The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
RANDALL WASTHER ROGUE
rHE BLAME FOR THE DEADLOCK
ON HIS SHOULDERS.

B,t for His Aid and Comfort the Direct
TAX Bill Would Have Been Defeated
the First Day it Was Brought Up
Mr.. Carlisle Set Right.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-Speaker Car
Isle said tonight that while it was not Gus
tonary for member of the Committee on
Rules to speak publicly of the proceedings
in that committee, he was willing to say
since conflicting statements had been made
sbont them that no formal vote had been
taken in the committee on the report as
signing days for bills. including day for
the direct tax bill and a day for the swamp
land bill, but from the beginning to the
end he had opposed in committee the propo-
sitions to assign days for the direct tax bill
and the swamp land bills. The history of
the matter was as follows: The committees
and individual members were anxious to
have days separately set apart for the con-
sideration of measures they were interested
in Resolutions settin G apart thirty differ
ent days were referred to the Committee
on Rules.
FORCED TO TAKE ACTION.
posed to setting apart any of these days,
but when the Committee on Labor had sue
ceeded in getting the House to set apart
four days for its bills without regard to the
Committee on Rules and the Committee ON
Agriculture was about to get the House to
do the same thing for it the Committee on
Rules saw that it must adopt schedule Of
special orders or the business of the House
would be swamped. So the committee an
nounced that it would prepare such a
schedule Immediately its members were
besieged with requests, more than half of
which they had to deny. In preparing the
schedule they first ascertained April II to
be the day on which the Ways and Means
Committee would call up the tariff bill.
They then agreed to give the Committee on
Appropriations last Saturday, to-day and
tomorrow for the appropriation bills.
CoRNERED BY THE REPUBLICANS.
This left them eight days to allot the Re-
publican members of the comm ttee. They
promptly announced that one of those days
must be given to the direct tax bill and
another to the swamp land bill, or they
would not agree to the report. Mr.. Ran
dali said he was opposed to putting the
direct tax bill in the order, but might favor
it in the House. Mr.. Carlisle said he was
unalterably opposed to both bills, both in the
COIun1lJUee anu III Jne HOUSE. MI. Mills
was absent sick. Finding that 0hey had
the half support of Mr. Randall, the Re
publicans pressed their demands and Mr..
Carlisle being practically alone had to let
the two propositions go into the report in
order to get any report at all, but he sue
ceeded in getting the committee to agree
that motions should be entertained in the
House to strike cut the direct tax bill and
the swamp land bill assignments.
HIS WORK ONLY ROUTINE.
He did prepare the report of the commit
tee, but this he always does as chairman,
the meetings being held in his room and
i his secretary acting as clerk. His report
did not recommend the direct tax bill; it
simply stated briefly the assignments the
committe had selected out of the thirty
asked for As soon as the report had been
Il adopted Mr. Randall came out in his true
i colors as a supporter of the direct tax bill
4 and continued so to the end. Without his
aid and comfort the Republicans would not
have been able to command a majority of
the House, and the direct tax bill would
have been defeated the day it was brought
up. He made the deadlock necessary.