Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-11
Lively Tiltlng In the House.
[spe ,ial to the St. Joseph Herald. I

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JEFFERSON CITY, March 2S.-The
most exciting scene of the session oc-
Cured in the House Of Represents tatives
yesterday. House bill No. $50, which
I provides for two new normal schools.
one in northwest Missouri and the
other in southwest Missouri, came np
for third reading and passage. The
bill has been opposed by the "moss-
covered" element of the Democratic
| party from the start. and had to run
the gauntlet of this opposition in COM
mittee. 1t finally pulled through on
minority report, however and when
| it got back to the House it was met
| by its friends with on embrace and a
"hurrahr BY shrewd, hard, sharp
| fight it was finally enprossed about a
! week ago, and then all went well until
yesterday, when it came up for fiual
| passage.
The question was precipitated upon
| the House as if by some preconcerted
| arrangement, in order to shut off de-
bate, and vote being taken the bill
i was, 10y close shave, lost. The mem-
Der from Iron county, hy the way, was
made chairman of the normal school
committee OF the House, by the speak,
er, early in the session, and WIN let's
no opportunity slip, apparently, for
giving the especia's subjects in his
case a'diff in the short rihs." jumped
up at the first possible opportunity, to
| offer one of those compound, double
| headed motions, which are used to
throw the dirt into the grave upon the
coffin, and thus prevent the possibility
of an escape by an already buried bill.
| The Iron county statesmen had scarce
| ly got his motion from his lips, how
ever, until the member from Holt
| county was upon his feet and pouring
red hot shot into the great normal
school committee chairman at such q
rat that the Iron county mans head
got into a swim, and he went stagger-
ing to his seat. The excitement thus
commenced, and twenty members
were upon their feet in twinkling;
but, above all the roar and din could
only be heard the hard rapid strokes of
the speakers gavel.
Finally, after some minutes, quiet
was restored, and a vote ordered upon
the Ringo motion to table. Alkire
marshalled his forces in good shape,
however, and, after one of the most
exciting ballots that the House has ever
taken, came out on top--beating the
Ringo motion by three votes. Then
the running to and fro, and filIibuster-
ing, began to get up towards fever
heat, as the mo;inn to reconsider. If
lost now, would be gone forever. The
Republicans tried every plan known
to parliamentary ingenuity to defeat q
ballot until their forces could be col
Iected and brought into line. They
tried. time after time, to adjourn the
House; they tried filibusterlng-they
tried everything-and, when they
were finally forceu into a vote without
preparation, they tried leaving their
seats and going behind the railing Of
the first lobby to deprive the House of
a quorum.
They succeeded by this at first, and
lad the Bourbons down, but Kelley of
Pullman equity, and Martin of st. Louis
City, inadvertently strolled around
the end of the railing and had to an
swer to their names. This together
with the sixty-niDe they had, gave
them seyenty-one names, making u
quorum present, and the speaker so
Misunderstanding the motion to
reconsider lost. Thus ended the most
exciting and stubborn contest that the
Honse has witnessed during the ses-
sion; and when the result was an
nounced, the condition in the House
was but little short of a pandemoniuu1.
Mr.. Alkire received the warmest
congratulations of his friends here last
night for the prominent part taken by
him in the fight.