Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-01-18
THE WORK . i "a GRESS


THE WORK Oh 60 NGRESS |
RESUME OF P1lOSEEDIN0S OF TIN
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Condensed Record Of the InsD SEf4At,l
Transactions Of Our National LaV5 N
malkers-The Work Done In Dots
Branches. s. i 5ss 55s4fgY n
Washington, Jan. g. The Democratic
caucus met in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives last night to consider the
wilson tariff bill. There was a good at
ter dance. Judge Holman was chairman
and Mr.. Anderson secretary Of the caucus.
Although the roll call showed only 1874
men bers present, many came In during
the call, andi t was estimated TINT there
were 147 Democrats in attendance when
the proceedings began. There are ZIG
Democrats in the house and a caucus
quorum is 1O8. The attendance indicnted
that in the ne;.hborhood Of forty who
are in the city remained away. There
were no conspicuous absences among tlla
"kickers" Speaker Crisp offered res
olution declaring that it was the duty Of
every HeluOCIul " vOlc 1OI luC SO1SluExds
ton of the tariff bill, and also thss 1t
was the duty of all Democrats to ut
tend the sessions of the house and main
posed of. In q ringing speech the speaker
took occasion to rather sharply reprimanl
Democrats who had been responsible for
the ipaction of the house during the past
three days. Several speeches were made
foy and against the bill, after which
Speaker Grips resolution was adopted.
Another resolution was adopted that it
was the sense Of the caucus that. if
proposition for an income tax was re-
ported from the committee that two days
additional should be given for debate.
The power of the committee on rules
was invoked to break down the obstruc-
ton in the path of the tariff debate in
the house. An iron clad order was
brought in setting out the programme
for the tariff debate and fixing Jan. Is
as the day for taking the final vote.
This resulted only in side-tracking Mr..
Boutelle and his Hawaiian resolution, as
when the vote came to be taken on the
adoption of the order the Democrats
lacked nine votes of quorum. At least
twenty Democrats at the capitol either
absented themselves from the hall or
refused to answer to their names when
called. G1#
Washington, Jan. S.--The Democratic
quorum in the house has not as yet ma
terialized. Saturday night the house
adopted the extreme expedient of ordering
the arrest of all members absent without
leave, and deputies are busy serving
warrants on these members, Of whom
twenty-one are Democrats and nineteen
Republicans. From the Republican ab-
sentees, of course, no aid is expected.
They can be brought here under duress,
but they cannot be made to vote. This
applies to some of the Democrats as
we'll as Republicans, and if the opposition
jority can be organized, as some of them
desire, enough Democratic members might
refrain from voting to prevent the con-
sideration of the bill in its present shape.
Privately some of the Democrats do not
hesitate to admit that the gravity of the
situation is very great. The possibility
If defeating the consideration of the bill
strikes terror into their hearts, and some
| of them, like Col. Oates of Alabama,
openly advocate a resort to the parlia-
mentary expedient utilized by the Fifty
first congress of counting quorum.
Speaker Crisp asserts most positively that
they will not be forced to this resort.
He thinks a voting quorum will be here
ceru inly on Tuesday at the farthest.
If it cannot. be obtained then, another
Der ccratis caucus will be called. This
is il deed what those who are dissatisfied
v it'll the bill are aiming at They de-
clare that us soon as they can demon
stratc that not sufficient number #
Democrats will v,te to consider the bill
the leaders will be obliged to submit to
m. ter;al notifications which the dis
g, rptled members will propose. Some of
the Eastern Democrats who are fighting
the income tax proposition are willing to
e, to almost any length to eliminate this
feature of the hill.
The principal item of tho senate pro-
granme for the week has been ayr ID
upon. It is to be the consideration of
the federal election bill. This programme,
like all other prearrangements in the SEN
ate is subject to change, but it is believed
that it will be practically observed in this
instance except in one contingency. It
is barely possible that the affairs of
Hawaii may again demand the attention
of the senate to the exclusion of all other
subjects for at least portion Of the
week. IF the government should fail
to give explicit dcrial to the report i'll
circulation that Mr.. Willis has asked tie
Dole government to retire in the inter-
est of the queen, there are sure TO he
number of resolutions Of inquiry intro
duce, hud several vecy pointed speeches
may be exp scled.
| Washington, Jan. 9.-The Democrats
have secured their quorum and the VIII
SOL bill is now before the house. The
demand for the previous question in the
house was carried 1S9 to 0-ten more
than a quorum. Thirty minutes was al
lowed under the rules. The roll call de-
veloped the presence of q quorum, 179
men bers voting on the first roll call.
The house adopted special order fixing
the Doth for vote on the Wilson bill
by a vote of It's to 1. Mr.. Wilson then
presented the bill ,and made an address
! in its advocacy, after which the house
adjourned.