The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-01
MACKEY MAKES IT.
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entertained the resolutions and the motion
to lay them on table. [Shouts from the re-
publicans' side Of Lets have a vote"
Cox, of New York, insisted that the first
thing in order when the the question was
raised concerning the chair was for the
speaker to leave the chair.
The speaker informed him that there was
u rule to that effect.
Blackburn. of Kentucky, took up the
point made by House, of Tennessee, and
insisted that the gentleman from Maryland
having presented a question OF privilege,
was entitled to the floor, to argue it, and
the floor could not be taken from him by a
motion to lay on the table. The excerpt
from the Record which had been Just read
in the preamble showed that the chair de-
clared on Monday that motions to lay on
the table were always in order Applause
from the democrats,
McOook, of New York, put the pariia.
mentary inquiry whether the action of the
majority was not the action of the house,
AMI whether such action should be ar
Iaigned.
The speaker attempted to make some fur
thcr explanation and defense of his ruling,
but there was SO much clamor and uproar
and so many members shouting on both
sides, no ineligible report Of what he said
cou d be made.
One of the most persistent claim.
ants on the floor was Cox, Of New
York, who con inued to assGyerate
in loud tones that the gentleman from
Maryland could not be deprived of the
floor by motion to lay on the table. lie
was raped to order by the speaker and in.
formed that the chair had right to recog-
nize the motion TO Law on the table. He
was also advised by Miller, of Pennsvlyy-
mia, to sit down, to which he re.
sponsed by moving across the area 10
where Miller was standing and gesticulat.
ing with his fist in the neighborhood of
Miller's face, n movement which was greet
ed with shouts of laughter and clapping of
hands. In the midst of the disorder the
speaker was heard to repeat that he had a
right to refuse on Monday to entertain the
motion to lay on the table, as the rulrq
were not then applicable and the house had
affirmed his ruling, but the molten as now
made was under the rules and was in order
and was bringing down his gayel with an
emphatic knock not debatable. Applause
on the republican side
With the storm on the democratic side
still raging, notwithstanding the sneaker.
Cox. of New York, persisted in an ATTEMPT
to present his point of order, while Halle
ton, of Wisconsin, and Miller and O'NcilI,
OF Pennsylvania, shouted at him to take his
seat, and the speaker told him that the
interruptions were not in order
and that he must respect the
house and chair, to which Cox
retortcd that If the chair would respect its.
elf he would respect the chair. The up.
roar and disorder did not wane, but still
Mclane managed to make himself heard in
all the noise and confusion, protesting
against the Treatment, he had been subjected
to in being deprived OF the floor, when he
was entitled to it.
An ongry colloquy took place between
McLane and Hazelton, of Wisconsin. which
the speaker cut short by declaring the
question to be on the motion to Law the
preamble and resolutions ON the table.
Cox made some further fight against
having the question put so peTemn.
torily, without McLanc having a
chance 10 be heard, and McLaue declared
that under the rules the sneaker was
bound, when the question of privilege was
presented, to submit it to the house
[Chorus of repubicans-"Tha is what he
Is doing."l
The speakcr-'That is what the chair
is trying to do now" TApplause
on the republican side.l
McLane- 1.-THE chair should 90 TO the cy-