The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-01-19
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-

THE WORK OF CONGRESS,
aEsUlH OF PRosEEDINos OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Conasnsea Record Of che Important
Tfansaetiens Of Our Nati0nal Law.
nakers-The Work Done In Doth
Branches.
Washington, Jan. S--I'he Democratic
quorum In the house has not as ye. ma
terialized. Saturday night the house
adopted the extreme expedient of ordering
the arrest Of all members absent without
, leave. and deputies are busy serving
warrants on these members, of whom
twenty-one are Democrats and nineteen
Republican,. From the Republican ab-
sentees, ut course, no aid IL expected.
They can be brought here under duress,
but they cannot be made to vote. This
applies to some of the Democrats as
well as Republicans, and If the opposition
within the ranks of the Democratic ma
jority can be organized, as some of them
1esire, enough Democratic members might
refrain from voting to prevent the con.
sideration Of the bill In its present shape.
Privately srme of the Democrats do not
hesitate to admit that the gravity of the
| situation Is very great. The possibility
u defeating the consideration of tho hill
strikes terror into their hearts, and som.
Of them, like COL Oates of Alabama,
| orerly advocate resort to the parlia-
,s,xr, ,ts
fist congress of counting quorum.
Sperker Crisp asserts most positively that
they will not he forced to this resort.
He thinks a voting quorum will be here
ceri, inly on Tuesday ut :he farthest.
Ii it cannot be obtained then, another
Hen ccratis caucus will be called. This
| is II deed what those who are dissatisfied
iih the bill are aiming ut. They de-
clare that as soon as they can demon-
stratc that not a sufficient number II
Democrats will v,te to consider the bill
the leaders will be obliged 20 submit to
III ter;al notifications which the dis
6, Iptleti members will propose. Some of
the Eastern Democrats who are fighting
the income tax proposition are willing to
e. to almost any length to eliminate this
feature of the hill.
The principal item of thu senate pro.
graume for the week has been agr..l
upon. 1t Is to be the consideration Of
the federal election bill. This pr. .yramn,',
like all other prearrangements In the sen-
ate Is subject to change. but 1t Is believed
that 1t will be practically observed In this
instance except In one contingency. i.
Is Gsrely p,ssipl. that tn. affairs of
Hawaii mny again demand the attention
Of the senate 10 the exclusion Uf all other
subjects for ut least a portion of the
week. If the government should fail
to give explicit dcrial u the rcpnr. in
circulation that Mr.. Willis has asked tie
Dole government to retire in the inter-
est of the queen. there are sure 10 be u
number Of resolutions of inquiry intro
duca::, aud several very pointed speeches
may be exp p.csrd.
| Washington, Jan. 9.-The Democrats
/ have secured their quorum aud the Viii
sol, bill il now before the house. The
demand for the previous question in the
house was carried 1&, to O--tcn more
| than quorum. Thirty minutes was al-
lowed under the rules. The roll Gull de-
veloEed the presence of a quorum, 1I0
men bcrs voting OIL the first roll call.
The house adopted special order fixing
the 18th for vote Oh the Wilson bill
by vote of 175 to I. MIR. Wilson then
pres. Lted the bill aud made an address
In its advocacy. after which the house
, adjourned.
The Hawaiian controversy waxea
W. rn:er from day to day in the United
States senate. Nearly score Of reso-
| 4, tsr hov al init
the subject, but the enl IL not yet in
sharp discussion the senate adjourned
with the promise of prolonged discussion
of tho Frye resolution tomorrow. and Il
possibility of Mr.. Turpie's resolution be-
ing called up to-day. Senator lIoar sIc-
leeded In accentuating with practical GER
+, tainty the fact that Commissioner Blouut
was paid from the secret fund of the
state department; this being substantially
admitted by the Democrats. Senator
Frye made an Intellectual effort to secure
n vote on his resolution declaring for
non-intervention by this government IN
4 Hawaiian affairs. but there was strong
! objection, and it went over Until later
this week. when Mr.. Davis of Minnesota
will speak on the subject. Senator
! Turpie of Indiana, presented a resol,l-
tiOn alleging the inexpedicncy of annex
/, Ing Hawaii to the United States. but de-
I clcbing that the interference of foreign
governments with that country should be
/ regarded as hostile TO this country. and
he will probably submit some remarks
on the matter In few days.
Washington. Jan. 1O.-This was q
field day in the house for the tariff. The
galleries were thrOnged all day and the
floors were crowded. Each side put forth
Its most brilliant orators for the days
session. Mr. Wilson. the chairman of
the ways and means committee, colnplet-
cd his speech begun Monday, and Mr..
Burrows opened the debate for the Re
publicans with three-hours' reply. Gen.
Black of Illinois and Mr.. Hopkins Of
Illinois followed. The good points of all
the speakers were literally applauded by
the respective partisans. Mr.. Haines, II
Democrat from New York. in the name
of the collar and cuff industry, fired tn.
first shot into the Wilson hill. He dis
played gigantic petition, signed by g.
mo people. protesting against the collar
and cuff schedule. declaring that if 1t be-
came law it would ruin this great i'll
dustry. Mr.. Wilson resumed his speech
of Monday in favor Of the bill. The ses-
sion Of the senate did not develop that
interest members had anticipated. The
consideration of the federal election bill
was not legun according to the pro
gramme of Senator Gray. us NJ one
seemed prepared to speak, and after some
cOlloquy between Senators Chandler.
Gray and German over the method of
procedure. the measure finally went over
until next week. At that time, however.
it comes UP as unfinished business. and
Senator Gray gave notice that he would
press its consideration reasonably and
continuously until vote was reached
Even the Hawaii situation failed to elicit
the debate that was promised.
Washington, Jan. 11.-At the concl l.
sion of routine business in the san lte
Senator Davis took the floor and began
Ibis speech Oh the Hawaiian qu.s.icn
Soon after he commenced speaking nearly
every senator ON both sides of the cham
De was in his seat. Congressman keifrr.
Fletcher, Tawney and Boen were On the
aoor Of the senate. Senator Davis sper' h
Ia the first that has been heard from Il
passage Of the resolution of inquiry on
Dec. IA. The resolution on Senator Da.
Wis motion was taken from the table.
Until the acce sion of the present ad.
| ministration to power" the senator said,