Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-26
EsHLENAN,syOTE.

Row over q La6ooster County Rooster.
]. B. Eshleman, one of the members of
tho Legislature from this county, wasn't
in any hurry to get back 10 Harrisburg
yesterday, having tarried in town to at
tend the meeting Of the Republican county
COMMITTEES where he exhibited himself as a
specimen rooster.'' He got to Harris
burg and up to the hill last night just after
q vote had been taken on the previous
question ON Faunce's motion to suspend
the rules and take up the tax bill on first
reading. -.
When the roll was finished the vote
stood 9S to 46, and the motion would
therefore have been carried by the neces-
sary two-thirds had not Hill, Of Indiana,
and Eshleman, meanwhile arrived and
asked to have their votes recorded. Hill
stated that he desired to record his vote
and no objection was raised. Eshleman
merely addressed the chair and his name
was at once called by the clerk and he
voted no. Wolfe arose and objected. The
speaker ruled that the objection was not
raised in time. Wolfe held that the
House had no opportunity to pass ON the
question and hot dispute arose as to the
precise facts relative to the recording of
Eshleman's vote. The speaker ordered
the names to be read and declared the re-
solution lost for want of two thirds vote.
Wolfe heard Eshelman's name read and
asked the speaker what had been done
with the point Of order. Hewitt said 1t
could not be raised. g refuse to raise it
now," said Wolfe, "for the decision OF
the chair would make that useless but l
demand that it be considered, as it should
have been before this vote been decided.
demand that the judgment Of the House
be taken on this point. Does the speaker
think he has supreme control Of this
House or the majority?' "No." said
Hewitt: "nor has the gentleman from
Union.'' Applause Hewitt continued
that he thought the House had decided,
by making no objection, that Eshleman's
vote should be recorded. Wolfe said lie
had objected, and said all he wanted was
that the speaker should allow the House
to decide how it had decided. Hewitt OBJ
jected to the phraseology of Wolfc's
written appeal as unfairly stating the
question, and after just one hour of
wasted time Wolfe was persuaded to
withdraw his appeal on the ground that
the decision, one way or the other,
could not affect the result. Some trifing
routine business was then done, but the
temporary lull was followed by still
greater tumult when Faunce got the floor
and moved to read the bill at once for the
first time and to fix the second reading for
Tuesday morning and the third for Wed
nesday morning. The resolution was read
once and the speaker then took it and be
gan what was evidently private inquiry
a. to some parliamentary point in cOnnec
ton with it. The delay became noticeable
aud Wolfe demanded the second reading
of the resolution. Speaker Hewitt said he
was considering question of order in con-
nection with the resolution and asked the
indulgence of the House. Wolfe said the
resolution should be again read. It W; 8
not for the speaker or any one else to raise
or consider points Of order in connection
with the resolution till it was in possession
of the House. The chair again expressed
q desire to settle the point in his
own mind, and Wolfe asserted that he was
consuming time just as it had been con-
sumed in many other sessions heretofore
and was endangering tho passing of the
resolution and of the important bill which
was demanded by all the people of the
commonwealth. Hewitt angrily replied
that Wolfe was the only man in the House
who would deny the chair the privilege Of
examining the question, but he could not
make buncombe at the expense Of the
chair. He (Hewit) had always voted with
the gentleman from Union on these ques-
tions, and he preceded at length in his
attack on Wolfe from the chair. He re-
commended him to figure up the hours he
had consumed, and said that Wolfe was
the only man on the floor mean enough to
deny the chair the right to inform him
self on question of order. If Wolfe cx-
pected to force the chair to put the question
whether the resolution should be read \
second time, the chair would refuse to act
at the command of tho dictator from
Union.
Wolfe said when the chair charged with
being dictator he simply replied with the
charge that the speaker was an abettor Of
the ringsters. The words produced an
immense sensation and the loud cries of
approval and disapproval which had greet
ed the excited and angry utterances Of
both Wolfe and Hewitt were huslled for a
moment as the members watched the
effect of this bold shot at the speaker.
Hewitt said deliberately, though
evidently under great excitement
"When tho gentleman from Union
says am an abettor of ringstt rs Q
says what is not true in point of fact"
VOA0 ICpllcu Cludl ctEucSGtIcSS .
"The speaker is not right in point of fact.
and when he calls me dictator will call
him an abettor of ringsters, as he is.
Some sense of the disgrace(ul nature Of
this scene took possession of the House and
loud and persistent cries were made for the
second reading Of the resolution. As the
speaker still hesitated, Faunce formally
made motion that it be read second time,
though stating that nothing else was in
order and that it should be so read, rs 4
matter of course. Hewitt replied that it
would have been 50 ordered long ago had
it not been for the attempt Of Wolfe to
dictate to the chair.
The question was then put, the yeas and
nays demanded, and the resolution was
ordered to be read second time by vote
of 90 to 4S.
On this Landis and Snyder, of this
county, voted right and Eshleman,
Peoples, Courtney and Snader with the
ROSTERS.
Hewitt then decided that Faunce's mo
tiOn, of the same import as this resolution,
had beeplsoted down and this could not be
entertained. Faunce then moved that
the evenings session he extended until
the tax bill was passed on first reading, as
it could easily be reached in a short time.
The speaker decided this would change the
rules and the motion must lie over a day,
and a like decision was rendered on reso-
lation, by Law, fixing Tuesday, Wednes.
day and Thursday, in special sessions, for
the readings of the bill, and another
by Faunce, fixing to night, Tuesday aud
Wednesday for the same purpose. Faunce
then made his last effort in tho shar,o of .,