Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-31
: NATIONAL BEAR PIT.
RiOtous Scenes Re-Enacted
in the House.
THE MINORITY's RIGHTS DENIED
Appeal from the Speakers Decision
Tabled Without Quorum
Voting.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WsHINGToN, January 30.-The gal
leries of the House were crowded tc
their utmost capacity long before noon
to-day, by spectators anticipating the re-
sumption of the contest of yesterday
Nor were. they disappointed, for as the
clerk read the journal in the usual man
ner, omitting the detailed vote by yeas
and nays on the question of the coneider.
alton of the contested election case,
BrecE enridge rose and demanded the
reading of the full vote. After a mo.
ment's hesitation the Speaker directed
this to be done. This having been com.
,pleted, Breckinridge demanded the read.
ing of the names of these not voting, and
the Speaker ordered this done. Then
Springer demanded the reading in full oi
the statement of Speaker Reed, giving
the grounds for his rulings Yesterday,
and the Clerk proceeded to read accord
ingly.
The reading Of the journal having been
completed, Mckinley moved that the
journal be approved. and upon that
motion demanded the previous question.
Blanchard, of Louisiana, was immedi-
ately on his feet, rising to question of
personal privilege relating to the journal,
but the Speaker declined to recognize
him, on the ground that the demand for
the previous question was pending.
Springer moved an adjournment, and
demanded the yeas and nays.
While the vote was being taken on
ordering them, Springer stated that his
object was to allow the committee on
rules to prepare set of rules.
One hundred and twenty.four mem.
bers rose to demand the yeas and nays.
The Speaker declared this to be euffi-
cient number, and directed the clerk to
call the roll.
Bland, OF Missouri, moved to recon-
slider the vote by which the yeas and
nays were ordered, but the Speaker de-
clined to recognize him, whereupon
Bland shouted, amid much confusion
You are not tyrant to rule over the
House in such way. and denounce"-.
The remainder of the sentence YVES
drowned,
The roll was then called. The motion
was defeatsd-yeas 142 nays 16O.
Tbs question then REQUIRED on the de.
mand for the previous question on the
approval of the journal, and the yeas
and nays having been ordered, the order
"don't vote" was passed around the
Democratic side of the chamber and
studiously obeyed.
NoN-vOTERs COUNTED.
Before the vote was announced the
Speaker directed the clerk to record the
names of twenty members, whom he en-
umerated, as present, and the Speaker
then announced the vote to stand: Yeas
160, nays l, and added (Which in addi-
ton to the gentlemen present constitutes
a quorum, and the previous question is
ordered"
This brought forth a storm of applause
from the Republican side.
Springer, of Illinois, made the point of
order that no quorum had voted, and
said that if the Speaker 80 decided he
would take an appeal,
se Speaker said "And the Chair de-
to entertain the appeal of the
gentleman from Illinois," Applause on
the Republican side and hisses from the
Democrats.
Then, amid wild cheering on the
Democratic side, Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, rushed down the aisle, and stand
ing in front of the Speaker, exclsimed:
"From that we appeal. There is no ap-
peal pending. There was an appeal
yesterday, but this is different appeal,
because the Speaker is assuming that
the House will sustain his decision of
yesterday, and so is carrying by hio own
vote today the decision he has made"
The journal was declared to stand ap-
proved, and, after another storm, occa-
stoned by Springer's efforts, which in the
end proved successful, TO address the
chair, the House became quiet, and the
floor was accorded to Mckinley, who
spoke upon the appeal taken yesterday,
and supported the Speakers decision.
MR.. M M'KINLEY's ARGUMENT.
Mckinley contended that the Speaker
had the right to proceed TO note that
thirty or thirty-five members who had
refused to vote on roll.call were present
in their seats. When gentlemen sit
in their seats and refuse to
perform their public duty they
are repudiating great public
trust. Carlisle, as Speaker, had repeat
edly signed bills and resolutions which
had never received constitutional ma
jority. He had done it over and over
again, and done it, too, when the public
record of the House, announced by him
self, showed that LEGS than majority of
the House had voted. The action of the
Democrats yesterday never had been
dreamed of by the fathers of the coneti-
tuition. They never dreamed of sullen
silence as statesman-liks way of des-
troying quorum. He was not saying
that the Democrats were doing differ
emily from what the Republican
party had done for years, but no
majority ever carried on filibustering
that it was not afterward ashamed of the
whole proceeding. If the gentlemen of
the other side were going to have revo'
luton, let them have it in the proper
way, and g It out Of the House. [Ap.
plause ON The Republican side. They
had no business to turn upon the Re-
publicans who were here and ready tc
do business, and call them revolutionists
The gentlemen on the other side wanted
to perpetuate the fiction which
declared that although members
were preeent and in their seats
they should be conatructively absent.
1t WAS time to stop this legal fiction. Le
the members be honest; let them defea
the bill in constitutional way-by de-
bate, by amendment, by yea and nay
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