The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1894-08-02
WORK OF CONGRESS-
RESUME OF PROCEEDINGS OF TnB
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record OF the Important
transactions OF Our National LRw-
niakers-The work Done in Both
Branches.

fered just before adjournment yesterday.
The Wisconsin senator began bis
speech by saying that an extraordinary
scene occurred on Monday last in the
senate. A democratic senator, said lie,
saw fit to attack the president without
precedent, he thought, of If there was
precedent it was one that ought to be
Stunned instead of followed. 1t was
personal assault upon the president and
his character.
Mr.. Villas then reviewed at length the
presidents position in favor of free raw
material. his letter of 1887 and other
public utterances up to his message to
congress at the opening of the present
session. Constantly Mr.. Villas declared
Mr.. Cleveland had insisted upon this
principle. 1t was everywhere proclaimed
by his supporters to be the first step in the
enfranchisement of labor from the thral-
dom of unjust taxation.
For two hours he held the floor amid
wrapt attention of the senate and gal
lerles, delivering his scathing rebuke of
the Maryland senator. lie denounced
Mr.. Germans assault as wanton, recl.-
less and unjusti6able, and though, he
declared that Mr.. Clev Gland needed no
defense at his hands, he took up the
charges made by Mr.. German and met
them with mastery skill and logic He
made his statement, he said, in the in
terest of the truth of history. In con-
chsion he eulogizeda the personal charac-
ter and public integrity of Mr.. Cleveland
and said the president could not suffer
from this unjustifable attack of the
Maryland senator
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Villas explained that in view of the fact
that Messrs. Golman, Brice and Smith
had assured him that his motion to recede
from the 1-Sc differential in favor of the
rehners of sugar must fail, and the fur
ther fact that Democratic caucus had
decided to agree to a further conference
without instructions, he would withdraw
the motion. After some general re-
marks by Mr.. Stewart against the inter-
ference of the executive with the legis-
latiye branch of the government, Mr..
Hills motion that the senate recede from
its amendments placing a duty of 40
cents a ton on coal and iron ore were
voted upon and defeated, the Republic
ans, except Mr.. Hansbrough, joining,
the Democrats bound by the caucuc
agreement voting against it. The vote
stood 6 to Go and to 64. Mr.. Irby of
South Carolina was the only other Dem
ocrat except Mr.. Hill who voted for free
coal and iron. The Populists, Allen,
Kyle and PETER, also voted for it. Mr.
Washburn renewed Mr.. Villas motion to
instruct the conferees to recede from the
1-8 cent differential on refined sugas, but
Mr.. Gray Immediately made the point
of order against it that it was not COM
petent for the senate to instruct in a
question in conference. The point of or
DIRE was debated for some time, but had
not be,4 decided upon when the senate
adjourned. There is no doubt, however,
that it vii be sustained and this motion
ruled out. The general impression is that
the bill will go back to the conference
tomorrow.
Washington, July 27.-Tbe days rro-
CeeCings i'll the house were dull in the
extreme &Dd one by one the members lef:
their desks, Until there was not Il half
hundred members i'll the chamber. The
conference report OH the notifications hill
was agreed to. The day had been az
signed to the. committee or interstate
a3d foreign commerce and some twenty
OF thirty bills reported from this COM
n. ttce were passed. among them tho fol-
lowing: Amending the act for the Coli
stil ction of Il bridge across the st. Louis
river between Minnesota and Wisconsin: /:
to bri.iye the Usage river in Missouri
and the Missouri river neaI Dewitt, Mo
Washington, July 2s.-At 1905 Mr..
Jones of Arkansas called up the con-
ference report ON the tariff bill.
The pending question was the decision
,Af R1,o aINosv. oR I'm
Messrs. Gray and Mills against Mr..
Washburn's motion to instruct the SEN
ate conferees to recende from the 1-8 of
i cent differential On sugar above 16
Dutch standard. Mr.. Maj derson was i'm
mediately recognized and proceeded to
argue against the point of order upon
which so much hinged. He maintained
with vigor that it was competent for the
senate to instruct its conferees. Mr..
Manderson described at length the meth
DDS of conferences between the two
houses in Tarli IN ent and in congress,
drawing tistinctic n between a simple"
"trfercnce and "full and Free confer
G1ce.
Mr.. Manderson then reviewed the
precedents bearing on the point of order,
citing numerous cases in the house where
the conferees had been instructed.
Senator Harris, in the chair, sustained
the point of order against Washburn's
mutton. An appeal was then taken
The vote recurred on Mr.. Washburn's
appeal from the decision of the chair,
and resulted 80 to 32 The senate having
failed to sustain the chair, the vote re.
CURED on the motion of Mr.. Washburn
to instruct the conferees to recede from
the 1-8 cent differential on refined sugar.
Result, 80 to 80. Motion not agreed to.
The bill was then sent to conference
without instructions and without division
of the senate, no vote being taken on tho
motion to send the bill back to confer
ence.
The votes on the three motions were as
follows:
Ayes--Bs te, Ferry, Blackburn, Blanclc
ard, Brice, Call, Cockrell, Ccke, Daniel.
Fan lkller, George, Gibsen, Golman, Gray,
Hunton, Jones (Ark.), Lii dsay, Aic
Labrin, Martin, Mills, Mitchell Wis
Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, Pdgh, Fansom.
Roach, Turpie, Vest, WalcL, White-32.
Noes-AlIen, Aldrich, Allison, Carey,
Chandler, Culloul, Davis, Dixon, Dolpl,
DrLois, Frye, Gallh ger, Hale, Hans
brcugh, Hawley, Hill. Higgins. Jones
(Ney.), Kyle, Eadge, Mcmillan, Mander.
son, Mitchell lOr.). Potion, PETER, Perk
ins. PIatt, Proctor, Sa9up. Squire, Teller,
WasLtmrn 80.
stewurt did not vote. The pairs wers
as follows. those first named II each pain
fa'cring the motion ard those last named
opposing It. Gordon end Wilson, Jarvis
and Hoar, Butler and Cameron, Harris
and Sherman, McPheren and Morrill,,
Morgan and Quay, Smith and Irby (botn
Democrats), Camden and Pettigrew,
Voorhees, and Wolcott and Caffery snd
Power.
Washington, July 30.-Tke day in tn
senate is teing given up to the sundry
civil appropriation bill. This always
arouses mere or less debata The bill
this year will probably prove no excep-
tion, and it il likely that two or three
days will be devoted to it unless it should
be side-tracked by the tariff. With the
sundry civil bill disposed of, the general
deficiency bill will be the only appro-