Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-04-25
IN CONGRESS.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1S.--Arising to
question Of privilege, when the Senate
met to-day, Senator Catfery of Louisiana,
denied that as alleged by the New York
Evening Post, he was an Obstructionist and
not in harmony with his party. Heshould,
he said, actively support and vote for the
tariff bill as amended by the Senate finance
committee. The bill authorizing the erection
of a stone bridge across the st. Louis River
between Minnesota and Wisconsin was
passed. Commander +, w. Dickens, y. S.
n. who attended the Duke of Veragua as
the representative of this nation when that
nObleman visited the Worlds Fair last year.
was granted permission to accept the dec
Grafton of the Cross of Naval Merit Of the
third class from the King OF Spain. Mr..
Morrill,, of Vermont, then spoke on the tar
if bill.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 19.-The day
in the Senate was almost entirely consumed
by speech against the pending tariff bill
by Senator Perkins, of California. The
speech was mainly devoted to discussion
Of the articles which directly affected Cali
tornla wool, fruits, quicksilver, beet sugar,
etc, although he considered other features
III the bill, in which his state was not in
terested, but which were opposed to Repub
lican princi pies and which he accord
ingiy arraigned, the agreement of the
Senate to the report of the confer
ence committee on the urgent defci
ency bill being the most important. The
PETER resolution for the appointment of
committee on communications for the pur-
pose of hearing the grievances of Coxey's
army was debated by Senator PETER and AL
len, both Of whom favored it, but it went
over without action by the expiration of
the morning hour. At 5 o'clock eulogies
were prom ounced on the late Representative
w. II. Enochs, of Ohio, after which the
Senate at 5:15 adjourned.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 20.-When the
q wa a6 n nrdp Ny
man, from the committee on foreign rela-
tons, reported bill for the correction of an
error in the Behring Sea bill recently
passed. BY the substitution of the word
exclusive" for inclusive" the intention of
the act, he said had been entirely changed.
INTRODUCED recently by Senator AL
len calling on the secretary Of the
treasury for the amount of appro-
priatiOns made and expended for the i'm
prOvements of rivers and harbors from
March g. 1887, to date, was passed. The
PETER resolution for the appointment Of
reception committee for CoXev's army of
the commonweal to be known in the Sen
ate parlance as 1.-THE common cOmmuni-
cations" came up a few minutes before l
o o'clock, but went over after a brief discus
sion. Mr.. Gallinger (Rep., n. H then
spoke against the tariff bill and was fol-
lowed in the same line by Senator Mcmillan
(Rep., Mich.)
WAsH1NGrov, D. c., April Ex-senator
Dolph concluded his speech on the tariff
bill. Resolutions against the Wilson bill,
from the representative Wage-wOrkers of
the United States, :" the Philadelphia dele
cation now at the capital, were read. A
message from the President accompanying
some Hawaiian correspondence was read.
The House.
WASHINGTON. y. c., April 1.-THE COM
mittee on rules made its report to the
House to-day on the proposed change in
the rules for counting a quorual when
quorum is present and not voting. The
change is as follows:
Amend rule Is by inserting between
clauses l and 2 the following as clause and
change the number Of clause to clause 3:
upon every roll call and before the be-
ginning thereof, the Speaker shall name
two members, one from each side Of the
pending question if practicable, who shall
take their places at the clerks desk to tell
the names of at least enough members who
are in the hall of the House during the roll
call who do not respond when added to
those responding TO make quorum. If
a quorum does not respond on the roll call,
then the names of those so noted as present
shall be reported to the Speaker, who shall
cause the list to be called from the clerks
desk and recorded in the journal. and in de-
termining the presence of quorum to do
business those who voted, those who an
sWered present and those so reported pres
ent shall be considered. Members noted
may, when their names are called, record
their votes, Notwithstanding the provisions
of clause Of this rule"
Amend clause 1 Of rule by adding to the
following words land on a roll call should
he not vote he shall answer present so as
to read: Every member shall be present
within the hall of the House during it's sit
tings unless excused or necessarily prevent
ed, and shall vote on each question put I'M
less he has a direct personal or pecuniary
interest in the event Of such question, and
roll call shall he not vote he shall an
sWer present.
The report was adopted.
WASHINGTON, D. G., April 18.-In the
House to-day Mr. Burrows (Rep., Mich.)
called attention to the fact that Mr.
Wheeler Dem, Ala had spoken one
minute on the rule question aud that his
speech occupied four columns in the Con-
gressio Record. Mr.. Wheeler being alb
sent the matter went over for the day. The
consular and diplomatic appropriation bill
was then taken up. The discussion follow
ing touched the Hawaiian question. The
House adjourned without action, the bill
going over until tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, d. c.: April 19.-At the
opening of the House to-day on motion of
Mr.. Reilly (Dem.), chairman of the commit
tee on Pacific railroads, the following reso-
luton was adopted: THAT the secretary of
The interior be directed to communicate to
the House all information he has in his pos
session as to what provision (other than the
sinking fund now maintained in the treas
ury under the act Of 1879 the railroad cor
porations 10 whom bonds were issued by the
United States under the acts of 1925 to
aid in the construction ofrailroad and tele-
graph lines from the Missouri River to the
Pacific coast, have made or proposed to
make for the payment at maturity of the
bonds issued by said corporations respect
lively, which are a prior lien to the bonds
issued by the United States under the acts
aforesaid, and whether any of such bonds
are held or owned by either of said compa-
MES" The House then went into commit
tee of the whole and the consideration of
the diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill was resumed.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20-There was
passage at arms in the House to-day be-
tween Representatives Burrows and Wheel
er. Mr. Wheeler was tainted with talking
four columns of the Congressional Record
in precisely one minute and retorted that
protest came with bad grace from one
whose hands were red with parlia-
mentary murder" Mr.. Burrows re-
called previous example of Mr..
Wheeler's fiuency, a speech that occu-