The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-04
EEruETED ExFREssLY FoR ruE MORNING LEADER
MIG HIT REF O IL T.
Defeat Of Senator Carpenter.
Angus Cameron Elected to
Succeed him.
Tilton's Testimony.
The Civil Rights Bill again
before the House.
A Vote on the Same to be
Taken To-day,
WASHINGTON.
Concluded from second page.

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could pass bill by which the Presi-
dent can be armed with power to
preserve the peace of the country
while he remains in the executive
chair. This whole contest would
lose its Significance unless this amend
ment was adopted. lie appealed to
the majority to adopt the rule, which
should not be emasculated as the one
as reported was, and aS the only way
to do this is 10 vote down the pre-
ViOus question, and thus allow each
amendment to come up to bc voted
on. Cox replied to Butler and re-
minded him that the judiria V COM
mittee itself WAS responsible, and
WAS so held by the President in his
special message, for their nOn-aCtiOn
on Louisiana matters two years ago,
which had contributed to the bring
ing on of the present troubles in the
South. He also reminded him of
the use which Caleb Cushing and
another Massachusetts gentleman
made of the rules of the House at
the Charleston conventio0; lie de-
Tended the rules as they exist, and
deprecated any change in them as a
precedent that might return to
plague the inventor. Lamar hoped
that when the Democratic party
came into power in the House that
it would reinstate this ancient rule
and observe its stipulatiOns, and OBJ
serve it as exactly as it has always
been observed in compromises of the
constitution. The Speaker came
down on the floor and spoke in ad-
YOCacy of the rule as reported by
Garfield, as a preventative of fill
clustering, which was of cOmparu-
lively modern growth, and which is
wholly wrong. He opposed the
amendment of Cessna to allow the
judiciary committee to report at any
time, as there was no necessity for it,
because the select committees on the
affairs of Mississippi, Louisiana and
! Alabama have the right to report at
any time. Kas5on's amendment was
| rejected, Cessna's not admitted, and
the rule was then adopted by III to
81, Sener still voting with the min
olity. Randall and Cox then in
| sisted on resigning their places on
the committee on rules, and after
some discussion their designations
were accepted.
Washington, Feb. 3.-Thc Civil
Rights bill is now directly before the
House, and the Senate bill has been
offered as, substitute. 1t will be dis
cussed all day, as the previous qucs-
ton cannot be seconded before tO-mor-
row, except by two-thirds vote.
In the House, various propositions,
requiring unanimous consent, were
made by many members, but
Butler, of Massachusetts, insisted on
the regular order, the consideration of
his motion to reconsider the vote of
last session, by which the civil rights
bill was referred to the judiciary
Committee, the vote resulted in yeas,
l47; nays, 81, and the reconsideration
was carried by I51 to 93. A special
order having been assigned for one
O'Clock to-day, HawIey, of Illinois,
who had charge of the bill, said he
did not want it TO stand in the way of
the civil rights bill, and asked that it
be postponed till Wednesday next.
Dawes objected, as all appropriation
and tax bills must be considered before
that time also, the tax and tariff
bills, if they are considered. All then
agreed to put over the special order.
which was the Hennepfn canal bill,
until to-day, after the civil rights bill
was disposed of. Butler then with
drew his motion to reconsider the vote
referring the civil rights bill TO the