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*1 yG, YIJI BLAND WINS THE TIGHT. A yiJOitUM MADR ANI) IiOST. Ail I'vciting Scene in Congress? j Speaker Crisp Coinrs Out liest in I n lilt With Ivv-Speaker ilectl. Washington, Fob. 28.?Bland moved that the House go into committee of the whole upon his seigniorage bill a id that general debate be closed at .'5 o'clock on Thuradav. On ?>>" 1 ^ ^ > V ? ? I a tllV/VlUU) the vote by division was 127 to 19. Traooy made tlio point of no quorum uml tho ,\ens and nays were called. Before the result of tho vote was announced, Livingston (Dom.) of Georgia said ho desired to submit a motion. Uule 8, ho said, required members present unless excused, to vote upon ov<jr$ proposition presented to tlie House. Tho gentleman from New York (Traeey) bad refused to vote aud he demandod that ho be brought before the bar of the llouso and explain his ; refusal to vote. Johnson (l)om.) of Ohio said he had a list of twenty-live members who had violated tho rule, which ho offered to send to tho desk. The chair stated that tho rule was well known. Tho eluiir could not enforce tho rule otherwise than by appealing to members to observe it. Tho chair was but tho organ of the House and would never make a rule unless , authorized and directed so to do by t he llouso. (Applause.) Hoatnor (boiu.) of Louisiana argued in support of Mr. Livingston's motion. It was, he said, an effort to bring a member to answer to a wilful contempt and violation of the rules. Tho House ought to determine hero and now whether or not a member can defy its *08. The chair stated that under tho rules : it. vrno li i-j A .v. ...... .mi) m iiniiouiM.'u n113 resuii of u vote. Tho result was: Yens 169; j nays .">; f> short of a quorum. It was j said that five supporters of Bland fail- j od to get their votes in, because tnoy ; were not in the hall of tho House when culled. Those, in addition to those recorded, would have made a quorum. Clancy and Manner of tho New York i1 delegation, who had heretofore refrained from voting, voted in favor of 1 tho proposition. These proceedings had been watched with tho keenest interest by members. j and especially Republicans, as, having within them the possibility of historymaking. When tho chair announced 1 tho vote, however, and tho incident was over, the humdrum of routine was resumed, and the members who had been eagerly crowding into the pit in 1 front of the clerk's desk, faded rapidly away. 1 Mr. Bland moved a cull of the Ilouso. ? On this motion there was lirst a viva 1 voce vote, then a vote by division, third a voto by tellers?Bland and 1 Reed ollieiating?and Anally a voto by yOUS and nays. The latter resulted: ] Yeas 189: nays 4. So tho call was ordered. It showed 2<i."> members prosent and responding to their namos. On tho motion to dispense with furthor nn >< , 1 i mr< imil.'i' t.lu> I'M lonrl 11 ? t hi-? 1 I same proceeduro was followed?four ! separate votes being taken, ending '> with the yeas and nays. Tho call ro- < suited : Yeas 18d: nays .'i, tlius dispen- 1 sing with further proceedings. I Hand renewed ins motion and the yeas and nays woro called. As tho roll eall proceeded, it became apparent to many that a quorum would bo obtained and members keeping tally crowdod 1 about the clerk's desk. Tracoy (Dem.) ' of .Now York occupied the scat, which ' for two weeks past, ho has kopt tally with the clerk on roll calls, closely fol- ? having tho responses to the call. When ! it was determined that a quorum had ' been obtained on the second eall of the ' roll, Tracoy voted aye, amid slight ap- } plaiisu from tho Democratic sido, his 1 purpose being, as afterward appeared, I to move a reconsideration. 1 ho an- i nouncoinont of the voto by the Speak- ' or, 177 yeas to 7 nays, evoked a round ' of hearty applause from Democrats and ' 1 'opu lists. Outhwaito (Dem.) of Ohio and Tra- ' coy (Dem.) of Now York were on their feet demanding recognition, the former ' a. . . .. 4 ,i n /\txl .i m f iwi tit 4 b /i i?lf . ) IU [HM'SUIll Jin ui uur ii inn i?uu uuiuututoo on rules limiting debate on the ' ponding bill and amendments to two < hours and the latter to move a recon- < sideration of tiio vote just taken. Outh- < waite was Ijiven the lloor and tho i Speaker stated, after putting tho quegi tion, that Traccy hud intorposod a 1110- 1 tlon to rooonsidor. i Outhwaito demandod the previous question on his motion, but the yeas and nays woro ordered without a dl- i vision. After a name or two had boon < called. Heed precipitated an angry dis- ' cussion. which in intensity equalled ' tho scenes in tho Fifty-first Congress, when Speaker Hood was counting quorums. Tho gentleman from Maine sug- i gestod that a roll call was out of order, i inasmuch as the last vote did not dis- < closo the presence of a quorum < The Speaker?By what authority 1 does the gentleman make that state- i ment? Heed?I am informed by tho gentloman from Now York (Tracey) that ho kept a tally and that it did not show a quorum voting. Tho Speaker?Tho gentleman from 1 Now York is not the keeper of tho roll of tho House. (Applause.) Tho clerk I will proceed with tho roll call. I Heed persisting, umind cries of "ro.rnh.r order.'' stated that when a mom H " ? ' her arose and suggested that an error hud been committed, he was entitled to rospeetful treatment from tho chair and from the House. The Speaker?J las not tho gentleman had it'/ There has been no suggestion that tho vote had been impeached by tho gentleman from