Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-01-28
An Albright Session Of the House.

10 pursuance of the agreement OF the Radl'
cal members of the House of Representatives,
in caucus, az soon as the journal was read, yes
terday, Gen. Butler rose to privileged ques-
ton and called up the motion to reconsider the
vote By which, on January I, 1874, the bill
TO protect all persons 10 their civil and potl-
cal rights was recommltted 10 the judiciary
committee AS motion to reconsider Is, un-
der the rules, highly privileged the dllatory
motions we're limited to motions to adjourn.
AID to adjourn to day certain, but 1t seemed
that the opportunities for calling the yeas and
nays we're almost inexhaustible. After motion:
to adjourn until Friday and Saturday had been
voted down, motion to adjourn met, OF course,
the same fate, Thereupon the motions to ad'
iourn till Friday were renewed, the Speaker
ruling that when motion to adjourn had 10
tervened the motions to adjourn to a day GER
tain could be made ad lbtem. This thing
went 90 until nearly half past four o'clock,
when Cen Butler made proposition to per-
NIT at least six hours debate, the bulk OF which
should be given to the opponents OF the BILL
and that they should also be permitted to offer
ed, when 6libusteri0g was resumed, MIR. Rah-
20 on With the appropriation bills. At halt
past four, gentlemen on both sides stated their
determination to sit the thing out. 1t began
to be whispered about that after further
struggle the Republicans would propose to
com promise BY dropping the school and church
clauses of the bill, but Individual Democrats.
speaking for themselves and not for the party,
said they would decline all compromises. The
roll calls developed the presence of between )
and 50 Democrats 1t requires only about 10
to call the roll at any time, so that the Demo-
Gratis we're in better position to struggle on
than the maj ority. 1t was further said that
the Radicals had 90 hope of passing the
bill, but that after hard struggle they would
abandon it, and throw the responsibility of fail
ure upon the opposition.
At half. pas, FIVE o clock members began to
order up their luncheons, or to repair to the
restaurant, to fortify themselves for the night, :
work. The galleries, which had been crowded
with negroes, begen to thin out, and the other
galleries also began to be very thin. The dem
ocrats manifested more determined DISPOSE
ton than the republicans, for some of the lat
ter began to weaken, and manifested dlsposl-
ton to abandon their project. A vote taken
at six clock developed tor the first time the
fact that large number of pairs had been CO.
tered Into, much TO the annoyaoce U! LIE ueu-
ocrats who remained The republicans, with
a view of ,iriDg out the democrats and annoy
iug them as much as possible, demanded tellers
90 all calls for the yeas and nays.
Some of the republicans who 90 Monday
voted for the resolution to so amend the rules
as to prevent dilatory motions, we're disposed
to make an effort to keep the struggle up until
Monday next. Their object in this was to
make an actual demonstration to show to what
extent the majority is in the power Of the MI
nority under existing rules, and they hope that
such course will whip in the republicans who
voted against the resolution last Monday to
vote for it next Monday and carry it. If they
then fail to carry the resolution, they will
abandon the whole question, because they will
have then demonstrated the impcssibility of
carrying it under existing rules.
Up to Of clock the yeas and nays had been
called thirteen tunes. At that hour the mem
bers on both sides went of in details to ge,
their suppers, aod at 9 clock there was very
full House, when the calling OF the yeas and
nays was made upon every molten and up to
o'clock this morning the House was still IN