The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-02
BY TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO TIE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
CONGRESS.
Death Struggle Of Samuel J. in
the House.
The War on Speaker Randall by
the Filibusters.
Lively. Scenes in the Democratic
Bear Garden.
PandemOnium 0utrivaIIed-- ---Hur-
riCane of Excitement,
The Republicans Riding Out the
Gale.
Vermont Counted for Hayes and
Wheeler.
Hayes and Wheeler Declared
Elected at 4;I2 A. M.
HOUSE

WASHINGTON, March /.
After the passage Of some Senate Bills
removing political disabilities, Mr.. o.
Brien moved call OF the House.
The Speaker counted the members Of
the House and found there was \ quorum
present and so announced it.
Mr.. Walling submitted that the roll
had TO be called in order to verify the
fact.
The Chair regarded it as Of dilatory
character, but was bound to submit.
Mr.. O'Brien inquired whether it was
not within the knowledge Of the chair
that in former Congresses there were calls
OF the House, even when it had been as
certained that there was quorum prc3-
ent.
The Speaker replied thu; that had oC.
Cured where gentleman had declined to
vote, and that while il was allowable I'M
der the rules OF the House it was not
allowable under the law, and that he was
not responsible for the law.
Mr.. Wood claimed the floor to otler
resolution, but Walling insisted on his
motion for n call OF the House.
Mr.. Haskins remarked that the House
was operating under the Electoral Com
mission law, that the Chair has ascer.
tanned the presence OF 4 quorum, and
that the motion for call OF the House
should not be entertained. If call OF
the House was to be allowed at any time
during the proceedings, then they could
never be completed.
The Speaker-Thc Chair has the right
TO find out whether there is quorum.
Mr.. Haskins-No gentleman has the
right to claim that there is no quorum
present when the Speaker has ascertaincd
that there is.
The Speaker-There is il quorum
present, but the gentleman from Ohio
(Walling) is not willing to take the
statement Of the Chair.
Mr.. Walling-l disclaim any reflection
on the Chair, but have right to know
whether there is quorum present, and
demand the yeas and nays on my notion.
The yeas and nays were ordered, and
resulted yeas GS, nays lG9, so the call of
the House was refused. This little move
ment was so far successful Us to have
occupied an hour and quarter OF the
time Of the House.
1t was followed by motion to recon-
slider the vote.
Mr.. Wood made point OF order that
such motion could have no practical
effect on legislation, but was unqucstion-
ably dilatory motion.
1t was allowed by the Speaker, who
said he had never yet ruled or decided,
either by inference or otherwise, that
motion to reconsider was n dilatory mo-
tion. On the contrary, the Chair was
very clear that what theHOuse could do
it could undo by a motion to reconsider.
Mr.. Hale moved TO lay the motion to
reconsider on the table. Agreed to, yeas
la, nays Gj.
As soon as the vote was announced, a
struggle for recognition by the Speaker
was made by Messrs. Wood and Popplc.
ton, Caulfeld and Mills, each having a
proposition TO submit, which each claim.
ed to be Of the highest privilege, 1t was
made known in the course Of the col
loquy that the Speaker, who had recog-
nized Wood before the motion for the
call Of the House, and who afterwards
learned that Poppleton, who presented
the objection TO the certificate from Yer.
mont, sent for both these gentlemen, and
arranged that the resolution proposed by
Caultield should be offered BY Poppleton,
who,under the usages, was first entitled TO
the iloor, and that Wood should move the
previous question upon it. In the mean.
time Caultield, who had failed in his cf-
forts to be recognized by the Chair, hand
ed over to Poppleton the resolution which
he prepared and Poppleton sent it to the
clerks desk.
The Speaker suggested that the action
lies hardly in Consonance with the agree.
ment made, but Mr.. Popplcion replied
that he had been party TO the prepara-
tion Of Caullields resolution, and that It
had direct reference to the objection to
the certificate from Vermont.
The Speaker thereupon ordered il to
be read, and it was read.
II recitcs, in the form Of preamble,
that the sealed package addressed to the
President Of the Senate purporting to
contain the electoral vote of Vermont,
was delivered, yesterday, to the President
Of the Senate by Mr.. Hewitt. That it
appears by Mr.. Ferguson from the clerk
Of the United States District Court of
Vermont, that the duplicate OF such
returns was deposited in that office on
the 18th Of December, 1876. That such
package had been made part OF the oh.
jections to the certificate of Vermont and
still remained unopened, and that the
objections can not he considered until
such package had been made part Of
the objections to the certificate from Yer
mont and that the objections can not bc
considered until such package ia opened
according to law. That such package is
retained by the President or Secretary Of
the Senate, and therefore resolving TINT
the refusal Of the President OF the Senate
to open such package in the presence Of
the TWO houses wHa violation Of the
law OF tho lIouOc, and until such
package 2 ball be opened the counting Of
the vote cannot proceed further accord.
ing TO tho Constitution and law, and that
the Senate be requested to meet The House
in joint session, so that such package
may be opened and proceedings had
thereon according to law.
As the Clerk finished the reading of
the resolution, the Speaker announced
tho opening Of new legislative day, and
rthe noisy passions and tumult Of the
hour were slilled for few moments,
while prayer was offered.
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