The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-12-23
HOUSE,


tho chaplain, the Speaker, as is usual,
IL scted the clerk to read the journal
Il yesterday, Whereupon Bowman
rose to a question of privilege relative
to the disgraceiul proceedings which
na1 occurred in the House yesterday.
The Speaker said the chair would
prefer the gentleman should wait till
the journal should have peen read.
Bowman (republcau) said it was
on that point he wished The Speaker
to rule. A rule OF the House stated
that members should not be held to
answer nor be subject to the censure
of the House for Anything SAID in de-
bate, if further deba or business had
interven' He desired to kaow
whether tue reading of the journal
could be construed as such inteIven
ing business as would shut of further
proceedings by the House for the
gross violation OF its dignity.
The Speaker ssid the reading of
the journal would take from the
House none of its privileges.
Immediately after the reading OF
the journal. McLane, as a question
affecting the dignity of the House,
called attention to the scene of disor-
der which took place on the floor
yesterday, and which he character
lied as offensive, derogatory and die
creditable to the House as a parlis-
mentary body. He called upon both
the offending members. before any
other business was entered, to relieve
themselves of that odense by ample
apology.
No response having been made by
either member immediately con-
cerned, Bowman rose to present what
he called a substitute proposition.
He spoke Of the scene OF yesterday as
a crime aud as an insult offered to
the House, to Congress and to the
country, There was not, he said, a
man present who did not, yesterday,
hang his head in shame, and
did not regard that scene as a per-
sonal disgrace, and all over the coun-
try and the world men were reading,
this morning, Of the pot house brswl,
tue gambling house quarrel and fight
with fists (only prevented by force)
that took place yesterday.
Harris, of Virginia, suggested that
perhaps both the ofiendiag members
we're now willing to make an apology,
and if 80, they ought to have an op-
poItunity at once.
Haskell suggested that other mem
bers had been guilty of conduct
equally worthy of censure.
McLsne insisted on his question oil
privilege, and offered a resolution re.
curing the two offending mem bere
to apologize to the House. In the
course OF McLane's remarks, ne re-
cognizsd that most of the members
present yesterday were partly re
sponsible for the scene OF yesterday.
To that remark, Wood, OF New
York. took exception, and said be
had interferred in the discussion oil
yesterday and endesvorad to confine
it 10 the funding bill. He also char
acterizsd the scene a. the mosl
shameful exhibition that ever had
taken place on the q )er.
McLaue, ,hout oouclIdlns hi.
remarks, ssid be woul yield to the
gentleman from 10 va (Wtaverl If be
were now wiling to make an apol
ogy.
Haskell, OF Kansas, objected to the
proceeding and declared tha. in hi.
opinion the House should rather
make an apology TO the county fol
having suffered an adjournment K
to take place yesterday without
action, and thus try to cast of it's oxr
shoulders the disgrace that belonged
there, aud to single out members a:
scspe goats for its own sins.
Bowman again took the floor and
quoted remark OF f. WOOD, az tC
the charac er OF yesterdays incident
adding If the two ofunding member
had been two boys fighting on III,
sidewalk they would have spent thu
night in the tCmbs and he brouph
before the police court in tbs morn
ing. fs1.3 (
He should now take action tina
would be . warning. He would there