Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-01
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington. Feb. 21-Mr. Bland
again failed to secure. 4 quorum today,
and after hours of frJitless roll calls
the house adjourned. The highest
number of votes pOlled Was 170-nine
snort OF a quorum.
In the senate, after some routine
business, Mr.. Voorhees,, chairman Of
the committee on finance, rising to Il
question OF privilege, denied in the
n0St positive manner a statement
made in the Philadelphia dispatches of
the Philadelphia Press as to the action
OF the democratic members of the
committee, who are represented as
having gone to the white house and
consulted with the president as to GER
tain items in the BILL He declared that
there was not the slightest, faintest
trace of truth in a single word or
syllable in it.
| lie was asked by Mr. Chandler as
to, the composition OF the finance com-
mittee, whether Mr.: Mills, Of Texas, OF
MI. Mcpherson, of New Jersey, was a
member of it, whether both we're mem
bers.
Nh. Chandler was Informed that he
could get the information he sought
from the record, and he should not be
''speaPing' as to what the committee
were doing. The senator from Texas,
Mr.. voorhees, said. was doing magnifi-
cent work, and was one of the main
stays of the committee. He did not
know what the senator from New
Hampshire was after.
| Mr.. Sherman, republican, Of Ohio,
one of the members of the finance com
mittee, declared that the tariff bill as
it came from the house had never been
before the committee proper, and that
no republican members of that COM
mittee had been called into eonsulta-
| ton.
Mr. Platt, OF Connecticut, insisted
upon the right of the senate to know
which Of those two senators was
member of the committee on finance
and acting On the subcommittee. He
was informed by Mr.. Vest, democrat,
of Missouri, that there never had been
a subcommittee ON the tariff, and that
the statement had grown out of the
active Imagination which characterized
the modern newspaper reporter.
! The discussion continued at con-
! siderable length and at times assumed
a character of sharp personal animos-
/ ity between Senators Chandler and
/ Vest. Senators Mills and Mcpherson
also stated their relative positions in
connection with the subcommittee on
| the tariff. The discussion closed at
2:25, and Mr.. White, democrat, of
/ California, began to address the SEN
/ ate on the subject Of the Hawaiian an
| neXation.
/ Washington, Feb. 26.-Today in the
i house, Mr.. Hatch moved that his anti
/ option bill be taken from the ways and
means committee and referred to the
/ agricultural committee. His purpose
was to Insure an early favorable re
/ port. After some debate the motion
was carried. 50 to 81.
! Bland being unable to secure a quo
rum concluded to allow the debate on
/ the bill to proceed, at the same time
declaring that he would return to the
assault tomorrow
/ Two sensational speeches followed,
! one by Mr.. Pence, of Colorado who
/ denounced the republican for submit
ting to the crack of eX-Speaker Reeds
whip, and warned him that if the
| election of president is thrown into
the house in 1896 he will rue his fill
clustering course The other was by
Mr.. Fithian, who condemned in the
! severest terms the action of his demo
cratic collea CUES for taking part in
the filibuster.
The remainder of the entire session
was characterized by stormy squabbles
and Mr.. Pence was finally called down
for his rash language and manners.
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