St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-08
NANTED--A QUORUM
Che Situation in the House
Becoming Grave.
3EM0cRATS ARE on RETTLES
8eoause Of the Possibilities
Of the Revolt.
4 QUORUM IS EXPECTED TODAY,
Although Eastern Democrats
May Make Trouble.
GOSSIP UPON THE OUTLOOK.
I QUORUM IS EXPECTED TODAY,
GOSSIP UPON THE OUTLOOK.

WASuINGToN, Jan. THE tariff bill
NIL occupy the entire attention of the
lOuse during the coming week, or if not
ihe bill itself, then the roW over the at
;empt TO get it before the house. After
four days OF fruitleSS effort to secure the
presence of a voting Democratic
quorum, the house adopted just before
adjournment Saturday night the eX-
IRENE eXpedient of ordering the arrest
Of all members absent without leave.
Deputies were sent out in all directions
last night to serve the warrants on
these members. OF the forty members
absent without leave twenty-one are
Democrats and nineteen are Republic
ans. As some of them live at d long
distance, they can hardly get them here
tomorrow, and a quorum is therefore
doubtful, although the Democratic lead
ers express confident hope that 179 yot-
ing Democrats will be in their seats
when the gavel rapS at noon. From
the Republican absentees, 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
well as Republicans, and if the opposi-
lion within the ranks of the Democratic
majority can be organized, as some of
them desire, enough Democratic mem
DerS might refrain from voting to pre-
vent the consideration 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 of defeating the
consideration of the bill strikes terror
into their hearts, and some of tn EN-.
like Col. Oakes, of Alabama, openly ad-
Vocate resort to the parliamentary eX-
pedient utilized by the Fifty-first con-
greSS Of counting quorum. Speaker
Crisp asserts most positively that they
will not be forced to this resort. He
thinks voting quorum will be here
certainly Tuesday of the coming week
mt the farthest. If it cannot be obtained
ahen, another Democratic caucus will
'ee called. This is, indeed, what those
SThO are dissatisfied with the bill are
sllming at. They declare that as soon as
fhey can demonstrate that not ouffi-
cient number of Democrats will vote to
consider the bill, the leaders will be
Obliged to submit 10
MATERIAL NOTIFICATIONS
which the disgruntled members vii
propose. Some of the Eastern Demo
Gratis, who are fighting the income tax
proposition, are willing to go TO almost
any length to eliminate this feature of
the bill. Altogether the prospects are
good for very interesting contest in
the house during the coming week. Of
course if the quorum is secured tomor-
morrow or Tuesday the special order
will be passed, modified, probably. to
recOmpense the house for the two DAYS
lost since the order was reported by
leugthening the time of the debate to
that extent. Once the debate Is under
way 1t will proceed to the exclusion of
everything else. Mr. TarSney, of Mis-
souri,, member of the ways and means
committee, said to an Associated
Press reporter tonight that if
voting quorum was not secured bv
Tuesday, he would favor the adoption
Of rule empowering the speaker to
count members to make a quorum.
1--WE must meet revolution with revo-
lutiUn," said he. If the Democratic
members are driven to this resort, it s
believed that the Republicans for self
vindicatiOn would be compelled to sup
port it. The committee of the house is
not fairly under way, as the opening
snarl over the tariff has required all the
attention of the Democratic leaders of
the house, who constitute the chairmen
Of all the leading committees. Only
two reports have been presented since
the session opened-one from the judi
cIary commItte, on Mr.. Bailey's bank
ruptcy bill, and another from the COM
mittee on banking and currency on the
bill of Mr.. BraWley, of South Carolina,
to remit
THE TEN PER CENT TAN
collectable on the clearing house GER
tificates and other forms of private cur
Tency issued during the money famine
last fall. But, with the prospect that
the house will be engaged with the
routine and the long speeches Of the
members, the committeeman are eX-
pecting to get their associates together
and accomplish considerable work. 1t
is probable that the important bill re-
pealing the 10 per cent tax on state
bank issues will be reported from the
committee on banking and currency at
an early day, and perhaps during the
coming week. There is "a wide differ
ence of opinion between the Demo
cratic members as to the principles of
such a measure, and, as these differences
cannot we'll be reconciled, the general
desire in the committee is to report
bill simply repeating the tax and then
let the house decide all differences. The
bill of Mr.. Cox, of Tennessee, which is
brief repeal of the state bank tax,
without any effort at regulating future
bank issues, was under consideration at
the last meeting of the committee. To
some extent it is bidding for favor
against the bill of Mr.. Springer, chair
man of the committee, which removes
The tax Oh certain kinds of
STATE BANG ISSUES,
secured by government, state or munic-
Ipal bonds. Mr.. Springer thinks the
bills do not conflict and might both be
reported. It's probable, however, that
the simple repeal bill will first be re-
ported. aad that the Springer bill Will