The news & observer., 1898-02-20
A BANKRUPTCY BILL
1t Passes House by Vote of
1853 TO 125.
POPULlSTS AGAINST IT
BIT ONE OF THEM VOTED IN
FAVOR OF TT.
IT WAS NOT A STRICT PARTY VOTE
Measure IS a Substitute for the Nelson 6iII
That Passed the Senate at the Extra Ses'
sion Last Summer. Stme Par
iamentary SpaTi0g.
liamentary Sparng.

liamentarY Spar0g.
Washington. d. c., Feb. 19.-Afte
four days of consideration the House to-
dav tassed the Bankruptcy bill report
.d Inv The House committee oll Jndlc'a-
rv as substitute for the Nelson biA
.,asse.I tht. Senate at the extra session
last Summer. The bill Is known as
tbe Henderson bill. aud contains bota
voluntary and involuntary features. It
Il considered less drastic than the meas
7rre passed hy the last House og n T9te
og 157 to 81. The Involuntary features,
however. had bat sixteen majority. lo-
day a motion 70 strike out the Inv0iSin-
tnrv features was defeated by a n1alori-
~ az 10 and the bill was PASSED by a
majority OF - the vote standing ayes
rs: nays 10. Eighteen Republicans
voted against fte BILL and twelve
Democrats fer il. The Populists. with
one exception, voted against it.
To-day the bill was considered under
the fve-minIfe rule fer amendment. but
the reading af the bill. which contains
~ Uages. only advanced through the
first section and only one unimportdnr
amendment vas adopted- 1t related TO
the definition Of a term IN the bill and
corrected an admitted inconsistency. 1t
was sBtftT NN Il EAk-1A EA3G*Efk8AkE fS&3
tie rart Of the chamTE0ns of Mr.. Ma
Faauyfs rep. " u, amendment to
Iirait the operation of the measure u
two years that this amendment WAS
lost. lit was voted into the bill before
feaYr O'Clock when the final vote was
10 b. taken under the order. but mo-
ten to lay On the table. motion TO re-
consider was carried BY a narrow aaar-
gin. the roll call extending beyond that
hour, and the friends of the amendment
aIIowrA &iIe motion to reconsider to pre-
vail without a division intending to let
the vote come again upon the amend
Tncnt. But a point Of order was inter-
posed TO cut off this vote on the ground
that the hour for taking the final vote
had arrived Some delicate parliamen-
tafy sparring occurred. but the point
was sustained by the Speaker. Had tine
friends Of the amendment interposed a
similar point of order against the mo-
tion to reconsider it also would proba-
bly, have been sustained and the amend
ment would have remained in the bill.
THE DETAILED VOTE.
The detailed vote on the Bankrrtcy
bill Is as follows:
Ayes-4adanls, Aldrich. Alexander
Rabcock, Baker. of Md; Barber, Bar
ham, Barrows, Bartholdt. Belden. Bel
ford. Belknap, Benner, Bennett, Bing-
ham, B3utelle, of Maine; Brewster.
Frederick, BrOmwell, Brosius.
Brumm, Bull, Burke. Burleigh,
Burton. Butler, Capron. CHECKER
ing, Clark. OF Iowa; Cochrance. of
New York; Codding, Connally. Corliss.
Crump, Crumpacker, Cummings, Curtis,
OF Kansas: Dalzell Danford, Davey,
Davidson. of Wisconsin,: Dawson, of
Kentucky, Dingley, Dorr, briggs, Eddy,
Elliott, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Fletcher, Foote,
Fowler, of New Jersey: Gardner. Gibson,
Gillett, of New York: Gillett. of Massa-
chusetts; Graf, Greene, Griffin, of Wis
ccnsin: Grosyenor, Groglt, Hamilton,
Hammer. Hawley. Hemenway. Hender-
son. Henry, of Connecticut; Henry, Of
Indiana: Hicks. Hilbcrn, H.l Hooker,
Howe, Howell, Hurley, Jenkins, JOY,
Ketchan. kirkpatrick, Knox, Kulp,
Lands, LanEam, Lawrence, Littauer,
Iorimer. Loud. Lowering, Low. Lybrand.
,McAlesr, Mccall, Mco9eary, Mcdonald,
McEwan, McIntire. Mahon, Mann, Mer-
Ger, Mesick, Meyer. of Louisiana; Mil
I ler. Minor. .ditchell. Moody, Morris,
Mndd. Northway, 0dell Olmsted Often,
Oyerstreet, Packer, Payne, Pearson,
Perkins, Pitney. Ray. Reeves, Rixey,
Royse. Russell. Shattitc, Sheldon, Sher-
man. Showalter, Sinpkins. Skinner,
Smith, of --lil1c;s: Samuel w. Smith,
VIM. Alden Smith, Southland, South
wick. Spefry, Sprague, Stephens. of
Texas: Stevens. of Minnesota; Stewart,
of New Jersey; Stewart, of Wisconsin,
Charles w. Stone. VIM. A. Stone,
Strode. Sullivan Tawney, Taylor, of
Ohio: Updergraff. an Yoorhis, Wads-
worth, Walker. of Massachusetts, Wal
ker Of Virginia; Wanger, Ward, War
ner. Weaver. Weymouth. Williams, of
Pennsylvania: loung, of Pennsylvania
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Nays-Adamson. Allen. Bailey. Ba-
ker. Of Illinois; Bal, Bankhead. Bar
low Bartlett. Bell Benton, Bland, Bot
kin. Brantley, of Georgia; Bremen,
Broussard. Brown. Brucker, Brundidge,
Carmack, Castle. Ciardy, Clark, of Mis-
souri,. Clarke of New Hampshire: Clay
ton, Cochran, of Missouri; Cooney.
Cooper. of Texas; Cousins. CowherI,
Cox. Davenport. .5ayis, De Almond, De
Graffenroid, De Vreis. Dinsmore, Dock
cry. Dolliyer. Epes, Ermentrout. Faris,
kirkpatrick. Fleming. Fowler. Of North
Carolina; Fox, Gaines. Griffith. of In
diana: Griggs. Gunn, Hager. Handy,
Hartman. Hay. Henry. of Mississippi
4-enry, Of texas; Hepburn. Hinrichsen,
Howard, Of AaDama: Howard. of Geor-
gia: Hunter. Jett. Johnson. of Indiana
johnson, of North Carolina: Jones. Of
Va: Jones. of Washington; Kelly, King.
Kitchin, Kleberg. Lacey. Lamb. Les
ter. Lewis. of Georgia: Linney. Little,
Livingston, 10y, Love. Mccormick.
McCuAoch. Mcdowell. Maddox. Ma
gglire. Mahany. Marsh. Marshall, Mar
tin. Maxwell. Meekirson, Miers. of In
diana. Moon. Newlands. Ogden, Osborne
0tey. Peters, Pierce. of Tennessee;
Prince. Ridgeley. RJbb. Robbins. Robert
son. of Louisiana Robinson. of Indiana;
Settle. Shuford. Simpson. Sims. Smith
Of Kentucky: Stark, Strait, Sulioway
Sutherland, Talbert. Tate Terry, Tod
Tongue. Underwood, Vincent, Wheeler
0f Kentucky, Williams. of Missouri;
Wilson Young. of Virginia; Zenor-124
Messrs Henderson rep. Iowa., Ray
rep. n. ", Terry Dem. Ark. Were
appointed conferees on the bin and then
at 6:10 p. m. the House adjourned.