Morning journal and courier., 1890-06-21
THE FIFrx-rIRsr oorcaEss.

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 WASHINGTON, D. c. June 2O.-After pray- or by the chaplain, yesterdays contest was renewed. The journal of yesterday's pro- ceedinRs was not read and the speaker an- l neunced the pending question to be order- ing the previous question on the motion made by MT. Mills of Texas to approve the journal of Wednesday as amended by the resolution of yesterday.
 The previous question was ofdered-yeas 126, nays 122.
 nouncernent of the vote, changed his vote to the affirmative and then moved reconsider ation.
 Mir. Tracy of New York voted with the republicans.
 The republicans voting with the democrats in the affirmative were Messrs. Bartine, Car ter, Dehaven, Hermann, Kelley, Morrow and Townsend of Colorado. MT. Mills moved to table the motion to reconsider.
 The motion to reconsider was tabled-yeas 1S1, nays 129. The question then recurred on approving the journal of Wednesdays proceedings as amended.
 The motion to approve the journal of Wednesday as amended was agreed to-yeas 133, nays 130, and the clerk then proceeded to read the journal of yesterdays proceedings amid triumphant buzz on the democratic side.
 The journal having been read and approv- ed, MT. Stewart of Vermont asked for recog- hilton with the conference report on the anti trust bill, and MT. Bland of Missouri was on his feet raising the question of consideration. MT. Bland's purpose was to offer the follow ing resolution: ''That the house bill 5,318, directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of treasury notes thereon and for other purposes with senate amendments be taken from the speakers table and senate amendments cencurred in."
 The house determined-yeas IA, nays 1O2-to consider the conference report.
 After short debate. in the course of which Mir. Kerr of Iowa declared that 1t was the first bill directed against trusts that had ever passed the American congress, and that in fourteen years' control of the house the democratic party had not pronounced a syl- lable of legislation of the kind. The report was adopted-yeas 243, nays0.
 Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania presented the report of the elections committee in the cons tested Mississippi election case of Chalmers vs. Morgan Gin favor of Morgan). and MT. Powell of Illinois presented the report from the same committee upon the case of Miller VI. Elliott Qtn favor of Miller.)
 Mr. Bland of Missouri then offered his res- olution to take up the silver bill.
 Mr. Mckinley of Ohio made the point of order that the motion was not privileged: that the only way to reach the speakers table was to follow the order of morning business.
 Mr. Conger of Iowa added as further point, amidst sarcastic democratic laughter, that the bill was not on the speakers table, but in the hands of the coinage committee.
 The original house bill had an indefinite appropriation clause. The bill as it came from the senate had an identical clause, ex- cept that the order of the words was slightly changed.
 MT. Peters of Kansas asked if the appro- priatfons were not for different purpoaes- one for free coinage and tho other for some- thing else.
 Mr. Morrow of California said that the acc tion of the house yesterday was exceedingly significant of it's disposition. The fact was that there was no reference a! all that the speaker had no authority to refer the bill and that his action was not voidable, but void. The fact was the bill was upon the speakers table.
 MT. Butterworth of Ohio denied that the house by adopting Mir. Mills resolution had declared that the bill had not been referred and that there were not twenty-five men under the dome of the capitol who believed that the bill was incorrectly referred upon their oath. Republican applause. Hr. Morrow replied that the majority of the house had declared otherwise. Mir. Williams of Illinois said that yester- day while the motion to reconsider was pending and the resolution had been adopt- ed, the chairman of the committee on coin- 1 age had walked up to the speakers desk, taken up bill that he (Ar. Williams) had every reason to believe was the silver bill, had handed it over to the clerk of the com. mittee on coinage, who had refused to answer his (Mr. WilliamsD questions as to whether or not 1t was the silver bill, and had carried it away. Why had this thing been donea It required an explanations; it looked l like conspiracy to obtain phyaioal posses sion of tho bill and deprive the house of the opportunity to pass it. MT. Conger of Iowa said that the bill had been delivered to his clerk before Il o'clock yesterday mornlng and had been receipted for. During the afternoon, upon the request of the journal clerk, 1t had been put in his possession for short time in order to make some clerical endorsements, but he (Mr. Con. ger) had again taken 1t back to the commit- tee clerk.
 Mir. NcCreary of Kentucky maintained ! that under higher Jaw than the rules of the house, under the constitution itself, the bill had never been properly in charge of the committee on coinage. The constitution re- qnired the house to keep journal. Until | that journal was approved, it was not prop | made in the journal was not voidable, but vsid. He held that the bill was on the speakers table and should be placed before the house for action.
 The speaker-In due order. MT. MoCreary insisted that the bill was l upon the speakers table. l The speaker asked whether supposing that the bill was found to be upon the speakers table 1t did not then come up on only in the reoular order of pYecedepce
 MT. Bland replied that he had demanded the regular order when he introduced his resolution that regular order involved the consideration of the senate bills on the speakers table.
 The speaker said that he did not so under
 stand the gentleman's motion.
 MT. Cannon asked that the speaker rule upon the motion.
 The speaker said hs did not think that ths I,resolution was in order now.
 MT. McNillin of Tennessee maintained
 that there was no authority for Ar. Conger'f
 action in taking possession of bill which
 the house had declared had not been referred to his committee.
 MT. Bland modified the language of hil resolution SO as to direct that the speaker
 under rule 24 lay matters on his table. includ
 ing the silver bill, before the house for ac'
 tion.
 The speaker said that perhaps he coult
 simplify the matter little, and suggested t,
 Mir. Bland that he understood his wish to b.
 simply to get at this matter when 1t woult
 naturally come up, supposing that 1t wa
 upon the speakers table (not passing upo,
 the matter at this time). What the chai
 proposed to do was that when the bill or it
 hiatus, whatever 1t might be, was reached i
 should be brought before the house; but tn
 gentleman did not seem to consider shat thi
 was Friday-private bill day-and that pri
 vate bills were in order.
 Mir. Bland asked whether the bill weult be laid before the house tomorrow morning The speaker declined to decide that ques ton until the proper time. MT. AcComas of Maryland declared tn regular order.
 The speaker said thai the regular orde . was private bill, which he passed to tn reading clerk.
 Mr. Springer of Illinois wished to kno, ! when the chair might be expected to decid where the bill was.
 ! The Speaker-Whenever the bill wouli in order, providing the views of the othe
 side were correct (aboat which the chair pro
 sents no opinion because he does not think the proper time).
 As Nr. Bland and Mir. Springer finally II sisted on specific ruling, the speaker hna 3 ly ruled that Mr. Bland's resolution (to pro l. NnAd tr, &6A Anv,a{d oe hn .l1va~ hS1