New York. If one was made, tho chair will bo glad to have it examined in the interests of right and truth. While this colloquy was proceeding, tho members rushed down tho aisles to the centre, and Outhwaito and Me Millin ;n.) of Tennessee assortod that UV*>?y had accepted tho validity and cZ- rectness of the voto by moving to re<* aider it. Ilis romody was to have voto recapitulated,'and this ho had\ 'od to do. Tho '.eion became so great, morn- i bors shWu ng at each other and tho | I chair, that the Speaker suspended proceedings until comparative order was restored by members taking their seats. Reed, resuming, stated that he had boon out of tho hall while tho roll was j being called, atteading a mooting of tho committoo on rules, at whioh he I understood ho was to hav'e an oppor? fcunity to bo heard on the order reI . p>rtod, and of course, did not know , what had occurred. The gentleman from Now York (Tracoy) had informed him that a quorum had not been voted and knowing that gentleman had beon keeping tally for a number of days without making an error, lie was so much impressed witli the statement of the gentleman that ho felt it to ho his duty to call the attention of the chair and the House to it, that the error might bo corrected, if 0110 hud been made. Mo Mi 11 in (Doin.) of Tonnoaseo declared that tho gentleman from NewYork should speak for himself and not by proxy. Meredith (Dom.) of Virginia: Mr. Speaker, there lias been a comodv of errors lu>pi*. jm,l ?*?? ? !??<*>., New York has beou in error for sumo weeks unci is in error now. Mr. Tracey endeavored to make himself heard, and finally succeeded. He said that it was a matter of but little j moment. A quorum would be secured in any event, he conceded. But he hud kept what he believed to be a correct tally, and it showed but 174 votes. But he would not undertake to impeach the accuracy of the ofllcial count, whereupon the storm subsided and the : roll call proceeded. When the letter j "T" was reached there was a slight squall. Heed called tho attention of j the chair to the fact that tho clerk, | aftor calling Talbert of South Carolina, returned and called Stockdale of Mis- i sissippi, which, ho said, was out of j order. The Speakor coincided with the I gentleman from Maine, who continued I from the floor: "It is decidedly out of ' order. Tho clerks have no right to interest themselves in tho votes of gentlemen on thy. floor, to back up their action. But it is only a part of what ! we havo boon having right along." Springer [Bern.] of Illinois stated that Mr. Stockdalo had responded when his name was called. Speaker Crisp directed tho clerk not to return j to a name after it had been passed; it j was not in order. Outhwaito's demand for the previous ] question was seconded 170 to 10?and again the friends of the pending bill j expressed their pleasure at tho rosult I by vigorous hand-clapping. On the passage of the order the vote , on the division was ayes 145, nays none, i Tho ayes and nays were ordered. Be- i fore tho call had proceeded far, howover, Burrows and Reed criticised the j methods of tho reading clerks. Burrows said tho roll was really called four times, every name being repeated , on each roll call. Reed called attention to the fact that the calling was ir- j regular, some names heiiur <>n.llnrl i others twieo, and some three times, until the clerk forces an answer. There was no authority for this, they contended. Tho Sneaker stated that he did not j know how tho practice hud grown up. i but over sinco ho had been in the ! Llouso tho names had been called twice, I when the members failod to answer. Tho philosophy of the rule, lie supposed to be that, with tho least necessary delay, overy member should have j in opportunity to vote, and a repetition >f the name was probably the best method of securing that end. The voto resulted; Yeas 105, nays II?three less than a quorum?and at I o'clock, on motion of Outhwaite, tho House adjourned until noon tomorrow. Tho establishment of a quorum in I the House this afternoon ended one of the most celebrated and extended filibustering contests of late years. The Bland seigniorage bill was callad up in the House on tho bth inst., ind uebatod generally for several days. Jn tho 13th the opponents of tho bill i began to filibuster by refusing to an- ; jwor to tho roll calls, thus preventing i tho presence of u quorum. Tho Re- j publicans, under the leadership of Lleed of Maino, refrained from voting, I with tho exception of a few Koproscn- i tatives from the West, who favor the j Freo coinage of silver. The ranks of | the Republicans were reinforced by all j tho Democrats from Now York and New England, with a few scattering I voios irom noino 01 tno otlior Northern States cast of the Mississippi. On the vote by which Bland secured a quorum m his motion to take up the bill for consideration, the following Republicans voted with the Democrats and the Populists in the affirmative: Aitkeu, Bowers of California, Broderick, Doolittlo, Ellis of Oregon, Funston, Hartman, Herman, Hilborn, Lacy, Lucas, Marsh, Pickler, Settle and Sweet?lf>. Clancy, Cuuunings, Haines, Magner find Traeey, New York Democrats, niso voted in tlio affirmative?Traccy to move a reconsideration. The negative votes comprised Cuusoy, McAloer, Mutchler, Pago, Pigott, Husk and Kyan?all Democrats. At o'clock this afternoon, when the presence of a quorum was established, the crowd was so denso that the doors could not be (closed and scores of persons stood in the corridors outside, unable even to see the floor beneath. Many of the visitors wore strangers in tho city. HOW A PRESIDENT WORKS. CLEVELAND'S 1>All.Y ROUTINE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Sixteen Hours a Day During the Week?