The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-02-21
Republicans and Eastern Anti-SIiver
Democrats SIT Dumb In Their seats
When the Previous Qucstion Is
Called for ON the Bun-Other
Late Washington News OF
General Interest.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-The flibueter
bver the silver bill in the house con.
tinued until 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon when an adjournment was had
20 give the Democrats n chance To con.
slider the situation in caucus. After
.he transaction Of some rout ne bust
1ess Mr.. Bland moved TO go nto the
committee Of the whole on the seirn-
forage bill, and pending that moved
Mat all general debate he closed. and
IN hat motion demanded the previ-
,us question, The yeas AMI nays
were called for by Mr.. Tracy, Demo
,rat, of New York. and, rep sing
|heir former tactics, the Democratic
and Republican opponents of the
measure sat silent and refused to vote.
The vote resulted III to 4, two short
Of a quorum.
On motion of Mr.. Bland a call of the
house was made. The call developed
Ihe presence of PSI members. and the
vote again required on Mr.. BANDS
notion.
Before the clerk began calling the
oil Mr.. Walker, Republican. of Mas
'achusetts suggested that as it was
evident n quorum could not be OBJ
tanned to close debate, that the motion
be withdrawn and the debate b.
allowed to run on.
Mr.. Bland declared he had offered
20 set any reasonable limit TO the de-
bate If an agreement could be reached
TO allow the vote on the pa sage of
the bill to be taken without 6libus-
tRrlnn hnf hn Grt1rnittn1 thot ,,u,
not fair for opponents of the bill to
ask for indefinite debate and then fill
buster when the time came for taking
the vote. lie should persist until II
was fully demonstrated q majority of
the house was opposed 10 the measure.
After this interruption the clerk
proceeded with the roll call. The
motion again failed for lack of a quo
rum-l50 to Ga loss of twenty five
votes compared with the preceding
roll call. Another call of the house
and the elusive quorum reappcared.
A roll call on Mr.. BANDS motion fol-
lowed and resulted 1852 to 2-this time
twenty-five short of a quorum. Again,
on motion of MIR. Bland, a call of the
house was ordered,
During the call of the house, the
presidents executive clerk appeared
with additional Hawaiian correspond
ence, which was received and placed
at the speakers desk.
Mr.. Tracey, pursuing the ilibuster
ing programme, moved that when the
house adjourned il be to meet on
Wednesday. The point of order was
raised that pending proceedings under
the call, Il motion to fix a time for adj
iournment was not in order. After
some debate, the chair sustained the
point of order.
The Republican and Democratic
opponents of the seigniorage bill then
refused To vote on the demand for the
previous question on Mn BANDS reso-
luton To arrest abscntees, and it re
suited 1913 to 3. The point of no
quorum was made, but the occupant
Of the chair, Mr.. Dockcry, ruled that
d quorum was not necessary.
The motion required on the adop-
ton of the resolution, which resulted
ll6 to nothing. Mr.. Reed made the
point of no quorum, and in the midst
Of some excitement, explained that,
in his opinion, il required u quorum
20 pass u resolution whose execution
lasted beyond the adjournment to-
day. After an exchange of shots be-
tween Mr.. Reed and MIR. Hatch, the
overrulcd the point OF order and
declared the resolution carried.
Thorsupon Mr. Bland moved to adj
journ, and upon the ounccme of
the adjournment the clerk read the
call for a Democratic caucus immcdi-
atelv, but the announcement was
greeted with Republican jeers.