Huntsville gazette., 1894-02-03


ate for Confederation and Approval, or
Defeat.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Mr. Wilson
CLOSED the debat te. Mr.. Wilson fni Ied
his speech amid great enthusiasm, a d
after an eloquent peroration mcn hreN
up their hats AMI women threw their
handkerchiefs, and Wilson was carriel
on the shoulders 0. Bryan Of Ncbras:a
and Tucker of Virginia.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l.-On tho call Of
the roll the vote announced: Yeas-l0 .
Nays-197. This was strict part
vote. The Populists, however, divided
about equally. The Wilson amendment
was t en- declare carrie on viva voce
vote, but Lockwood demanded the yeas
and nays and they Wee ordered.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The frs
amendment was that opposed by Mr..
Wilson to make the duty on barley anC
barley malt 80 and 35 per cent, re
spectively Mr.. Turney offered sub
stitute making the duty % l-2 and 81 1-2
Rejected, 1l2 to III.
In the House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Interest in the
closing hours of the tariff debate was
shown in the attendance in the house.
At 10 o'clock the galleries were flied
with spectators, although the session di'i
not begin until II o'clock and it would
be 80 minutes after that hour before Mr..
Reed, of Maine, could speak. The pub
lie galleries were thrown open at 8
o'clock and within five minutes they
were packed to suffocation. Meanwhile
the corridors in the vicinity of the pri
yate galleries were filled with an eX-
pectant crowd, in which ladies chiefly
predominated; and when these were
opened it was seen that their capacity
was not sufficient to accommodate the
fraction of those present. 1t was mis-
cellaneous crowd in more senses than
one, for it contained, in addition to the
usual number of respectable sightseers,
certain representatives of the light
fingered gentry.
One of the victims of the pickpockets
was Mayor Wilson, messenger of the
house agricultural committee. Mayor
Wilson escorted Mrs. Hatch, wife of
Representative Hatch, of Missouri, to
the members gallery, and when he re-
turned to the floCr he was minus his
watch and chain, which had been deftly
distracted during hif brief absence from
the committee room.
The members were slow in gathering
and when the gavel fell there was not
more than score of Representatives on
the floor. Mr.. Reed put in an appear
ance at 10:45. AS his portly figure ell
bowed its way through the crowd Of
pages, messengers and others grouped
about the speakers desk, he was recog-
nized by the spectators in the galleries
who rose to their feet and cheered him
wildly. Mr. Reed wore his conventional
suit Of black, his Prince Albert coat
tightly buttoned. He wore scarf of a
bright color, which relieved, somewhat,
the sombreness of his attire.
He seemed embarrassed by the plaud-
its of the multitude. and, handing his
top coat nervously to page, he hastily
left the floor and sought the seclusion of
q private corridor in the rear of the
chamber. He did not reappear until
the session began.
A generous round of applause greeted
the arrival of Speaker Crisp, who came
in at II o'clock, and Immediately as
cended to the speakers chair.
At 10 o'clock the committee rose and
the tariff bill with the amendments was
reported to the house and Mr. Reed, of
Maine, took the floor in opposition to it,
(amid loud cheers.
Mr.. Wilson, chairman of the ways
and means committee, is reported to lie
in very nervous and exhausted condi-
ton, as a consequence of his severe la
bors in connection with the preparation
of the tariff bill during the past four
months. He spent restless night and
is suffering from a severe cold tbs his
the city of Mexico, his expectation be ng
that change Of scenes and rest will re-
store him again to health.
Immediately after reading of the jouI
nal Mr.. Lockwood made point of no
quorum. Inc Toll call uISCIOSeu the
presence of 22l members.
The house went into the committee of
the whole and took up the question pend
ing.
Mr.. Wilson's motion to close the de-
bate on the barley amendment and the
house so decided. Wilson and Warner,
of New York, then took their places as
tellers, and the motion was agreed to,
179 in the affirmative. none III the mega
tive.
The question then recurred on the
amendments to the barley schedule.
These were the amendments by Will
son. raising the duty on barley from 20
o a5 per cent, and on barley malt from
25 to 30 per cent.
Mr.. Tracey, of New York, had offered
an amendment to this raising duty on
barley to 35 per cent.
Mr.. Crisp said he was embarrassed by
the feeling that he would be unable to
meet the expectations of his friends, but
under the rules of the house he was per-
m;ited to speak in answer to the argu-
meat TO which they had just listened
Cunceding that the cause of protection
had been prompted by its strongest ad-
70 .ates, he would address himself to the
tish of showing that that policy could