The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-03
REEDS GAG LAW.
The Speaker Rules the Opposition with a
kod of Iron.

REEDS GAG LAW.
The Speaker Rules the Opposition with "A
Rod Of Iron.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The house re-
sumed consideration of the federal elec-
ton bill, the pending question being on
the amendment offered by Tucker of yir-
ginia, requesting the Judge of the circuit
court associated with the district Judge
"to pass upon the appropriations for su-
pervisors of elections"
fuckers amendment was rejected.
Rowell OF Illinois offered an amendment
making il the duty Of circuit judges i'm
each circuit within one month after the
passage of this act, to o .pen special term
of the circuit court in their respective cir
cults, and said judges shall appoint for
each judicial district, three dis
Greet persons of good charac-
ter and standing who shall be
known as United States juror commits
sioners, and il shall be the duty of such
commissioners TO organize as a board
and from time to time make from the
qualified voters, a list of all persons, who,
under the laws of the United States and
of the state, shall be eligible for jury duty
without respect To race or color. Here
after all panels for jurors shall be drawn
Dy the Doaru In the presence OF the dis
trict or circuit Judge.
Springer of Illinois opposed the amend
ment declaring its purpose was to pack
the jnries of the country with republican
partisans and was the elimination of the
outrage contemplated by the bill.
Rowelfs amendment agreed to-146 to
143.
A good deal of confusion followed the
announcement, amid which several DEM
ocrats demanded the yeas and nays, but
in so low tone that il was not heard by
the speaker, who at last recognized Stru-
BILE OF Iowa to offer an amendment. Then
Cultivate OF Ohio called the attention of
the speaker to the fact that the yeas and
nays were demanded, and, upon the
| speaker expressing the opinion that the
demand came too late, Cultivate himself
requested all those favoring the demand
to rise. The entire democratic side rose,
but the speaker entirely ignored and did
not count those rising. He stated, how
ever, IL there was no objection the yeas
| and nays might he ordered. There being
no objection, the speaker directed the
clerk TO call the roll amid volley of pro-
| tests from the democrats at being granted
as favor what they demanded as a right.
| The amendment was adopted. Yeas, $50
nays, 1A.
Springer moved TO lay the bill
on the table and thus defeat it, The mo-
ton was defeated, 1i9 yeas, 155 nays.
The only republicans to vote i'm favor of
the motion were Coleman Of Louisiana,
Lehlbach of New Jersey. Ewart of North
Carolina. Another bolter paired with
Simonds of Connecticut.
Springer, before the vote was an
nounced, changed from aye to no and
moved 10 reconsider.
Rowell, Illinois. moved to lay that mo-
ton on the table. Carried, yeas 1853, nays
14s.
Mckinley said no honest man could OH
| ject to the bill. II was said the bill would
be expensive, would cost millions. That
assumed that $50 districts of the country
| would invoke the operation of the law and
there was not man that did not know
that not 100 districts would invoke its
operation. They would diminish the cost
OF the administration of the law in the
ratio in which they diminished the
fraudulent voting, false counting, ballot
box stuffing and the suppression OF
cost nothing IL there was no need for IT,
This question would not rest until justice
was done. II was the supreme duty OF the
nation To enforce the constitution and
laws Of the United States. Let the gentle
| men on the other side obey them as th,
republicans obeyed them, for the peopl,
Of the north would not permit two votes
i'm the south 10 count as much as five votes
i'm the north Republican applausel.
McMillen of Tennessee said the repub'
| licans might, like mad men, grasp tbt
pillars of the constitution and pull down
the ediflce, but like Samson they would
perish i'm the work. IL he could register q
wish in heaven he would ask not for the
extension of the country's boundaries oI
for the multiplication of its territory, no
for flowing rivers and fertile fields, bu
that the man who laid violent hands upoI
the constitution might drop dead as die
the sacriligious men of old who laid i'm
pious hands upon the ark of the covenant
democratic applause.l
Perkins of Kansas and Lafollette o
Wisconsin made eloquent pleas in fayol
Of the bill. The hour of o'clock having
arrived the speaker declared the previous
question ordered on the bill and pending
amendments.
Springer moved to lay the bill on the
table. Lost, yeas las, nays los. Springer
changed his vote from the affirmative t'
the negative in order TO move the recon
sideration. This. upon motion OF Rowell
was laid upon the table. Yeas 153. nays
lis. The vote then recurred ON Hemp
hills amendment, relative 10 the use o
troops at the polls, and il was rejected
Yeas las, nays 1j6.
Springer having voted in the negative