Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-12

ocrat gathered around WEAVER OF IOWA
the speaker and put up a sort or a job on the
lows ObstructioniSt. It was not thoroughly
effective however, and only served TO enable
the house to adopt two conference reports.
Weaver's next motion was for a recess un.
til 80 p. m. (the journal had not yet been
read, It must he rernembered), and Randall
made the point of order that no business
could be transacted until the journal had
been read This point the speaker upheld.
Weaver insisted the chair had made an
other ruling before, and had allowed motions
for adjournment to be voted on before the
reading of the journal, buJ the speaker said
that even If he had so decided on previous
occasions he would now reverss his own
ruling
The Journal having been read, Weaver
moved an adjournment until Monday, but
Dibble of South Carolina came forward with
a conference report upon the senate bill for
the erection of public building at Milwau-
kee and the speaker ruled that this was of
higher privilege than motion to adjourn.
While the motion to agree to the conference
report was pending Weaver moved an ad-
journment, but the chair declared him out
OF order, holding that motion TO postpone
Yves the only motion which could put aside
the report or permit adjournment. There
was some filibusteriug on the vote on a mo-
ton to order the previous question. When
the previous question had been ordered,
Weaver asked whether a motion TO ad journ
unit Monday would be in order
The speaker thought not, out expressed
some doubt of the correctness of his own
ruling.
Weaver suggested that the doubt should
be resolved in favor OF the rights of the
minority.
The speaker-The chair thinks it is better
to resolve the doubt in the interest of the
transaction of the public business of the
house, and he has therefore done so on this
occasion. [Applause1
During the debate on the Milwaukee bill,
Weaver made some remarks in favor of the
Oklahoma bill and be was quickly ruled out
Of order.
On the request for the yeas and nays no
quorum voted, and Weaver pressed the point
that quorum was necessary. The speaker
overruled the point on the ground that the
practice for thirty years had been the
other way, although in the thirty second con-
gress, ruling had been made that quorum
was necessary. The conference report was
agreed to.
Dibble then presented a conference report
on the bill appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of site and to begin the construction
of public building at Omaha Neb De-
spite Viewers attempted obstruction, the
house considered and agreed the report.
When Dibble rose with another conference
report, Weaver raised tbs Question of con-
siderseston Further points of order were
made and ruled upon, and finally, without
accomplishing any further legislation on
motion of Weaver, the house at 4 O'Clock
took recess until 7:3O o'clock, the night ses.
sion to be for consideration ~ private pen
sion bills.
As soon the house met in the evening
Kilgore of Texas raised the point of no
quorum upon the motion to 90 into commit
tee OF the whole for the consideration OF pri-
vate pension bills. kilgore said that it had
become evident that one man in the house
could prevent the transaction of public bust
ness; be now v,ahed it to be understood that
as long as this state of affairs existed, no
private bills should be passed. A call OF the
house was ordered.
Mason of Illinois moved that all the alb
sentees be excused with the exception OF
Weaver of Iowa, and that gentleman be
compelled 10 be present.
"Oh, no; we don't want him. said several
members.
Mason said that he would Yield to the de-
sire of the house to dispense with Weaver's
presence, and he withdrew the motion
The call continued until $50, when the
house adjourned for the day.