(iocs to Church on Sunday and Then Romps Willi Ruth. Rone llacho in Washington Star. Who would not enjoy being President of tho United States just for one day ? Well, it is all a mattor of taste. Tf you like work and worry for sixteen hours at a stretch you might iind tho experience agrooablo. For tho sake of illustration, take a typical day as it is spent by Mr. Cleveland. At exactly 8 a. m. tho President gets out of bed. IIo is a rapid dresser and shaves himself, though Uncle Sam providos him vith a colored valet, borne on tho pay rolls as a messengor, who is a tonsor la I expert. Ho is all ready when, half an hour later, Sinclair announcos breakfast. Sinclair is Mr. Glovoland's family butlor. His most conspicuous characteristic is discretion. VVhen a newspaper men asks him for any information, no matter how trifling, ho replios: "Our foiks do uot like publicity." Just at prosont he is a government omploye, acting as steward of the White House. Tho President escorts his wifo down to the oozy private dinning room. It is a haudsomo but not pretentious apartment, with two enormous sideboards, fllleid with complete services of solid silver and gold. Mrs. Cleveland sits ' ff^J k/ r CONWAY, S. C., TJ opposite her husband at a circular table, and pours out his coflfoo with her own fuir hands, In tho middle of tho board is a great bouquet of rare orchids from tho conservatories of the Kxoouttve Mansion. Sinclair, mute and observant, waits, assisted by a i menial inferior rank, who fete he whatever may be wanted from the pantry adjoining1. Mr. Cleveland's cup, of generous si> iv is lilff* ??ti iMftruiinll PnnKuliI*' ii j j - * -v ?. a 1vvui/1j iv coulcl not bo duplicated of broken for 1 $100. It is one pieoo in u set of chlnu ' made to order for the White House, ' which cost $5,000. His wutcr tumbler is cut glass of the most costly sort. The napkin with which ho wipes his lips is big us u towel and of the finest linen thut can be spun. IIo is helped to hum and eggs of which he is very fond, from a dish of massive silver, with the Amorican eagle engraved upon it. Sinclair is under bond of $-0,000 to | properly care for these expensive uppurtonauces but he is not responsible for reasonable breakage. TilK WORK OF THE DAY. Breakfast over, the President goes upstairs and on ioys a few minutes conversation with Little Ruth and Baby Esther in Mrs. Cleveland's boudoir. I (is watch tells him at length that the hour for work has arrived, and he loaves the private apartments and the pleasures of domesticity to enter the olllcial wing of the White House and take up the affairs of state. At 9:110 he is seated in a big leathorcoverod chair at tho desk in his ollico, and Private Secretary Thurber comes in with his morning's budget. For an hour already Mr. Thurber i has been busy with tho morning's mail, which consits of 300 to hMt letters. Early in the administration, when office seekers were more active, | 1,500 was not an unusual batch. A few epistles, evidently of a private nature, he puts aside. Those which do not appear to be of any special importance j ho sends to the executive clerk, who i dictates replies to a stenographer. Others he roads, reserving for the President's eye such of them as require his attention. Of these last there may Ka .? 4am 4 4 . . uu iv uu/'Uii wr t v> ? 11iy. Tho bulk of liis correspondence is novor soon by Mr. Cleveland. If lie tried to uttcml to it all himself ho would lmvo no time for anything' olse. Civil answers are sent to courteous ; communications. Autographs of tho President and his wife are mailed to most people who ask for them. Mis- i sives from palpable cranks are thrown into tho waste basket. The whole of this business is accomplished without oven bothering thoehiof magistrate for instructions. The same remark applies to a majority of tho letters addressed by strangers to Mrs. Cleveland. It is one of the penalties of her popularity that she is appealed to for advice and for holp by people all over tho United States whom she has never seen or heard of. An hour and a half is the time available for going over the selected letters with Mr. Thurber and for giving instructions on alTairs of immediate importance. At II if the day be Tuesday or Friday, tho cabinet meets. Each Secretary has a budget of business to lay before tho President, comprising matters which only he can pass on and decide. It is ant to be 2 or .'J p. in. before everything is disposed ! of und thoeonferoneo adjournes. Then Mr. Cleveland goes to lunch?too lute, of course, to moot his wife at that ! meal, which he outs in solitary state. Mrs. Cleveland usually chooses those days for the ladies' luncheons which she gives frequently during tho season. WORK AFTER DINNER. After lunch the President goes back to the oftico and works until 7 o'clock, which is dinner time. Gen. Harrison always put on evening dress for tho formal meal of tho day ; but, as a rule, Mr. Cleveland performs that ceremony only when there is company. Dinner : over, he and his wife have a half hour's romp with the children. JLiuth is getting big enough now to appreciate larks. Then tho father of the family returns to his desk and resumes his toil, which continues until long after midnight?often until 2 or a. m. When it is considered that all of tho departments are constantly engaged in preparing matters for him to determine and that ovey question that comes up in Congress must reach him sooner or later for consideration and decision, it will be understood that leisuro is out of tho question for him. Ho is tho man from whom all things emanate and in whom all things center, so lur as tne government of the people of the United States is concerned. It is said tliat lie is the hardest worker that has over occupied the chair of chief executive. