The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-12
CONGRESSIONAL
The Proceedings of the Week Briefly
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 THE senate was not in session on the 3lst.... When the house met Speaker Crisp was again greeted with applause at his declining the ofiice Of United St tes senator to which the governor Of Georgia had appointed him. The struggle over the O'Neill.Joy contest was not resumed in the house Several unimportant bills were passed and the remainder of the session was given to eulogies upon the late Representative O'Neil, of Pennsylvania, and the house ad- iourned
 AFTER the disposal of routine business in the senate on April 9 the tariff bill was taken up and made unfinished business. MT. Voor. hees opened the debate in favor of the bill and spoke for two hours, at the conclusion of which the senate went into executive session and then adjourned. ... The house was engaged all day in another futile attempt to secure a quo' rum on the O'Nell-Joy contest Filibus tering was resorted to an MT O'Neilrs friends an | nounced that the case would be kept before tho house until disposed of The house adjourned without doing any business Ten democrats persistently voted against O'Neill all day. | Three being from his own state.
 IN the senate on the Sd MT. Peirers resolu. ton directing the finance committee to prepare bill Tor the repeal Of all laws which give the secretary of the treasury the power to issue bonds went over, and the bill to give effec; to the award of the Par S tribunal on the Behring sea question passed The tarr bill was then 1 taken up and Senator Allison spoke in oppos ton, Alter an executive session the senate ad- journed.. .. The deadlock in the house in the | O'Neill-Joy dontest was broken by the demo. ! crats securing quorum and seating ONeill by | vote Of lh5 to 2s, the republicans refusing to ! vote and nine democrats voting against him Alter MT ONeill was sworn in the English. Hilmon contest was taken up. but the quorum disappeared and the house adjourned without ! final action.
 AFTER the presentation of petitions and the | transaction of minor routine business in the { senate on the 4th lively debate was precipi. tated by the presen tation of a memorial from the Philadelphia board of trade praying for adequate duties on sugar. The tariff debate was then resumed and MT. Allison closed his speech in opposition to the pending bill. Mir. Mills followed in favor of the bill, although the present measure was not such as he desired. In the house the English. .Hilborn contest again came up and 1libustering commenced, but finally the resolution seating English was adopted and the contestant was sworn in, li democrats and populists voting against the unseating of Hiborn Then lhe question cam up of passing the seigniorage bill over the presidents veto, and while the opponents of the bill were earnestly discussing the manner of proceeding in debate that was expected the confusion was so great that no one addressed the speaker and MT. Bland announced that he was willing to take vote. The speaker or dered the roll call and shut out all efforts to de. bate the question, and amid great confusion the roll was called and the veto sustained, the measure being 74 votes short of the necessary lwo-lhirds The house then adjourned
 IN the senate on the 9th Mir George Miss introduceda a resolution which recited the de. pressed condition of the country, the increased value of money and low price of agricultural products and directed the judicary committee 10 introduce bill reducing all official incomes not protected by statutes. The resolution was referred. After discussing the Russian thistle bill for time the tarif debate was resumed, hut the senate cut of proceedings b! going into executive session Q. The house refused to ac- cept the senate amendment to the bill requir' ing railroads in Oklahoma to establish stations at government townsites The senate bill to give effect to the Paris awarI in the Behring sea case was passed The house then took up appropriation bills in committee of the whole.
 THE usual 'masterly inactivity" character iZed the proceedings of the senate on the Gth When that body met quorum was not present Four more senators finally made their appear ance bringing the quorum with them and the journal was read The tarin bill was taken up at 9 o'clock, and Senator Peffer commenced his speech. After speaking two hours 1t was dis covered that ouly ''corporals guard" was present. whatever number that is-and Mir. Peffer suspended his speech until next meeting Then it wa discovered that the tarif bill had never beeL read in full and a motion to have it read resulted in tlibustertng and as the quorum had absented itself th3 senate adjourned. ... A lively tilt took place in the house between Mir O'Neill (Mo) who had been seated day or two before in place Of Mir. Joy-and Mir. Mor gan (Mo.). Mir. O'Neill read a newspaper inter view in which MT. Morgan gave his reasons fol voting against the seating of o NeilL that there had been some kind of an agreement between the parties, which Mir. ONeill denied Mir Morgan retorted sharply and said he had hoped Mi O'Neill would be content with devoting himself 10 the duties Mir. Joy was elected tc discharge" The house then considered the post office bill until recess, and in the evening considered pension bills.