The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-22
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
4 Tilt In the House Over Z Decision BY
Speaker Reed.
Auosher Move Looking to the Payment of
Memberx' x'Salaries-ssasinesaT Transacted
I'm the senate I~~te rsls y--Fsrsn Mort
gage. and Agricultural Interest.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2i.-In the house
yesterday, just previous to adjournment,
Mr.. Bland moved that the house adjourn
and on division the speaker declared the
motion lost. Mr.. Bland thereupon de-
mantled tellers, and according to the
Record this morning the speaker replied:
'sThere il no provision for tellcrs." Thers
wns no record Of this fact in the journal.
and this morning Mr.. Bland moved to
have the journal amended accordingly.
The spea ker stated that he had made his
reply i'm an interrogative form and the
gentleman from Missouri had seemingly
acquiesced i'm il. The chair was informed
that such details were not inserted i'm the
Journal. The chair submitted Mr.. Bland's
motion to amend the journal, and on divi-
sion declared the motion lost by a vote of
~ to %. Mr.. Bland demanded teilers.
The speaker inquired whether the gentle
man from Missouri had discovered any
ground why teiiers should be appointed:
The chair last night had suggested
that he would like to have
ing teiiers. MIR. BiaHd said he had de
nansicd tcllcrs under the general practice
of the house. The speaker declined to
entertain the demand for tellers. Mr..
Bland demantle the yeas and nays. but
almost at the same moment appealed
from the decision of the chair. The
but he would entertain il. A long and
heated debate then began WHICH lasted
three Tours. Messrs. Mills of Texas:
Georgia, McMillin OF Tennessee, and
others, argued that vote by tellcrs was as
much a part of parliamentary law as a
the only vote by which the house could
correct a decision of the speaker and il
the house did not have the right to this
When the speaker refused to permit the
house to have tellers To verify his
count he simply refused to
allow the house to say whether
Should hs ass,slH" s,sm Canson rsn of Illinois. Payne
of Pennsylvania and Others upheld the
chair. Mr.. Carlisle inquired what redress
n member had against a wrong count by
the speaker IL he could not have the
yeas aud nays. The house in the absence
of conventional rules established by itself
was to he governed by general parliamen-
tary law as modified by rules heretofore
In submitting the appeal to the house
the speaker made a long statement deiin:
moi see how the rules Of the last house APP,
| piled to this house. Mr.. Cannon moved
| to lay the appeal on the table, which was
carried. aud Mr.. Bland's motion was lost
| ton. which was referred, directing the
| committee on judiciary To report within u
| week whether the late sergeant-at-arins
was a .iisbirsing officer, and il SO To rc
salaries OF members.
| Among the bills introduced and referred
were these: BY Funston. Of Kansas, fol-
| the creation of an agricultural commits
| sion to investigate the causes of the pres
| ent depressed condition of agriculture
| interests; by Dorsey. of Nebrsa-ka, author
f,s the the fund %r the ts 70
| apply the other S25, 600, 900 to the paymen
| OF the public debt.
The house then resumed in comnntte. g
| but no progress was made, when the CON,
| mittee rose and the house adjourned.