The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-02
SHOUT!
The Victory is Ours!
CONGRESS SIoNAL
HOUSE

Walling demanded a call. The Chair
said he considered that Il dilatory mo-
ton, but was bound to submit. He
said that while 1t was allowable under
the rules of the House, it was not UNI
der the law.
Wood wanted to offer a resolution,
but Walling insisted on his motion.
Hoskins said if a call could be de-
manded at any time during the pro-
ceedings, further business was impossi
BILE. Nobody had u right to claim that
there is no quorum if the Chair has as
certained that there is.
Walling disclaimed any reflection on
the Chair IN not accepting his state
ment, and demanded the yeas and nays,
which resulted in yeas 6S, nays 109,
and the call of the House was refused.
This proceeding consumed an hour and
Il quarter, and was followed by Il mo-
tion to reconsider, which the Speaker
entertained Notwithstanding Woou's
protest. The Speaker commended that
he had never ruled or decided or in
ferred that a motion to reconsider was
dilatory.
The motion to reconsider was tabled
-174 to Is. Wood, Poppleton, Can
field and Mills struggled for ~recogni-
tion, claiming they had questions of the
highest privilege to submit. 1t seems
the Speaker had recognized Wood be-
fore the motion for a call of the House,
and PoppletOn presented the objection
to the certificate of Vermont, conse-
~quently the Speaker arranged with
these gentlemen that Poppleton should
offer Woods resolution and that Wood
should move the previous question.
Meantime, Garfield who was not rec
ogniZed, handed Poppleton a resolution
which he sent to the Clerks desk. The
Speaker suggested that this was hardly
in c%onsonance with the agreement
made, but Poppleton insisted on the
reading.
1t recites that the Hewitt packet of
votes from Vermont was a duplicate of
the one which was sent to the Presi-
dent of the Senate and that such pack
age had been made II part of the OBJ
lection TO the certificate of Vermont.
and still remained unopened, and that
the objection cannot be considered I'M
til such package is opened according to
law; that such package is retained by
the President or Secretary of the Sem
ate, and therefore resolving that the
refusal of the President of the Senate
to open such package in the presence of
AAS W OhoN q ~ NAoheNNiOl VI ~"
and the privileges of the House, and
the counting of the vote cannot pro-
coed until such vote is counted, and
that the Senate be requested to meet
the House in joint session that the
package may be opened.
The speaker then announced Il new
legislative day.
There was Il brief pause during prayer,
but the reading of the journal gave
, Springer an opportunity, and he de-
, manded that a detailed statement of
papers, votes, etc., be not omitted.
The speaker stated it was impossible,
rs the details were not copied in the
: journal. The speaker refused to en-.
terrain any question until the reading
was completed. When the reading
ended, Springer moved that the journa
be corrected and that the paper sub
mitted on the Coolie question be i'll
serted.
Wood moved to suspend the reading
of the Journal and the yeas and nays re.
suited, yeas 175, nays 50.
Wood then raised the point of order
that the House mus consider the Yer.
mont objections, and Poppleton's pro
position was out of order.
Caulfeld SAID that vas correct, unless
tlltlC was III lllllIIlllltllb Ill lit way
Springer had yesterday offered objec.
tons, together with a certificate, which
the Nice-President refused to open.
Hooker argued against the point of
order and for the admission of the
} second certificate. Reagan supported
the point. He regretted that where
This side had given substantial objec.
F, tions to the electoral count, any other
could be made which would not com
mand the respect of the House.
Randall said: with my best respect
for all parties concerned, the chair con
siders that Il great mistake and wrong
was committed yesterday in the joint
session of the two Houses in this, that
I the presiding officer refused to receive
even for opening, reading and infor.
nation, u package which had all the
surroundings of an authentic paper in
respect to an electoral vote of the state
of Vermont. The chair does not think
that i'll any aspect of this case he would
be called upon to rule that the action
' of the pre- siding officer of the joint con-
vention, yesterday, WAS wrong. lie
does not think he possesses the power,
nor does he believe in q technical sense
that the action of the joint convention
e can be reviewed in this house III the
{ manner proposed. and yet there is,
g above all, a fact on which this matter
rests, and that fact is whether this
5 House should have possession of this
' paper. To that extent, and to that eX-
tent only, the chair thinks that the res
:, olution of Caultield is in order"
While the speaker was delivering this
opinion there was a subsistence of the
uproar, which had been increasing little
by little during the day, but rs soon AZ
he had got through noise and confusion
q began to prevail, and in a short time
the storm had increased to a gale. The
central point was whether, before tn,
two hours discussion commenced, the
d president of the Senate should be called
d upon to send back to the House the
package produced yesterday by Hewitt
and submitted with Springcr's objec
}. tons to the count. The speaker did al
= that was in his power to get the Hous'
c into the regular channel of business
and refused to entertain any appea
G from his ruling.