Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-12
IN CONGRESS.
The Regular Session Resumes Its
Lab0sS

"sSLlnSt0u. J;illbiry w hen the |
vice president raped the senate to
order at u o'clock today, hardly a
score OF senators Were III their seats. |
Among those who came in later We're
Senator Hill of New York, Voorhees,
of Indiana. Allison OF iowa, and Mills
of Texas.
Senator Blackburn presented the Gre
dentiais of Senator Eppa Hunton of
Virginia. elected te.serye out the term
TO which he had been appointed, and
the oath w3s administered to him.
Senator Frye Of Maine presented
resolution declaring that. in the opin-
ion Of the. senate. pending the investi-
CATION by the committee on foreign re-
lations OF our relations with Hawaii.
there should be no interference on the
part Of the, United States by moral
influences or physical force for the
restoration of Queen I.iliuokalani, or
the maintenance of the provisional gov
eminent of the Ha waiiin islands; anil
that our naval forces should be used
in the islands only for the protection
OF the lives and property of American
citizens. He asked that The resolution
lie upon the table and stated that he
would later ask it's reference to the
committee on foreign relations.
Senator Hull presented a biH limiting
the effect to the regulations OF com
merce between the several states and
with foreign countries.
At 12:40 the senate went into exc
cutiye session, and at the conclusion
thereof, at 1:23, adjourned
After prayer by the chaplain in the
house and the reading of the journal
the designations of Colonel Fellows and
Mr.. Fitch of New York We're read, and
the speaker also presented the creden-
tialS of Mr.. Adams of Pennsylvania,
who is elected to succeed the late Mr.
O'Neil1.
The fight then began. Mr. Boutelle of
Maine. on behalf of the republicans,
putting forward the Hawaiian matter,
to antagonlZe the tariff bill.
Mr.: McCreary, chairman of the for
eign affairs committee, sought to avoid
this by trying to make an arrangement
that Friday and Saturday of this
week should be set aside fer the con-
sideration of the resolution reported
by the foreign affairs committee in
lieu Of the Hit and Boutelle resolu-
tionS
Mr.. Hit, the head Of the minority
of the foreign affairs committee, was
on his feet, and as soon as Mr. Nc
Creary had made his proposition he
stated that inasmuch as this PROPOSE
ton gave the republicans substantially
what they desired, namely, Il time
fixed for debate OF the Hawaiian mat
ter, he would be glad to accept it.
At 1: 10 p. m. the democrats had fail
ed to muster quorum in the house,
and until one is procured the tariff de-
bate is blocked
Washington, Jan. 4. In the senate
today a resolution calling OH the secre-
tary Of the treasury for Il statement
of the sums paid to Mr.. Blount as com
missioner to Hawaii and the orders and
law under which such payment was
made was offered by Senator Hoar,
and on objection by Senator German
it went over without action.
Senator Gray gave notice that on
Tuesday he would move to proceed to
the considerable of the house bill to
repeal the federal election laws and
that he would ask to have it's con-
shall be reached.
At 1 p. m. the senate went into exc
cutive session and at ITO p. IN. adj
journed until Monday.
Immediately after the reading and
correction of the journal in the house,
Mr. McMillin (dem.), of Tennessee,
representing the element DESTROYS Of
taking up the tariff bill, demanded the
regular order. The speaker directed
the call Of committees for reports,
holding that Mr.. Boutelle's resolution
had lapsed with yesterdays adjourn
| ment. Mr.. Boutelle sought to renew
it, and the speaker promised to recog
nize him after the call. This formality
over, Mr.. ,Boutelle called up his resolu-
ton declaring against Intervention in
Hawaii, and Mr.. McMillin raised the
question of consideration, desiring to
take up the tariff bill The speaker
put the question and on standing
vote the house declined to take up Mr.
Boutelle's resolution. The vote stood
IS in the affirmative and 12S in the
negative. The yeas and nays were
then ordered.
Here was the opportunity Of the
republicans to test the strength of their
adversaries, and following up yester-
days tactics they sat mute. The result
was that the vote ON considering Mr.
Boutelle's resolution stood: Yeas, o.;
nays, 15O-no quorum, and at MI. Nc
Mullins request a call of the house was
ordered The call showed the presence
of 229 members, and again the yeas
and nays were called on Mr.. Boutelle's
motion to consider his resolution.
The rollcall resulted: Yeas, 4; nays,
100; again no quorum; but the point
was not made and the house at 1 40, on
motion of Mr. Wilson, democrat, of
West Virginia, adjourned,
Washington, Jan. 5.-There being no
session of the senate today all public
interest in congress was transferred
to the popular branch and there was
a large attendance in the galleries
when the house met. No sooner had
yesterdays journal been read than Mr..
Boutelle (rep.), of Maine, was on his
feet putting questions to the speaker
as to what haze cbdo eofmt,m ;. fiji I'll
as to what become of his privileged
resolution in relation to Hawaii. The
speakers replies We're not satisfactory
TO Mr.. Bouuelle, who continued to
press his point and was finally ignored