Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-18
BETTER GO HON {
Advice Which Mr.. Sherman Gave
to the Senate Today.
TIE MURPHY RESOLUTION ADOPTED
Lively Scenes and Some Sharp
Practice During the Session.
SOME SIGNIFICANT VOTES

Whom senator Harris resolution FOR the
| appointment OF senator White OCaID to the
| vacancy on the finance committee Was laid
before the Senate at 1915 Mr.. Manlerson
tNebD said there would be no objection TO
the resolution today. and explained that the
| opposition yesterday contained no refec-
tio1 on the Senator from Calf ,rnia MIR
! White.
Mr. Hin concurred with Mr.. Manlerson
/ and expressed the hope that the resolution
would be passed. II WAS then adopted with
out division. The Murphy resolution de-
| claring against further tarin legislation
went over temporarily at the request OF
Mr.. German.
| fhe 1ras Manderson Resolution.
The resolution Of Mr.. Gray pelD Instruct
ing the finance committee TO report baclc
the free sugar hin with an amen iment to
strike out the one-cighth llffercntiaI ON re-
hnei sugar was laid before the Seaate. MIR.
Manderson Offered an amendment Instruct
| Ing the committee TO report an amendment
law.
Mr. Gray demanded a division Of the
| IueHuoh' some debate occurred on the par
| lamentary situation.
First Vote ON the Amendment,
! Vice President Stevenson held that the
vote should be first taken on AIR Ns,aor-
sons amenement u instruct the COMMITTEES
to report back an amendment To the free
sugar bill providing for the Mckinley b,ua-
/ ty on raw domestic sugars
Great Interest was manifested in the re-
| SUIT OF the roll call The two Louisiana
4 Senators and the three populists Not,1 I'm
! favor Of the Manders1n au,u.lun,u,
Inc amendment was carried. 2I-si the
roll was called
] The detailed vote Is ne fouov,..
| 1e@s-Aiirlch, Allison. blanchard Caf-
! fery. Carey. Chandler. Cullom, Davis Dolnh-
,l Iaiiihser. t, Jones Of Nevada, Kyle Mand r.
son, Mitchell of oregon. Patton, paffer.
pettigrew. Platt, Quay, Shoup ard stewart
Nays-Bate. Berry. blackburn. cooLrau
! Coke. Faulkner George. German. Grav'
harris, Hunton, Jarvis. Lindsay. Murphy.
| Pugh Ransom. Turpe, Vest Villas and
| White-n
The pairs announced were as follows dhe
hrst named would have voted in the affirm
| ative II present.:
Allen with Hill. wolcott with Brice. Proc
tor with Call. Teller with Camden cam
| eron with Butler. Squire with BanioL Du-
| bois with Smith. Dixon with McI.aurin
| Frye with Mills. Power with Gibson. VII
| son with Gordon. Hale with Mitchell OF
| Wisconsin, Hanshrough with Palmer Haw-
| ley with Pasco. Higgins with Jones OF Ar
| tansas, Hoar with Morgan, Mcmillan with
| lrhy, Morrill, with McI'herson Washburn
| with Martin. Perkins with Roach. sherman
with Voorhees,, Lodge with Walsh.
a shifting of Tactics.
| As soon as the fact Of no quorum ap-
| peared Mr.. McI.aurin CMissD announced
| that he had reserved the right 20 vote and
/ would vote no" Mr.. Palmer Ulll made
the same announcement. The republicans
forthwith shifted their tactics. Mr. Quay
withdrew his vote and Mr. Manderson de-
clared that on an important vote like this
| If pairs were broken on the other side the
| republicans would all withdraw their votes
/ This threat sufiiced 10 circumvent the
/ democratic side. Mr.. Palmer and Mr. Nc
| LaCTin withdrew their votes and the re-
sult-2l-2o-was announced. and there be-
ing no quorum. nothing was left but call
Of the Senate
The call developed the presence Of fifty
| Tour Senators, eleven more than a quorum.
senator Murphy's Resolution.
At the request Of Senator German the
Gray -Manderson resolution was temporarily
laid aside. Senator Aldrich stating that he
thought voting quorum would appear in
two hours. Senator Murphy then called up
his resolution declaring against further
! tariff legislation at this session
Mr.. Murphy offered an amendment TO his
resolution de rlaring IL to be the sense OF
| the Senate that no further tariff LEGISLATION
| should be considered at this session and
| that II was advisable 20 adjourn at the
earliest possible moment. Without a word
OF debate the vote was taken on the reso-
| luton modified.
The resolution was adopted-27-lG
The vote In detail as follows:
1eas-Aldrich. Allison, Blanchard, Caffery,
Carey. Chandler, Cullom. Davis Dolph, Gal
lnger, Gibson. German. Jones CNev.D, Kyle
Manderscn, Mitchell toregD. Murphy. Pat
ton. PETER, Pettigrew, Plat. Pugh QUAY
Roach. Shoup, Smith. Stewart. Total -.
Nays-Bate, Berry, Blackburn. Cockrel,
Coke, Faulkner, George. Harris. Hunton,
Jarvis Lindsay, Ransom. TUrpie Vest,
Villas and White. Total. lG
Mr.. Lindsay's Resolution.
A great real OF confusion followed the
announcement, In the midst Of which Mr.
Lindsay OKyD offered a resolution ex-
pressing IL TO be the sense of the Serate
that Congress should not adjourn until a
bill had been passed removing and dIscon-
tinuiLg any duty on refined sugar which
would operate for the benefit OF the sugar
trust He asked for the immediate consii-
GRAFTON OF the resolution.
Mr.. MandeTson (NebD moved 10 amend
the resolution TO instruct the finance COM
mittee to report back the amount OF profit
TO be derived by the whisky trust from the
tiff bin now in the hands OF the Presi-
dent
Mr.. sSerman's Plain Talk
Mr.. sherman (ohio; took the floor TO in
dulge, he said. In some plain talk He
reviewed the blunders made by he demo-
Gratis in the general conduct of the long
tariff fight. The result OF the blunders Ia
detail, Mr.. sherman said, was that from
fifty to one hundred very important errors
would be found In the bill IL would be
signed by the President. Already several
of great Importance had been discovered
One Of them-that providing for the free
entry OF alcohol used in the arts-would. n
uncorrected. cost the government SeO,OplOO0
or SO.OO0.OO0 Of revenue annually.
Mr.. Hoar. the author of the amendment
had not expected that IL would be accepted
He had simply offered IL as a tentative
proposition. Mr.. Sherman quoted from the
record In support Of this statement
There were other blunders almost as seri.
Gus. Mr. Sherman then dTifted to the dis.
cussion of other collateral subjects HS
deprecated the attempted Interference of tho
President with Congress. but he justified
Mr.. Carlise's letter as 10 the effect Of tarid
bill revenues. He stated that he would II
opportunity afforded. vote for straight
duty on raw and refined sugar, without the
diferential AS far the other ''popguns's
were concerned he was opposed 20 placing
iron ore. coal and barbed wire on the freS
list.
Comparing this bill with the Mckinley
law. he said that the former, called By
some a free trade bill. would only admit 20
per cent of the articles OF commerce freS