The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-01

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VIZ nnlo op t6s announcement Of ibe vote
Camuboll. fisher, Turner aud Roblnson
| Who had voted "yen," changed Their y9tss
Tucker also changed his vote 10 yea, W
tl,e uurposp of moving n reCon5lderh,lOn
These changes made total vote ~ aboY'
Iced moved 10 lay the motion TO recon
siG r on the talse, and the yen! anu nay'
W, g ordered, pending when h'hB nloFe'
H. the house adjourn. -.,.a. ,,oo,
vi be motion to adjourn was lost-yeas,
81 ,ays, Inland the question recutIeu WI ~
tnpliDg the motion TO reconsider the Wy,
bv which the house determined TO cohsiuei
the Reed rule. 900. ,o,,s
The motion was tabled-yeas, l36i nays
.12l. oa.,o,
Reed demanded the previous question.
Blackburn raised the poiht oi Giuri
against The resolution, and prefaced his ar
gument with a disclaimer OF addressing ltis
remarks in the futile effort 10 describe
and 6tly characterize the effort Which
the committee on rules had en-
bodied i'm this resolution in order to escape
the strait into which the majority nave peeh
driven. That question would come up,
and ifthe majority saw fit in us magma
of proposition as radical and
rrvolutionary as the one now
presented; at that time, he would ask it
10 be heard on the merit, If merit there Was WAS
first paragraph OF the proposition
had the effect of suspending the RUE
by bare majority vote, 1t was PROPOSE.
ton TO take away from the house the power
of suspending the rules by a Two. thIEas
vote should suspend the rules for the pur-
pose of taking up one bill and limiting ac-
ton on that pill to one motion-a motlon 10
agree to the senate amendment. III gave
power to ask conference on BILL, not one
sentence, one line, or syllable OF when hau
ever been in the house before. Inc majority
was unwilling to trust to the count wnlch
(if conn rumor was to be creflteo) hau
been carefully mlde-a count made on
written agreement signed by members.
Though the rumor was that the majority
had marshaled its forces, yet 1t dare
not allow vote to be taken on
the motion to concur in the senate amend
ments. He denied thai the propo-,
sition could be considered, construed
or denominated rule, If 1t were adopted
what would happen if it went INTO the man
uel as standing rule, to become IN an
probability functus officio within thirty
MINUTES after enactment ? 1t was an alb
surdity ON its face. Was it o rule ot-the
house Of repr esentatives, or did it. not prac-
ticallv constitute legislation itself?
A Member-"That one man could over
rple the two hundred?"
Blackburn" do mean to say just that,
and nothing more. mean TO say lhat
when the motion to non. concur, II there DE
but single man to vote for 1t and so
againstit, their votes are not counted, simply
be cause O. feature of this resolution refuses
to allow the DILL to be considered.
1t was what Blackstone has denoml-
mated not rule, not law, but a
.entence pronounced and that without
hearing" Continuing, he said he dld not
know that he had any authority or sem
blance of authority to express an opinion
of what was or might be the purport OF any
member of the house except himself, but
sincerely he declared he had no purpose OF
Offering what did not practically constitute
legisla ion itself. Could anyone tell him
the difference between the proposition SUD-
mitted and the motion made by any mem
Der of the house when he asked unanimous
consent to take up and pass a certain blliT
Or, to make the analogy closer, and al
most identical, could anyone sta5e
the difference between this proposition
and that member of the CO nmittee, who,
under authority from that committee,
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
measures indicated by him? This was
simply an order from the committee on
rules.
House Inquired whether the pending
resolution motion to non.coneur mignI
Der of the house voted non-con-
cur, and 200 voted against 1t;
did the gentleman mean to say that one
man could over-rule the 200? He declared
he had no purpose of offering any OBJ
struction or interposing any improper
in the way of the house.
If he meant to make an effort toward the
AK on tariff legislation, he did not want 10
make any threats, for he had no purpose OF
putting them into execution; but he came
Go ask that the house Gf it was to be strip
ped of its constitutional prerogative
to originate tariff legislatioD) should at
least have the priyelegsi n II ipaR
tizan preiudices could be laid aside he
could not but believe that tne
unbiased Judgment OF every l1teil-
cent man would force MIN
10 the conclusion that this proposition was
a make.shift to meet party eXigencles, ailu
could not be fairly incorporated into the
svstem of the rules of the house, III the
proposition were agreed to, the majority
would have adopted process OF lndirectlon
Inv a parliamentary twist of the Wrist, ana
would have. reached the inside oil the llmita-
tons Of law. 10 ~
The speaker said he had nothing to 90 az
present with the question OF constitutional
of the house in the matter OF
ppriainating the tariff bill. That question
aid mot enter into the decision OF the point
of order made by the gentleman from Ken,
tnckv 0Blackburn). That gentleman based
his noint solely upon the claim that TINS
resolution, if adopted, would not be a RUE
II would be rather early for the chair 10 oe-
eide VIVA, II was II was reported ~ ru,e
and was before the house; but, passing
anmnRlant
house when the subject was properly
before Il, to change every rule ana
ali rules which had been adopted. barly
in the session a resolution had been
adonted authorizing the committee on
rules to report at any time any chanBe 81
rules or a new rule. That right OF TINS
committee had been exercised, perhaps IN
this case, aHu 'nis Substitute
e Sse various propos',iSns referred to. II the
chair could look lat, IL might be, in tins
an excentional %, 10 put aside other
Tnles, even for tn. providing for suspen-
sion of the rules, but the greater certainty
certainty included the lesser. A rue
might be reported from the commit "
tee properly, which wouio sSspen every
repeal, or annul, or set asioe every
rnie of the house, standing or special
and n the house choose 10 affirm that re-
nort. IL would certainly be competent 1or
me house 10 do 80. In this case, though,
the report might apply TO but single Ereat
and Important measure. IL seemed c.ea,
N the chair Il would be a rule to the extent
40 vii ch il went, and perhaps
The gentleman from Kentucky
m ackbtirnl might see this. IN
tbis one special case IL went TO the end.
The chair overruled the point Of order.
Blackburn appealed, and keea nl Nv 49, ~
lay the. appeal on the taoie. Vh ''iis 'ne
yeas and nays were ordered. $50,
A. il wanted but Eve minutes TO tbe hour
e. racess that time was consumed IN
co,fnsed and unsuccessful effort 10 obfiate
night session. Recess
FyErING sEssIOE.
The senate amendments 70 the neNal ~,
.-.,...-s.tton hill we're HOn-cOncurred m aBo