The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-27
HOUSE.

WARRINGTON, January 26.-0n motion
Of Mr.. Rapp, the bill was passed granting
to Council BlufS the care Of the lake
near that city, INI r
A motion to dispense with the morning
hour was defeated by vote Of 80 to 50,
and the Speaker directed the Clerk to fin.
lsh the reading Of the bill pending at the
expiration Of the last morning hour. ..
Mr.. Money reported back the resolution
directing the Postofice Committee TO en-.
quire int the expsdiency Of establishing
a telegraph postal system under the gov.
ernment Of the United States; and also
into the cost Of reproducing the facilities
for transmitting telegraph messages equal
10 those now possessed by existing corpo.
rations, and into the cost Of operating the
same, and granting that committee leave
to send for persons and papers. Placed
on the calendar.
Mr.. Wilson, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported back adversely
the bill authorizing the President 10 ne.
gotiate for lands Tor the colonization Of
Colored persons. Laid on the table.
Mr.. Blcknell called up the resolution
proposing q JOINT rule for the counting Of
the electoral votes.
Alter some time was spent In the vain
attempt to arrive at some determination n
In reference to the time to be consume d
In debate, Mr.. Bicknell demanded the pre-.
vious question on the Morgan Electoral re.
solution.
Mr.. Conger raised a question Of consld.
Grafton.
The vote by division stood 10 anginst
and ITO In favor Of taking up the Electoral
resolution.
Messrs. Stephens, FELTON, and speer,
voted with the Republicans.
The votes by yeas and nays resulted:
yeas l30, nays l24 In favor Of taking up
the electoral resolution, q strict party
vote, except FELTON,, Speer and stepens, OF
Georgia, who voted In the negative with
the Republicans. OF the Greenbackers
Ladd and Stevenson voted In the afFirma-
tive, and Jones, Lowe, Russell, OF North
Carolina, March, Gillette, Weaver and
Yocum In the negative.
Mr.. Blcknell again demanded the preyi.
otls question, pending which Mr.. Conger
moved q call Of the House.
The Speaker called attention TO the fact
that the last vote showed tie presence Of
o quorum.
Mr.. Conger replied that It was neverthe.
less In order TO have q call Of the House.
The Speaker said that the Chair recog.
nized the TACT that there was more than q
quorum present-254 members has Just
voted.
Mr.. Conger said, sarcastically, that
his object was 10 compel forty absent
members 10 return TO their duties. He
hoped that the ruling Of the chair would
not prevail.
The Speaker ruled that the motion was
not In order at the present condition OF
business, IL having been shown that there
was not only q quorum present, but more
than two.thirds OF o i1ll house-a stuff.
cient number 10 meet every requirement
ot the Constitution. -
Mr.. Conger appealed from the decision,
which appeal Mr.. Blount moved TO lay on
the table, The Republicans refused 10
vote on the motion and the house was
thereby left without quorum. The vote
stood: yeas 140; nays 65.
Mr.. Conger raised the point Of order
that no Quorum was present.
A call Of the house was then ordered.
The call disclosed the presence Of 25s
members, and all the proceedings under
the call having been disposed with, the
question recurred, on motion, to table the
appeal from the Speakers decision, and
again no quorum voted. AT 4 o'clock,
alter q half dozen roll calls, the House
found itself In exactly the same situation
In which Il had been three hours previous.
ly, or, as Mr. Reagan expressed II, ''the
House merely went up bill and then aid
down again" The tactics OF The Repub.
llCan side were to answer to their names
Upon the call ol the House, but 10 remain
silent on the motion TO table the appeal,
thus leaving the House without quofurn,
and forcing the call Of The House. A mo.
ton 10 adjourn was defeated. Yeas 1877,
nays 1870. Another call Of the House was
ordered, and the House then Adjourned.