text: In January of this calendar year, Democrats who stayed silent in the House chamber were first counted as present against their will to thwart the "disappearing quorum" tactic.
full_question: In January of this calendar year, Democrats who stayed silent in the House chamber were first counted as present against their will to thwart the "disappearing quorum" tactic. The Supreme Court upheld the Edmunds-Tucker Act in this year, in which delegates went home from the first International Conference of American States in DC. In this year, Herman Hollerith lent punch card readers to the first automatically tabulated U.S. Census, which announced the closure of the frontier. Midterm elections in this year voted out Speaker Thomas Reed's Billion-Dollar Congress, which passed the Sherman Silver Purchase and Anti-Trust Acts in this year. For 10 points, what year of Benjamin Harrison's presidency, in which the Wounded Knee massacre took place, began a so-called "Gay" decade?
first_sentence: In January of this calendar year, Democrats who stayed silent in the House chamber were first counted as present against their will to thwart the "disappearing quorum" tactic.
raw_answer: 1890 CE