Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-23
MIR. ALIENS ANTI-B0ND BILL
Occasions Spirited Debate in the Senate-It Goes 0yer-Labor Committee Appa-
 renty Fails.

Washington. May 22-An important and spirited debate took place in the senate today On the bill introduced sev- eral months ago by MT. Butler, populist, of North Carolina, prohibiting the issue of government bonds without the consent of congress. MT. Hill, democrat, of New York, spoke for nearly three hours in condemnation of the measure as an act | of repudiation, and it was denounced in | most emphatic terms by Senators Sher- man, republican, of Ohio; Hawley, re- publican, of Connecticut; Lodge, repub- | lican of Massachusetts; Baker, repub- | lican, of Kansas; while it was defended | and advocated by Senators Mills of Tex ] as, George of Mississippi, Clarke of Wy | oming; Teller republican, of Colorado; Allen, populiSt, of Nebraska, and Stewart, | taking it up in the first instance showed | a majority of fourteen in favor, but when | it was displaced by the calendar after | two hours discussion and a new vote was required to take it up again, the ma | jority dwindled down to two An effort was made to have time fixed for taking | the vote, next Monday at D. m., but ob- | jection was made and the bill went over | till tomorrow.
 The final conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented and agreed to-a satisfactory compromise having been reached in the matter of the deep sea harbor in southern California, and at D. m. the senate adjourned until to- morrow.
 The debate on Buffers bond bill was | precipitated upon the senate as soon as the chaplain had finished his opening prayer. Without even waiting for the reading of yesterdays journal, MT. But Ter moved to proceed to the consideration of his bill.
 Mr. Sherman asked unanimous consent fO take and the question of filled cheese" but MT. Butler said that he felt compelled to object, as that measure would lead to discussion, and he insisted on his motion.
 That being such an important ques- tion,v MT. Hill interposed "I desire full senate; and l suggest the absence of a quorum
 The roll was called and forty-nine sem ators -four more than quorum re- sponded.
 The vice president stated the question to be on MT. Buffers motion, and the yeas and nays were demanded. The vote in detail is as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Bate, Der ry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler, Cnllton' Coekrell, Daniel Dubois, George, Hans brough, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, Kyle, Martin, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon, Pasco, Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew Pritchard, Pugh, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Thurston, Turpie, Vest, Warren, White and Will Son-34.
 Nays-Messrs. Allison, Baker, Bur rows, CaffeIy, Chandler, Davis, Frye, Gallinger, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hili, Lindsay, Mcbride, McMillan, Morrill,, Nelson, sherman, Villas and Wetmore 20.
 The second vote was taken at o'clock when bills on the calendar out of the reg ular order displaced the Butler bill. MT Butler moved to lay aside the calendar and proceed with the debate. The vote was as follows.
 Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Berry, Butler, Chiffon, Clark, Cockrel1, Daniel, Dubois, George, Hansbrough, Jones or Arkansas, Kyle, Martin, Mills, Mitchell Of Oregon, Morgan, Pasco, Peffer, Per kins, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Pugh, Roach, Stewart Teller, Thurston and White-29.
 Nays-Messrs. Allison, Baker, Brice, Burrows Caffery, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hill, Lindsay Lodge Mcbride, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill,, Platt, Sewell sherman, Villas, Wetmore and Wilson-27.
 The House.
 The labor committee bill, discussion of which was begun yesterday, has appar- ently failed this session. The rule pro- viding for the consideration of the bill excepted conference reports on appro- priation bills from it's operation, and to- days session was exhausted by meas ures of this character. The first was the partial agreement of the river and har- bor appropriation bill. It met the vigor- ous opposition of Messrs Dockery, dem ocrat of Missouri, and Hepburn, repub- lican, of Iowa, but despite their eloquent denunciations of the iniquity of the bill the report was agreed to by vote of 1S9 to 56. Friends of the bill endeavored to prevent vote by yeas and nays, but Mr. Hepburn was able to muster suffi- cient strength to effectively second his demand.
 Next came the sundry civil appropri- alton bill, and upon the plea made by MT. Bartlett, democrat, of New York, the house voted-15O to 59-not to agree to the conference report. His objection was to an item appropriatng $125OO to pay Gen. James D. Mcbride for 25O0 sets of his historical publications, which he said were merely charts, "cheap, poor, imperfect and faulty" The house voted to insist upon It's disagreement to all the senate amendments except those relating to public buildings, and upon these sep arate votes were taken. As to all all that were reached before the house, under the rules, took a recess until 8 o'clock, it voted to insist upon it's disagreement These were public buildings at Bcies City, Idaho; Camden, N. J.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Helena, Mont; Kansas City, Mo-; Little Rock, Ark, and postofflce at Fort ress Monroe, Va.
 - A report was agreed to fixing the pen- sion voted to Brig. Gen. Joseph R. West formerly United States senator from Louisiana, at $75 month.