The Bottineau pioneer., 1894-03-03
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF PNOSEEDINGS OF TAa
SENATE AND HOUSE.

RESUME OF PKOsEEDINGs OF TIiR
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record OF the Important
Transnctions Of Our National Law
makersAThe Work Done I'm Both
Branches.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE senate ad-
journed after spending the better part of
two days considering the nomination of
w. H. Peckhnm of New York to be as
sociate justice of the supreme court The
nomination was rejected by vote of ~
to Al. The vote in detail was as follows:
Ayes-Bate, Blackburn, Brice, Butler,
Caffery, Dixon, Faulkner, George. Gray,
Hale, Harris, Hunton, Kyle, Lindsay.
Mcpherson, Martin, Mills, Mitchell (Or.),
Mitchell (Wis), Palmer, l'asco, Petit
Squire, Stockbridge, Turpie, Villas, Voor-
hees, White Ga.)-32.
Nays - Aldrich. Allen, Allison, Berry,
Call, Cameron, Carey, Chandler, Cock
rell, Coke. Cullom, Daniel, Davis, Dolph,
Frye, Gallinger, Gibson, German, Hans
brough, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar,
1rby, Jones (Ark.), Lodge, McLaurin,
Manderson, Morrill,, Murphy, PETER,
Perkins, Power, Pugh, Shoup, Stewart,
Teller, Vest, Washburn, White (Cal.),
Wilson-41.
Paired for Peckham-Camden,G Gordon,
McMillin, Martin, Morgan-5.
Paired Against Pcckham - Dubois,
Jones New, Quay, Vance, Wollcott-5.
Absent Without airs-Colquitt and
Sherman.
Senator Colquitt released Senator Will
son, who voted against confirmation, and
Senator Sherman released Senator Brice,
who voted for confirmation.
ecapitulaticn-For confirmation, Dem
ocrats, %; Republicans, 8: Populists, j.
-. Against confirmation, Democrats, Is;
Republicans, %; Populists, 3-41. Paired
for confirmation, Democrats, 4; Repub-
licars, Is. Paired against confirmation,
It,noc, ats, 4; Republicans, 4-5. Absent
and impaired, Democrats, /; Republicans,
L.
Mr.. Bland began his coercive tactics to
compel vote on the silver seigniorage
bill The bulk of the Republicans and
.ure inaugurated a flibuster with the in
tenticn of forcing him to produce a
quorum of the advocates of the bill to
pass it, and the entire day was consumed
in roll calls. The highest number of
votes Mr.. Bland was able to poll was
163 in favor of his demand for the pre-
vious Question on the motion to close de-
bate. OF these 145 were Democrats, 8
Populists and 8 Republicans. Mr.. Page
\R. ~ and Mr.. Ryan IN. W refused to
join the filibuster, but voted against the
motion. The Republicans who voted with
Mr.. Bland are as follows: Bowers (Cal.),
Broderick, Doolittle, Funston, Marshal,
Hermann, Post and Sweet. Mr. Bland
abandoned any further attempt to secure
q quorum, and the house passed a reso-
luton instructing the sergeant-at-arms to
telegraph for absentees.
Washington, Feb. 19.-The Democratic
members of the senate committe on
finarce have decided that they will not
be able to report the tariff bill to the
full committee on Tuesday next, as they
had announced they would be, and one
of the members of the subcommitte which
has had the bill under consideration said
to-day that he would not attempt to say
when the bill could be reported. Il shall
be very well satisfied" he said, IF the
bill is in shape to be reported by the
beginning of next week." The reason for
the postponement is discovered in the fact
that the work of satisfying Democratic
senators has been found very difficult
one, and the construction of a bill that
is sure to be accepted by them, the un-
dertaking requiring many changes of pur-
pose and alterations oft he figures as
first made. When the subcommittee be.
gan their work they had before them the
draft of bill upon which it was believed
it would be an easy matter to secure
agreement, but this bill has been changed
in some respects several times and has
become so worn from handling and eras-
ures that it has become necessary to
destroy the original copy and replace it
with new Que. There is still much de-
mand for concessions on the part of
senators on minor items, and many of the
most important features in the bill are
unacted upon. Sugar is included in this
list and it looks as if its fate would be
about the last question to be determined
by the subcommittee.
The fight over the silver seigniorage
bill was resumed in the house to-day,
and Mr.. Bland is confident that there
will be quorum on hand to order the
previous question tomorrow. Once the
necessary quorum is obtained, and that
is only a question of time, as the oppo-
ntnts of the measure have practically
abandoned hope of defeating the bill, it
will be brought to vote if need be by
a special order from the committee OH
rules, the speaker having promised a
special rule if the emergency demands it.
Minor matters occupied the attention
of the senate to-day. Senators Daniel,
Caffery and White of California have
notice of speeches on the Hawaiian reso-
luton for this week, and it is probable
that other senator's will speak upon the
subject before next Saturday.
Washington, Feb. 2O.-The president
to-day seEt to the senate the nomination
of Senator Edward D. White of Louisi-
ana to be an associate justice of the
Urited States supreme court, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Justice
Blatchford. The senate had hardly time
TO recover from the surprise which the
cmination had caused when the con-
frmation was announced. While months
had been spent in consideration of the
nominations of Messrs. Hornblower and
Peckham, and much time devoted to
them by tile senate committee on ju-
dietary, the name of Mr.. White was not
referred to the committee at all, and in
less than an hour after the nomination
had been received the senate had placed
it's seal of approval upon the selection
and robbed itself of an esteemed member
and had given the supreme court the one
man necessary to make full bench.
Edward Douglas White will take his seat
on the supreme bench as the youngest
of the justices, and with the exception
of Justices Field and Harlan, he will
have entered at an earlier period in life
ttan any of the other justices, and will
have the exceptionally long term of twen-
ty-one years to serve before retirement.