The morning times., 1896-05-05
LEADERS CAUGHT MAPPING
Senate Adjourned Before They
Knew What Had Happened.
QUORUM WAS NOT PRESENT
Mr.. Pasco, who Was in the Chair,
Declared the Motion to Adjourn
Carried, However-River and Har-
bor Bill Gives Way to the Bond
Resolution.

The Republican leaders in the Senate were
caught mapping at O'Clock yesterday
afternoon and an adjournment was agreed
upon before they fairly knew what was
happening.
AS The vote was taken Mr.. Frye stood
in astonishment in the center of the middle
aisle, and asked, What's this?''
THE Senate stands adjourned said
Mr.. Pasco, who was in the chair. till
II O'Clock Monday"
''Whatl" exclaimed Mr.. Frye. mot
for a week?''
1t almost took his breath away. He
must have thought the Democrats We're
taking snap Judgment with vengeance
toward proionging the session till after
the Republican national convention.
mo" corrected Mr. Pasco; "ull IL
o'clock tomorrow" And he descended the
steps and walked up to his seat with
smile spreading back TO his ears.
Mr. Hill was speaking rather laborlousiy
upon the Peifer resolution 10 investigate
the bond issues, when Mr. Mills came
into the Senate from a cloakroom. de
noticed that the attendance was VeEy
thin, with his friends In majority
Quietly catching the,eye OF Mr.. Pasco,
presiding he asked Mr. Hill If he would
yield to a motion 10 adjourn
DID NOT NEED A QUORUM.
AS Mr.. Hill had taken up the discussion
only after most vigorous effort to staVe
it off, and had been complaining through
his whole speech that he had been taken
unawares, he rather thought he would yield
Mr.. Mills moved to adjourn, but just at
that moment Mr.. Chandler. coming in from
the cloakroom, observed what was id
progress, aud suggested the absence or
quorum. Mr.. Pasco had already called for
the vote and would not allow this to in
terfere.
II call for the yeas aud nays" said Mr.
Chandler.
Not sufficient number, 'said Mr.. Pasco
a moment later.
DIVISION" said MFR. Lodge, who had
come in and taken his place by Mr.. Cand-
ler's side.
"A division is called for" said Mr.
Pasco.
There were eight Democrats and seven
Republicans in the room at the moment and
Mr.. Pasco declared the motion carried. 1t
was regular eiectoral-commisSIon eight
to-seven affair with the shoe on the other
foot.
Mr.. Frye, Mr.. Elkins, and half dozen
other Republicans came in and were stand
ing upon the floor when the negative side
of the division was taken. but they didn t
realize what was happening and were not
counted.
They sat down In a sort of daze after
IL was all over TO compare notes and see
II everything was regular in the proceed
fngs Journal Clerk Spencer, who is au-
thority on parliamentary law. thought
usage sustained Mr.. Pasco, but others said
he had arbitrarily declared an adjournment.
SENATOR BURROWS SURPRISED.
Twenty minutes later Mr.. Burrows came
over from the other end OF the Capitol and
was surprised when he tried TO go into
the Senate chamber to find the main doors
locked in his face. He went around by the
reception-room and got into his desk.
The bond resolution had been taken up
by vote OF % to SO, after motion TO
proceed with the river and harbor bill
had been defeated.
Mr.. Frye said that he would accept the
vote Just taken as Instructions to him
not to press the consideration OF the river
and harbor bill Until the bend resolution
was out OF the way.
Mr.. Wolcott. Rep, Col, said that the
country would breathe more freely if Tie
river and harbor bill were withheld until
the country understood something as to
whether bonds were TO be issued from time
to time.
Mr. Hill remarked sarcastically, that
all the information which Mr.. W0cott
would get from the proposed investigation
would not relieve his mind at all. The
Senate. he added, had seen fit to djsplace
the river and harbor bill in order to take
up this ''senseless. uncalled-for and mis-
chievous resolution" He comnented upon
the fact that Senators Lodge, Rep, Mass,
and German. Dem, Nd, voted against Mr..
Frye's motion and characterized it as "A
Massachusetts and Maryland combination
superintendent of Charities Tracy and
| others were also called upon by the COM
| mittee to give them Information regarding
the working of these institutions.
In the course of his long speech, Mr.. Hill
mentioned the fact that the resolution had
| been modified so as to make no allegation
or insinuation against any officer of the
government, and said that as there was no
allegation of misconduct, there was to be an
| investigation merely for the purpose OF hav-
| ing any Investigation. That was all. II
| there were any tangible charge against the
Secretary of the Treasury, he tMr. Hill
would vote for an investigation.
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL APPROPRIA
TIoN.
Mr. Palmer yesterday introduced a bill
| authorizing the payment to William W
Jackson, of this city, ST. Z l. 80 for sustenance
| and clothing furnished recruits for the First
| Mississippi Mounted Rifles, and for prem
| iums for recruiting men for the organiza
| tion. 1t was referred to the Committee
| on Claims.
The subcommittee on the District Appro.
| priation Committee yesterday heard Presi
dent Boardman, of the Emergency Hospital
who asked that the hospital have it's ap
| propriation outside the lump sum appro
| priated in the House bill for charitable
| uses. a. lso representatives of Freedmen's
| Hospital were heard.
| Commissioners Truesdell and Powell an6
! Attorney a. s. Worthington were heard
| further before the District Committee yes
! terday afternoon, in regard to street eX
| tension. IL was agreed that they should &C
before the Appropriation Committee ant
| try to get money for extension Of streets
in the thickIy-popGlated portions of tht
District. adjacent to the city, according
| to the plans under the highway act
| strong effort will be made to set some
| thing in the most urgent cases.
Before going to the appropriations room
| they met Mr.. Crosby, of the Potomac Ligh
! and Power Company, with two or three
| friends. In the corridor, and held a ter
minutes conference. 1t is thought likel,
| some legislation in favor of Mr.. Crosby'l
| company Will be sought by an amendment
| TO the appropriations bill. The subcom
mittee will probably be occupied toda-
with the street extension problem.
LEYYING OF DISCRIMINATING DUTY
The bill to remove the political disabili
ties of John Tayler Wood, at one time
resident of this city, was passed by unani
| nous consent.
| parEinc introduced hin -