, 1889-08-08
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A Go-as-You-Please Time in the Clos
ing Hours.

Then ensued a circus OF motions to adj
Journ, call the house, lay ON the table
and sundry other suggestions for sew.
eral minutes, but the chair emerged
from the dust of tho struggle with de.
cision to which he held the committee
strictly down, and that was that moth
ing was then in order but vote on
Grifhtts motion to suspend rule 40, and
he put that motion. The ayes and noes
were demanded. The roll was called
and the rule wasn't suspended-ayes 10,
noes 36.
Mr.. Dunbar moved to ad journ, rs there
was nothing being done. Ayes and noes
demanded again amid good deal of
laughter, and several instances of two
ayes and two noes being shouted on the
call of one name. The roll call pro.
ceoded, resulting in another refusal to
adjourn by ayes II, noes 81.
seven or eight voices $ houted "Mr.
Chairman together, and the chair
asked leave to speak about a telegram on
the table
Mr.. Grffitts kept on steadily remark.
ing MIR. Chairman" until MIR. Turner
raised point that members should sit
down when told to do so by the chair
The chair set them both down with
very decided rap of the gavel and the
remark, "The gentlemen will sit down;
the chair has
THE RIGHT TO srEAK."
Then he started to say something.
Mr.. Grifiitts moved to call the house.
Mr.. Dyer moved to go into committee
OF the whole on water and water rights.
Mr., Dunbar moved to adjourn.
MIR. Moore raised point of order a
couple of times.
Mr.. Turner did the same
The question OH Gritfitts motion to
lay Judge Hoyts telegram on the table
was called for.
Mr.. Turner said the convention had
no right to lay Judge Hoyts telegram
on the table.
Tho chair said the convention was in
such an uproar that he didn't hear any
second to that motion.
The telegram was abandoned.
The chair said several motions were
made.
Mr.. Alger called for the ayes and noes
ON his motion to 90 into committee of
the whole, and finally Convoy moved a
call of the house, and that motion got
hearing and discussion. II was ordered
ayes %, noes III.
Mr.. Convey moved to adjourn, but was
decided out of order.
Mr.. Convey moved that further pro-
ceedings under the call of the house be
dispensed with,
Mr.. Power-Therc has been no pro-
ceedings under the call.
The Chair-The gentleman will Sit
down. 1t Is always in order to move to
dispense with further proceedings under
the call.
POWER SAT Dows.
Mr.. Dyer said that Convey could not
do that The chair said he could.
Further proceedings wero dispensed
with. Either nine or eleven delegates
(tho reporter was unable accurately TO
decide which) simultaneously remarked.
"Move to adjourn" "NoW "Yesp
"Call the roll. ayes and noes" and
one or two other calculations
which failed to mnterializc dis
tinctly, but the chair picked up a
motion to adjourn out of the heap, and
yokcd IL up with u demand for tho ayes
and noes and started II promptly along.
The roll was called once more-ayes %,
noes 81.
Mr.. Grifiitts got there first again with
motion that the previous question be
ordered on Dyer's motion to 20 into
committee ofthe whole.
The chair declined to recognize that
motion, and amid seven sorts of confu-
sion put the question, "shall the con
vention go into committee of the whole
on the report of the committee on water
and water rights?' and declared the mo-
ton carried amid
PERFECT HOWL
of division" and protests, which he
diregarded, and called Dyer Of King, to
the chair.