The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
Anxious and ArduOuS LabOTS Of That
Body Yesterday.


ries During the Voting-Details of
the Days Proceedings.
Washington, Aug. l1.-To-day's pro-
/ ceedings in the Senate were of most in
teresting and exciting character, involv-
ing as they did, the success or defeat of
all the tariff work of the session; and it
was only by the casting vote of the Vice
| President that the Democratic party was
saved from bad repulse, if not COM
plete overthrow. The day began with a
/ debate upon the resolution offered on
Friday by Mr.. Hill, iustructing the SEN
ate conforees on the tariff bill to report
whether the conferees of the two houses
were likely tot agree, and if not to re-
| port disagreement.
A SIGNIFICANT STEP.
Senator Hill modified his resolution by
inserting an additional cluase requiring
the bill to be handed to the secretary of
the Senate for such action as the Senate
might desire TO take upon it. The
significance Of this clause was that If the
bill were so delivered to the Senate the
House could not have the chance (Which
has been rumored as one of the possibili-
ties of the occasion) to agree to all the
Senate amendments, and thus have the
bill sent to the President without further
action on the part of the Senate.
TWO HOURS DEBATE.
The debate for nearly two hours was
directed to that phase of the question.
At last action was precipitated by mo-
tion made by Senator Cockrell to proceed
| to the consideration of executive business.
! That motion was justly regarded by Mr.
! Hill as hostile to his proposition, and he
| promptly demanded the yeas and
nays. These were taken and
were watched with the most
! intense interest and excitement by
! senator's of all parties, and by al immense
| crowd of spectators in the gallery. The
| result was announced as yeas 30, nays 80,
! and the Vice President promptly gave
| his vote in the affirmative, thus defeat
| ing the Hill resolution for the time being
/ 1t has now gone to the calendar, whence
1t can only be taken by 2 majority vote,
! although similar resolution may be
! offered at any time.
DETAILS OF THE VOTE,
Besides the seventy senator's who
voted there We're fourteen paired-the
only senator left unaccounted for being
Mr. Stewart, pop, of Nevada, who was
| present but maintained position of
strict neutrality. The three other popu-
/ list senators, Messrs. Allen, kyle and
| PETER, with democratic Senators .HilLand
| Murphy, voted with the republicans. All
the other democratic senators remained
| true to their party fealty.
The most intense interest and excite
ment prevailed on the floor and in the
! galleries as the vote progressed. When n
/ pair was announced between Senators
/ Troy and Wilson, rep, of Iowa. Mr.. Hill
| appeared to doubt the detection of his
! supposed ally and demanded the au-
! thority for pairing him with republican.
The authority was soon forthcoming
Mr.. Jones, dem, of Arkansas produced
and read two kilograms, which he had
| received from Irby, saving "P lease ar
range pair for me in favor of the bill -
and the other saying: pair me in favor of
the free sugar proposition, If that comes
/ up in the Senate"
| The roll was finally completed, and the
result figured up. 1t was announced by
| the Vice President In these words:
ION agreeing to the motion to proceed
| to the consideration Of executive business
the yeas are 35 and the nays are 35. Tho
! Senate is equally divided. The Vice
! President voted aye. "
THE TENSION RELIEVED.
! That announcement relieved the ex-
| treme tension which had seized upon
| senators aud spectators. The Vice Presi-
/ dent directed the galleries to be cleared
and the doors to be closed and thus
| ended an incident which had threatened
to bring to naught the whole tariff work
of the session.
The following is the vote in detail;
Yeas -Messrs. Berry. Blackburn, Blanch-
ard, Brlce, Canery, Calls Camden, Cockrell
| Coke Faulkner, George, Gibson, Gordon
| German, Gray, Harris, Jarvis, Jones OF Ar
| kansas, Lindsay. McLaurin. Martin, Mills,
| Mitchell OF Wisconsin Palmer, Pasco, Pugh
Ransom, Roach, smith. Turpie, Vest Villas
| Walsh, Whites
Nays Messrs. Aldrich, Allen. Allison
/ Carey. Chandler Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolph
! Dubois, Frye, Gallinger, Hale, eHansbrough,
| Hawley Higgins, Hin. Hoar. Jones OF Nevada
| Kyle, Lodge, Mcmillan, Henderson, Mitchell
Of oregon, Murphy. Patton, PETER, Perkins,
! Pettlgrew Power, Proctor, Sherman, Shoup,
Teller, Washburn-35.
The following senators were paired:
Messrs. Butler aud Cameron, Irby and
Wilson, HuntOu and Platt, Morgan and
Quay, Mcpherson and Morrill,, voorhees,
and Wolcott, Daniel and Squire. Mr..
Stewart sat mute.
The executive session was brief, and
the Senate, at2;l0 o'clock, adjourned until
Monday
THE RESOLUTION AS MODIFIED.
MI. I1lll EthOluLlOu dtbcE lLS uuhl
modification reads as follows
That the conferees on the part OF the Sen.
ate, who are now considering the differences
between the two houses on the tariff bill, re-
port TO the Senate II they are likely 10 come
10 an agreement, and II not. 10 report the
princip pal items Of disagreement, delivering
said bilLto the secretary OF the Senate for
the further action OF the senate thereon.
CHANDLER AND ALABAMA.
Before going into the tariff matter, the
Vice President laid before the Senate the
resolution offered yesterday by Mr..
Chandler for an inquiry into the fairness
Of the recent election in Alabama.
Mr.. Chandler remarked that the count
ing Of the votes ia Alabama was not yet
finished, aud that the senior senator
from that state had not returned 10 the
city. He therefore proposed to ask that
his resolution might 20 over, retaining
its position.
He expressed the hope that the resOlu-
tion would be ultimately agreed TO, aS he
feared that otherwise there might be two
legislatures, two governors and three
United States senator's from Alabama
He believed that with a close inyesti-
cation Of the question by the committee
on privileges aud elections that great
calamity 4 10 the state of Alabama
would be ayerted.
MIR. Pugh said there had been no official
report OF the result Of last Mondays cleo
tion in Alabama. The returns involving
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