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from 10 to 1, Mr. Cleveland receives Congressmen and others who come on business. Notwithstanding much mistaken talk in the newspapers, itepiesentatives and Senators who call at those hours do not have any difficulty in seeing the President, and it is not demanded of them that they shall state their business in advance to the private secretary. Monday is always a " field day," on which the chief magistrate sees no callers, devoting the time to clearing his desk of accumulated departmental business, papers relating to appointments, applications for pardons, &c. On three days in every week he devotes an hour to receiving the general public in the east rooms. IIKDGHD IN MY GUARDS. On these occasions the President is always in more or less danger of an attempt on his life by somo murderous crank. Accordingly ho is fairly hedged in by guaras. Tho captain of the Whito llouso watch stands at his right hand, while opposite him are stationed two other stalwart mon. All three are armed with six shooters, which thoy would not hesitate to use if called upon. Through tho passage thus formed by Mr. Cleveland and his protectors the crowd proceeds in single tile, each person roceiving a brief grasp and shako of tho hand. Meanwhile two other policemen, posted at the front door, have keenly eyed every applicant for admission. 1 hrough practic they are ablo to dotoot ft doubtful character at a glance. A crnnk is readily recognizable nearly always. It would bo hardly possible for anybody to make a movement hostile to the chief oxocutlvo without being instantly seized and disarmed. Having greeted the people, tho President makes two or three steps bock; ward and disappears through a private HURSDAV, MARCH 8, ! door into the main corridor of the iuatij sion. Mr. Cleveland sees nothing and i hoars littlo of the bestirs and crunks who come to demand alms or interviews. it it hardly possible for any of iiivmu poopio 10 get \\ ii iiiti speaking distance of htiu. Thoir letters aro destroyed, suvo when now ami then u specimen is doomed sutliciently remarkable to bo worth adding to the so-called "crank tile."' The frequent appeals for loans or gifts of money which are addressed to the President by mail never reach him. Persons who want him to indorse notes or to help them buy homes waste thier time in writing to him. lie is not, as some individuals seem to imagine, in the { business of furnishing cash to lift the mortgages from old family estates threatened with foreclosure. Applicants for cups, saucers and other brica-brac, to remember the Executive Mansion by, should address their requests, though not too hopefully, to Sinclair, the steward. THIS COUKKSl'ONDKNCK. Even the telegrams addressed to Mr. Cleveland rarely get beyond Private Secretary Thurber. The President, by the way, conducts most of his 1 daily correspondence with ollloors of the executive departments by the wire which connects the latter with the | White House, lie communicates with the Capitol in the same manner. A very laborious part of his business consists in signing his name to documents. Early in this administration an old friend of his spent an hour with him in his otlieo. At the end of that timo the visitor remarked: "On the j whole, Orover, I don't know that 1 ! envy you your job.*' Said Mr. Cleveland in reply: " You've no call to, > dim." Another annoyance which the President has to put up with is indicted by delegations which visit him from 1 all parts of the country. He has got to be polite to them, though they take up much valuluhle timo and bore him dreadfully. Usually they wish to urge the claims of candidates for ofYlces. On tine days Mr. Cleveland manages to got out sometimes for a drive, in which he is always .accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland. Though ho has five beautiful carriages, including a landau, brougham, victoria and phaeton?the last his wife's own vehicle?he prefers a surry, which has less style about it than any of the others. Willis, the White 1 louse coachman, flrivna footman goes along to add to the swell effect of the turnout, though a groom, available for that purpose, is employed in the stable. Once in a while the Resident finds time to go to the theatre. It was at the urgent recommendation of James G. Blaine that the District, Commissioners some years ago required the theatres of Washington to adopt electric lights. He insisted that such a precaution against liro was much more important here than in any other city in the country, because it often happens that a play is attended by the chief magistrate, the members of his cabinet and other conspicuous men on the same night. Thus a catastrophe of this sort might actually wipe out at one stroke the principal men in the nation's affairs, leaving tho ship of state without captain or officers. One day in each week Mr. Cleveland reserves to himself. Sunday ho devotes to