The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-24
TARIFF, silver AND BONDS
They Furnished the Inspiration for
Senatorial OratOry.
MIR. MILLS INTRODUCES A BILL
Irritation in tho House Produced by
Constitutional Debate--WelI known
Statesmen from Both Parties
Join in the Talk 'ipOn Rules.

Washington. Jan. 23.-There We're
three set speeches delivered In the sem
ate today The first was by Mr.. War
ren, Rep.. Wyo.), on a resolution Of
fered by him about a week ago in ref
erence to the unprecedented shrinkage
in numbers and values of farm animals
throughout the United States" The
speech was largely laudation Of the
system of high protective duties as en-
bodied in the Mckinley act and n con-
demnation of the Wilson tariff act.
which Mr.. Warren characterized as IAN
emblem Of beneflcence to foreign in
terests and of disaster to our own
The second speech was made on the
house bond bill. with the free coinage
annex. by Mr.. Dubois. (Rep.. lda.)
Mr.. Dubois declared his purpose to vote
for the free coinage substitute. and
only expressed his regret that its adop-
tion by the senate would not avail to
secure its enactment. The Monroe doc
trine was the subject of the third
speech. This was made by Senator
Daniel, Dem., Va), and was an argu-
ment i'm favor of the Davies resolution
and i'm defense of the course of the ad-
ministration in the Venezuelan matter.
Before the speechmaking of the day
began. a rather amusing scene was pre-
scented when Mr. Pugh. (Dem, Ala),
discovered. to his apparent surprise.
that his resolution declaring govern
ment obligatl rs payable in silver. had
lost Its advantageous place as untin-
ished morning business. and had gone
to the calendar. He finally admitted
having been trapped by the skillful
senator from New York" (Mr. HID,
and gave notice that he would move to.
morrow to take II from the calendar
and bring il before the senate for q
vote.
An effort was made by Mr. Aldrich.
Rep.. r. ~. to goad Mr.. Jones. Dem.,
Ark.), who has parliamentary charge
of the bond bill, to bring that bill to Il
vote; and Mr. Jones intimated that he
would ask unanimous consent to have
n day next week fixed for that purpose.
The only other occurrence affecting the
financial question was the Introduction
of Il bill by Mr.. Mills, Dem., Tex). to
repeal the refunding act OF 1870 and
the resumption act of 1875. Mr.. Mills
said that he would try to get vote
upon it tomorrow.
Irritation In the House.
The nervous irritation produced by
the Indulgence Of an afternoon of con-
stitutional debate" as Mr.. Dolliver
utepublican, Iowa) wittily expressed
1t. was responsible for the only enliven-
ing feature Of an otherwise dreary
sketch In the house proceedings today.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal Mr. Henderson (Republican,
Iowa) reported the quorum counting
rule from the committee on rules as
amended to meet objections made to
it's original form. The changes pro-
vided for adjustment pending a roll
call and exempted Friday night sas-
sions (until further ordered by the
housed from the operations of the rule.
Messrs. Dearmond democrat. Mis-
sourD; Bailey Democrat. Texas);
Miles democrat, Maryland); Grow
tRepublican, Pennsylvania); Gibson
(Republican, Tennessee): and Dalzell
(Repubiican. Pennsylvania) spoke up
on the report. all but Messrs, Bailey
and Miles approving the rule. and it
was agreed to-
Mir. Crisp democrat, ,GeOrgia) moved
to substitute for the rule as whole,
the rules of the Fiftythird congress.
Before this was put. Mr.. Dollver made
a half sarcastic humorous speech, con-
graduating the Democrats upon their
advance since the famous scenes in the
Fifty-first congress. in which they pro-
tested against the counting Of a quo
rum by Speaker Reed. as evidenced by
their willingness to vote for the rule
reported today. This drew from en-
Speaker Crisp an earnest defense of the
action of the Democrats at that time
against what they deemed and which
he still deemed revolutionary pro-
ceeding on the part of Speaker Reed.
1t was to this that Mr.. Dolliver re-
sponded as quoted as above in explain
alton of his purpose to say nothing
that should irritate the Democrats or
cause evil memories to rise. The sub
stitute of Mr.. Crisp was rejected and
the rules as reported were declared to
be adopted. After the transaction of
some routine business, the house at
4.3O u. IN. took recess until Friday
night for the consideration of private
pension bills.
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