The age-herald., 1900-04-25
Galleries Were Thronged With
 Interested Spectators.
PETTIGREW REFUSED TO VOTE
Senator Vest Voted No" in a Clear Tone, and the Last Hopes of Friends of Quay Were
 Blasted

l Quay today refused a seat in the | United States senate appoint.
 men of the governor of Pennsyl- | vania by vote of 33 to 32 The | entire session of the senate today de- voted to debate upon the question, many | of the greatest orators and lawyers in the | body delivering speeches. As the days session wore on and the hour for the final
 vote approached, the galleries gradually
 filled until they were thronged with multi
 tudes while other multitudes were unable
 to gain admission. On the floor of the sen-
 ate was every member of the body now
 in the city, and scores of members of the house.
 | The great throng listened with deep at- 1 tention to the argument of MT. Spooner in | favor of the seating of the former Penn. sylvania senator, and to the dramatic and fiery eloquence of MT. Daniels of Virginia,
 who appealed to his colleagues to do what
 on his oath as a senator he deemed to be right, and vote to do justice to him who
 was knocking at the senate door. As the big clock opposite the president | pro tempore indicated o'clock there was | a hush in the chamber MT. Frye, in the | chair, announced that the hour for the | final vote had arrived, and that the ques- | tion the pending motion of Mir. Chand- | Ter to strike out of the resolution declar- | ing MT. Quay not to be entitled to seat
 the word not" senator's throughout the | chamber eagerly followed the roll, for all | knew the vote would be close. .. Pet ST " Did Not Answer The first sensation was caused by the failure of MT. Pettigrew of South Dakota
 to answer to his name, although he was in
 his seat When MT. Vests name was called h,a n a nt Ctin thus dashing the last hope of the friends of MT Quay, who had expected confidently that the distinguished Missourian would vote for his longtime personal friend. In perfect silence it was announced that the senate had denied to Mir. Quay the seat which he has sought for some months past.
 In extended argument Mr. Lindsay, Kentucky presented legal and constitu-
 tional reasons why, in his opinion Mir. Quay ought not to be seated. He held that the appointment of senators by the state
 executive was provided for by the fram-
 CTS of the constitution merely to provide
 for the filling of vacancies that may be regarded unexpected
 They never contemplated Senator Lind
 say maintained, that the legislative power
 to elect should be divided with the execu- tive and he urged that in the present case
 the governor did not have constitutional
 authority to appoint MT. Quay
 MT. Spooner of Wisconsin and MT. Stew
 art spoke briefly in favor of MT. Quay. | MT. Turner of Washington said his con- ! victions compelled him to vote against Mr. | Quay although he voted in favor of seat | ing MT. Corbett.
 This is a judicial question:" said Mir.
 Daniel of Virginia, and ought to be decd-
 ed upon judicial principals. According to my legal convictions MT. Quay is entitled
 to seat in this body and I believe l will
 vote."
 1 Daniels Concluded the Debate | Mr Daniels concluded at ten minutes of | o'clock. During the afternoon the gall | leries had filled gradually until at this time they were 1ammed. Every senator in the city was in his seat, and many members of the house of representatives, including al- most the solid Pennsylvania delegation, | were in the area outside the rows of desks The joint resolution providing for the | filling of temporary office in Porto Rico | was sent to the conference, Senators For | aker, Perkins, and Cockrell being named as conferees
 1 At o'clock the chair announced that | the hour for voting had arrived, and the | pending question was Mir. Chander's mo- | tion to strike out of the committee reso- | lutions declaring that Mir. Quay was not | entitled to a seat in the senate the word mot"
 The motion was defeated 8 to g. The question then recurred to the original resolution, and 1t was adopted B to 32, the former vote being exactly reversed on this
 question.
 Thus MT. Quay was denied seat in the senate on the appointment of Governor Stone
 The senate then. at 4:25 D. m., adjourned.
 THE HOUSE ia
 Washington, April 2.-In the house to- day, MT. Hill of Connecticut, alone objected to the Foraker emergency resolution to continue the present officers in Porto Rico in office until the appointments are under civil government act, as amended by the committee on insular affairs. The amend ments require that all franchises shall be approved by the president before they be- come operative, and place certain restric- tions upon chartered corporations, such as the issuing of stock or bonds except for cash and inhabiting real estate corpora tions the holding of real estate by cor. porations except such is necessary to carry out the purpose for which they are created About twenty pages of the post office appropriation bill were disposed of, the only substantial amendment adopted being one to give extra compensation to letter carriers who work in excess of forty> eight hours a week.