getting acquainted with his family and to appropriate amusements. On that day he does no work unless it is absolutely necessary. In tho morning he attends dlvino service at tho first Prosbytorian Church, lie would even prefer that friends should not visit tho White House on this holiday. Ho is very fond of playing with the children, though he is not export like Gon. Harrison in making up bear stories for the oi.tertuinment of the little ones. Evon Baby Ruth, however, is not old onough yet to appreciate boar stories. Mr. Cleveland is hardly nimble enought to indulge in pillow ngnis, at which his predecessor was a proficient. Though so hard a worker Mr. Cleveland hugely enjoys a vacation, lie is a thoroughgoing sportsman and a very fair shot. In this respect he is superior to Gen. Harrison, who on one melancholy occasion distinguiscd himself hy knocking over a tamo hog in mistake for a 'coon. He thinks it great fun to pop at ducks from behind a blind, for which amusement the Chesapeake affords unusual facilities; hut beyond all things he loves to roll | for blue-fish. It is not very often that ho gets time to use the hillard table which I 'resident Garfield put up in the basement of the White House, but ho is fairly expert at the game. lie plays a good hand at whist and is rather strong at poker, according to the testimony of intimate friends who have contended with him at a small limit. . mam ? PRIVATE JOHN ALLEN ON DEOK. Til 10 MISSISSIPPI HIMOIUST AT IIIS BEST. He Scores Fix-Mayor Hewitt for l?efuiiiing the Soulh?Patterson's Apology for Southerners is Itepudiatcd. Representative Allen, of Mississippi, in the course of a speech last week on the silver question, made a witty and eloquent reply to Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of Now York, and Congre^inan Patterson, of Tennessee, for their detractions and doformations of the public men of tho South. Mr. Allen said : I was pained beyond measure to read a few days ago in the public press that ! Hon. Abram Hewitt of Now York did not regard mo as great as Calhoun, j Sildoll, Soulo and some of the rest of those men who preceded mo. (Laughter.) No, that is a revelation to me. I had never suspected that I was not as rri'iiut 11 a t Ikuo mon iitif.il V! ? IF*, tariff | Haiti ho. (Laughter.) Mr. Bryan : May bo ho does not know you personally. Mr. Alien : That is tho trouble. Ho does know mo personally. That is where it stings. (Laughter.) It iw utterly without excuse. The truth is, I regard Mr. Hewitt's remark as somewhat personal to mo, becauso I was to have spoken at the very dinner at which he dolivored this spoech. j (Laughter.) And ono of tho great obistaclos in my meeting tho approval of Mr. Hewitt is that; while Mr. Hewitt is one of tho host of men when ho is asleep, ho is troubled soino with in! somnia. (Groat laughter.) I have ono consolation, when I think I of myself and the groat majority of lay I colleagues from the South having in 1894. I ourrod his displeasure, and that consolation grows out of the fact that having known Ml*. Hewitt for gome yours and having talked with him freely, I have never known any man or set of men who entirely met his approval, except Mr. Hewitt himself. (Laugh tor. I ll Ho hud lived in the days when common scolds were ducked, Mr. Hewitt would have been drowned before this. (Laughter.) Mr. Chairman, the people of the South have had a great ileal to endure. I shall not refer to the fact that tl.ey passed through a terrible war for 1 think that lias been referred to hero once before. (Laughter.) Hut sir, they have had a great deal to contend with since that time. They have had drought cyclones, simoons, epizootic in the horses, tuberculosis in the cattle, cholera among the hogs and the chickens?they huve hail vurious diseases and pestilences, they have seen their crops depreciate, they have had to eontend with mortgages when they had no money to pay them, hut throughout all these trials and tribulations, they have exhibited something of a bravo and courageous spirit; and now, just to think that the one thing cherished most of all others, the one sustaining prop that they had amid all these disasters. the idea that Mr. Hewitt up-J proved them ? to think that that last prop is taken away, and that, after all, Mr. Hewitt does not approve them. (Laughter.) Why, gentlemen, rather t han have had this cruel disaster come upon 1113' peoplo, I would have paid a silver dollar out of my own pocket. (Laughter.) Mr. Chairman, I am sorry to see that my friend from Tennessee, Col. l'atterson. is not in his seat, because I want to say a word to him. He is my neighbor and my friend. He is an honest, intelligent, hit I'd working roproBontativo. L do not know that I would refer to the matter I am going to talk about now, if it hud not already been mentioned in this debate. 1 simply wish to repudiate, so far as I am concerned, the apology which the gentleman from Tennessee is said to have made for me and my sort in responding to ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech in New York lately. 