Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-16
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! UNDERSTOOD about this matter. Inc Chal
desires to state that if the gentleman rise
for the purpose Of making any correction
the Chair will recognize him; but if he rise
for the purpose of passing any criticism oil
the Chair, the Chair will take occasion Il
call him to order.
Mr.. Money! rise in my right as mem
! Der of this House to protest against the Ian
guage used BY the Speaker as a gross breach
OF decorum and Of the privileges OF Thu
! House
Here Mr.. Money was again interrupted by
loud c.ies of "order" on the Republican
side, and by the continuous rapping of tbs
Speakers gavel, while Mr.. Camp \. y.
and other Republicans demanded that the
words spoken be taken down and read from
| the clerks desk, to which demand Mr.. Money
| gave concurrence.
| The Speaker-The Chair will order the
| sergeant alarms to zee that the gentleman
now preserves order. The gentleman will
now be seated. The Chair will state agaiI
that he has no desire to be oppressive in any
sense upon any member, but when any gen
tleman insists upon making a speech out Of
| order the Chair regards himself bound te
call him to order. II the gentleman from
| Mississippi desires TO make any explanation
or correction in what he said, the Chair will
recognize him, but will not recognize him FOL
| the purpose of making an assault upon the
Chair, out OF order. (Applause on the Re
| publican side.
Mr.. Money! am not Directing TO the
action OF the Chair in calling me to order
| for half a minute, a minute. L was oui
| of order, but under no rule OF this House
has the Chair the authority to reprimand oil
| punish any member Of this House.
| Mr.. Hiscock-The gentleman is not IL
order in putting the Speaker on trial here
and is not in the line of privilege in here
and now arraigning the Speaker.
| The Speaker-The Chair will state thai
| the gentleman from Mississippi is recog-
nized for the purpose OF making any expla-
nation with regard to his own conduct, but
beyond that the Char holds that he is out
| of order, and insists upon exercising his
! right as presiding officer in seeing that The
| gentleman is in order.
Mr.. Money! recognize the Speakers
right to preserve order, but rise mat
! ter of privilege, in justice to myself and to
| the House. to call the attention of the House
to the fact that the Speaker has reprimanded
a member of the House, that it is a breach
! of the privileges of the House, and | desire
| to put it on record.
| The Speaker-The gentleman violates the
privilege given him now.
Mr.. Money! have been advised by per-
haps the best parlIamentarlan in the House
that l have the right to rise TO question oil
privilege, and that it was due TO myself and
to the House that this matter should be
stated
The Speaker-Thc Chair still recognizes
its right to preserve order in the House, and
when the gentleman insisted on speaking,
and as the Chair then believed it out of order
and in violation OF its rules, ii was the duty
of the Chair to preserve order.
Mr. McLane-I understand the gentleman
to rise to question of privilege, and | sub
| init to the Chair that he must be allowed to
! state his question of privilege, and that the
Chair must submit it to the House to pass
upon it.
The Speaker-The gentleman from Mary
land rises to parliamentary inquiry. The
Chair understands that the gentleman from
Mississippi rose TO a question OF privilege,
but that this question only extends to a vim
dication of himself, and in no sense to Vio-
lation OF all rules OF parliamentary law by
assailing the Speaker by criticism.
Mr. McLane-The Chair misunderstands
my inquiry. 1t was not parliamentary in
quiry. / rose to question of privilege, and
that question is the right of a gentleman to
speak. | have the most perfect respect Tor
the Char, and will not utter word lncon-
sisent with that respect.
Mr.. McLane Continuing -While / have
this r. spect for the Chair. l have also some
respect for myself, and when l fad the gen.
tleman from Mississippi called to order by
taken to task by the Speaker, neither the
gentleman from New York nor the Speaker
recognizing that he took the floor ON ques-
ton of privilege, l rise to question OF priv
ilegp and that is that it bee mes the duty of
the Speaker to submit that question 10 the
House.
Mr.. Money-It is nothing but Justice to
me that the record should contain what
have thought il my duty to say in vindica-
ton of myself If the House will permit me
to proceed l have no intention OF proceeding
out of order. The gentlemen who made the
point OF order against me, perhaps antici-
pated what they supposed / would say.
The Speaker-The gentleman will be re
cogniz ed to proceed, but not for the purpose
of making an assault upon the Chair.
Mr.. Money-As / was proceeding to say
land l am speaking without passion, and
simply in defense OF my rights and the ri hts
of this House,, when the bill appropriating
$3.50 900 for the relief of the sufferers by the
overflow was under consideration, thirty
minutes were allowed Tor debate and none
of that time was granted the representatives
of that section most interested in the bill
The gentleman from New York CHiscock
! farmed out the time. j asked him several
times Tor a few minutes, and so did Messrs.
King, Dunn, Robertson and Chalmers. These
REQUESTS we're denied and the floor given to
the people concerned. Then, when the gentle
man demanded the previous question, l rose
to parliamentary inquiry and asked the
Speaker if the thirty minutes had expired.
The Chair replied that il had not. ] again
asked the gentleman from New York for
some time, and was again refused. L then,
holding the floor and not interfering myself
into any mans speech, desired TO state that
the people from our section had not been
heard. Just before that Republican MEN,
Der (alluding to Mr.. Marsh [ Ill. j spoke out
of order and in a voice 80 loud il seemed
| hoarse, and brandished his fist, and nobody
| spoke Of repriman9ing him. There is no
| rule that permits member OF this House
! to be repriraa nded except by order OF the
House, and no Speaker has the right to ar
rogate to himself and usurp the powers OF
| the House. Now, take that down If you
wish. Applause on the Democratic side.
| So far as l am concerned personally, sim
ply wished TO show the people l represent
| that / was incapable Of submitting to a
! thing of this sort without protesting against
| it. Applause on the Democratic side.l ii
| the Speaker has no right, OF his own motion
! to reprimand or punish a member, he has
usurped functions and powers reserved TO the
| House itself.
Mr.. Hiscock stated that he had accorded
the floor principally to members coming
| from other portions of the country, thinking
| thereby there would be less opposition to the
! bill.
Mr.. McLane said he really believed if the
| Chair gave its attention 10 the question Of
privilege, it would take back frankly and
| fully the language used in calling the gen
| tleman to order. That language, in hi:
| (McLans's) Judgment, was a breach OF the
| privileges OF the House, and any member
| who submitted to such reprimand would
be unworthy to hold his seat on the floor
J Applause on the Democratic side.
! The Speaker stated, in answer to Mr.. Nc
| Lane (who in this connection caused tbs
rules to be read), that the gentleman from
Mississippi was recognized on the question o
privilege on his own statement, but thu
| Chair felt bound to call him to order wheI
he violated the privileges which he arose t.
| assert The Chair understood that when thu
| gentleman was called to order for the word
spoken in debate it was the duty of the Chat
| to have the words taken down and leave th'
decision of the matter TO the House
But when the gentleman hagrantly ant
persistently violated the rules of the House
| Il was the duty of the Chair to call him t
order, and if gentlemen did insist on violat
ing the rules the Chair would reprimanC
them; but the Chair had not reprimaDdet
the gentleman from Mississippi. The Chat
has simply insisted upon his and other gen
tlemen ceasipg, and the Chair now wishes
distinctly understood, without any purpose 0
making any threat at all, that he would re
quire the rules TO be obeyed in future.
was due TO the gentleman from Mississippi
to say, so far as the Chair had any kuowledg
of him, in this and former Congresses, IA
had always behaved with the greatest o
courtesy with this exception.