People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — DRUMMED UP A QUORUM. [ARTICLE]

DRUMMED UP A QUORUM.

Only Sixteen Senator) Present When tlvo > Session Opened. Washington, Feb. 21. —There wore juresixteen senators in the senate chamber when the 11 o'clock sesstou opened today and Senator Wolcott suggested the absence of a Quorum. The jingling of senate bells hurriedly assembled the senators and forty-seven responded to thp call for a quorum, two more than the necessary number. Senator Irby presented the credentials of B. R. Tillman as senator from South Carolina for the term beginning March 4 next. Senator Turpie offered a resolution from the committee on foreign rel - tions expressing the high appreciati >n of the senafe as to the distinguished honors by the Mexican government on the occasion of the obsequies of the United States minister. M •. Gray, and directing the sec;- tarstate to forward copies of the • ' in i to the authorities of Mexico, "'-c •• lution was agreed to. The h: .iso j>i yesolution was passed for tie -••. sion of certain features of the : authorizing the transportation •i: : h> through the United States to the it\ zone of Mexico so long as the Mexican free zone law exists.