Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-18

the amendment by the Louisiana Ssnators
and the populists. When the vote had l...n
taken IL was known that there was a ma
jority OF one In favor of the amendment and
consequently Of the bounty. The straight
out democrats endeavored TO break thei-
pairs, In order 20 make a quorum and thus
possibly defeat the amendment. The first
trouble about pairs came when Mr. Rlanch-
ard, originally paired with Mr.. Mcmillan
announced that he would vote the same as
hr Mcmillan, and therefore voted ave -
anu ne transferred Mr.. MCMillan's pair Ia
Mr. TROY, this preventing another transfcr
70 Mr. lrby which Senator Jones of Az
hansas was trying to make. This took one
vote IRON the negative side and preyen,ea
ne; ana there were few moments OF an
exciting discussion on the floor when NJ
Gray and the other administration Sen.,ars
Ciamored at Mr.. Blanchard 10 ,,ravant h,.
transferring his pair s
me Louisfanian. however was stubborn
anu insisted upon his right TO make the
transfer. When the votes had ali r.,
east MT. McLaurin OF MissIssippi tread
upon very thin ice by endeavorin9 10 hreaL
,h hs paII IN oruer TO make a quorum. arguing
,hat ne mad a right TO do so Had This
peen allowed there would doubtless have
Deen several other paired votes cast and
.he amendment would have been defeated
pdt instantly Mr.. Quay sprang into the
semi-circle In front Of the Vice PRESIDENT :
desk and belligerently withdrew his own
vote IN order to prevent Mr.. McIaurin from
hlaklng a quorum There was considerable
CONFUSION for a little while and finally Mr.
Manderson secured the floor and served
notice on the democrats that any attempt
on their part to break pairs woulC result i'm
general withdrawal of the republican
votes. This had the effect of frtghtc ming
Mr.. McLaurin out of his position, for II
meant nothing less than a threat 10 fill
buster Mr.. Mcl-aurin therefore announced
That at the request of his party colleagues
he would withdraw his vote
Both Senators Jones and sherman were
paired and had they transferred their pairs
a quorum could have been obtained, but
they did not do so. and on the suggestion
of Mr.. German the resolution was tenn
porarily postponed in order that action
might be taken on Mr.. Murphy's resolution.
Complication of the Sugar Situation.
Thus by allowing the bounty amendment
to be voted on fevorably Mr.. German sue
ceeded in demonstrating that the tariff.
and especially the sugar situation in the
Serate, has become 70 badly complicated
that the only thing to do was 10 adopt the
Murphy resolution. 1t is thought that this
was done in order to resupply the conserva-
tives with the excuse for action on the
resolution which the elimination OF the
reference to the Carlisle letter had taken
from them.
The republicans were aided in their SUD-
port of the Murphy resolution by Senators
Blanchard, Caffery. Gibson, German, Muir
ply. Pugh, Roach and Smith, democra Is
anu hsle anu eltI, pOpuhsls MT. f1lli
was paired with Mr. Allen against the reso-
luton. Mr.. Butler, who is away from the
city. would have voted in favor of the
resolu ion had he been present.
Ii now develops that the administration
men do not propose TO surrender totally to
the conservatives and the republicans be-
cause OF the adoption OF the Murphy reso-
luton. Immediately after the vote Mir.
Lindsay came forward with a resolution
declaring that the Senate should not finally
adjourn until some legislation is had wiping
out the differential sugar duty in favor Of
the trust. This led to a long, bitter debate.