The record-union., 1896-05-05
Significant Results Of a Yea and Nay
Vote Taken in the Senate.
Will be No Undue Haste in Passing
Appropriation Bills.
The River and Harbor Bill Laid Aside
to Discuss the Dupont Election
Case and Peffer's Bond Resolutions
House Under Suspension of the
Rules.

Rules.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-Two yea
and nay votes were had in the Senate
to-day, the results of which were Signifi-
cant as an indication that there is not
to be any undue haste in passing appro-
priation bills and forcing an early ad-
journment of Congress.
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
Chairman of the Committee on Privil-
eges 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 as unprecedented in his serv-
ice 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 a majority of one-32 to 81
and the Dupont case was taken up. 1t
was, however, laid aside aterward,
under the terms of compromise offered
by German of Maryland, by which the
harbor bill the Dupont case is to be
taken up at the close of the routine
morning business, and is to be con-
sidered until the afternoon of the fol-
lowing 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 Peffers bond resolution. The latter
was laid before the Senate at p. m. as
the unfinished business, and Frye of
Maine, having charge of the river and
harbor bill, moved that the Senate pro-
ceed to the consideration of that bill.
The motion was defeated by IL votes
2S to 11-and the bond resolution was
proceeded with, Hill of New York speak
ing against it.
The Senate bill to authorize the Mus
kogee, Oklahoma and Western Rail-
road Company to construct and operate
a line of railroad through Oklahoma and
Indian Territory was passed
Asmotion by Turpie (Dem) of Indiana
to take up the Dupont election case for
consideration was, after opposition on
the part of Mitchell (Rep) of Oregon,
Chairman of the Committee on Privil-
eyes and Elections, and after failure
to fix by unanimous consent another
time, to take it up and press it to vote
was agreed to-yeas AZ, nays Bland
the Dupont resolution was taken up.
After many propositions and counter
propositions, it was finally agreed to by
unanimous 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 consideration shall be con-
tinued and the vote taken at o'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
= p. m, the Peffer bond resolution was
laid before the Senate as the unfinished
business.
Frye (Rep.) of Maine, in charge of the
river and harbor bill, appealed to Peffer
to let his resolution go over until after
the passage of the bill, but the Senator
from Kansas declined, stating that his
resolution was the most important mat
ter before the Senate.
Frye moved that it be laid aside and
the river and harbor bill be taken up
That motion was disagreed to-yeas 2S,
nays 39-and the bond resolution re-
mained before the Senate. The follow
ing is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Burrows, Caffery Cullom,
Davis, Elkins, Faulkner, Gallinger,
Hansborough. Hill, Lindsay, Mcbride,
Mcmillan, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon,
Morrill,, Nelson, Palmer Pasco, Platt,
Proctor, Quay, Sewell, Shoup, Squire,
Thurston, Villas, Wetmore and Wilson
-2S
Nays-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry,
Blackburn, Brice, Brown, Butler, Call,
Cannon, Carter, Chiffon, Cockrell, Dan
iels, Dubois, George, German, Harris,
Irby. Jones of Arkansas, Kyle, Lodge,
Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morgan, Peffer,
Pettigrew, Pugh, Roach, Sherman,
Stewart, Teller, Tillman, Turpie, Vest,
Walthall, Warren, White and Wolcott
80
Frye said that he would accept the
vote as instructions to him not to press
the consideration of the river and har-
Dor bill until the bond resolutions were
out of the way.
Wolcott (Rep.) of Colorado said the
country would breathe more easily if
the river and harbor bill was withheld
until the country understood as to
whether bonds were to be issued from
time to time.
Hill remarked sarcastically that all
the information Wolcott would get from
the proposed investigation would not
relieve his mind at all The Senate, he
added, had seen fit to displace the river
and harbor bill in order to take up this
'senseless. uncalled for and mischievous
resolution He commented upon the
fact that Senator's Lodge (Rep.) of
Massachusetts and German (Dem.) of
Maryland voted against Frye's motion,
and characterized it as "Massachu-
setts and Maryland combination"
In the course of a long speech Hill
mentioned the fact that the resolution
had been modified so as to make no allie
CATION or insinuation of misconduct.
There was to be an investigation merely
for the purpose of having an investi-
cation. That was all. II there were
any tangible charge against the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. he Child would
vote for an investigation.
Vest questioned Hill as to the pro-
priety of the Secretary of the Treasury
giving to the syndicate-Pierpont Nor
gan e Company--the privilege OF taking
at their bid the bonds awarded to per-
sons who had not come forward with