings
made the point of order that the motion
could not be entertained.
Quite an elaborate discussion followed ON
the point of order.
Several precedents where such motions
to excuse were made during the second call
of the roll were cited from the record. and
the chair overruled the point of order
The motion being put to excuse Mr. Hull
1t resulted l2S-S. Thereupon, Mr.. Reed de-
manded tellers. and followed tellers with
the ayes and nays.
An Anomalous Situation.
At o'clock the situation in the House
was anomalous. Parliamentary speaking
1t was Tied in a double bow knot. During
the proceedings to determine who the alb
a
motion was entertained and a roll call was
had on a motion to excuse Mr.. Hull. This
motion could be followed by others Of the
same character until the names of all alb
sentees lover 100 in NUMBER were ex-
hausted. Each roll call consumes half an
hour, that the flibuster extended into
the indefinite future.
But, although it was competent OF the
House, parlian entarily speaking, to dis
pense with further proceedings under the
IN n IN
complete the call for excuses before reso-
luton looking to the arrest of absentees
could be presented. Moreover, the resolu-
ton to arrest the absentees on March 10
last was still in force, but the absentees
then were not the absentees Of today, moth
ing could tie accomplished under IL. The
situation was exceedingly complex, and
there is no prospect or possibility of solving
1t today.
The democrats, however, will stand fast
until the rule presented today is adopted.
THE SENATE.
Both sides OF the chamber showed a very
good attendance when the Senate met to-
day. During the transaction of the routine
morning business Senator Kyle of South
Dakota introduced a joint resolution pro-
posing a constitutional amendment relative
to marriage and divorce. which was re-
ferred to the committee on the judiciary
The Urgent Deficiency Bill.
The urgent deficiency bill was taken up
and the last para graph, to provide for uni
formity in the letting Of government con-
tracts for supplies at Washington gave rise
to considerable discussion, as did also the
paragraph for the printing of an abstract
of the eleventh census.
Mr.. Manderson moved to strike out the
clause, as he argued. that the abs tract would
be but duplication of the digest, already
ordered
The motion was agreed to- and the bill as
amended, was about to be put on its finai
passage when the hour of ] O'Clock arrived.
and the question went over. while the tarfff
bill was laid before he Senate.
Mr.. PETERS Third InstaIIment
Mr.. PETER was recognized, and delivered
the third installment of his speech on the
tariff bill.
He announced his purpose OF Offering at
the proper time. a substitute for the pend
ing bill based on the principle of taxing the
articles used by the rich, while eNempting
those articles of prime necessity used by the
poor; whether manufactured abroad or not
He would relieve the poor of all taxation
and put the tax upon articles used by the
rich. So the burdens of tariff taxation
would rest chiefly on those VINO were best
able to bear it.
merchant, he said, divided his stock
into two classes, one for the poor, composed
or common articles of home manufacture,
and another for the rich. composed of finer
goods of home and foreign manufacture.
his Dill was constructed on this principle.