Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-12

time been voted down.
1.-THE Chair rules the motion out of
ORDER" said the Speaker, with an inn
patient WEAKNESS in his voice.
And L appeal from the decision of
the Chair said Mr.. Springer holly.
Although the Chair of course was
sustained, Mr.. Springer was in no
mood to quit the fight. He changed
his vote aid moved to reconsider.
But the Republicans had decided
that he had reached the end of his
rope. 1t was getting late, and the
majority felt anxious to assert it
self.
General GrosveBor, his gray whisk-
ers almost of the same color as the
cloudy twilight now darkening the
chamber, suggested, in a still, small
voice, the point of order that Mr..
Springer's motion was purely dilato-
ry.
"The Chair sustains the point o
order" said the Speaker calmly.
appeal from the decision of the
Chair shouted Mr.. Springer.
The Chair declines to entertain
The appeal Nothing could have
equaled the impassive deliherat;op
OF these words as they were uttered
by the Speaker.
"k'or-the first time. - the thorouob-
~ angry Mr. Springer now exclaim-
ed, In the history of the Govern
ment. - Wv q -
Cries of regular order'' drowned
the rest OF his sentence.
-
Springer.
1.-The gentleman from Illinois
moves that the House do now adj
lourn, said the Speaker without a
muscle OF his face indicating an emo
tlon- The House refused to adjourn
by vote of 157 nays to LAT yeas.
The question is now on the third
reading and engrossmento of the hill. :"
SAID the Speaker. Gradually he was
tightening the rope around the minor
ity to end their struggles.
When the third reading had been
ordered by vote of 1876 yeas to 14S
nays the Democrats made one more
ei1ort TO avert the certain result.
Mr.. Hemphill mo we'd to recommit the
bill TO the committee. For a mo-
ment there was a doubt whether this
motion could be made after the third
reading had been ordered. but the
Speaker directed that theroll be call
ed. The result, 149 yeas to 1876
nays, was foregone conclusion. Mr..
springer, who had changed his vote,
moved to reconsider. Mr.. Rowell
countered with a motion to Law the
motion on the table. 1t was like a
wheel that, turning and round,
brings the same spokes to the top
with each revolution. The Speaker
allowed the latter motion to devoted
upon, and it was carried-156 yeas
TO JAG nays. While the vote was
being taken Journal Clerk Harry
Smith brought in an immense pile of
large sheets of paper. 1t was the
Federal election law, all engrossed.
The time for the Democrats was
drawing terrible close.
move the House adjourn" said
Mr.. Cultivate.
81 make the point of order that the
motion is a dilatory one" said Mr..
Mckinley, quietly.
The Chair sustains the point of
ORDER" said the Speaker, and this
loop-hole of escape from the final re-
suits was tightly closed. The Speak
er hammered with his gavel so noisilv
that ne seemed to be driving nails in
to his desk. "The vote will now be
on the passage of the bill, . he add
ed.
/ demand the reading of the bill -
said Mr.. Springer.
The Clerk glanced at the immense
pile OF manuscript, looked imploring-
ly at the Speaker and then began at
a MISUNDERSTANDING rate. Mr..
Buckalew moved to dispense with the
reading, but Springer was inexorable
and objected. He criticised, too, the
speed of the Reading Clerk, but the
latter did not put on the brakes foI
a single sentence. Gradually the hall
emptied. Only sixty-one members
were present and only one of these
| (Mr. Springer) was paying any atten
ton. He followed the reading, com
pairing the engrossed bill with the
amendment printed copy he held il
his hand. Every once in a while III
halted the clerk and called attention
| W CliO1 DOitACtiA1CC OhO CACA II
needed him, but more frequently forg
ed ahead without a stop.
| Representative Cowles, the bald
headed, long-whiskered member from
North Carolina, who has a big sabe
wound on his forehead, was mex
heard from. He made the point O
order that a quorum was not pres
emit.
"That point cannot be raised unit
the lack of a quorum is shown by /
VOTE" said Mr.. Cannon.
So the Clerk read on.
az demand that the Chair shal
rule my point of ORDER" shouted MI
Cole at the silent figure in the chair.
4 The Reading Clerk turned around.
cob, go on, said the Speaker, an
once more the Clerks voice went rat
tlety, rattlety, rattlety over tn
words of the bill.
81 appeal from the decision of tn
Chair" exclaimed Cowles, now ma