Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-28

decision on point OF order when the quorum
appeared. He decided that the power of
each House was as absolute and complete
in the absence of instructions as at any
other time. As every feature of a
conference report must be submitted
to the Senate for its approval no
power of the Senate was lost BY
failure to support decision to report He
sustained Senator Grsy's point of order,
and declared that Senator Washburn's
could not hold.
Washburn Immediately moved an appeal,
and Senator Faulkner moved to lay the ap-
peal on the table. The yeas and nays were
ordered and the vote to lay on the table re-
suited in tie vote: yeas. 32; nays, 80 /;
and according to the parliamentary usage
the nays had it. Senator Camden, before
the vote was commenced, attempted to
transfer his pair SO as to break the tie, but
the Republicans objected and he did not
persist.
The question then was, shall the decision
of the Chair stand as the judgment of the
Senate, and on this the yeas and nays were
also ordered.
In the vote to lay the appeal from the
Chairs decision on the table, Messrs. Hill
and Allen, Kyle and PETER voted with the
Republicans. Stewart, who voted with the
Democrats, yesterday, did not vote. Irby
was paired with Smith in the negative.
On the question of allowing the decision
Of the Chairman to stand, the vote also re-
suited in tie, 32 to SO, the same as de-
tailed above.
As the tie decided that the decision of
the Chair should not stand, the vote then
required Washburn's motion to strike out
the duty on one-eighth diiferential in the
sugar schedule, and the yeas and nays were
again ordered. The vote resulted, yeas,
30 nays, 80; and the motion was not
agreed to.
Gray's original motion to insist on the Sem
ate amendments and to agree to the further
conference requested by the House, was
then agreed to without division.
The President pro tenn. then announced
the conferees. They are the same as be-
fore Voorhees,, Harris, Vest and Jones
(Democrats), Sherman, Allison and AL
drich (Republicans). There was much
confusion owing to the exchange of con-
gratulations among the Democrats that the
crisis had been so happily passed. Quay
said he desired to make some observations
for the benefit of the conferees and secured
leave to print them in the Record. The
Senate then proceeded to ordinary routine
business. Following is the vote in detail
on the motion to lay the appeal from the
Chairs decision on the table:
Yeas-Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blanch,
ard, Brice, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel,
Faulkner. George, Gibson, German, Gray
Hunton, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, Nc
Laurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell of Wiscon.
sin, Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, Pugh. Ran
son, Roch, Turpie, Vest, Villas, Walsh,
White-32
Nays-Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Carey,
Chandler, Cullom, Davis. Dixon, Dolph,
Dubois, Frye, Gallinger, Hale ,Hansbrough,
Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Jones of Nevada,
Kyle, Lodge, Mcmillan, ,Manderson, Mitchell
of Oregon, Patton, PETER, Perkins, Plat,
Proctor, Shoup, Squire, Teller, Wash
burn-32.
Pairs were announced, between Senators
Butler of South Carolina and Cameron of
Pennsylvania; Caffy of Louisiana and
Power of Montana; Camden of West
Virginia and Pettigrew of South Dakota !;
Gordon of Georgia and Wilson of Iowa ;
Harris of Tennessee and Sherman of Ohio !;
Jarvis of North Carolina and Hoar of
Massachusetts; Mcpherson of New Jersey
Morrill, of Vermont; Morgan of Alabama
and Quay of Pennsy ylvania Smith of New
Jersey and Irby of South Carolina, both
Democrats; and Voorhees, of Indiania and
Wolcott of Colorado.
A number of bills of minor importance
were passed and at 3 so the Senate ad-
journed until Monday.