Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-12
SEVEN MONTHS HENCE
THE DIRECT TAX BILL WILL. COME
UP ONCE MORE.

A Compromise Forced by the Minority and
the Deadlock Disappears-A 31-HouI
Session WInds Up an EiEht-Day Struggle
Probable Fate of the Bond Purchase
BiII-senate transactions.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 12.-It took all
Tuesday night to get through call of the
house, and that business was still on deck
Thursday morning. From daylight till 8 a.
m, members who had been sleeping in com
mittee- rooms began to put in an appearance
after getting breakfast. From o'clock till
noon everything was quiet, and at the latter
hour tho beginning of the eighth day Of the
deadlock, the clerk was calling the roll on a
motion to dispense with the call The motion
was defeated and the next hour or so was
without incident Unanimous consent was
given to have telegram from New York
read, announcing an Improvement in ex-Sen-
ator Conkling's condition The reading of
the dispatch called forth n round Of applause
from both sides of the house.
Representative Mason, of Illinois, saved the
house the trouble of a roll-call Wednesday
morning by seeing-what the older members
of the house didn't see-how it could be done.
About II o'clock Cowles of North Carolina
moved that the house adjourn, and demanded
number of Republicans aroused themselves
and voted to have the ayes ard noes, and the
roll-call was about to begin when Mason made
the point of order that the motion to adjourn
was not in order, because no business had in
tervened since the last vote on a similar mo-
ton
The speaker sustained the point, and Mason
was immediately surrounded by an admiring
throng of the older members, who congrat-
ulated him on his presence of mind and
acumen in Selling upon tho proper parlia-
mentary remedy TO head Off the dreaded
test vote.
About noon the roll call was ordered on a
motion to dispense with further proceedings
under the call of the house Anderson OF
Kansas was among the first names called, and
that gentleman was invigorating himself by
shave and shampoo. But he was equal to the
emergency, and caused much merrimeut
among the observers by suddenly emerging
in the hall with his face covered with la ther,
and towel drawn round his neck. to answer
to his name
The extraordinary number of rol-calls and
the length OF the. session had badly democrat
lied the reading clerks, and various en-
ployes of the house had been tried as subSti-
tutes with indifferent success. As one clerk
with insufficient vocal ability was struggling
with the roll-call on n dilatory motion,
Dockery of Missouri generously stepped for
ward amid the applause of the house, and
took up the call in a sonorous voice
At 3 p. m, after long spell of waiting for
to turn up, Taulbee suggested in
view Of the fact that the house had been in
session constructively for eight days and con-
for more than twenty seven hours,
that it would be conducive TO good health and
IN tnl I.1S
and asked unanimous consent to
do SO; but O'Ferrallof Virginia objected, and
it was Z p. IN. before the members were
brought to the conclusion that about the only
thing to do was to take recess, and when IA
motion to that effect was made it was de-
caTed carried because nobody had energy
enough to object to it. As the members were
leaving the chamber a Democratic caucus
was announced for the evening,
The call for the caucus was signed by about |
$50 Democratic members, and in accordance |
herewith Ill Democrats met to de- |
tide what should be one about the |
difficulty, although it W as a foregone conclu- |
zion that the action would break the dead |
ock by concessions to the filibusters.
There was considerable discussion Of plans |
o secure resumption of business. At lll5 |
?. m, the caucus adjourned, having adopted |
! resolution proposing that upon reassembling
Thursday the house shall adjourn |
With the understanding that the |
on rules will report |
. special order setting apart Thursday, !
December 9th next for consideration of the |
lirect tax bill, on which order reasonable
lime, not to exceed three days, shall be al
owed for debate and amendment of the bill,
md that the time for the final passage of the
ill be fixed for Tuesday December llth