, 1875-04-11
The Sort Of Stuff Your Average Be.
former Is Made Of:
Proprlety and Decency ignored by the
Lower House.
Hafnes Again Exhibits His Great
Statesmanlike Qualities.
The Affair, Like the Tallow Candle,
Goes Out with Bad Smell.
HOUSE. j..
PEoTKsT FROM THE RRPUBL1oAN8.

| Special Dspateh to Tia Clteago Tribune.
SPRINGFIELD April 10.-on the opening Of the
House this morning Connolly, Of Coles, read the
| following protest OF the Republican members o1
! the House. The protest began By racitiu9 tue
action Of the Speaker on March %, in permitting
Senate bill 264, to repeal the Registry Law, to bo
taken up out Of its order aud advanced to third
reading without suspension of the rules Of the
House. and against the open, clearly-expressed
and wen-unders.ood objection Of Mr. Crawford
OF Winnabago, and at least twenty other mem
bera Of the minority OF the House." After stating
the facts Of Speaker Haires' outrageous
conduct in that instance, the protest after com
menting pungentiy upon the lawlessness Of the
minority, led BY the Speaker, in overriding the
rights Of the minority, 80 as to make nugatosy
the representation secured to them by the State
Constitution and the rules Of the House, wen.
On to state that this WAS but one Of long seriea
Of aimilar acts. It Was instanced that On Jan.
Is, Nj. Landtigan, Of Edwards, offered resolu-
tion that certain persons named therein should
DO officers Of the House. The question being
on the adoption Mr. Stan, Republican, called
for . division Of the question, 30 that each
oficar might be voted On separately.
Notwithstanding the fact that his
attention WAS called to Rule 36, which provides
that ''any member may call for division Of the
question whom divisible, the Speaker ruled the
demand out Of order. In few davs after q
slmi1ar resolution wss offered, and demand
for division Of the question WAS refused until
the Speaker eaT that enough from tho majority
we're voting against it On account OF ono OBJ
jectionable person named in it to defeat the
resolution Whereupon, against the objections
san.ea and Rs9ssSt5 Ia Of sI The aoy Ss h
call, tore the resolution into separate
pieces, according TO its proper division, and
then compelled The House to vote upon each
candidate separately, "thus violating ono Of the
bess~settled rules OF Parliamentary law, by stop
motion, and against the protest Of many men,
berg, and 6nally doing 1t the instance OF a
single member Of tho majority aide what be had
just declined to do. On the donand Of many
members OF the minority aida."
Another instance WAS then cited In which the
Speaker. in violation Of plain rule, refused to
entertain motion TO reconsider the Yote by
which resolution VAS inadvertently passed Civ
ing the Speaker clerk at sc day. Tho protest
then went on:
been heaped upon the minority in the House, We cite
another instancs which 20 arc persuaded IA without
1s hsy Fl tay eee5
fail to properly characterize within the n1nits Of
that respectful language IN which this paper must
~se w M rssn se
dons to Representatives aud to tho great sats Of
Illinois. wrong eliminating in attempted traud
to Of 5enstoxs IN Congress- that indignation Il
not permitted TO ind full expression here but
forced 70 conns ourselves to plain narration Of ths
facts.
On tho 9Th Of January se1es Of }o.nt-resout1ons
four In number, known the Louisiana resolutions,
wers introduced by member Of the majority and :
vole BY yeas and nays upon each Of thea reso
lotions separately. When the fourth resolution
sur1ug the President for the Of ths military forcss
T.1}$u
Speaker announced the result being 3 fog 10 81
against, and that the'resouton was carried.
