The times., 1897-07-08
HOW THE DEED WAS DONE
Scenes in the Senate Chamber
During the BilI's Passage.
A RECALCITRANT DEMOCRAT
McEnery Votes for the Bill-Tom
Reed and His Squeaky Laugh-Al-
1ison watching the Birth Hanna
Seemed to Feel Responsible for
the Whole Thing.

The long tariff debate ended yester-
day afternoon at 4:54 O'Clock, when the
Vice President announced the final pas
sage of the bill by vote of 80 to 70.
There was no demonstration Inc vote
was announced in as peifunctory man
ner as If it had been the simplest klnd
of a measure, and Mr.. Hale at cnoc arose
ana gave notice that he should today
call up the deficiency appropriation bill-
Mr. Harris of Kansas and Mr. Morgan
attempted TO get up the resolution COIN
! pelling a foreclosure of the Onion racine,
but Mr. Aldrich moved an adjournment,
and yielded only to a motion 10 60 into
executive session, and the Pacific matter
was, for the time, at least, laid aside
The final vote on the bill shows that it
was not necessary to carry out IN every
respect the deal made with Mr.. Jones OF
Nevada, whereby it is understood he was
to give the bill his support. The majority
for the measure was much larger than
the Republicans expected at The outset
and was accomplished by the failure of
the Populsts and silver Republicans to
vote, the seven men whose votes are
| ueiuber racoruea nor paired being Messrs.
| Allen, Butler, Hetfeld, Kyle. Pettisrew,
| Stewart and Teller. Jones oil Nevada voted
for the bill and so did every straight Re-
| publican MI Cannon, silver Republican, OF
Utah, emphasized his opposition by yot-
| ing against it rather than remain silent.
| Mr. McEnery or Louisiana, Democrat, voted
for the bill as il has been predicted ali
| the time he would. With this strong array
| of votes il transpires that the committee
overleaped itself when il sold oIt bodily
| TO the demands made in order to get the
bill favorably reported 10 the Senate.
The tcat of Tie chamber was intense
| during the greater part of the AFTERNOON,
| but this did lot lessen the interest mani
| tested in the closing hours OF the debate
| Every chair was occupied and the cloak
] rooms We're filled with Senators and
Merlbcrs of the House. The walls OF the
! chamber We're lined up wlGh members
from the other side and behind the rear
row of seats there stood constantly
! changing but always Interested crowd Of
perspiring spectators who had helped To
| frame or sought to tear to pieces The
measure when it was In The House of
Representatives. The big, burly form
! of Speaker Reed could be seen in the
! cloakrooni, and his squeaking laughter
as he talked with Senators Lodge and
Burrows occasionally penetrated into the
chamber.
W While the final steps necessary to bring
about the Sunshine of prosperity were
| being enacted, Mr.. Elkins calmly dictated
letters 10 his stenographer; Mr. Foraker
read up on Union Pacific affairs. and Billy
Mason famed himself vigorously in an
effort to prevent the perspiration from
running away with him.
| Senators Butler and rettigrew put their
| heads together in an unsuccessful effort
/ TO frame an antitrust amen dment that
/ would pass muster ou the other side
of the chamber, and Jerry Simpson was
! giving Mr.. Harris of Kansas his former
! colleague, few points on how TO prevent
| the Vice President from running the
machine TO suit himself.
| MI Aidrich. wh1 has been saving himself
! for the struggle in conference, was at
tired in somber black, while Mr. Allison,
who has led the fight in the Senate,
wore gray coat and a white vest, that
gave every evidence of the heated con-
dition of its owner. Occasionally Mr..
Cockrcll the Democratic watchdog of the
| Treasury, walked down the center aisle
and scowled at the Populists who were
| offering amendment after amendment and
having them showed under. Then he
| would retire to the rear OF the chamber
| and confer with Mr.. Jones of Arkansas,
| who, by the aid of a huge palm leaf
fan, kept himself the coolest man on the
floor, with the single exception Of Mr..
| Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, VINO, attiTed in
| spotless white, was too pretty for even
| peTspiration to change.
| Upon Tie shoulders OF Mr.. Hanna ap-
| peared TO rest the responsibility for the
| whole proceeding He was so nervous
that he could do nothing but walk from.
| the cloak-room to the floor and from the
| floor back to the cloak-room. He fidgeted
| and fused, and frequently glanced at
| the clock to see how many minutes 1t
! wouldbe reprosperityreturned When,
| finally, the last amendment was out of
| the way andthe final vote was ordered, the
junior Senator from Ohio drifted down to the
second row of seats Immediately in front OF
| the desk of Mr.. Lodge and stood with his
hands folded, surveying the field as if he
were beholding the scene OF his personal
| triumph.
Upon his face was a self-satisfied ex
| preston that told everyone the absolute
delight that attended him on this oc-
| cason. Just to right sat, quietly, the
senior Senator from Ohio, who, while
MI Hanna was manipulating a conven-
ton in Ohio, was here making a great
fight for tie wool growers OF his State
The vote was none the less Interesting
to him, but he viewed it without dispIay
and was content to know that he had
done the best he could to prevent the
injury to the people of his State when
his colleague had deserted his post to
engage in a personal struggle in Ohio for
his own reelection. A S soon as the vote
was taken, Mr.. Hanna sent number
of kilograms announcing the final passage
of the Till and the return OF that pros
perity which he and p resident Mckinley
have SO long promised.
| Mr.. Wilson in 1894 did not recognize
his bill when he took it up in conference.
Mr.. Dingley VIII not be able To recognize
his tariff creation. The Senate in 1894,
through the agency OF Messrs. German,
Jones, Brice and Smith, made 634 amend
ments to the measure which was charac-
terized as the result of perfidy and dis
have done even better by Mr.. Dingley
for the bill goes back To the House today
with 1872 pages of amendments, aggre gat-
: ing 81 4, or 240 more than the Wilson bill
had. Many of these are immateriai, but
many more are vital and bound to prolong
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