St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-04
SMITH GETS THE SEAT.
Reed and His Allies Knock Out
Congressman Jackson.

| Reed and His Allies Knock Out
Congressman Jackson.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The chaplain
of the house in his opening prayer al
luded in pathetic language to the afflIc-
| tons i'll the families of Secretaries
Blaine and Tracy. The fight in the
| house began anew to-day. When the
| clerk had finished reading the journal,
Mckinley moved that the journal be ap-
proved. Mr.. O'Ferrell, of Virginia, in
| terposed before the motion was put to
the house, and asked to have correc-
ton made in the journal. He said that
on Saturday, when he sent some printed
| matter to the desk to be read,
the speaker had decided that. I'M
der the rules then in force, its read
ing was not in order. Mr.. O'Ferrelfs
request that this decision be inserted in
the journal was granted. Mr.. McKln-
ley's motion to approve the journal was
then stated, and on 1t Mir. Carlisle de-
manded the yeas aud nays. Several
Democrats started to speak, and this
called forth from Mr.. Mckinley a state
ment that if there was to be any debate
he would demand the previous ques-
ton. There seemed to be some differ
ence of opinion among the Democrats
about pressing this point, but finally
the yeas and nays were ordered on The
previous question and resulted yeas
154, nays nohe. The speaker counted
in the names of a dozen Democrats pres
ent and not voting, and de-
clared the previous question ordered.
The journal was declared approved by
a vote of 15S to 0, the speaker declar-
ing quorum present. The Smith
sumed. MI. Bynum, of Indiana, moved
to adjourn, which was rejected-yeas
100, nays 157. Mr.. Crisp raised the
question of consideration, but the
| speaker declined to entertain it; Mr..
Crisp appealed from this decision, and
| the speaker declined to entertain the
appeal. Mr.. O'Ferrell. of Virginia,
! was recognized. and resumed his argu-
ment in the contested election case in
Import of the minority report.
After arguing the case Mr.. O'Ferrall
made allusiOn to the state of affairs ex-
| isting in the house. He did not be-
| lieve, he said, that the time had yet
| come, and God grant it might never
come, when the American people would
| tolerate autocratic power, whether
welded by the president of the United
States or the speaker of the house of
representatives, or when the people
| breathing the inspiring sentiments of
! our free institutions, which to-day filled
y
with envy, would submit all their in
| tereStS to
THE HANDS OF ONE MAN,
whose eye directed the journal, whose
| will controlled legislation, and whose
gavel made one, supposed to be repre-
sentative. silent and dumb when it was
the sweet will of the one man that he
should not be heard. As for him and his
| people, he protested against this uSurpa-
| nItr
violation of the sacred rights of the weak,
against this cruel, wicked and uncon-
stitutiOnal violation of the rights of the
minority. In conclusion. Mr.. O'Ferrall
predicted that the Democrats would re-
turn to power in the Fifty-secOnd con-
gress and then there would be no
usurper or autocrat in the speakers
chair. Mr.. Greenhalge, of Massa-
chusets. said that if the voice
of the people was the voice of God,
then the voice of God gave to
the contestant from the Fourth district
of West Virginia his seat in the house.
Mr.. Cultivate, Of Ohio, defended the
Democratic minority for endeayoring to
postpone consideration of the case until
a code of rules was adopted, and then
turning his attention to the merits of
the case argued in support of
Jackson, the contestee. Mr.. Will
| son, OIL WeSG NlISl1ld, Ildue
a good-humored speech III criticism
of the recent rulings of Speaker Reed
which elected laughter and applause at
times from both political friends and
opponents, and the speaker himself
could not repress an occasional smile.
He ridiculed expressions which had
been made by Republicans respecting
conversion from the belief that the meth
DDS of flibustering were admissible by
the minority. He had had an idea that
the speaker was Judge; that he was
not partisan, but would come up to
the old traditions and become worthy of
his great position. Applause on the
Democratic side. When the speaker
had entered the chair, Mr.. Wilson had
hoped that he would make
| GREAT AND HONORABLE SPEAKER,
and leave a great name behind him. In
his fatal blindness he had supposed that
chastity was no more the virtue of
woman than impartiaiity was the virtue
of a speaker, and that whatever graces
she possessed, whatever accomplish
ments she might be endowed with,
lacking that she fell from the estima-
ton of man. He had also supposed that
the rules built up by the experience
of the past were almost the sole bull
Wark to protect the treasury of the
United States, to stop the spoliatiOn of
the people, ana TO OOSIrucL the SCnemeS
that came on by the cart load. But this
had been when he had sat in dark ness
and ignorance, and before he had
learned the immense advantage of
general parliamentary law. Laugh
ter. He could now tell what parla-
mentary law was. The essential was
that each ruling of the speaker should
be placarded in advance as theatrical
bills were, as the first and only appear
ance." Laughter. 1t seemed that gen.
eral parliamentary law had made it pos
sible not only for a One-eyed man
to be speaker, but for him to
be at an advantage, especially if
the blind eye happened to be towards
the side of the house where the minor
ity sat. That was the meaning of par
liamentary law. Laughter. That was
the meaning of the new dispensation
which was to do.away with the rules of
the house. The Republicans, he said,
in the language of finance,
had caught the Democrats short
on the market. [Laughter]. Let
them press their advantage
while they had it. Let them not stop
because there was good natured action
on the Democratic side, nor be alarmed
by angry ebullitions of the gentleman
from Illinois, Mr.. Springer. 1t was only
little jealousy on Springer's part. He
had done little in the parliamentary
line himself. Laughter.] Like
MOSES FLYING FROM THE ROD
which he had flung down and which
had turned into a serpent, the Repub-
llcan party, he predicted, would flee