The sun., 1894-02-15
HE Mock vi CONGRESS
RESUME OF PHoSEEDINGs OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record OF the Important
TransactiOns of Our National Law.
makers-The Work Done in Both
branches.

branches.
Washington, Feb. THE Hawaiian
resolution was not passed yesterday af-
ternoOn because of the failure Of the
Democrats to secure a quorum when Il
vote was taken upon it, Much less ODpo-
sition from the Democratic side developed
than was at one time anticipated. Only
one. speech, that of Gen. SickIes of New
York, was made in opposition to the
adoption of the resolution, although there
was some passive opposition on the Dem
ocratic side as indicated by the refusal
OF several Democrats 10 answer to their
names when the resolution was placed
upon its passage. The Hit substitute,
the Blair amendment and the motion
made by Mr.. Reed to recOmmit the reso-
luton were in turn voted down. When
the vote came to be taken upon the main
question, however, the adoption of the
entire resolution, the Republicans TG.
Trained from voting and the Democrats
lacked II Of n quorum. Mr. Cummings
of New York voted for Mr.. Reeds mo-
ton to recOnmit the motion and Mr..
Sckles against the McCreary resolution.
Mr Cummings Of New York, Mr., Geary
Of California and Mr. CocIreI of Texas
rcf9sed to 80 ON record either fer oT
against the adoption Of the resolution,
Tmese were all the indf sati1ns shown If
break In party lines IN the HawaIfan
matter, The P6pulIsts voted zcneraIIy
with the Republicans, ylr, BrodcrIr<
Of Kansas was the JIGy KEpnbIIcan who
declined 10 follow the leader Of his party
and refrain from voting lie vote!
against the rPsOlHtjOn> When the DE1a0,
Gratis feHnA themselves without qn0razn
they passed resolution rev0kIng the
leaves Of absence ard tim adjOgrtsed>
They expect 10 have q gs0FaHs present
this afternoon
The senate did not come 10 q gote os,
tie federal eteeGfOpa bin YeSf9rGiaY after
noon aS wsS anticipated Several Seg~
atOrs vito had not hitherto sD0G@B Ce~
SiI Cd GB opportunity 70 bN b@asd 81 the
Hoe&suse, and by unanimous consent 1Ae
tine Of general debate was extepded En-
t. this afternoon
Washington. Feb. s>-The htI reDea1~
ing in toto all federal election laws TegE-
lating the control of congressional eiee.
tons has passed both bcuses Of congress
and only awaits the Signature Of presj-
dent Cleveland to becois~ d law. After
several weeks of discussion the senate
finally came to q vote On the house bill
repeating the federal election laws. and it
PASSED by vote of 30 ta e. Aurer0us
amendments were presented by the Be-
publicans, but they were voted down reg
ulafIy and methodicaIy, the Democrats
not even taking the trouble to join in
the debate on the amendatOry PROPOSE
tons. Senator Stewart of Nevada voted
with the Democrats On every proposition,
giving AS his reason that he thought the
power of the executive was already too
great, and that the centralizing tendency
of the age should be checked at once if
the republic is to survive. The three
PopuliSts, Senators Allen, Kyle and
PETER, also voted with the Democrats
on every amendment, as well as ON the
senate is identical with the bill fas it
passed the house, no committee amend
ments having been proposed.
BY a vote of 175 to 81 the house SdoI,t-
ed the resolution tondemning M1hister
Stevens and sustaining the Hawaiian pol
icy of Mr.. Cleveland. The Republicans
6libI stored against it to the end. Upon
the first vote the resolution was carried
174 to 3, and an interesting parliament
tt ry question was raised as to whether
1T, instead of ITO, was not a quorum,
four seats being vacant on account of
deaths. The speaker held that a ma
jority of the members of the house then
living constituted a quorum, quoting in
support of his position a review of the
81 bject made by the ex-speaker in the
Ffty-fTst congress. His position, how
ever, was warmly assailed by some of
the Democratic members and it was
finally agreed to take the vote over again,
SO the ruling was eventually withdrawn:
After the voting upon these resolutions
had been completed Mr.. Bland of Mis-
souri, made an attempt to get up his bill
for the coinage of the silver seignorage
in the treasury. The Eastern Democrats,
led by Messrs. Tracey and Cochran, in
augurated a filibuster in which they were
joined by the majority of the Republic
ans, although q few of the latter indi-
Gated by their votes that they favored q
consideration of the bill, and for four
hours Mr.. Bland and the remainder of
the Democrats were held at bay. Find
ing that it was impossible to secure a
quorum to proceed with the consideration
of the bill, and ~. house might be dead
locked indefinitely upon the propusitil.s,
Mr. Bland directed his efforts toward Sc
curing the adoption of a resolution to re-
woke all leaves of absence and to in
struct the sergeant-at-nrms to arrest alb
scntees. After a persistent struggle Mr..
Bland was successful, AMI the resolution
was passed.
Washington, Feb. 9.-The deadlock OIL
Mr.. BANDS silver seigniorage bill was
broken after four hours of continuous
filibustering, when, by q vote of 17G TO