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 a hurried assembling
Of senators who remained at the
capitol, but this was considerably
short OF a full vote. The result OF the
vote left the Cuban resolutions as un-
finished business, although these have
yielded temporarily to the military
academy and other appropriation bills.
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 i'll
committee of the whole. Yesterday
the motion to concur was defeated
1870 to S0-a majority Of 10; today 1t
was beatcn-215 To 90-a majority of
125. An analysis of the vote to-day
shows that 1S4 Republicans and 81
Democrats voted against concurrence
and oS Democrats, - Republicans and
Z Populists for concurrence The de-
tailed vote was as follows
Yeas: Abbott, Aitkin. Allen Miss:
Allen Utah. Bailey, Baker CKash Bank
head, Barham, Bartlett tGa). Bell CColol,
Bell (fexas). Black (GaD, Bowers. Brod-
erick, Clardy, CoCkrell. Cooper trexas).
| Cox, Crisp. Culberson, Curtis tkasI, Dear
mond, Dinsmorc, Dockery. Doolittle. Down
ing, Ellis, Gamble. Hartman Hilborn,
Hutchinson. Hyde. johnson ;cal.), Jones.
KEN, Kendall, Latimer, Layton, Lester,
Linney, Little, Livingston, Lockhart. Loud,
Maddox, MaGuire. Marsh. Mcclure. Me-
CLlloch, Mckenney, McLachlan. McLaurin,
Mcmillan, Mciae, Meredith, Mondell,
| Money, Moses, Neil. Newlands. Ogden.
Otey, Pearson, Richardson, Robbins. Rob
ertson Uah Sayers. Shafroth, Shaw. Shu-
ford. Skinner, Spencer. Stokes, Strait,
Strowd. Swanson. Talbert, Tate. Terry,
Towne, Tayler. Underwood, Walker Val
Wheeler, Williams, Wilson Idaho. Wilson
Is. c., Woodland, Yoakum-90.
Nays-Acheson. Aldrich, Andrews, Apsiey,
Arnold Or. H.. Atwood, Avery, Babcock,
Baker (Mdl. Baker N, H., Barney. Bar
tholdt. Bartlett u. ". Beach. Bennett,
Berry. Bingham, Bishop, Blue. Boatner.
Boutelle. Brewster, Bronwell, Brosius.
Brown, Brumm, Bun. Burrell. Burton Olok.
Burton Ohio, Caiderhead, Cannon, Catch
ings, Chickering. Clark Qowal, Clark CMo.L
Cobb CMo). Codding. Coffin, Colson, Con-
molly. Cook tWiS,G, Cooke Ull.h Cooper
Fla.h Cooper CWis.l, Corliss, Cousins, Crow
theirs, Crump, Curtis (Iowab Curtis On. j.,
Dalzell, Danford, Daniels, Denny, Dewitt.
4 lh-tf l'piliNNss DldDtl. ilANt
Is. ca, Erdmann. Evans. Fairchild. Farls,
Fenton, Fischer. Fletcher, Fowler, Gardner,
Gibson, Gillctt tN. ~ Gillett tMass.h.
Graf, Griffin. Grosvenor, Grout, Grow, Had
ley, Hager, Hall MOI, Halterman, Hardin,
Harmer, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hatch.
Heatwole. Heiner CPa.l, Hemenway, Hea-
derson. Hendrick. Henry Comm, Hepburn.
Hicks, Hill Comm, Hit Qll.l, Hooker, Hop
kins, Howe, Howell. Hubbard. Hulick
tOhiol, Huling CIV. Val, Hull dowa), Hur-
ley. jenkins, Johnson und.h Johnson N.
D., Joy, Kerr, Kiefer. Knox, Kulp. Lacey.
Lawson, Lefevre, Leighty, Leisenring,
Lewis Long. Loudenslager, Low, Nahoney,
Mahon. Mccall, Mccall (Mass.G &
CTenn.L. McCleary (Minn). Mcclellan, Me-
Cormick. McCreary (KyD, Me.cer. Meyer,
Miles, Miller wv. Va). Minor CWis.l, Moody.
Murphy. N~oonan, Northway. Odeli. Often.
Overstreet, Owens, Parker. Patterson.
Payne, Perkins. Phillips. Pitney. Poole.
price, Prince, Pugh, Quigg, Ray. Recves,
Reybirn, Royse, Rusk, Russell GAL SAFER
nering. Scranton. Settle, shannon. Sher-
man. Simpkins, Smith dll.), Smith ,Nich.l.
Shower, Sorg, Southland. S~outhwick, Spaid-
ing. Sperry, Stable, Steele, Stephenson.
Stewart On. j., Stewart (Wis). Charles W.
Stone. William A. Stone, Strobe tNeb.D,
Strong. Sulloway, Sulzcr. Taft, Tarsney.
Tawney, Taylor, Thomas. Tracewell. Ira
oey. Treloar, Tucker. Turner Gal Turner
VaA, Updcgraff, Van Voorhis, W adsworth,
4 w slktI fAliNS.f aic 80
Washington. Watson Hnd.l, Watson tOhio).
Wellington. White. WILDER. Willis, Wilson
(ohio). Wood, Wright-Total, 2l5.
Pairs were announced as follows.
the first being in favor and the latter
against the senate amendment: Me
Dearmond and Woodman. Stnllings
and Leonard, Kyle and Russell
Comm. Pendleton aud Hanley. Cobb
(.Ala.J and Powers, Howard and Eddy,
Picker and Adams.
Washington, Feb. 1S.-The attack on
Secretary Morton for his refusal 70
cxpend 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, y. Hg,
and was supported by Messrs. Moses
and Livingston Dems. Ga.), Mr.. Boat
ner Dem, La and Mr.. Meredith
Dem, Na.) Some very harsh things
were said and applauded. especially
10y Mr.. Boatner, who referred to Mr..
Morton contemptuouSly as that indi-
vidual.' and not a voice was raised I'm
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 q
law on the ground of it's unconstitu.
tiOnality and TO report 10y bill or other
wise. This investigation grows out
of Controller BOWERS decision in the
sugar bounty cases. Mr.. Ray of New
York in presenting the resolution said
that Mr.. Rowlcr's right TO question the
constitutionality of a law was adj
mitted by all to he OF doubtful legality
Mr.. Terry of Arkansas. on the other
hand. expressed the opinion that IN
executive officer executed an uncOnsti
tutioDal law at his peril.
A Child Burned.
Huron. s. u, Feb. Is. - The resi-