The San Francisco call., 1896-05-05
All Business Laid Aside to Take
Up the Resolution for a
Bond Inquiry.
HILLS VIGOROUS OPPOSITION.
Denounces the Proposed Investigation
as Senseless, Uncalled For and
MiSchievous.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 4.-Three
aye and no votes were had in the Senate
to-day, the results of which were significant
as an indication that there is not to be any
undue haste in passing appropriation bills
and forcing an early adjournment of Con-
eress. The first vote was on a motion
made by Turpie of Indiana to proceed to
the consideration of the Dupont election
case. Mitchell of Oregon, who as chair
man of the Committee on Privileges and
| Elections, has parliamentary charge of the
subject. protested against this action on
the part of Turpie as discourteous to the
| committee and as seeming unprecedented
in his service in the Senate.
! Opposition was also made to Turpie's
motion as an obstacle to the passage of the
appropriation bills, but, nevertheless, the
motion was carried by majority of one
80 to Bland the Dupont case was taken
up. 1t was, however, laid aside after
ward, under the terms of COM
promise, offered by German of Maryland,
by which the day after the passage of the
river and harbor bill the Dupont case is to
be taken up at the close of the routine
morning business and is TO be considered
until The afternoon of the following day,
when the vote is to be taken.
| The river and harbor bill was then taken
up. but it had again to give way to Peffer's
| bond resolution. The latter was laid
before the Senate at P. NJ. as the un-
| finished business and Frye of Maine, hav-
! ing charge of the river and harbor bill,
moved that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of that bill. The motion
was defeated by IL votes-2S 10 9, and the
bond resolution was proceeded with, Hill
of New York speaking against it until
P. M, when the Senate adjourned until to-
| morrow.
| Senate bill to authorize the Muskogee,
Oklahoma and Western Railroad Company
to construct and operate line of railroad
| through Oklahoma and Indian Territories
was passed.
A motion by Turpie CD of Indiana to
take up the Dupont election case for con-
sideration was, after opposition on the
part of Mitchell (R.) of Oregon, chairman
of the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, and after failure to fix by unani-
nous consent another time to take up and
press it to a vote, agreed to-ayes 80,
noes 81.
After many propositions and counter
propositions it was agreed to by unani-
nous consent that the Dupont case be
| taken up at the conclusion of the routine
morning business, after the passage of the
river and harbor bill, and that it's con sid
Grafton shall be continued and the vote
taken at clock the next day. The river
and harbor bill was then taken up. Ten
minutes after the river and harbor bill had
been taken up at 2 P. NJ, the Peffer bond
resolution was laid before the Senate as
the unfinished business.
| Frye (R.) of Maine, in charge of the
river and harbor bill, appealed to PETER to
| let his resolution go over until after the
passage of the bill; but the Senator from
Kansas declined. stating that his resolu-
ton was the most important matter be-
| fore the Senate.
Frye moved that it be laid aside and
That motion was disagreed to-ayes %,
noes 39-and the bond resolution re-
manned before the Senate. The following
| is the vote in detail:
Ayes-Burrows, Caffery, Cullom, Davis,
Elkins, Faulkner, Gallinger, Hansbrough,
Hill, Lindsay, Mcbride, Mcmillan, Mills,
Mitchell of Oregon, Morrill,, Nelson,
Palmer, Pasco, Platt, Proctor. Quay, Sc
well, Shoup, Squire, Thurston, Villas, Wet
more and Wilson-26. Noes - Allen,
Bacon, Bate, Berry, Blackburn. Brice,
Brown. Butler, Call, Cannon, Carter, Chill
ton. Cockrell, Daniel, Dubois, George, Cor
man, Harris, Irby, Jones of Arkansas,
Kyle, Lodge, Mitchell of Wisconsin. Nor
gan, PETER, Perkins, Pettigrew. Pugh,
Roach, Sherman. Stewart, Teller, Tillman,
Turpie, Vest, Walthall, Warren. White.
Walcott-39.
Frye said that he would accept the vote
as instructions to him not to press the con-
sideration of the river and harbor bill
until the bond resolution was out of the
way.
Wolcott (R. } of Colorado said the country
would breathe more easily if the river and
harbor bill was held until the country
understood as to whether bonds were to
be issued from time to time.
Hill remarked sarcastically that all the
information that Wolcott would get from
the proposed investigation would not re-
lieve his mind at all.
| The Senate, he added, has seen fit to dis
| place the river and harbor bill in order to
! take up the ''senseless, uncalled for and
mischievous resoiuti on" He commented
upon the fact that Senators Lodge (R.) of
| Massachusetts and German (D.) of Mary
land voted against Frye's motion and
characterized it as Massachusetts and
Maryland combination"
| In the course OF long speech Hill men,
toned the fact that the resolution has
been modified SO as to make no allegation
or insinuation of misconduct; there was
to be an investigation merely for the pur-
pose of having an investigation. That was
all; if there was any tangible charge
against the Secretary of the Treasury he
| (Hill) would vote for an investigation.
Vest questioned Hill as to the propriety
of the Secretary of the Treasury giving to
the syndicate-Pierpont Morgan & Co..
the privilege Of taking at their bid the
bonds awarded to persons who had not
come forward with their gold at the time
fixed. He put the case of the syndicate
bid at 115 and of the bonds going up to
| 100, and asked whether the Secretary of
| the Treasury should not have called for
4 fresh bida for these bonds not maid for