Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-20

agreement entered into some days ago
that the Cuban question should be
taken up, Mr.. Morrill, WAS not de-
tered by the agreement, however, and
pressed his motion to take up the
tariff. There was n hurried assembling
Of senator's who remained at the
capitol, but this was considerably
short OF a full vote. The result of the
vote left the Cuban resolutions as UNI
finished business. although these have
| yielded temporarily To the military
academy and ether appropriation biiis.
Washington. Feb. 16.-The majority
against silver In the house when the
final vote was taken on concurrence
in the senate free coinage amendment
was larger than that of yesterday in
committee of the whole. Yesterday
the motion to concur was Defeated
100 TO S0-a majority of 10; to-day 1t
was beaten-215 to 90-a majority Of
125. An analysis of the vote to-day
shows that ISL Republicans and 81
Democrats voted against concurrence
and IS Democrats. % Republicans and
z Populists for concurrence. The ue-
tailed vote was as follows
Yeas: Abbott. Aitkin. Allen Miss;
Allen tUtahD, Bailey. Baker tKasl, Bank
head, Barham, Bartlett (G2), Bell tColol,
Bell CreXasl. Black (Ga). Bowers. Brod-
erick, Clardy. Cockrell. Cooper Crexasl.
Coz, Crisp. Calberson, Curtis tKasb, Dear
mond, Dirsmore, Dockery. DGolittle, Down
ing, Ellis, Gamble, Hartman Hilhorn,
Hutcheson, Hyde. Johnson (Cal.b, Jones,
KEN, Kendall, Latimer. Layton. Lester,
Linney, Little. Livingston. Lockhart, Loud.
Maddox, MaGuire. Marsh, Mcclure, Me
Culloch, Mckinney, McLachlan, McLaurin,
Il d. npnIf A1Aptn1l
Money, Moses. NELL, Newlaads, Ogden,
Otey, Pearson. Richardson. Robbins, Rob
ertson Usa), Sayers, Shafroth, Shaw. Shu-
fore, Skinner, Spencer. Stokes, Strait,
Strowd, swanson, Talbert, Tate, Terry,
Towne, Tayler, Underwood, Walker ya(.
Wheeler, Williams, Wilson udaho). Wilson
Is. ca. Woodland, Yoakum-1.
Nays-Acheson, Aldrich, Andrews, Apsley,
Arnold tR, H., Atwood, Avery Babcock,
Baker MIDI, Baker N. H., Barney. Bar
tholdt, Bartlett IN. ", Beach Bennett,
Berry, Bingham, Bishop, Blue. Boatner,
Boutelle, Brewster, Bromwell. Brosius,
Brown, Brumm, Bull, Burrcll. Burton (Mo.l,
Burton (Ohio), Calderhead, Cannon. Catch
ings, Chickering, Clark Gowal, Clark (Mo.l
Cobb MOI, Codding, Coffin, Colson, Con-
molly, Cook wis.,. Cooke 0ll.l Cooper
Fla.l, Cooper wis.l, Corliss, Cousins, Crow
theirs. Crump, Curtis Gowa), Curtis n. j.,
Dalzell, Danford, Daniels, Denny, wi
Dingley, Dolliyer. Doyerner. Draper. Elliott
Is. CO., Erdmann, Evans, Falrchild. Faris,
Fenton, Fischer. Fletcher, Fowler, Gardner,
Gibson, Gillett N. ", Gillett (Mass.h
Graf, Griffin. GroSyenor, Grout, Grow, Had
ley, Hager, Hall (Alo1, Halterman, Hardin,
Harmer, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hatch,
Heatwole. Heiner (Pa.D, Hemenway. Hen
dcrson, Hcndrick. Henry tConn.l, Hepburn,
Hicks, Hin Comm, Hit dll.l, Hooker. Hop
kins, Howe, Howell, Hubbard, Hulick
(Ohio). Huling w ya.l, Hull uowal. Hur-
ley JpnEiug Inhnsau lind Johnson IN.
d., Joy, Kerr, Kiefer, Knox, kulp. Lacey,
Lawson, Lefevre, LeiShty, LeisenrinS,
Lewis Long. Loudenslager, Low, Nahoney,
Mahon. Mccall, Mccall MASH Mccall
CTenn.l, McCleary tsilnn), Mcclellan, Nc
Cormick. McCreary tkyD, Me.cer, Meyer.
Miles, Miller wv. YaE Minor (Wis.), Moody,
Murphy, Noonan, Northway, Odell. Often,
Overstreet. Owens, Parker. Patterson,
Payne, Perkins, Phillips, pitney. Poole,
Price, Prince, Pugh, Quigg. Ray, Reeves,
ReybIrn, Royse, Rusk. Russell tGa.), Sauer-
nering. Scranton, Settle, shannon, Sher-
man, Simpkins. Smith Uli.l. Smith ,MichL.
Snoyer. SGfg, Southard, Southwick. Spaid-
ing, Sperry. Stable, Steele, Stephenson,
Stewart On. j.. Stewart CWis). Charles W.
Stone. William A. Stone, Strobe tNebD,
Strong. S~uIloway, Suizer. Taft, Tarsney.
Tawney. Taylor, Thomas. Traceweli. Ira
cey, Treloar. Tucker, Turner (Ga). Turner
Va1, Updegraff. Van Voorhis, Wadsworth,
Walker (Mass.), Walsh, Wanger. Warner.
Washington. Watson und.,. Watson ,Ohio,.
Wellington. White, WILDER, wits. Wilson
(ohio). Wood. Wright-Total. 2l5.
Pairs were announced as follows.
the first being in favor and the latter
against The senate amendment: Nc
pearmond and Woodman. Stallings
and Leonard, Kyle and Russell
(Coln0. Pendlet9n and Hanley, Cobb
CAla.1 and Powers, Howard and Eddy.
Picker and Adams.
Washington. Feb. 1S.-The attack on
Secretary Morton for his refusal to
expend the appropriation for seed in
the present agricultural appropriation
bill was transferred from the senate
to the house and furnished the feature
of the proceedings in the lower house.
1t was led by Mr.. Baker Rep, n. ID.
and was supported by Messrs. Moses
and Livingston Dems.. GaD, Mr.. Boat
ner Dem, La and Mr.. Meredith
Dem, Va Some very harsh things
were said and ~applanded, especially
by Mr.. Boatner. who referred to Mr..
Morton contemptuously as that indi-
vidual." and not q voice was raised In
his defense. The general debate on
the agricultural bill during the con.
sideration OF which the attack was
made was closed before adjournment.
Several bills Of minor Importance
were presented and a resolution was
adopted directing the judiciary com
mittee TO inquire into the right Of an
executive officer 10 refuse to execute a
law on the ground of its ~unconstitu.
tionality and TO report by bill or other.
wise. This investigation grows out
Of Controller Bowler's decision in the
sugar bounty cases. MI. Ray of New
York in presenting the resolution said
that Mr.. Bowler's right To question the
constitutionality of a law was ad
mitted by all to be of doubtful legality
Mr.. Terry Of Arkansas, IN the other
hand. expressed the opinion that al
executive officer executed an %unconsti
tutional law at his peril.
a Child Burned.
Huron. s. D.. Feb. IL. - The resi-