The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-09

St. Louis. June Ga Washington
special to the Globe-Democrat, Mon
day right. said:
by 4 vote of I72 to IS, the house, a
few minutes befor. seven o'clock this
evening, passed the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition amendment to the
sun;!ry civil bill. This settles it. The
motion was to concnr in the amend
meDt just as it was adopted by the
senate. 1t carried first b. the viva
soce vote. Then Il division was o.
handed. The members arose, aud
were counted by the speaker, ZOE far
the amendment and 6S against it. the
| opposition demanded u roll-cali.
Friends of the purchase stood by mag
nificently. The result of the roll-call
WAS 1t yeas to IS nays, n majority OF
50.
The vote fixes the Worlds fair
amendmeE. a a part OF the sundry
civil bill. agreed to by both senate and
house. The voting is over. There re-
main no more tests of strength. So
far as congress is concerned, the Lou
isiana Purchase exposition is a GER
tairty.
Speakers Adverse Ruling.
The victory was won in spite of a
ruling from the speaker which seemed
mnnifestly unfair. When opportunity
members to ask for votes on separate
amendments, Mr.. Boutell, Of Chicago,
secured the attention of the speaker
and made the first motion. which was
TO ccncur in the Louisiana Purchase
Worlds fair amendment. Others fol-
lowed until there were notices of like
motions made for thirty or more
amendments.
The friends of thc purchase ar end
ment thought naturally the speaker
would put the motions in the order
they were made. But that was not
done. The speaker ruled that the
amendments must be voted on in their
numerical order. The effect of this
was to put ,he purchase amendment
last.
The house was we;ried by a 81 ssion
prolonged two hours beyond the Usual
hour Of adjournment.
The Louisiana purchase amendment
was finally reached, but under circum-
stances discouraging. Every other
amendment had failed, or the motion
to concur had been withdrawn. TO
fully realize the inherent strength of
the purchase proposition it is neces-
sary to bear in mind the adverse
conditions when the vote was
taken. If Speaker eHndcrson had
permitted the motion of Mr.. Routell
to be put at the beginning OF the vot-
ing TN amendments. the majority
would probably have been greater.
Henderson Gives LIZ.
As the clerk put the figures before
Speaker Henderson. the latter re-
rlarked in Il low tone:
''That seems 10 end that.
As soon as the announcement Ind
been made Mr.. Simms. of Alabama,
end Mr.. Steele. of Indiana, demanded
the ayes and noes and the roll call
WAS started. Speaker Henderson re-
tired to his room and Mr.. Dalzell. of
PENNSYLVANIA. and later Mr.. Gibson.
of Tennessee. presided during his alb
scrce from the chamber.
Analysis of the vote shows four
state delegations which voted almost
solidlv for the Louisiana purchase
amendment. They were Illinois. Iowa,
Missouri and Virginia. Eight of the
Iowa members went against the
speakers wishes and supported the
amendment. Nearly the entire Hi
nois delegation. except Mr.. Cannon.
voted for the amendment. Some"
states rom which the purchase people
had reason to expect support did not
give it. Among these were Kansas,
Texas and Nebraska. Minnesota did
better. From Maine to California and
from Wisconsin to Mississippi there
was a good scattering vote in favor of
the fair.
The roll call showed that Ga repub-
licans, -. I"mocrats and Z populists
and silvcriteS voted aye. and - repub-
and ~: democrats voted nav.