St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-13
That Is What the Lower
House Of Congress Needs
at Present.
Tom Reeds Communistie Code
Praised and Denounced
in Turn.
Democrats Assert That 1t Of
fers a Big Premium on
Brigandage.
The Man From Maine Needs a
Dose Of Sellers Eye
Water.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Iu the house
to-day the debate on the code of rules
was continued. The house met at IL
O'Clock in continuation of yesterdays
session. Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri, said
the proposed code of rules would re-
lieve congress of the necessity OF re-
pealiug taxation, at least so far as the
surplus is concerned. He predicted
that at the end of the session the sur
plus would have disappeared by reason
of the prodigality which the rules i'll
vited. Mr.. Morse, of Massachusetts,
supported the proposed code, and said
the Republican majority of the Fifty
first congress was as honest and patrI-
otto body of men as ever assembled at
the capitol, and that it would be
time enough to charge ii with dishonesty
and extravaganza when the overt act
was committed. MIR. Allen, of Michi-
gan, defended the rules, and especially
that which permits the speaker
to refuse TO recognize dilatOry mo-
tons. He ridiculed the excitement
which had prevailed on the Demo
cratic side, but said it had quieted
down when the Democrats and the
country had seen that the speaker was
not "a reed to be shaken by the wind"
He criticised the Democrats for sitting
in their seats and refusing to vote. and
denied the charge that the rules would
allow
RAIDS UPON THE TREASURY.
At II :55 the house adjourned and at
noon the session of "Wednesday began.
The journal having been read, Mr..
Boutelle, of Maine, asked unanimous
consent that it be approved. The
Democrats objected and a roll call was
had. The journal was approved, yeas
1l9, nays l, the speakers counting
Seyenty-twO Democrats as present
and not voting. Mr.. McCreary, of Ken
lucky, entered his protest against the
new code. He said the speaker had
defied all precedents and had reversed
the parliamentary decisions of nearly
all former speakers. He had not only
Oyerruled Blaine, Garfield and HaWley,
but he had Overruled his own utterances
when on the floor of the house. The
time had come when the house needed
rules instead of a ruler and dictator;
fairness and justice instead of com
munism and cesarism. He as
serted that the new rules would
make the congress of the United
States consist of the senate of the
United States and Speaker Reed. Let
the Republican party adopt these rules
and they would come back to plague it.
1t would he but short time before the
lobby would be clamOring at the doors
Of the capitol. He was informed that
to-day there were more lobbyists
in Washington than had been
here for twenty years. The cyclone
would be held responsible for
their action. Mr.. Cutcheon, of Michi-
gan, said the proposed rules tended to
facilitate business instead Of obstruct-
ing it. Mr.. Buckalow, OfPennsylvania,
the only Democrat who has
voted when present, criticised the
proposed rules because they tend
ed to stifle adequate and nee
essary debate. He protested against
the rule relative to dilatory motions as
being indefinite in its terms, and argued
that the clause making 100 a quorum in
committee of the whole, not only was
obnoxious to the constitution, but would
ENCOURAGE ABsENTEEISM.
Mr.. Cummings, of New York, said
that no sanction of the rules could
make the act of the speaker in counting
a guorum anything but tyranny. If the
recent rulings were constitutional there
was no need to sanction them by code
OF rules: If they were unconstitutional
such action could not make them con-
stitutiOnal. He criticised the speaker
for questioning the motives of members
In making the simplest parlia-
mentary motions. If the speak
er had the right to determine the
motives of a member, members had
right to determine the motives of the
speaker. MIR. Chapman. of Michigan,
warned new members that one of the
fa1Il re of 10 oil 1lnc hot
they gave too much power to the speak
er and to the committees, and it was
now proposed to give to the speaker
larger control and to the committees a
larger latitude. Mr.. Carruth, of Ken
lucky. said that he and his Democratic
colleagues had discovered that general
parliamentary law" was an autocrat,
was tyrant, was a god. The speaker
was OmnipOtent, yet lacking in one Of
the attributes of omnipOtence: he was
not The same yesterday, to-day and for
ever. He had thought that there must
be some defect in the speakers
vision, which enabled him to see a
Democrat when he sat in his chair
but which would not permit him to see
a Democrat when he was standing at
full height, claiming recognition. He
had come to the conclusion that the
speaker should be dosed with Col. Null
berry Sellers eye water, externally, in
ternally and eternally. daughter
He had seen the same speaker
recognize a Republican before he
had risen from his chair, or had
raised his voice: and he had been re-
minded of the lieutenant governor of a
Western state, who, calling to the door
keeper, said: $50 out and find Senator
GunSon. He is somewhere about the
Ronitnl Toll him 10 ,d
has the floor" Laughter Mr.. Hen
derson, of Iowa, said that FOR the last
few weeks the country had
WITNESSED SCENES UNEQUALED
In the history of the government. The
speaker of the house. backed by every
Republican member Oh the floor, had
been making stand for the rights and
liberties Of the people. That battle had
brought on scenes enciting in monstrous
proportions dn all excepting brutality,
any that had ever occurred in the ma
tiOpal capitol. Only one picture stood out
stronger in history and that was when
q Democratic club laid the immortal
Sumner Oh the floor of the senate. Wit
ridicule and the rantings of mob had
been presented to 65,000,000 people
Epithets had been hurled broadcast
from the other side Of the chamber al
the presiding officer. Language which
should have expelled the users had
been uttered and flashed over the wires
"Tyrant,' ''usurper." ''corruptionist'
''backed by mob" were the speeches
TO which the country had been treated
Gentlemen could not be called to ac
count for this language. Let them un.
derstand that the country has passed
through fiery furnace which had elm.
mated the Northern doughface. Gen
tlemea on the other side undertook tc
control this country whether they were
In the majority or in the minority. They
could not do it. Applause on the
Republican side.1 The Republicans
meant business, and it was to do thai
business calmly. earnestly. bravely and
periodically that they were here. AS
sault after assault from great and small
had been hurled against the speaker
Gentlemen had been very chary of max
ing such assaults when the speaker
was on the floor instead of being tied ur
as presiding officer. Laughter on Re
publican side.l No gentleman had
dared. outside or inside of the chamber
10 insult Mr.. Reed when he occupieG