The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-10

ber Voted Against the bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Wilson
tariff was adopted in the house by
vote of 203 to 140 Thursday afternoon.
OF the lao votes cast in the negative Ia
were those of discontentcd democrats.
Mr. Moses Stevens, the Massachusetts
member Of the ways and means COM
mittee, refrained from voting. His
democratic colleagues are white-hot
with indignation at what they style
his cowardly dodging. There is no
parallel case recalled of the refusal OF
n majority member of the ways and
means committee to vote for or against
bill which he helped to frame.
The other member who is most
roundly abused by the ways and means
committeeman for his vote, is Mr..
Greary. of California, who voted
against the bill because certain amend.
ments affecting local interest were
not adopted.
The committeeman threaten that they
will make both men pay for their
treachery. Mr.. Stevens is ambitious to
he chairman of the democratic congress.
sional committee. Mr.. Gray cherishea
gubernatorial ambitions.
The final vote was begun at $3.50
o'clock. The income tax had been
adopted as an amendment by second
vote of 1s2 to so, the majority of the re.
publicans refraining from voting.
The voting seemed highly en-.
joyable occasion. Those democrats
who, after much protesting that
they would never vote for the
BILL surrendered at the crucial
moment and meekly bowed to the
party club, had the blow smothered in
the loud plaudits of their colleagues,
Mr.. Bourke Coclran's surrender gave
him an ovation. Democrats on the
floor of the galleries hurrahed and APP
plauded when the distinguished New
Yorker, half unwillingly, yet firmly,
called out AYE" to the bill whose in.
come tax feature he had denounced so
bitterly.
When the bounding Mr.. Springer
voted loud, resounding "Aye," the
galleries, in merry mood, applauded
him. At this Mr.. Springer bowed,
which moved Mr.. Reed to start anew a
round of sarcastic applause. Not only
the entire nation, but all of the civil
lied world was the audience to which
the three great speeches, which marked
the close Thursday OF the tariff debate,
in the house, were addressed 1t was
this fact, the Importance of the issue,
the ability and reputa tion of the con.
testants and the sense that it was the
elimination of one step toward the
democratic policy of making present
of the richest market in the world to
foreign nations that caused the house
wing of the capitol to be the center
Thursday toward which every person
in Washington who could possibly do
SO bent their steps
Never, even at the time of an inaugu-
ration, when every square inch of avail
able space in the senate chamber is oc.
cupied, has there been a greater press
ure to secure sight and hearing of an
event in either hall of congress.
By common consent the rule forbid.
ding the presence on the floor of per-
sons not members was ignored, and the
wives and families of congressman were
admitted to the space in the rear OF
the railing which surrounds the desks,
and afterwards even to the seats Of
the members themselves. The result
was that the house soon presented a
unique appearance, the gay costumes
of the ladies being intcrspersed with
the conventional black attire of the
! statesmen.
Upon the floor thus covered from
wall to wall with eager spectators and
not less animated members, there
looked down from the galleries banks
of people pressed tightly together, all
waiting impatiently for the final duel
of the great tariff battle in the house
to begin. Even the diplomatic gallery
was filed to it's utmost capacity with
ladies and representatives of other gov
ernments.
Mrs. Cleveland witnessed the passage
of the Mills bill by the house in 1855
( but Thursday there was no member ot
the presidents family present.