The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-13
DOINGS AT THE. CAPITOL
The House Spends tho Day In Discussing
the New Code.
Henderson OF Iowa Resurrects the
Bloody Shirt-Speaker Reed Still
Displays His Ability to
Count a Quorum.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The house met
at II o'clock this morning i'm continuation
of yesterdays session. The debate of the
proposed code of rules was continued 10y
Dockery of Missouri.
Morse of Massachusetts, and Allen of
Michigan, followed Dockery. speaking in
support of the rules. At the conclusion OF
their remarks the session of Tuesday
ended and that of "Wednesday begun. The
journal was approved by the speaker
counting "A quorum. McCreary of Ken
tucky, then took the fioor i'm opposition tn
the new rules.
Mc(reary's speech criticism of
recent decisions of the speaker, saying
that officer had defied all precedents and
had reversed the parliamentary decisions
of nearly all speakers who had presided
over the house. McCreary inveighed
against the new rules, asserting that their
the United states consist of the senate of
the United States and Speaker Reed.
Cutcheon of Michigan. supported the
proposed rules, declaring that they tended
to facilitate business instead of ohstructing
il.
Kerr of Iowa presented an argument i'm
support of the proposed code.
Garth of Kentucky said he and his dem
ocratic colleagues had discovered that the
general parliamentary law was am auto
crat, tyrant, was god. The
speaker of the omnipotent was yet lack
ing i'm one of the attributes of oInnipo-
tence, he was the same yesterday, to-day,
and forever. He had thought there must
be some defect i'm the speakers vision
which enabled him to see democrat
when he sat i'm his chair, but which would
not permit him to democrat when he
was standing at full heighth claiming rec,
oRnition. He had come to the second
conclusion that the speaker should he
dosel with Col. Mulberry Sellers eye
water externally. internally and eternally.
Henderson of Iowa said for the last few
weeks the country had Witnessed scenes
unequalled i'm the history of the govern
ment. The speaker of the house, backed
/. stand for the rights and liberties of the
on scenes exceeding in mon
brutality land that had never occurred
in the National capitol, epithets had
bssn h;s 81 r ,ha ha%Ser at the % nresdin~ & sr OFF
hcer. Language which should have ex..
PEELED its users had been uttered and
..asmrper." .corrmptionist.' ..backed by a
mob," were speeches to which the coln-
try have been treated. After one of th.,
stormy scenes he henderson, had heard
one gentleman on the democratic side say
to another: 'Did you hear the rebel yell "''
now l.es 'hH si,as a the Northern dioashface W"a @
amdcrstand % the country had passed
mated the Northern douRhface. The gen
tlemen on the other side undertook tu
| control this country whether they were i'm
could not do it. The republicans mean,
business, and il was to do the business
| calmly, earnestly, bravely and patrioti-
| cally that they were here. Assault after
| assault from the great and small had been
hurled against the speaker. The gentle
| men had been very chary of making
| such assaults when the speaker had
been on the floor instead of being
the election cases. he said il there were {,
member ON the floor entitled to his seat,
republicans would stand up and defend
| his rights. but IL there ON the floor n
| man who held his seat by black-heartetl
fraud or retl-handed murder. they would
unseat him If they had the power.
| Buchanan and Walker followed i'm de-
fense of the speakers course and then
| the house took recess. The evening