The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-02

| came necessary for the Speaker to note the
names OF those who were present and who
declined to vote. As the Speaker rose to
announce the result of the vote, Mr.,
Dockery asked whether it was not proper to
nave the pairs announced.
The speaker replied that it would be
proper If time permitted, bat he declined to
announce them, and proceeded to name as
present and refusing to vote Messrs. Allen
OF Mississippi, Andrew of Massachusetts,.
Bankhead, Bland, Breckinridge of Arkan-
sas, Carlisle, Caruth, Chipman, Clements,
compton, Covert, Grain, Crisp, Culberson,
Dockery, Edmunds, Enloe, Geissenhainer.
Hare, Hemphill, Holman, Hooker, Kilgore,
Lanham, Maish, Mansur, Martin of Texas,
McAdoo, McMillin, 'McRae. O'Neal of In
diana, Cultivate. Seney, Spinola Springer,
Stockdale, and Stone of Kentucky. In ad-
ditlon, the speaker continued, the following
is the vote: Yeas 16l, nays 0.
COUNTS A QUORUM.
There were shouts Of no quorum from the
democratic side, but the speaker, paving no
heed to them, completed his statement as
follows: There being a constitutional
quorum present the chairman declares that
the previous question is ordered. The
question is now on the motion that the
journal of yesterday be approved"
Mr.. Springer again interpOsed his motion
to djourn, and persisted in his interruption,
but was entirely ignored by the speaker,
who again declared the question to be on
Mr.. McKinley's motion to approve the
journal.
Mr.. Holman demanded the yeas aud nays,
which were ordered.
The same performance as in the last vote
being repeated, the speaker iread the names
of the members present and refusing to
vote, and.added: THE yeas are 100 and the
nays 0. democratic cries OF mo quorum. "
There being constitutional quorum pres
ent for the transaction of business the
journal is approved"
THE ELECTION CASE TAKEN UP.
Mr.. Rowell called up the Smith-Jackson
election case from tho Fourth West VIr-
ginia district, and Mr.. Crisp raised the
question of consideration.
The speaker declined to entertain the
question of consideration, and Mr.. Crisp
appealed.
The Speaker-The chair declines to en-
tain the appeal.
Mr.. Crisp-Then under protest will pro-
ceed.
Mr.. Crisp offered as a substitute for the
resolutions of the majority of the election
committee those of the minority, declaring
that Mr.. Smith had not been elected from
the Fourth district Of West Virginia, and
that Mr.. Jackson had been and was entitled
to retain his seat. He went on to say that
his side of the House felt it right aud proper
to enter a protest against being required to
act on a contested election case in the
absence within the meaning of the consti-
tutiOn) of a quorum of the House. They re-
garded it as a violation of their constitu-
tional rights, of all precidents and of all
rules that had ever existed in the House for
a minority on the other side, with
the aid of the speaker, to
force them into the consideration
of an election case. Mr.. Crisp then de-
Tended the course of his side OF the House,
justifying it particularly on the press re-
ports of the recent republican ca Icus to the
effect that this and other elections cases
were to be disposed of under general par
liamentary law in order to increase the
republican majority, and that then the rig
idity of the new code was to be relaxed.
A DENIAL BY M'KINLEY.
Mr. Mckinley declared that there had
been in that caucus no discussion whatever
of this or any other election case, and that
no resolution, no instructions, and no ex-
preston of opinion had been passed or given
there on the subject of contested elections
Mr.. Rowel added that Mr.. Crisp had had
personal information from him the day
after the caucus that the newspaper state
ment of it vas not correct.
Mr.. Crisp admitted that fact, but stated
man that the report was correct, so that the
issue of veracity was not bet ween him and
Mr.. Rowell, but between Mr.. Rowell and
the correspondent of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, from which paper he read the
statement The statement, he said,
had appeared in many papers, and
had never been denied. Besides,
there was cOrroboration in the fact
that although the republican leader (Mr.
Mckinley mad assured the House on Jan.
s, that a code of rules would be reported
within week, no rules had yet been re-
ported.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DELAY.
A discussion as to the responsibility for
the delay in reporting rules took place at
this point between Messrs. Mckinley and
Carlisle, the former attributing it in part to
the fact that Mr.. Carlisle had been pre-
vented by illness from attending the meet
ings of the committee, and the latter stat
ing that he had been absent only two days
on account of illness, and declaring his
readiness at all times to meet with the COM
mittee on rules, and even ex pressed his
Willingness to have the committee report
the rules to the House without reference to
him.
Mr. Springer here interposed his motion
to adjourn ''in order to give the committee
on rules a chance to report" but was again
ignored.
Mr.. Crisp-We have now heard state
ment from each side as to what has been
done by the committee on rules, and what
ever view of the matter the House may
take it is plain that if the committee on
elections has reported this case with undue
haste the committee on rules has not been
in too great a hurry. There is this further
circumstance to coroborate the statement
of that caucus proceeding, that since then
there has not been a meeting of the COM
mittee on rules.
ARGUING THE CONTESTED CASE.
Mr.. Crisp then proceeded to argue the
contested election case. At the close Of Mr..
Crisp's argument, at o'clock, Mr.. Rowell
took the floor and spoke until $50 O'Clock,
there being no longer any time rule in the
House. Then there was a motion to adjourn
made on the democratic side, but it
was voted down by a viUa Uoce
vote, and Mr.. O'Ferran proceeded with an
argument in favor of Mr.. Jackson's right
to the seat. He declared it to be the de-
termination of the democrats to stand by
their rights and not to allow any democrat
to be unseated unless his opponent had been
fairly elected by the people at the polls.
After Mr.. O'Ferrall had been speaking more
than half an hour, he stopped and said that
| he had just been told that an arrangement
had been made by which the House was to
| adjourn at the conclusion of his remarks.
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