Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-07-28
GOESTOC CONFERENCE
THE TARlFF.REFoRM BILL THUS AGAIN
DISPOSED OF.
Interesting Tie Votes In tho Senate-Lo, the
Poor Indian, Again, in
the House.

| galleries to-day and the attendance on
the floor was also slim. Mr.. Harris occu-
pied the chair. Tie reading OF yesterday
| journal was dispensed with and the usual
routine business proceeded.
Then the conference report on the
| army appropriation bill was taken up. In
| explaining the appropriations. Mr.. Black
| burn said the bill. as 1t passed the House.
appropriated s235S6,s24, and as 1t passed
the Senate. s2s,1iO,coo. and as agreed to by
the conference the bill appropriated s25,-
| 592.3si.
The paragraph referring to the Indians
at Mount Vernon barracks. Alabama, pro-
| voked some discussion. but the report as
a whole was finally agreed TO.
Then. at 10. the House message asking
| further conference on the tariff bill was
| laid before the Senate. the pending ques-
/ tion being the point Of order made yester-
| day against the motion Of Mr.. Wash
! burn TO instruct the Senate conierrees TO
recede from the differential duty Of l-sc.
per pound on sugar, the point Of order be-
| ing that IL IL not in order to give in
str;ctions in a "full and free confer
eDce."
| Messrs. Manderson and Platt argued
| against the point Of order.
The decision OF the presiding officer tMr.
Harris was in favor OF sustaining the
point of order and excluding the amend
| ment. The decision was appealed from
| by Mr.. Washburn. and n motion TO lay
| the appeal on the table was made By
Mr. Faulkner The vote was taken amid
great excitement and resulted in a tie
yeas. 80: nays, 32 The three Populists-
! Mcssrs Allen, Kyle. and Peffer-voted
with the Republicans. as did Senator HILL
and the vote Of Mr.. Irby was paired with
that Of Senator Smith, of New Jersey
The only senator who. not being paired
did not vote was Mr.. Stewart, of Ne
vada He vas present In the chamber,
but refrained from voting. The net re-
suit was that the motion to lay on the
table not having q majority, failed. d.
Then came the question as TO whether
the decision OF the Chair should stand as
the Judgment OF the Senate, and IL was
also decided in the negative. In the same
way-the vote being identically the same
as in the first instance.
BILL TO CONFERENCE.
The next vote was on agreeing to Sena-
tor Washburn's motion, and IL also failed
from the same cause.-the lack of n ma
iority-the vote being for the third time
50 10 80: but this time the Republican
senators and their allies voted aye and
the Democratic senators voted no. Then
Senator Grays original motion To insist
and agree to a further conference was
agreed 10 without division. and the
same seven Conferrees were reappointed.
Some dozen bills on the calendar were
passed. after which. at $3.50. the Senate
adjourned till Monday.
Following is the detailed tie vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Bate. Berry, Blackburn.
blanchard. Brice. Call. Cpckrell, Coke,
Daniel. Faulkner, George. Gibson. Cor
man, Gray, Hunton. Jones ff Arkansas.
Lindsay, McLaurin. Maltin. Mills,
Mitchell Of Wisconsin, MuL9hy, Palmer,
Pasco, Pugh. Ransom, ROtch. Turpie,
Vest. Villas. Walsh, and White-32
Nays-Messrs. Aldrich, Allen, Allison,
Carey, Chandler, Cullom. Ipavis, Dixon.
Dolph. Dubois. Frye. Gallinger Hale,
Ilansbrough, Hawley. Higgins Hill. Jones
of Nevada, Kyle, Lodge. McMilln. Man
derson, Mitchell of Oregon; Patton. Pef-
fer. Perkins, Plat. Proctor. Shoup, Squire,
Teller. and Washburn-32
Pairs were announced between Messrs.
Butler and Cameron: Caffery and Power;
Camden and Pettigrew; Gordon and Will
son; Harris and Sherman; Jarvis and
Hoar: Mcpherson and Morrill, Morgan
cratsl, and Voorhees, and WoIcott.
Mr.. Stewart was present. but did not
vote; nor was he paired. This accounts
for the whole number of senators-S5.
Among the bills passed was the Senate
bill to open certain parts of the Fort
Jupiter military reservation In Florida to
entry under the homestead law, the two
Florida senator's stating that they had
reconciled their differences and made
amendments in the bill.
House of Representatives.
After the passage of few private bills
under unanimous consent, Mr.. Cultivate
presented the conference report on the
military appropriation bill. The adoption
of the report was earnestly opposed by
Messrs. Flynn Republican), Of Oklahoma,
and Smith OemocraO, of Arizona, for
the reason that the bill authorized the
Secretary OF War to transfer the Gero-
nimo bands of Apache Indians now con-
| fined in Mt. Vernon barracks, Alabama
| 10 military reservations. 1t also carried
an appropriation of $1,000 to buy them
household and agricultural implements
| Messrs. Flynn and Smith protested against
| the transfer in the name of the murdered
settlers the victims of the Indians
atrocity in former years. asserting that
whatever distance separated them after
| they had once passed the Missouri river
would be as nothing to them, and they
| would soon get together again in their
| haunis Of murder and blood in the White
mountains, New Mexico. and enter upon
their career of slaughter and destruction.
Mr.. Outhwaite and Mr.. Hull (Republi-
cam, OF Iowa, defended the report. They
said II was not the intention OF the Secre-
tary OF War TO move those Indians con-
fined at Mt. Vernon for the commission
OF crimes. but II was intended to give the
women and children the same chance that
other human beings have TO do for them
selves. Neither the government nor the
people of the country, they say, desired
10 keep 2O0 women and children in prison
| all their lives for the sins of their fathers
| The report was agreed to-
Ii was $40 when Secretary Cox appeared
| at the door 10 communicate the action Of
the Senate on the tariff conference report
FLORIDA CLAIM.
The House then proceeded 10 further
| consideration of bills. The body went into
Committee of the Whole on the bill TO
authorize the Secretary of the Treasury
10 settle accounts between the govern
| ment and the State of Florida, under au-
thority of the act approved March 2. 1889,
known as the deficiency act, and TO pay
the balance found To be due. The amount
involved is about $4,000 for expenditures
made by Florida during the Indian war
of lS16-'5s. 1t was advocated by Messrs.
Mallory and Cooper. OF Florida. Mr..
Davis PopulisO, OF Kansas. opposed the
passage of the bill. He alleged that the
hOstilities grew out of the attempts of
| shareholders to suppress the sentiment
in favor of liberty among the Indians
and negroes.
Mr. Cousins Republican). of Iowa, who
made minority report adversely to the
bill, spoke against its passage lie based
his objection mainly on the ground that
the troops for whose services it was
sought 10 recompense Florida did not
come within the constitutional require
ment governing the enlistment of troops
by a State He said that at the time
there were but ninety-eight hostile In
dams, while the United States had nearly
5000 regular and volunteer troops in the
field. He looked upon the claim as
huge joke. and as a manifestation of the
habit that Florida had fallen into of
having a claim pending in Congress TO
reimburse her for expenditures on account
of the Indian wars.
The bill was further opposed by Mr..
BARTLETT DemocraO. of New York. which
carried the session up to 5 o'clock. when