, 1889-11-28
The HOUSE ENROLLING CLERK.
An Indignant Member De-
manded His Discharge.
on, No, HE'LL NEVER GET DRUNK AGAIN
A wordy War in Which Speaker
Teighan Is Very Unjustly
Abused.

OLYMPIA wash, NOV. E'- Iht
house became involved in biz
wrsngle about trivial matter this
afternoon. Shaw is responsible for It,
. When the report of the rules committee,
Of which he is q member, had been
adopted, he renewed his complaint that
II had been impossible to obtain clerk
20 do work. lie said Enrolling Clerk G.
r, Fox had been sent for and the mes
senRer came back with the report that
he was as drunk as lord when found.
. Shaw did not present written charges.
Kuhn did not consider this, but immcdi-
stely jumped head first into the fire
with q motion to discharge Fox in.
stantsr, which the chair ruled out OF
order holding that II would be neces'
sary to impeach Fox.
Judson Of Pierce promptly appealed
nom the decision of the chair, and a
log discussion ensued as to whether II
would be necessary to impeach Fox.
Speaker Feighan called Geoghegan to
the chair and argued in justification OF
his ruling. The fact that Fox was from
MIS- county, he said, Had no bearing on
his decision" He maintained that Fox
was an officer OF the house, and as such,
could not be summarily removed with.
cut proceedings AKIN to impeachment.
g. Judson ofPierce was very cutting In
his remarks. 81 hope the house will not
stultify iself In sustaining this decision, P"
he said. ut Is ridiculous; it is hair
splitting TO think that any lawyer would
hold that the constitution requires the
impeachment Of drunken employe,
and anyone doing so would be called by
4 great many people shyster."
A vote was formally taken on the
question, "shall the decision of the
chair Stand as the judgment of the
housea' 1t stood--ayes 32, noes 3S. The
vote was as follows:
Bird, Blackburn, Black.
;. fan, Bothell, Bush, Clark, Cook, Corn
gan, Gilchrist, Grubb. Hamilton,
Eughes, Huntington, Lull, Minkler,
Minis, Ostrander, Painter, Peterson,
Power, Pprdy, Randall, Shaw, Straight,
Tricker--32. .ist
Noes--Blsir, Browne of Pierce Brown
Of Spokane, Cleman, Drew, Eddy, Far
rish, Grant, Herren, Hutchinson, Judson
Of Pierce, .Judson Of Whatcom, Handle,
Kennedy, Kuhn, McReavey, Meade,
MeBleT, MOTse, MOllitrN, NdSu, OlipnaHt,
Person, Pickrell, Plummer,. Robertson,
,Roteh, Rutter, Sharpe, Shinn, Steven
son, Rutherford-33.
THE wBAsGLE GOES ON.
Speaker Feighan resumed his seat and
the wrangle continued. Kuhn gave a
fresh impetus with q motion providing q
for an investigation with view to dis.
pensing with Fox's services. 1t was laid
on the table.
Then Pickrell wanted the sergeant at
arms to bring Fox before the house a,
once.
Clark was willing to have this done to-
morrow morning. He may be as
drunk as lord now" he said, amid
Laughter. I'VE have all been boys our
selves, and know how difficult it is
Several members jumped up and said
they had never been drunk in their
lives.
Purdy retorted by moving to bring any
member who had been out drinking
with Fox before the house.
1t was finally agreed to refer the mat
ter TO the committee OH rules, with in
structions to report tomorrow morning.
Fox was celebrating when the messen-
ger of the committee found him last
night He said he was the enrolling
clerk, and was not required TO do ordin-
ary committee work.
WILL SIN NO MORE.
Fox appeared before the committee on
rules at Its meeting tonight, and con-
fessed that he had imbibed little toe
much in celebration of the senatorial
election. He promised not to err again,
and the charges will not be pressed, nor
will he be brought before the bar of the
house and called upon for an explana-
ti0ns ~