Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-10
CONGRESS.
Senate.

agreement to that erect having p e17I
reached. This brings to a conclu-
sion debate covering many days. The
agreement came rather unexpectedly at the
Sad talked IF t6ree by os and WAS
to be followed by Mr.. Bate. when Mr.. Chan-
der precipitated the question of final vote
by stating that he would ask unanimous
consent for a recess from until 100
o'clock. While the senator did not mention
VOTE it was well understood that the
move was to expedite vote by disposing
of speeches during the evening
The long contest over the silver bond bll'
in the Senate ended on the 1st. that Dody
tute to the House bond bill by the decisive
vote of AZ to 80, a majority of for free
silver. This result was reached after three
hours of .caustic debate and sharp parlla-
mentary fencing. The public interest III the
elimination of the protracted struggle was
shown by crowded galleries and a full at
tendance on the floor, seventy-seven sena-
tors being present and the others paired.
1t had been expected that a final vote
would be taken at O'Clock put COZ conn1 rc
of opinion arose, as to the agreement re-
sulting in considerable bitterness and per-
sonal feeling. Many amendments were
pending when O'Clock arrived, and these
were summarily cut off by strict con
struction of the agreement, although the
differences over the agreement itself held
set The 0t vote was: Yeas-Allen, Bacon,
Bate, Berry, Blanchard, Brown, Butler'
Call nnns G Geors G Hdrr
tie. Mitchell (Or). Pasco, PETER. Perkins,
Pettigrew Pritchard Pngh Roach Shoqp'
Vest, voorhees,. Walthall, Warren, White.
Wilson-42 Nays-Allison. Baker, Burrows,
Caffery, Chandler, Davis, Elkns' Faulkner raen'
Gray, Hale. Hawley. Hill, Hoar, Lindsay,
Lodge, Mcbride, Mcmillan. Martin, Mills,
Mitchell lWis): Morrill,; Murphy; -. Nelson,
Palmer. Platt. Proctor, Sherman Thurston,
Villas, Wetmore-35.
The belated tariff bill emerged, from the
finance committee on the 4th and made It's
appearance in the Senate soon after the
session opened. The substitute was sug-
gested by Senator Vest and was agreed to
in the finance committee by majority OF l.
Gratis for the substitute and all the Re
publicans present voting against It, Senl-
tor Wolcott Coli was the only Republican
against the substitute. Senator Jones (Ark;)
the only Democratic member not present,
was recorded as voting for 1t. me sups 1
tute agreed to is in the exact words OF the
silver substitute for. the bond bill which
passed the Senate on Saturday. 1t provides
for the free coinage of silver at the ratio
into standard dollars of the silver selgnlof-
age in the treasury Accommodating. the
purchases under the Sherman act; PROMPTS
the issuance of national bank notes OF
smaller denomination than $40. and directs
the secretary of the treasury to redeem
greenbacks and treasury notes in either gold
or silver exclusively, at the option of the
secretary, and to reissue greenbacks. MI
Quay offered resolution to recommlt the
bill with instructions to report the qrlg1Hali
and the substitute separately. but Mr.. Hill
objected and the resolution went over Tor
a day.
Senate since Mr. Tilman's sensational
speech was that of Mr.. Vest. arralgnlng
Secretary of Agriculture Morton on the
9Th. The keen satire and ridlcule, directed
against the secretary and the alluslOn TO
the President made the speech hardly less
notable than that which recently startled
the Senate. Mr.. Vest referred derislveiy
to ''the colossal intellect dealing with cab
bages'' At one point the senator said:
"The secretary of agriculture charges from
his office, reminding us of what Cicero says
excesst evasit erupit' ILaughter.I When
the secretary of agriculture hears OF sill
yer lunatic he is like the warhorse in job
his neck is clothed with thunder. You
might go further and say: He saith among
the prophets. Ha. Ha! and he smelleth the
battle affair off. the thunder Of the captains
and the shouting.
Mr. Vest severely criticised the practice
Of furnishing costly flowers from govern
ment greenhouses for the receptions at
the executive mansion.
to recommit the tariff-silver bill with in
structions taken up for consideration aIter
the routine business =. but but te Sar
The Catron anti-prize fight bill, which was
hurried through the House, passed the
Senate on the 9Th During the day Mr. Nor
the resolution of Mr. Quay relative to the
recommitting of the taritf-silVer DILL Nj,
Morgan's amendment instructs the nnance
committee to add provision deductlng IL
per cent from customs duties on goods
imported in vessels of the United States or
of the country producing the imported ar
ticle provided that the countries exporting
such goods shall provide by law that silver
bullion, the product of United States mines,
shall be admitted to coinage on equal terms
with gold. Mr. Turpie addressed the Senate
in favor of the election OF United states
senators by popular vote MI; Turple
spoke Of the growth Of corporation lnliu1
ence 1t was notorious that the central
bureau of this malevolent corporate power
is at the capitals of the various states
whenever United States senator is chosen.
Destroy this rule of the trust by giving to
the neople the election of senator's and the
ballot of opinion is restored: unaWed ana
unbought The senator referred to the
deadlock in Kentucky and the previous one
in Delaware and pointed out the growing
dangers Of leaving the choice OF senators
with legislatures instead of with the people,
House.
The House passed a bill on the, 31st
granting the Christian Endeavor society the
use of some of the government reservations
in Washington during their meeting mere
next summer. M. jenkins Rep;, Wls,)
the contest of Rosenthal Rep.l! VS.. Crowley
from the Tenth Texas district. He ex-
planned that Mr. Rosenthal had decided not
speech granted on the 30th. Accordingly the
unanimous report in Crowley's favor was
adopted without debate division. The
House then went into Committee 5 Of the he
and took up the consideration of the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill
In the House on the LIST Mr.. Powers Rep.,
vt) asked unanimous consent for the con
sideration of the Senate bill to pay to the
widow of the late Justice Samuel T. Miller
s7419 the amount of the balance of his
salary for the year in which he died. Mr.
Loud Rep.; Cali objected and the bill was
(Rep., o. from the committee foreign
affairs was adopted calling on the Presi-
dent. if not Incompatible with the public
interest. to transmit to the House all cor
respondence between this government and
Germany relative to the exclusion of life
insurance companies of the United States
from the transacting of business in Ger
many. The House then went into commit
tee of the whole and resumed consideration
of the District of Columbia appropriation
bill.
The House spent the entire day on the Sd
discussing a series of amendments to strike
from the District of Columbia appropriation
bill eight appropriations aggregating S34-
900. for the maintenance of destitkte women
and children in various private and sectari-
an charitable institutions in the district It