Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-06

This brought Mr.. Carlisle TO hts faet Win
a vigorous dental. He said that there had
| been only thres meetings of the COMMITTEES
| on rules, the hrst being on the 23i OF Janu-
AIRY. There had been no nesting in the
eommttee.room. He had never received
notice In writing Of a meeting OF the COM
plittee on rules since the beginning OF the
Congress. But he had been teat for By the
| Speaker, and had met HIN aud Messrs.
| Mckinley and Cannon at the Speakers
room at the Speakers request. He had
| been sent Tor to attend two other meeting
ut the spaake,'l request, lasting only about
20 minutes each. He had promptly al
trnIed every meeting called. There hud
been no meetings since last Monday.
When Mr., Carlisle had refuted tho charge
OF dereictl0n Of duty on his part d letter
was presented TO the caucus from Rtpts-
sentative Randall. He al ised the Dno-
Gratis TO stay IL tho House and stand by
III II guns TO use every effort to stop abso-
lutely all business In the House until u got
OF rules ad been presented aud adopted.
This stiri:cs advice from tho old.ilme
| leader lying on his sick he'd WIS extremely
welcome 10 his fellow Democratic, and was,
moreover, in the liue OF action that they
| decided 10 follow.
There was much talk, OF cours and
some OF the members were bitter Ia their
denunolRtion OF the proceedings Of the last
three days But conservative cOunsnls pre-
better follow the Leadership OF Mess 3, Car
Isle, Crisp and Mills, NJ ons could sug-
gest any new obstructive tactics that PROM
ised wall, and the general opinion was 10
the tffect that the programme followed
during the Inst thee days should be CON
tlnuai In force, and that every psriiame4-
tAfy move that would obstruct tie ltepub-
ltcnns In their designs should be mate.
The reading OF tho journal IN full is 10 ba
Insisted upon, and Is expected to consume
an hour OF each day: the yeas and nays nra
u b. demanded ut every step, and appeals
Gie TO bs taken from Ill rulings regarded
MS arbitrary aud UNJUST by the minority
There was no foTmal resolution to thiS
adopted, however. Mr. Carlisle, with the
aid Of other leaders, will draw up an id
dress to tho county, which will be- pub
lshed III Justification Of The course q the
!. majority. During tho spaeohmGking ias
subject Of securing rho intecysntlon Of the
Sup eme Court to attempt to establish tho
illegal nature OF TIM Republican procaed
inss was hroaGnei 5ut pGnctton was taken.
WAsnrNuToN, Fen. l. --Iha WaBhingon
public seems to EAYe taken it for granted
that the great parliamentary struggle in
the House is practically over and that the
exciting aud turbulent scenes Of the last
few days are not 10 bs kept up, because,
the galleries, whils pretty well filled at
the hour Of opening to-day, did not pre-.
sent the jsmmed appearance Of yeater-
day and there was no such pressure snd
surging through the corridor rs WAS tie
casa yesterday. Nevetths lass, il ia the
understanding among membsrs that the
Democrats will persist in thsis tactics ani
obaIruct IA far az possible, all legislative
proceedings, so long IS there is no regular
body Of rules TO govern them. There
Was no reference in the chaplaln's prayer
to the excitement of the hour.
The rreaAer at the close OF prayer,
directed the clerk TO read the Journal OF
yesterday. One of the reading CLERKS
prosecuted to do so but when no calau to
The Phrase yeas and nays sni SO forth, '
MIR. McNillin interrupted aud required
that Tire reRding he in full.
docs the gentleman" said tho
Speaker, "dosirs the reading of the
names 2"
4 dc" was Mr.. McMillin's response,
and the Speaker ordered that to ba done.
The clerk startel off again and rushed
through the names at railroad speed.
The journal embraced the full stem.
ographic report of the Speakers explaua-
ton yesterday in reply 10 MIR. Bypum's
question Of personal privilege Including
tue points OF general applause" The
reading was closed q! l22O and in,
stantly Mr.. Springer was on his feet with
molten 10 correct the Journal
MIR. Mckinley was not SO precipitate
but he got mp slowly and moved that the
Journal he az proved; calling FOR the pre-
vi1us question on that motion, tho
hptakor entirely ignoring Mr.. Springer.
III: Mr. Springer was not 10 be ignored
in iiGt way and he Immediately made
motion to adjourn.
10 WOW Of the fact, he said, that
we have no rules the geutlem4n from
Illinois, said the Speaker btndiy, ''is
OUT OF tue order in making any remarks
on motion to adjourn. The question
now is shall the House adjonrn.n
He put the question 10 tho House, but
several Democrats demanded the yeas
AMI nays aud that interesting exercise
was proceeded with.
The Democrats did not refraiu from
voting and consequently it wac not neces
sary for the Speaker to keep his lit o
memorandum of members present and
not voting.
After the roll call was completed, the
Speaker was about to announce HE re-.
sult, but Was stopped by demand from
the vote be read. That also helped TO
consume tune, and it vas l by the CLOCK
when the result was announced, which
was; Yeas, 1856 nays, 1853. So the Hou,e
rCfnsed to adj1utn.
The next atep in the procedure was the
call for the preyious question on Mr.,
MoRinley's motion to approve the jour-
nal OF yesterday. The yeas anil NAYS
were demanded by Mr.. MoMillin ald
were ordered, This tune the u Democrats
did refrain from voting, and 1t became
necessary for the Speaker To note tAY
names Of those who were present and
who declined % vote
AS the speaker rose to announces lie
result OF tho vote hlr. Dgckerg asked
whether 1t was no proper to have the
pairs announced
The speaker The chair thinks that
the time that is being occupied precludes
the announcelnr Mt OF pairs.
Mr.. D0ekery--It seems to me that it
wonld he simply an got 81 Justice.
The SpeakeT-lt would be an net
simply OF juailce II there werb time, bnt
lnasMuch nv many sick men are being
Kept here by tha proceedings INDUCED
in, it would seem Uukin1 TO them.
The House adjourned after an aRree-
lnont 10 consider the Smi'h.Jactson uun.
tested election case Monday, with thyec
hours of argument on each side.
Sunday Speaker Reed made public
the following statement concerning the
Republican position in the present grsat
cont pveray
Mr. Carlisle was entirely right when he
said in substance that tho decision OF the
House, that quorum was constituted 10
do business when " majority of the House
was prasanf trnu11 cbo.,,n I.n,, a. i.