Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-18
AT THE CAPITAL.
The Parliamentary Wrangle
in the House.
MORE OBNOXIOUS RULINGS MADE.
The Democrats Will Appeal to the
Csurts-WOrld's Fair Made
q Special order.

Csurts-WOrld's Fair Made
Special order.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, February 1.-THE House
committee on Worlds Fair decided te
report to the House resolution making
q special order for the consideration o.
fair bills on Thursday and Friday, anG
balloting for the selection of site mex
Monday.
WASHINGTON, February 17.--In the
House today, after the reading of the
journal, Carlisle rose and said since the
29th OF January his side Of the House
had been protesting every morning
against the approval of the journal, on
the ground that it contained an entry
made by the direction of the Speaker
showing the names of certain members
present and not voting. Last Friday the
House adopted o code of rules providing
for such practice. Against this the
Democrats protested, and would protest
as unconstitutional, but it was question
which could not be decided in this
House. Whenever the proper case arose
it would 60 to some other forum. It was
the purpose of his side to see that this
occasion should be made in such shape
as would permit it to be finally decisively
passed upon. Therefore, he now saw NO
reason why the journal, the form Of
which the House had right to prescribe,
should not be approved. This was
done.
When the resolution from the World q
Fair committee was presented. a second
vote was demanded on the pro and con
for it's passage. The tellers appointed
reported the result: Yeas, ia; nays, 8.
The point of no quorum was made. The
Speaker ran his eye rapidly over the
House; in few minutes he said: "There
are 172 members present, more than a
quorum"
McMillin, of Tennessee, protested that
the rules prescribed the tellers as a
means of ascertaining the presence of a
quorum, and it was not proper for the
Chair to count.
The Speaker inquired what rule re-
CURED tellers to determine the presence
of quorum.
McMillin quoted from the rule touch.
ing motions to suspend rules, which re =
quires that the motion shall be SUBJ
mitted to the House, to be seconded bv
majority by tellers if demanded.
The Speaker responded that a major
ity had seconded the motion-114 to g.
and debate on the motion was now in
order.
But the Democrats made an earnest re.
McMillin insisted on the point that no
quorum voted. Neither the Speaker nor
any other man could assume that the
men counted were in the House while
the vote was being taken.
Bland wished to know by what RIGHT
the tellers left their place before the gem
tIemen had voted, and the Speaker said
If the gentleman desired to vote. the
tellers would again take their place.
Miller, OF Texas, maintained that the
rules required decision by the tellers,
and argued against the Speakers action.
Cannon declared that the chair had
done his duty in counting members to
determine the presence of quorum. 1t
was entirely different question from the
vote by tellers.
Carlisle maintained that the moment
the tellers were ordered by the House to
take their places, the power of the chair
to count, except upon their report,
ceased. He was not making this argu-
ment because he was opposed to second
ing the motion, but believed this was
most i'm portRnt construction of the rules,
and the House should not surrender it's
power to the Speaker.
Cannon asked under what rule Car
Isle, when Speaker, had ordered the
roll to be called to disclose q quorum,
without the instruction of the House.
Carlisle replied by citing the rule re-
quiring the presence of quorum before
the House begins its daily business. He
asserted that he never held that he had
the right to count quorum on the floor.
Peters, of Kansas, said the trouble was
that this House had been wrapped round
and round by cords of legal fiction until
it was as lifeless as mummy.
The Speaker said in this House the
question was settled that if majority
was present to do business, their pres
ence was all that was required to make
quorum. If they declined to vote, their
inaction could not be in the pathway of
those who did their duty. In this case
the chair repeatedly counted the House
during the vote, and after it closed, and
being Satisfied that constitutional quo.
rum was present to do business, an
nounced the yeas la, nays s, and the
motion seconded.
Gambler took the floor and announced
his satisfaction at the conclusion of tho
Worlds Fair committees work, and
hoped its report would be given immedi-
ate consideration.
Hit also urged speedy action. The
question taken on the motion to suspend
the rules and make a special order for
fair bills , resulted: Yeas, 14S; nays, 81.
Blount demanded the yeas and nays.
They resulted: Yeas 2O9. nays 56, and
the special order was made.
On motion of Perkins, bill for the
relief of the Sioux Indians at DEVILS
Lake agency, North Dakota, was passed
under suspension of the rules.
Banks called up bill to provide for
the appointment of thirty additional
medical examiners for the Pension
Office. A second was ordered, and
Banks said the Secretary of the Interior
earnestly recommended the passage of
the bill.
Washington, of Tennessee, said the
bill appeared to be scheme to get thirty
Republicans into Office without any draft
upon the civil service.
Cannon argued that this class of en-