1 have here what purports to be a report of Col. Patterson's speech. I will read a few extracts from it. After stating that the Southern Representatives in Congress were generally opposed to the financial view of Now York, ho went on to make these remarks. He was speaking in Now York, and I confess it is right hard for a man to maintain the parity between a speech that is acceptable in New York and one that would be acceptable to his constituents in Hardeman county, Tennessee. (Laughter.) lie said: "For more than twenty years, every State platform lwis contained a plank for the free coinage of silver. These men have been brought up to believe in it without (|iiestion. They believe it. They are bound to believe it, just as the Haptist, the Catholic, or the Presbyterian, without ever reading in the Hlblo, is one because his father was. So these doctrines have become a part of the Democratic belief thero, and these fellows have followed them blindly. (Laughter.) 1 was in the sumo condition when 1 went to Congress. (Laughter.) I boliovod in free silver ami lots of other things." i suppose the gentleman has ceased to believe anything now. (Laughter.) ''lint I soon began to study these things, and under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, who is the on'v man in the country who could havo piloted the ship of State! through these stormy times, I learned the correct principles of sound currency. (Groat laughter.) These other men of the South are true Democrats and they love their country." 1 thank him for that, said Allen. Ho says further: "They have simply followed tration." Ah! gentlemen let me tell you that when you separate yourselves from the doctrines of Democracy as you havo learned and held them from the time you were born up to the present, when you cut yourselves loose from the proud traditions of that party and set out to study under some now prophet, you aire very liable to got tangled in your Democratic harness. (Laughter.) I confess, Mr. Chairman, that 1 have boon brought up to believe in some of these things by traditions, hut unlike til v fidnnd from Tonnnoa.... I'..l ...j .. vxv* i win i viiim v>Uli I " Hon, I studied-public questions before I cumo to Congress. (Laughter.) I came hero because I hud studied them. That is why my people selected mo out and sent ino noro. They did not send me to Congress to school, as Co). I'atterson seems to have been sent. (Laughter.) Thoy sent mo hero to maintain, and carry out as far as I could, the groat Democratic principles that they had received from their fathers, and I hope by the help of Cod and the constituency in the First Congressional district of Mississippi to do it. (Laughter and applause.) Col. I'atterson says further: "Mr. Carlisle has said that he did not mind having the soignorugo coined. If that bill becomes a law it does not mean disaster. It may be a mistake. It is only the last gun of a retreating army. The men in New York who dread free silver are unnecessarily alarmed." And elsewhere he says: "If the bill to coin the seignorage passes, it is merely to let these Southerners go olf the field of battle with their side arms." (I .aughto.'.) Mr. Chairman, we have asked no terms. We have not asked to bo permitted to carry oft' our side arms. We have not asked to be permitted to fire tho last gun of a retreating army. So far as I am concerned, I do not believe tbat the rotrent. hoa horrun i.t oil 1 .!<> not believe that wo are yet ready to capitulate on thin question. Now 1 want to say a word for Col. i'atterson, as he is not hero to say it fpr himself. I desire, so far as 1 am concerned, to repudiate the gentleman's apology made for inc. I owe no apology to the people of Now York; 1 do not propose to make any, and I do not propose to have any made for mo. but I do not think any man ought to be hold down to a very rigid account for an after-dinner spooch at a banquet. Why, sir. I recollect not long ago I went to a banquot in Baltimore, whore everything was so good, where I was surrounded by so many rich men, that by the time it. came my turn to sneak 1 i felt so well I addressed thorn as "fcl; low capitalists." (Laughter.) Therefore beware of the influences surrounding a banquot. If I were uot perfectly I familiar with the abstemious habits of my friend from Tennessee f would huvo thouirht on roudin<r this speech tliut ho hud gotten sumo what under the same inllu<'iiee Unit uuothor Tonnesseoun did that a traveling man told iuo about. Tin- story wus about a rugtfed, seedy, hard looking follow, who lournod that the traveling man know his hrothor living in Kaufman county, Toxus. The Texas brother was well off, and tho Tounosseean asked the traveling man if ho ever saw his brother a train to tell him thut ho was hard up, and that if ho wan over going to do anything for him tliat was th?> time. Under tho intlucnco of two or three drinks, however, tilings begun to brighten with iiitn, and the last tho traveling man hoard from him was tho request to toll his brother in Texas that if lie wanted anything, "just to draw on mo." , (Laughter.) "Now, under the inllueueo of one of those Now York banquets," said Mr. Allen, "with all they have good to oat, and the aoeoni]>aniinonts, one fotds, by the time the speaking begins, like telling the rest of the world to draw on him. (Laughter.) Therefore, I, on my own motion, would never] quote a banquet speech on anybody, j beeause I do not think it is exactly the square thing." In conclusion, Mr. Alien said: "I 1 would t hat I bad tho eloquence of the : chairman of the committee on ways and means, Wilson of West Virginia. : in his last appeal here for the passage ; of his turitV bill. I would like to in| voke the Democratic patriotism of our Democratic colleagues. I do not claim that a vote for this bill is the roll of honor, but I do claim tliat in the condition with which we find ourselves surrounded today, the roll of honor belongs to those Democrats who are willing to let a Democratic Congress do the business of this Congress, and I do not believe any man can claim a place upon the Democratic roll of honor who stands hero longer and gives his pri's- ' enco and his inllucnco to filibustering tactics that keep us here and make a | spectacle, as limn been made, of our- I ..I M / ? 