The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-06
How It Was Defeated I'm the Heuse-A
stormy Debate Ends in Tabltng
the Measure.
Especial to the New York SUM-


One long wrangle over the bill for a national
quarantine ended this evening in q vote of 1874
to 100 to lay the entire subject on the table. 1t
was earlyin the afternoon when Casey Young,
OF Tennessee, followed the series of motions to
suspend the rules by one to take up for con-
sderatiOn the Senate bill on national quar-
antine-a bill violently opposed by many In
the House, rejected by the House commit
tee and opposed by a majority OF the MEM
bers. Once up for consideration, il was be-
lieved that Its passage would be easy. In the
hurry and rush of the closing hours men
spoke, fell to wrangling, and stopped. Casey
Young, TALL sallOw man, with strldent
voice, who stayed in Memphis through all the
long struggle OF last autumn, stood In one
aisle hammering on his argument and twenty
feet of John GOOde, the broad-shouldered
Virgini3n, who led the opposition, shouted
Question:, and Interruptions over the din.
There was disorder, but no great disorder, all
the afternoon. Half the House was standing,
but the other half kept to the desks. After a
fashion men could be heard; yet the disorder
was great enough to prevent Chittenden, not
thirty feet from the Chair, from hearing the
permission which gave him the five minutes
speech he had asked.
One vote after another was taken. Casey
Young INTERCEPTED one short speech. The
House threw out the Senate bill and substi-
tuted one of its own-a bill to which no great
objection can be made ii the Federal govern
ment Is to enter at all into the business of
preventing pestilence. The roll was called
on the third reading, two hours or so after this
windy, irregular debate. The bill was lost
The House, wearied, took recess
1t reassembled in the stormy mood which
always comes over the House as it's hours
grow few. From the Speaker down every
member Is In a wild, feverish state of excite
ment Young took the floor again to make
one last effort. He moved to reconsider the
vote by which the vote was lost, and dexter
Ousiy turned the hour he had under the rules
Tor speech over to Garfield, who spoke in
long ingenious defense not Of the House, but
OF the Senate bill. Youngs motion was car
rled, and then, in great whirl of confusion,
the whole House shouting, half its members
keeping some semblance of order and the
rest disorganized mob. The question re-
CURED on ordering the bill to third
reading. It was plain that the House
bill would be again passed to a third
reading Garfield came down the aisle
shouting motion to reconsider the
vote substituting the House bill. 1t was
out OF order, but the opponents of the
bill sprang quickly to the point that Garfield
had not so voted as to make it possible for
him to make this motion. Phillips, of Kan
sas, renewed the motion. He claimed he had
voted one way. The record showed he had
voted the other. There has been all the ses-
sion an undercurrant of criticism among the
Republicans upon the methods of the Clerks
desk 1t broke out now in great shout sus-
Lalning Phillips and his memory against the
records. For the second time during the
evening the mace had to come down from its