Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-11
NUMBER Al.
CONGRESSIONAL.

April The principal intere st in the senate
ceniered In the speech OF Senator Voorhees,
chairman of the committee on finance who
thus launched the tariff question upon the SEA
OF senatorial debate While his speech was
read from manuscript il was delivered with
all the hery energy which characterizes his
usual extemporaneous efforts. There was au
unusually full attendance. both on the floor
and IN the galleries. and the conclusion OF his
speech was greeted with q hearty burst of an
plause He Landed the Walker tariff bill OF ISIS
as "a ole ssed a1d 'loriou' memory" aud re-
gretted exceedil Ely that this bill did not
more closely resemble ii He vigorously de-
Tended the income tax feature and free wool
clause and as vi orously condemned the SUGAR
bounty and reciprocity features OF the McKfn.
ley hill, the former being ch IT Acterizei as "a
constitutional FIRE Ik He called attention to
the fact that to-dav was the i50th anniversary
OF the birth of Thomas Jefferson that great
emancipator of mankind. !" and quoted exten.
Congress -
For five hours in the house roll call followed
roll call in an endless attempt TO bring the
Republican filibuster 'ainst the O'Neill-Joy
contested election case to close, but nj no
time were the Democrats able TO muster a
quorum and the n ,ht was finally abandoned
for the day Ole hundred and seventy was
the high water mark touched by the Democrats
on any one roll call This is nine short OF q
quorum About ten Democrats are votin on
every roll call a sainst o Neill, and three from
his own state
April The long deadlock In the house
over the ONeill-Joy election contest from
Missouri was ended bv a vote of Ir5 to % in
IL.
Republicans fiIibustered to the last but the
Democrats succeeded in securing an inuepend-
ent majority The English Hillborn case
next came up The Republicans :afn nil
bustered, the Democrats were again without .
quorum and house adjourned
In the senate after routine business, Mr. Al.
iison spoke against the tariff bill After an
executive session the senate adjourned
April As soon as the house met the Re.
publicans commenced their filibust ing tao.
ties TO prevent the unseating of Hilborn Re-
N GtlfT 81,
finally carried by vote OF 1.J to Is. and the
resolution to seat Mr. En- lish was adopted by
a vote of lS5 to Il. the Republicans declining
scigniorage bill returned by the president
without his approval and moved that IL pass
the objection of the executive notwithstand.
ing. The Republicans made strenuous efforts
TO have the veto discussed. but the
speaker ehokcd them of and put the bill to n
vote The Republicans were beside them.
selves with anger They refused to vote on
the first roll call The anti silver Democrats
were were IN n. despair: as the first roll call
two-thirds- Finally, after consultation
they agreed TO vote and did
vote on the second roll call This turned the
tide. and upon the announcement of the vote
II was found the motion TO pass the bill over
the veto had been defea'ei the silver men
lacking a, the necessary two-thrdS The
house then at o'clock adjourned
In the senate Mr.. Allison continued his re-
marks agatnst the tarin bill especially at
tacking the change from specific to ad vdlorem
duties Mr. Mills followed in advocacy OF the
ad valorem system
April In the senate Mr. Hill OF New
York, gave notice that at o'clock next Mon
day he would submit few remarks on the
pending tariff bill Some amusement was
created BY the introduction OF the following
resolution by Mr. George of Mississippi:
At the request of Senator Hansbrough OF
North Dakota. the senate took up the bill
approprfating tl.0hO0O for tho destruction of
bill was laid before the senate unfinished
business and the thistle bill went over without
action. On motion OF Mr. Call the senate went
into executive ses sion without taking up the
tariff bill and then adjourned
The house spent the day In committee OF the
whole After some ood natured banter by
MIR Reed on the subject of the billion dollar
consress," the urgency deficiency bill was
taken up The hill. which carries something
over sl.0UOW. was lssed with one important
amendment providing for the continuation OF
the census bureau until March I.
1919, 1879; and providing for the pun:
2O pages of an abstract of all the data pro-
cured by the census After tn. deficiency bill
was disposed of. the consideration of the
Eostofttcc approximation bill was resumed
Only one amendment was adopted-setting
aside s"0OO0 for the establishment of star
routes 10 new pCstoificcS
April CT he policy of delay OF the minority
in the Scnaee was made manifest when before
The conclusion of yesterdays journal Mr.
Chandler tRcpubicanl made the point of no
quorum. an The roll was called. sho iny four
senators lc than quorum were present
After u delay OF fifteen minutes four sen Itors
dropped IN 10 complete the quorum. and the
reading OF the journal was concluded and the
routine business was proceeded with. Sena-
tor PETERS tariff speech was resumed but not
finished Mr.. Hi moved that when the sen
ate al ourn IL bc 10 meet again Monday. Lost
% 10 - Mr.. Harris moved that the tariff
bill be read in full After filibusterinR by Re-
publicans against the motion the senate ad-
journed TO l. o clock tomorrow
In the house consideration of the nppropria-
tion bills was resumed a livelv tilt occurred
tetween Mr. O,Nciil Democrat of Missouri
who was seated last Tuesday, and his Demo
souri, Mr. ONcili denied the stat
ment OF Morgan that he fO'NciiD
had broken his "a grecment with JoT to let the
latent OF tho voter govern in their contest
Mr.. Moran replied: j had hoped that we
had had cnough Of the O'Neill Joy contested
election ease. ] had hoped Mr. q Neill would
be content with deyo:ng him self to the duties
Mr. 10y AEas elccied a iii har >,