Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-12
Which Sealed the Doom of Hills
 2; itest Tariff Move Cast
, THE VICE-PRESIDENT
Z ndler Still Harps on Ala
 ha,ama's Election-Appropri- Ss ationS in the House.

NAsHINGToN, Aug. 11.-Today's pro- ceedings in the senate were of most in teresting and exciting character, involving as they did the success CT defeat of all the tariff work of the session, and it was only by the casting of the vice. presidents vote that the democratic party was saved from bad repulse, if not a complete overthrow.
 The day began with a debate upon the resolution offered on Friday by Mir. Hill, instructing the senate conferees on the tariff bill to report whether the conferees of the two houses were likely to agree, and if not to report a disagreement. MT. Hill modified his resolution by inserting an additional clause requiring the bill to be handed to the secretary of the senate for such motion as the senate might desire to take upon it. The significance of this clause was that if the bill was so delivered 10 the senate the house could not have the chance (which has been rumored as one of the possibilities of the occasion) to agree to all the senate amendments, and thus have the bill sent to the president without any further action on the part of the senate. The debate for nearly two hours was directed to that phrase of the question.
 At last action was precpitated by 0 motion by MT. Cockerill to proceed to the consideration of executive business. That motion was justly regarded ty Mr. Hill as hostile to his proposition, and be promptly demanded the yeas and nays. These were taken and were watched with the most in- tense interest and excitement by senators of all parties, and by an immense crowd of spectators in he galleries. The result was announced by the vice. president as yeas 35, nays 35, and he promptly gave his vote in the affirmative, thus defeating the Hill resolution for the time being. It has now gone to the calendar, whence it can only be taken by majority vote, although a similar resolution may be offered at any time.
 Besides the seventy senators who voted there was fourteen paired. The only sena- tor left unaccouuted for being MT. Stewart, populst, of Nevada, who was present but maintained a position of strict neutrality. The other populist senators, Messrs. Allen, Kyle and Peffer, with ;he democratic sena- tors, Messrs. Hill and Murphy, voted with the republicans. All the other democratia> senators remained true to their party fealty.
 The most intense interest and excitement prevailed on the floor and in the galleries as the vote progressed. When a pair was announced between Messrs. Irby and Will son, repub bllcan, of Iowa, Mir. Hill ap- peared to doubt the defection of his sup posed ally, and demanded the authority for pairing him with republican.
 The authority was soon forthcoming. MT. Jones, democrat, of Arkansas, pro- duced and read two telegrams which he had received from MT. Irby, one saying: 'Please arrange pair for me in favor of the bili,' and the other saying: Pair me in favor of the free sugar proposition if that comes up in the senate.o
 The roll was finally completed and the result figured up. It was announced by the vice president in these words: "On agreeing to the motion to proceed to the consideration of the executive business, the yeas are 35 and the nays ere B. The senate is equally divided. The vice- 5resi- dent votes aye.
 That announcement relieved the extreme tension which had seized upon the senators and 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. Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blanchard, Brice, Caffery, Call, Camden, Cockrell, Coke, Faulkner, George, Gib- son. Gordon, Gornlan, Gray, Harris, Laurin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell of Wis cousin, Palmer, Pasco, Pugh, Ransom, Roach, Smith, Turpie, Vest, Villas, Walsh, White.-35.
 Nays Messrs. AIdrlch, Allen, Allison, Carey, Chandler, Culom, Davis, Dixon, DoIph, Dubois, Frye, ualinger, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Higgins, Hill, Hoar, Jones of Nevada, Kyle, Lodge, Me- Milan, Manderson, Mitchell of Oregon, grew, Power, Proctor, sherman, shoup, Teller, WBshburn-35.
 The following senators were paired: Messrs. Butler and Cameron, lrby and Wilson, Hunton and Platt, Morgan and Quay, McPherson and Morrill,, Vorhees and Wocott, Daniel and Squire.
 MT. Stewart sat mute. The executive ses- sion was brief and the senate at 2:10 o'clock adjourned until Monday.
 HILLS RESOLUTION.
 MT. Hills resolution, after its final mod ification, reads as follows:
 "That the con ferees on the part of the senate who are now considering the differ bill report to the senate if they are likely to come to an agreement, and if not to re- port the principal items of disagreement, delivering said bill to the secretary of the senate for the further action of the senate thereon."
 THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
 Before going into the tariff matter the resolution offered yesterday by MT. Chandler for an inquiry into the fairness of the recent election in Alabama.
 MT. Chandler remarked that the count ing of the votes in Alabama had not yet finished, and the senior senator from that therefore proposed to ask that his resolu- ton might go over, retaining it's position. He expressed the hope that the resolution would be ultimately agreed to, as he feared that otherwise there might be two legisla- lures and two governors and three United States senators from Alabama. He be. lieved that with a close investigation ot1
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