Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-28
A FURTHER CONFERENCE Between the Senate and House
 Ordered. AN EXCITING TIME HAD Occasioned by a Third Tie Vote-Army and Indian
 Appropriations.
AN EXCITING TIME HAD


 few people in the senate galleries today, and the attendance on the floor was also slim. Mir. Harris occupied the chair. The reading of yesterdays journal was dis pensed with and the usual routine busi- ness proceeded. Then the conference re- port on the army appropriation was taken up. In explaining the appropriations MT. Blackburn, demo crat, of Kentucky, said that the bill as it passed the house appro- priated SE3, 5S6, ,924, and as it passed the senate, S23, ,6l1 1884, and that as agreed to by the cenferees the bill appropriated S23,- 592, 3S4. The paragraph referring to the Indians at Mount Vernon barracks, Ala bama, provoked some discussion, but the report as whole was finally agreed to.
 Then at 1:15 p. m. the message asking further conference on the tariff bill was laid before the senate, the pending ques- tion being the point of order made yester- day against the notion of MT. Washburn, republican, of Minnesota, to instruct the senate conferees to recede from the differ ential duty of hc pound on sugar, the point of order being that it is not in order to give instructions in 'tfull and free con ference.' Messrs. Manderson and Platt argued against the point of order.
 The decision of the presiding officer, MT. Harris, was in favor of sustaining the point of order and excluding the amend ment, The decision was appealed from by appeal on the table was made by MT. Faulkner, democrat, of West Virginia. The vote was taken amid great excitement, and it resulted in tie-yeas 32, nays 32.
 Following is the detailed tie vote:
 Yeas-Messrs. Bate, Berry, Black burn, Blanchard, Brice, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gibson, Cor man, Gray, Hunton, Jones of Arkansas, Lindsay, McLaurin, Martin. Mills, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Murphy, Palmer, Vest, Villas, Walsh and Whlte-S2.
 Nays-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dixon, Dolpn, Dubois, Frye, Gallinger, Hale, hansbroaghi H M6roa Hawey, Higgins, Hill, Jones derson, Mitchell of Oregon, Patton, Peffer, Perkins, Platt, Proctor, Shoup, Squire, Teller. Washburn-32.
 Pairs were announced between Messrs. Butler and Cameron, Caffery and Power, son, Harris and sherman, Jarvis and Hoar, McPherson and Morrill,, Morgan and Quay, Spith and lrby, both democrats, and Voor- haes and Wolcott.
 The three populist senators, Messrs. AL len, Kyle and Peffer, voted with the repub- licans. So did MT. Hill, and the vote of MT. Irby was paired with that of another democratic senator, MT. Smith of New Jersey. The only senator who, not being paired, did not vote, was MT. Stewart of Nevada. He was presentin the chamber but refrained from voting. The net result was that the motion to lay on the table not having majority failed.
 Then came the question whether the de- cision of the chair should stand as the judgment of the senate, and the committee also decided in the negative in the same way, the vote being identically the same as in the first instance.
 The next vote was on agreeing to MT. Washburn's 8 motion, and it was defeatsd from the same cause, the lack of a major ity, the vote being, for the third time, 32 to 32, but this time the republican senators and their allies voted aye and the demo- cratic senators voted no.
 Then MT. Gray 8 original motion to insist and agree to further conference was agreed to without division, and the same seven conierees were reappOinted.
 Some dozen bills on the calendar were passed. after which, at $50, the senate ad- jourDed till Monday.
 Among the bills passed was the senate bill to open certain parts of the Fort Jupi- ter military reservation in Florida 10 entry under the homestead law, the two Florida senators stating that they had recouciled their differences and all amendments in the bill.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 After the passage of few private bills. under unanimous consent, MT. Outhwaite presented the conference report on the military appropriation bill. The adoption of the report was earnestly opposed by MT, Flynn, republican, of Oklahoma, and MT. Smith, democrat, of Arizona, for the reason that the bill authorized the secre- tary of war to transfer the Geronimo band of Apache Indians, now confined in Mount Vernon barracks. Alabama, to military reservations. It also carries an appropria- tion of $15, 900 to buy them household and agricultural implements. Messrs. Flynn and Smith protested against the transfer in the name of the murdered settlers, the victims of the Indians atrocity in former years, asserting that whatever distance separated them, after they had once passed the Missouri river, would be as nothing to them, and they would soon get back again White mountains and enter upon their career ofslaughter and destruction.
 Messrs. Outhweite and Hull, republican, of Iowa, defended the report. They said it was not the intention of the secretary of war to move those Indians confined at Mount Vernon for the commission of crimes, but it was intended to give the women and children the same chance that other human beings have to do for them- people of the country, they said, desired to keep 200 women and children in prison all their lives for the sin of their fathers. The report was agreed to.
 At this point the flow of returning mem bers who had been attending upon the ses- sion of the senate set in, and in few min uies the action of that body upon the re- quest of ihe house for a conference on the tariff bill became known on the floor, ond was actively discussed. It was 3:16 q clock