On tho readtnc af the journal next morning, ths
against. When tho Journal read, Mr. French, Of
Carroll, stated to the House that hs had voted No
on the resolution, but his nAe was recorded AYE"
and he asked to have tho journal corrected This
Ieetion was 2de and then The vote stooa 70 tor and
% agninst~ Than III. Dunlap: Of Cook arose and
voting "Aye,n and asked to have that correction
made If This correction h.d been made, the Tos
would stand 81 for, and 70 aguiuGt znd the resolution
would be lost. Bat the majority the afternoon be-
fore, by viva vocc, had ordered tho Clerk Of the
House to telegraph tho four resolutions to Senator
and nstructtng MIN to lay thena before the Senate Of
the United s.atsa but this further correction of the
Journal raa m1ds BY Iseordag ~ Dunlap. yose
hood and stubborn resstance Wac therefore made by
The majority to having MIR. Dunlaps vote correctly re-
ths question Of correctly recording Mr. Dunlaps vots
select committee Of their own choosing. In few
minutes after this it WAS discovered that Mr. Mosss,
ton, Was recorded 81 not voting at all Mr.. Moscs
therefore moved to correct tho jo1Dsl By Layiu3 his
MAKE the yote ., for .nd y Il a asainst aeeans tho
resolution by treo votes, but the s;ory refused TO
permit the journal to be corrected snd referrcd hr
No4e9 motion to correct to the special coEotaiteS
that Mr. Dun1ap'a WEE sent to-
The protest then made citations from = nun-
ber of authorities demonstrating the right Of
members to correct the record 10 ~ to place
themselves properly before it, aud then stated
that the majority Of the Committee reported
xgainst permitting the correction 1ha protest
concluded as follows:
When such means ere xesoFted to to overcome tho
minority and attain partisan unLs; wien the a>plost
ctaseo Of justice and tho plainest principles OF parl
ueutarY Law nxe thus loss 1iXn Of members OF
the minority thus refused the privlege-a,e shs
rht-of having their Toses recorded they gzvo thei
ocia scs iazidod, md The official record of the peo-
ples representative Gu1 down to tho future be4r1ug
; de upon their luce; and vixen Fe have st
Fiction Of wrongs 9niar to thoae enunerated vainly
hoping from day day that the Light Of Justice would
finally break through ne souds o. Fa1tisaa pasmon
reef Is it to oe wondered 1t thas w nd ourselves At
last compelled resort to this tho only mesns left u.
under ths Constitution Of oux Stne to protest sGaus
The w7ongs which are poWerlesa to prsvc0t.
Tho protest was signed b; she following Rep
beiug the entiro Republican dele
gaticn: Connolly, Dranson. Callahan, cullon,
ID, Jones, =. y. Jones. JaueS baI1er. C12W-
ford, Moses, Trench, Dunlap, GEa11, Bogue,
liam, Bailey. Dewitt, Winter, lnscore. Robinson.
Lewis, Rowclins, Stewart Mcintosh, oWhorter, |
Scott Boydston, Downing, Fos. Moore, ha1tio,
Hubbars, Spicer, McGiuneas, Goodrich, Dement,, |
aopkin., Dubois, Hubbard, Chew, Talbot, Thorn |
:on, Avery, Richardson, Linde1beEg, Ciat1in, |
Y Tssaon, Barrett, Tyler, Moore, bali Browning, |
Phil}ipa Rankin, Gundy, king, Wilson, Thomas,
4eKee, Hice, miller, Smith, Gordon. Henry, |
sidei, Granger, Peaso. /
DEBATE ON TIE PRoTEsT-
Mr Connolly moved that the protest ba enter
ID upon the journal. |
Hsipes read from tho Constitution relative to
he right Of any two members to have their pro- |
est against any set or resolution Tho language |
II the Constitution was tia. tho protest must 90
q respectful language, aud against an &C. OF
esolutiou. The question must be decided
whether this was such document before It could |
"a eutared On tho Journals
CERTAIN TERMS 0B3ECXKD TO.
Mr. Cummings took the floor and said that
Fhile be WAS in favor Of according every mambec |
lis full rights, he desired also that every mom-
,er be troared with duo courtesy. He objected
o the protest because it Tas not in courteous
angua9e. It contained the term "b1ute force"
pplied to tho majority. He would now ask tho
,on1leman from Coles CONNOLLY it b applied
bat language to him (Cunmiugs).
4r. Connol1y-The gentleman, think, mi8-