Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-04
SENATE WILL NOT INSTRUCT
Upper House Conferees Receive
No Further Orders.
Decided by "a Viva yoce Vote on Motion by
Senator commandments Repent
On the Arbitration BiIl by
House Committee.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-A few min.
utes after IL o'clock this forenoon the
senate again ooh up the conference re.
port of the tariff bill with the purpose
of sending it back to the conference
committee without recommendation.
When Mr.. Jones of Arkansas sido.
tracked the consideration of a talifor.
MIA bill by moving that the t.riff bill
be taken up land the motion was agreed
to without opposition) there was moth
ing in the appearance of things to indi.
cate that senators or spectators antici'
pated important action.
Interest and speculation in the situa-
ton clustered about Mr.. Stewart of Ne
vada, who last night said that he would
leave the city today, but he appeared
on the floor about / o'clock.
Mr.. Irby, the Tillmanita democrat
from South Carolina, left here for his
home last night after deserving
the regular democratic column
the populists on the free iron
and coal motions. lie was paired, how
ever, with Senator Smith of New Jer-
sey on the sugar schedule and by this
means and through the positioG of Mr..
Stewart the tariff bill was lef, IN a
most interesting condition of uncer-
tainty.
MIR. Gray opened the proceedings by
saying that he had nothing further TO
say or his point of order.
Mr.. Henderson, rep, Nebraska, did
have something TO say. however. aud
he said it AZ length. lie opposed the
point of order, which was in effect that
"a motion to instruct couferees on
a specific matter in a bill
interfered with a full and
free conference as contemplated
by the rules. Mr.. Henderson insisted
that tho motion 10 instruct was not out
Of order. II Mr.. Gray's motion pre-
vailed, he said, what n superior adj
vantage the house of representatives,
with its power to instruct, would have
over the senate, with ne such power.
Mr.. Platt, rep. Connecticut. agreed
with Mr.. Henderson that the conferees
could be instructed on n specific point
in "A bill, and he said he would show
hat such n motion had been adopted
by tho senate and further that Mr..
Gray had voted for l..
When Mr.. Platt concluded Mr.. Chan
dler, rep, New Hampshire, suggested
that the small number OF senators pres
ent was hardly adequate to the intel
lectual struggle going on, and he asked
for n call of the senate, which was or
dered. Mr.. Harris, the president pro
TEN. delivered his decision on the
point of order when the quorum up
peared. lie decided that the power OF
each house was as absolute and com
piete in the absence of instructions
as at any other time. As every
feature of IA conference report
must be submitted 10 the sen
ate for its approval no power
Of the senate was lost by failure to in
struct. lie sustained Senator Gray's
point Of order and declared that Sena-
tor Wash burns could not hold. Sena-
tor Washburn Immediately noted an
appeal, and senator Faulkner moved to
lay the appeal on the table.
2:55 p. ma motion by Mr.. German
that the bill should be sent back to
the conference without instructions
has been adopted by a viva voce vote.