Show senatorial contest decided POPULISTS VOTED M OEMS thus defeating dupont by one voto A resolution declaring a revision of the tariff laws is imperatively demanded lip bacon argues against bond issues without congressional authority washington may 15 the claim 0 henry A dupont for the vacant scat in the senate from the state of delaware was decided adversely to him today oy a majority of one the question hag been debated at great length from time to time and that debate was closed today at 5 p m the result of all the legal and constitutional arguments for and against was that the republican senators to a man voted in favor of the claim that the democrats voted just as unanimously against it and the populists lists allied themselves solidly on the democratic side making the vote on the amendment which declared that mr dupont was not entitled to the seat 31 to 30 A second vote on the resolution thus resulted in exactly the same figures there was no attempt on the part of the republicans to postpone the decisive issue the conference report on the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill was presented and read and at the suggestion of mr hill dem N Y it went over until tomorrow mr morgan acm ala offered a icso lutian which went over until tomorrow instructing the committee on foreign relations to inquire as to the reports of the united states under treaties with spain in respect to the treatment of american citizens arrested in cuba and under sentence of death by the spanish military tribunals mr gallager rep N H offered a resolution which went over declaring that a revision of tariff laws is imperatively demanded A resolution heretofore offered by mr aidrich beep B I 1 for an inquiry as to the effects of competition between oriental and american goods was agreed to in pursuance of previous notice mr bacon dom ga addressed the senate in favor of the bill to prohibit the issuance of bonds or other injuring obligations of the government without the of congress lie argued that a delegation ot alie powers of congress over the finances of the country was a violation of the letter and spirit of the constitution sir peffer pop kan remarked that whatever the responsibility of the senate might bo in the matter the populists lists had had no share in it as he bad called the attention of the senate to the subject two years ago in a speech on the bame lines as that of the senator from georgia mr bacon declared that if the day after the senate shall have adjourned and after senators have hurried away to attend political conventions it was announced that the executive department had without a special authority from congress determined to issue one two or three hundred millions of bonds there was no power to say it nay so long as the law remained let the record mr bacon said in conclusion show how senators and representatives and how the political parties whom they represent stand upon this great issue mr butler pop N 0 commended mr bacena bacona speech and called attention to a bill which he mr butler had introduced trod early in the session prohibiting the issue of bonds without the consent of congress he gave notice that he would on some future day ask the senate to take up that bill for consideration mr hill dem K Y objected to having the time farmed out in advance the dupont election elect ioa case from the state of delaware was taken up and mr platt rep conn continued hit argument begun yesterday in support of mr duponts right to the vacant seat mr vilas dem wis followed epe akine against the right of mr dupont up to 5 p m when under the unanimous consent arrangement the final vote was to be taken the vote was taken and resulted yeas 31 nays SO as follows yeas alien bacon bate berry blackburn butler gaffery chilton cockrall Coc kroll faulkner george gibson german gray harris hill jaaes ark kyle lindsay martin mills matchell Ml wis morgan pasco peffer noach steward Ste warr turpie vilas walthall white 31 nays baker brown burrows cameron cannon carter chandler dark cullom dvis dubois elkins frye hallcy Mo Bride mantle mitchell ore perkins pettigrew platt proctor quay sewell sharman shoup teller warren wetmore Wet moro wil eon 30 the vote was then taken on the committee resolution as amended and it was agreed to by the same vota thus deciding the case definitely against mr dupont the conference report on the bill to improve the merchant marine engineer service was presented and agreed to the district of columbia lion was taken up the senate then proceeded to the consideration can of executive business and at adjourned atio house washington may 15 the house spent the day in passing private pension bills favorably reported from the committee of the whole during the past week before the house took the usual friday recess at 5 bills had been passed and thirty four others had been laid aniie to wait formal engrossment before final action the contested election case ot J hampton hage vs peter J otey from the sixth district of virginia was ended by the adoption of the report of the committee on elections no 3 confirming title to the seat mr howard pop ala made a denial of the stories printed two or three months ago charging him with being drunk oa the floor of the house asserting that he waa sick and that since then bo had been near to deaths door mr howard resented what he declared to bo a cruel baseless attack by the press of the country an article in the st louis republic he said was typical of the general onslaught and he read that it stated that mr howard had come on to the floor of the house in a state of intoxication after a debauch of several days his appearance resembling that of a tramp he had gone to sleep it said on a counse and had thence been removed by two colored portera of the house at 5 the house under the rules took a recess until 8 tonight the entire period devoted under th rules to the night session was spent in a fruitless effort to obtain a quorum the proceedings were characterized by mr pugh dem alaan those of a kindergarten in the national school house toward the close of the evening mr rep S D repeated a motion just voted upon by the house the speaker pro tern mr dalzell ren pa evidently tired of the the motion out of order mr from that decision mr speaker I 1 appeal speaker pro tern sharply and the chair declines to entertain the appeal at 1030 the session expired by limitation and the hoube was declared to be adjourned until monday next |