Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-02-07


/ WASHINGTON. Feb The Wilson
/ tariff was adopted in the house 10y "A
! vote OF 2O3 TO l4O Thursday afternoon.
VI the lao votes east in the negative Il
We're those of discontented democrats
Mr.. Moses Stevens. the Massachusetts
member of the ways and means com
m'ttee' refrained from voting. His
democratic colleagues are white-hot
with Indignation ut what they style
his cowardly dodging. There is no
parallel case recalled of the refusal of
a majority member of the ways and
means committee to vote for or against
a bill which he helped TO frame
4 The other member who is most
roundly abused by the ways and means
committeeman for his vote, is Mr.
Greary. of California. who voted
against the bill because certain amend
ments affecting local interest were
not adopted.
Inc committeeman threaten that they
VIII make both men pay for their
treachery Mr.. Stevens is ambitious 10
be chairman of the democratic congress
sional committee Mr.. Gray cherishes
| guhernatorial ambitions
| ~ HuaA Notc WAS begun at o.fu
o'clock. The income tax had been
adopted rs an amendment by a second
vote of ls2 TO 80. the majority OF the re-
pubhcans refraining from voting
The voting seemed a highly en-.
| Joyable occasion. Those democrats
who, after much protesting that
they would never vote for the
bill, surrendered at he crucial
moment and meekly bowed 10 the
party club, had the blow smothered in
the loud plaudits Of their colleagues.
Mr.. Bourkc Cockraps surrender gave
him an ovation. Democrats on the
floor of the galleries hurrahcd and a,a,
plauded when the distinguished New
Yorker, half unwillingly vet firmly,
called out Aye" 10 the bill whose in
come tan feature he had denounced So
bitterly.
When the bounding Mr. Springer
voted loud, resembling AYE" the
galleries, in merry mood. applaudcd
him At this MIR. Springer bowed
which moved Mr.. Reed 10 start anew a
round of sarcastic applause. Not only
the entire nation. but all of the civil
lied world was the audience to- which
the three great speeches, which marked
the close Thursday of the tariff debate
in the house, were addressed. II was
this fact. the Importance Of the issue
the ability and reputa ton OF the con.
testants and the sense that il was the
elimination Of one step toward the
democratic policy of making present
OF the richest market in the world to
foreign nations that caused the house
wing of the capitol to be the center
Thursday toward which every person
in Washington who could possibly do
SO bent their steps
Never, even at the time OF an inaugu-
ration, when every square inch of avail
able space in the senate chamber is oc-
cupied, has there been greater press
ure TO secure sight and hearing of an
event in either hall of congress
by common consent the rule forbid
ding the presence on the floor OF per
sons not members was ignored. and the
wives and families Of congressman were
admitted To the space in tho rear OF
the railing which surrounds the desks,
and afterwards even TO the seats OF
the members themselves. The result
was that the house soon presented a
unique appearance, the gay costumes
of the ladies being interspersed with
the conventional black attire of the
statesmen.
Upon the floor thus covered from
wall TO wall with eager spectators and
not less animated members, there
looked down from the galleries banks
of people pressed tightly together, all
waiting impatiently for the final duel
of the great tariff battle in the house
to begin. Even the diplomatic gallery
was filed TO its utmost capacity with
ladies and representatives, of other gov.
| ernmentS
Mrs. Cleveland witnessed the passage
of the Mills bill by the house in 1883.
but Thursday there was no member OF
the presidents family present