The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-01-11

RESUME OF PROsEEDINGs OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record of the Important
transactions of Our National Law
mRkers-The Work Done tn Both
Branches.

TransactiOns of Our National Law
mnkers-The Work Done I'm Both
Branches.
Washington, Jan. 4.-The tariff de-
bate of 1894 did not begin in the house
as was anticipated. The Republicans
showed fight at the very outset and
scored the first victory. Before the time
arrived for Mr.. Wilson to take the
floor Mr.. McCreary tried to arrange an
amicable agreement by which two days,
Friday and Saturday, should be given to
the consideration of the Hawaiian reso-
luton. Mr.. Hit, the Republican leader
of the foreign affairs committee, ex-
pressed a willingness to acQuiesce in the
arrangement, but Mr.. Boutelle of Maine
wanted to precipitate the question i'm
mediately by calling up his resolution.
Both sides were ugly, but after lively
row the speaker held that Mr.. Boutelle's
resolution was privileged. The Demo-
cratic members on the ways and means
committee were not willing to go ahead
with the Hawaiian discussion until the
tariff debate had been gotten well under
way, however, and the question of con-
sideration was raised against the Boutelle
resolution. The Republicans then exc
cuted Il flank movement by refusing to
vote. The Democrats found themselves
in the humiliating position of not being
able to muster quorum. They were
in check, and after reEOking all leaves
of absence Mr. Wilson reluctantly moved
an adjournment. The Democrats conf
IDENTITY expect a quorum to-day, but the
outcome of yesterdays Republican tactics
will probably be that the Hawaiian mat
ter will be entirely postponed until after
the tariff bill is disposed of.
The most significant thing in the ses-
sion of the senate was a resolution in
troduced by Senator Frye of Maine, de-
claring it to be the sense of the sch
ate that the adminiStra ton should not
commit an overt act of interference in
Hawaii pending the investigation of the
imbrOglio by the senate committee on
foreign affairs The evident object of the
resolution is to declare the sense of the
senate adverse to any American inter-
ference either direct or indirect should
any coup d'etat be resorted to for the
purpose of restoring the queen to the
throne. The senator asked that the reso-
luton lie upon the table for the present,
and it is expected that he will make it
the subject of some pertinent remarks
before asking its reference to the conf
mittee on foreign affairs.
Washington, Jan. 5.-AtEOUgh the lack
Of quorum blocked the tariff debate
yesterday-an order was passed recalling
absentees-only ninety-t ;ght members by
actual count were ON the floor when the
house was next called to order. The pros
pect for a Democratic quorum looked
gloomy. Still Col. Ike Hit, the Demo
| cratic whip, expressed the opinion that
a quorum of Democrats were in the city
| Some communications were laid before
| the house, and the speaker announced
the appointment of Messrs. Wheeler of
| Alabama, Breckenridge of Kentucky and
| Hit of Illinois as the regents of the
| Smithsonian institute. Immediately
the fight over the Hawaiian matter was
| precipitated by Mr.. Boutelle of Maine.
| Although the Democratic members of the
ways and means committee were willing
to make an arrangement to devote two
days to this subject, they. decided, after
the wasting of the day yesterday, through
| the persistency of Mr.. Boutelle, to shut
the Hawaiian debate out entirely until
! the tt riff bill was disposed of. According
| ly when Mr.. Boutelle called up his priv
| ileged Hawaiian resolution Mr.. McMilli1,
| ON behalf of the conn ittee, raised the
|
was sarcastic and Mr.. McNIillin rather
| ccntemptuous in the exchange of shots
| before the vote was taken. BY a rising
vote of 58 to 124 the house decided not
to consider the resolutions. The ayes
and nays were then demanded. The Re
| publicans refused to vote and the Dem
| ocrats could not secure a quorum, so the
only thing to do was to adjourn.
On motion of Senator German the sen-
| ate agreed to adjourn until Monday.
Republicans claim that there is quor-
nm of Democrats in the city, but that
| they are opposed to the Wilson bill, and
are staying away and thus aiding the
Republicans in their fight. One Demo
crat, Connecticut congressman, worked
with the Republicans and refused to
| vote.
There was a light attendance when the
| senate met, only score of senator's being
| present when the vice president raped
| the senate to order. Senator Hoar pre-
sented the following resolution, with a
request that it lie ON the table for the
| present:
Resolved, That the secretary of the
treasury be requested to inform the SEN
ate of what sums have been paid to the
Hon. James III. Blount for salary, SER
| vices or other expenses as a special conf
missioner to Hawaii, together with copies
of all orders, vouchers and receipts for
such payment, and also to inform the
senate from what funds and under or by
virtue of what appropriation or law the
same have been paid"
Washington, Jan. 6.-The Democratic
caucus met in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives last night to consider the
Wilson tariff bill. There was a good at
terdsnce. Judge Holman was chairman
and Mr.. Anderson secretary of the caucus.
Although the roll call showed only 124
members present, many came in during
the call, andi was estimated that there
were 147 Democrats in attendance when
the proceedings began. There are PIG
Democrats in the house and q caucus
quorum is 1O9. The attendance indicated
that in the neighborhood of forty who
are in the city remained away. There
were no conspicuous absences among the
"kickers." Speaker Crisp offered res
olution declaring that it was the duty of
every Democrat to vote for the considera-
ton of the tariff bill, and also that it
was the duty of all Democrats to at
tend the sessions of the house and main
tain quorum until the tariff bill is dis
posed Of In ringing speech the speaker
took occasion to rather sharply reprimand
Democrats who had been responsible for
the inaction of the house during the past
three days. Several speeches were made
for and against the bill, after which
Speaker Crisp's resolution was adopted.
Another resolution was adopted that it
was the sense of the caucus that if a
proposition for an income tax was re-
ported from the committee that two days
additional should be given for debate
The power of the committee on rules
was invoked to break down the obstruc-
ton in the path of the tariff debate in
the house. An iron clad order was
! brought in setting out the programme
for the tariff debate and fixing Jan. 25
as the day for taking the final vote.
This resulted only in side-tracking Mr..
Boutelle and his Hawaiian resolution, as