1 - nuivus. v ppiuuso.) tahii'r talk in caucus. a lively discussion anions democratic sciiiilois lis in i lu i'niprr l'olicy in heooiinti'iit'liiik llie \vilsuii (till. The Doinocratic Senatorial caucus last week revealed a variety of views upon the Wilson taritV bill. On the 127Hi nit., the discussion was plain and emphatic, and several Senators were on their mettle concerning the interests they represent. It is understood that a scene somewhat sensational in its features took place during' the morning session. Senator White, of Louisiana, had made .a very vigorous speech while on the subject of sugar, in which lie bitterly denounced the attitude of some Senators. No reply was made until this morning, when it is said, that two or three Senators replied in language that was decidedly personal and unpleasant. It is also said that White lias declared that he would not send his resignation as Senator to the Governor of Louisiana until he know what was to be done with sugar. Mr. White's attitude was described by one Senator us that of a man who stood with his commission as a Supremo Court Justice ill line ill inl^nl i.la I resignation us u .senator in tho other, wuiting to sot) whon ho could servo his constituents und tho pooplo host. Sonutor Hrico, of Ohio, who was tho : prime mover in culling tho caucus, ! made a forcible and vigorous speed) 1 to-day. Ho is said to have criticized tho wisdom that placed tho construction of tho tariff hill in the hands of I three Senators, whoso status as a subcommittee had been attacked on tho floor of the Senate and gone unchallenged, and who wore not apparently ( in sympathy with any of tho manufacturing centres of the country which ; were most uifectod by tho bill. It was j evident, ho said, that tho party was | rent by dissensions, and the question ] for the conference to decide in connec- | tion with tho tariff bill was what ' should be done to save tbe Democratic I party. If, said Hrico, you are going ! to frame this bill in accordance with j tho platform of tho Democratic party as adopted at Chicago, that is 0110 thing. If, on the other hand, you intend to frame it on the lines of the platform that was not adopted, an entirely different view of the case is | given us, but if you intend to frame it so that you protect tho sugar interests alone, at trio expense of tho if rout industries of tlm Noi-t.li ?n<i ir/.n i intend to ignore them entirely, then I : propose, for one, to have something to say. Mr. Brico, it is understood, called attention to the fact that there must ho more done than merely conciliate the sugar Senators, whoso constituents would be injured by prospective legislation : that a very important question for Democrats to consider was what they should do to keep in the | party the great States of New York, Slew Jersey and Maryland, which were full of industries that, ho assert- j 0(1, the proposed bill sought to cripplo. ' The great States of Ohio, New York and Now Jersey, with their representation in Congress aggregating many times more than any Southern delegation, should not he ignored. The Democrats, Mr. Brico believed, should frame a bill that would yield suHlclont revenue to run the government, but they had failed to doit, (f the bill was not carefully considered, Mr. Brice warned the caucus that the States to which he had referred would become, so far as Democracy was con corned, as barren as a desert. If concessions were to be made, he said, they must i>e made on general lines and toward those industries that pro mice mo greatness of tho States which tho Domocratio party were now threatened with losing. Hrico wanted tho party romoved from tho placo whore it laid itself liahlo to tho suspicion of engaging in a sectioual consideration <Hf the measure. For that reason, he l>oliovod it hotter that tho bill should ho referred to a comraittoo to bo suggested by tho caucus to bo made up of representative men, representing States whore thtse aggrieved industries were known and understood and that such a committee should make up the bill. Even if they reported the saino bill, still it would Ihj free from objections that are now lovelod at tho bill before tho caucus. Bride spoke freely und his remarks had much weight with the Senators'. I \ NO 34. lie is counted as one of the six "con servativcs " in whose hands the fate of the bill appears to rest. These men nr. IT I 11 M ?I-| : to > ft l\<V? * A III) AJIll I 1/ I I , .U lli pilj} V V illlU of Louisiana. ami Cjiffory. Senator Mill made Ins first speech in the caucus today. His chief assault was on the income tax, which be denounced us inquisitorial and iniquitous. He believed the party that ptissed it would pay the penalty for the commission of such a crime. It was argued that it was against the principles of the Democratic party and contrary to its platform, which declared that all taxes should he raised from Imports. Democracy did not look with favor upon the building up of a system of international taxation, such us was contemplated by the income tax. It was only put iu the bill, ho said, to help muko good the deficit caused by the great reduction