Show ARGUMENT BEGUN iN SWAYNE CASE Offer of the Defense to Submit it Was Not Agreed to Corn Com Comparatively Few Senators Turned Out for the Night Session A 1 ASHINGTON Feb ecu sen senate WASHINGTON V V ate had difficulty Iii securing a quorum at Its first night sitting of the session called for the purpose of proceedings with the Swane im case At p m in when senators had responded to the roll call a vote was taken on the I admission or of the tabulated statement showing the payments paid to federal judges on account of expenseS The 1 yolo was adverse to time the proposition 10 to 36 26 After offering a fe few other documents Mr Ir Higgins announced the close of the C case fe for the defense Only two wit I Ines nes were caned called in rebuttal A f few w I ropers were presented as evidence b by bythe I the prosecution and when the last of these thes had been received at 90 p m in Mr lr Palmer announced the termination cr cf the presentation of testimony our case said Mr Ir Palmer and he had scarcely taken his seat when Mr Thurston addressed the chair He mad a proposition to sub submit mit the case without argument I if agreeable to the learned managers of house lr Palmers response was promptly made in the negative because he said s me of the testimony needed dud to be understood Hence he said It Is not agreeable d with the argument como com amended Mr Platt Pitt of Connecticut from the chair Mr 11 Olmsted accordingly took the floor for the Drose ution Mr Ir Olmsted concluded at p m in nuci the senate adjourned Immediately to meet at iI H a m in tomorrow |