Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-07
PADDOCK IN THE H1GUSias H1USs.
SPEAKER CARLISLE, EXPECTS A PRO-
 TRACTED STRUGGLE.

The Leaders of the Filibustering Tactics
 Against the Direct Tax Measure-For-
 mer Legislative Deadlocks That Have
 Become Historical.
 WASHINGTON, April 7-The present dead lock ill the house bids fair to become mem- orable. Even so high an authority as Speaker Carlisle is quoted as sayiug that he looks for ward to bitter and protracted struggle, and determined is the feeling on both sides that no one can foreten when the end will come. The new members are enjoying the novelty of the situation, and the old members are shutting their teeth tightly to- gether with a purpose to fight it out this time as they have fought time and time again. On the Democratic side the leader is Representative Oates, of Alabama, a tall, heavy built man of dignified and distin- guished presence He was a colonel in the Confederate service, and the empty sleeve upon his right side tells of the arm that he left on the field in front of Richmond in his twenty-seventh battle. He is deliberate talker, but does not possess the gifts of an orator. He is skilled, however, in parlia- mentary tactics, and rather enjoys a skir- mish. He is assisted in this struggle by Rep resentative Breckinridge, of Arkansas, and Representative McMillin, of Tennessee. Representative Reed, of Maine, familiarly called ''Tom" Reed, is the Republican leader. At the same time he is not as prominent in this fight as Representative Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio, who is pointed out from the galleries as the man who succeeded Garfield in con- gress. He is an old man, his age being given as 65, but he bears his years lightly. He is tall and erect in figure, and wears a Prince Albert coat closely buttoned around his spare form. His beard is long, pointed, and al- ways trimmed. In color it is sandy gray, and his hair is but slightly strewn with white. There are some deep furrows in his face, how ever, but these may be due to aff1iction rather than age. He has been quite prominent since the contest began, and is regarded as being in charge of the bill
 Deadlocks in the house are not frequent. MT. Randall made the beginning of his repu- tation many years ago in filibustering against what was known as the sForce bill, meas ] ure which proposed to place troops at the i polls in the south. There was another dead lock when the Democrats tried to defeat the | counting in of Hayes, and this was only ! broken when at o'clock on the morning of Friday, March 2, 1877, MT. Randall, who was 1 in the chair, absolutely declined to entertain any further dilatory motions, and instructed | the clerk to inform the senate that the house i was ready to proceed with the count It was a crisis in the history of the country. Mr. Hayes was in Ohio, and only forty-eight hours remained of President Grants term. When i a filibustering motion was about to be made MT. Randall refused to recognize the member l for that purpose The member asked an ap- peal, but MT. Randall declared that recog- milton was matter entirely within the juris- diction of the chair, and not appealable. This broke the backbone of the deadlock, and within an hour MT. Hayes was declared to have received a majority of the electoral l votes cast
 A deadlock ended the Forty-fifth congress. In the last thirty-six hours of the session the Republicans brought up a contested election case, with the intention of sitting a member i of their party. The Democrats began to filibuster, and continued the fight until the gavel fell, the only interruptions being con- ference reports on appropriation bills. The would be congressman who had the SI0 OOO at stake was an interested and anxious spec tator.
 The Forty-sixth congress also died in dead lock. The point at issue was an item in the military appropriation bill for troops at the polls, and the opposition was led by Mir. l Springer, of Illinois. The five or six final days or the session were consumed in filibus- l tering, and the hour of 12 on the last day was reached while the clerk was in the mid ! dle of the roll call. An extra session was convened on March IS, but the opposition was renewed with such vigor that it was the middle of June before a compromise was reached. In this deadlock James A Garfield took a prominent part. There was also a struggle over an attempt to impeach Consul 1 General Seward.
 But the most interesting of all the contests of this kind was probably that over the tariff 1 bill in the first session of the Forty-seventh congress. "A bill had been passed in the house." said Representative Springer, in re- calling the circumstances, ''to reduce the tax on manufactured tobacco from sixteen to eight cents pound. When it reached the senate the Republican majority there tackled upon it a complete tariff bill. Then the original measure, with its amendments, came back to the house, and MT. Cox, Mir. Townshend, and myself proceeded to talk it to death We took | every item separately and debated it, five minutes for and five minutes against The census of 1SS0 had just been published, and we had no end of information about lumber, salt, glue, isinglass, and everything else in the 1 schedule Then we made motions-all per 1 fectly in order, but they all consumed time | For instance, moved that lumber be placed on the free list, and when this had been de- feated by yea and nay vote, I went over the whole lumber section and moved to increase or lower the duty according to the dictates of my own sweet will We kept this up for some weeks, and finally, when one-third of the bill had been considered, and the Repub- licans saw it would take at least two years to go through the whole bill, the committee on rules brought in a rule discharging the com | mittee of the whole from the consideration of | the bill, disagreeing to the senate amend ments and ordering a committee of confer ence. I made another motion to adjourn, and | when this was defeated I moved to take | a recess, and then to adjourn to a set day. | Speaker Keller held that both these motions were dilatory, and would not entertain them. I then moved to lay the rule on the table, but the speaker would not recognize me. When | persisted he ordered the sergeant-at-arms | to make me sit down. That night the bill was fixed up, and the next day was passed. It was about to be adopted without reading, but protested and it was read. That bill is the present tariff law"
 Killed by a Glycerine Explosion.
 HAMMOND, Ind, April 7.-The glycerine mill of the Etna Powder company, located at Millers, Ind, about sixteen miles east of