In the duty and the nlucing on the free list of such articles as should contribute towards the customs revenues. There wore a hundred items in the hill, Hill said, that alTeoted his State, that could properly be incorporated in a bill framed for " revenue only," but which teemed to have been ignored by tho committee. Washington, Feb. 28.?Aftorspending the better part of throe days in a caucus on tho taritT bill the Democratic ocimiors una uiiornooti sont tho bill back ti? tbu finance committee without expressed, but strongly implied instructions to amend it according to the concensus of opinion uh expressed during tho discussion. No dictation was made to tho committee as to wiuit articles should bo put on tho dutiable list, nor were any rates suggested? the committee being left free to exorcise its own judgment in tho light of what transpired during the past throe days. The only effort made to secure an expression by vote on any special schedule was made this afternoon by Mr. l'ugh, on iron ore, and that resulted in an endorsement although by an exceedingly small majority on the committee's action. Mr. l'ugh moved that iron ore bo changed from tho free to tho dutiable list, and on a yea ami nay vote, this proposition was defeated by a vote of 11) to 17. The bill is again in tho hands of the Democrats of tho tlnanco committee and an effort will be made to have it repaid in time to lay before the full committee on finance by Saturday, or at tho latest. Monday morning. There will prohuhly not be another caucus, but in order to provide for emergencies, Gorman has been given authority to issue a call if lie thinks it host. Mr. Gorman was amontr the first. speakers at the afternoon session. His speech was very diplomatic in character, and was a strong ploa for Democrats to inn monizo and get togotlier. Mr. Gorman was questioned closely by a number of Senators, and in response said it was apparent that some concession must bo made. Referring to the income tax, Mr. German expressed his bitter opposition to that tax. It was, lie said, undemocratic and against Democratic ideas. Ho hoped it would he stricken from tho bill; but if it was not, lie said he would '"swallow the dose," but assured his colleagues that it would be the " bitterest dose ho had yet boon compelled to tako." Mr. Hugh made a speech favoring a duty on iron ore, und foretold what would occur to the now industries in Alabama if this was left on the free list. Mr. I'ugh went further than the other Senators, and insisted that some expression be had on this proposition. Accord inly, lie moved that the committee be directed to put iron ore on the dutiable list " tho same as coal," which was accepted to mean 50 cents a ton. On a yea and nay vote this was defeated by a vote of lb to 17, Hill not voting. Hugh thon said that inasmuch as the vote was so close, and moiiio Senators were absent, ho did not feol bound bv the vote- nnrl i-naprvAd ??? right to offer un umondmont to tho bill wlion it carao up in tho Serato. Tho uction of Pugh in forcing a vote on iron oro, and then declining to bo bound by it, led to tho conclusion thut it would ho i in possible for the caucus to accomplish anything definite, and tho motion to recommit tho bill to the full Democratic membership of tho financial committee to shape in accordance with tho views expressed and to harmonize tho differences was made by Voorheos. This motion was carried without opposition. There was no resolution or any specific instructions. The question of what shall or shall not bo dutiable, or what tho vote shall l>o, is still open. One Senator, who took a prominent part in tho caucus, explained the moaning of this action to be a notice to tho committee that they had made a hill that could not pass and must now proceed, in the light of what they had heard to construct a bill that could pass. It does not go to tho sub-cornmittoo, but to the full Democratic membership, and the attempt will be made to lay it, thus changed, Ixfforo the Republican members at a special meeting Monday, ut tho latest, with tho hope of being ablo to report it to the Senate Tuesday morning. Tho majority of the finance committee will work day and night from now until they have finished the bill. It in tindor stood that the " conservative," eletnont will not bo content to havo the bill reported until it shad havo boon i submitted to a further caucus. A. prominent Senator is authority for the j statement that this protracted caucus has boon characterized by the utmost good fooling, save the one speech of Mr. White of Louisiana, who is said to havo attacked tho members of the committee and Mr. Voorhoes. -Governor Tillman said thoother day to a newspaper reporter that any sensible man in South Carolina ought to knowthat there is no provision in the Dispensary law for constables to enter a private residence whithout a warrant, lie said that Ixiforo tho bill was passed ' tho anti-Tillman papers in the State had harped on that as a feature of the law, and had kept it up ever since. They did it thon and are doing it now, lie said, to prejudice the peoplo against the law. llo said that no such provision was ever in tho law and was never intended to be there; nobody wanted it there, and tho whole thing is being given circulation for the purpose of prejudice. If tho authorities, ho said, believed that a man was sidling whiskey from his house nothing would bo done until a warrant for liis arrqpt uud a search of the promises I was gotten <>ut.