Telegram-herald., 1891-06-05
BEDLAn BREAKS LOOSE
A 9umulG in the Illinois House OF
Representatives
SPEAKER eRoFIS LOUDLY BERAIED
A Sensational seeas Boiie~s en- Al
issea Arbitrary sisg. and me
Session sf The Day Eaas IN .
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scene terminated the proceedings Of
the house Wednesday and put the
worlds fair bill in u condition which
may terminate in incalculable damage
II not in It's defeat Speaker Crafts is held
responsible fer the climax of the day
because. a. alleged. he declined 10 rec
ognize or arbitrarily ignored demand
for verlfeation of the roll-esn on an
amendment making the appropriation
$3.50, coo. which he declared carried by
yeas 20. nays IS IL was known that
the result was close before the
cal was completed A dozen
members were checking up The
speaker was against $1,000, 600
and had voted for the 100000 and
$500 600 amendments. Friends of the
$1,000, ooo, led by Mr.. Paddock and
seconded 10y Messrs Brooks, Griggs
and Prince, demanded verification
OF the roll before the count was con-
tinued
Speaker Crafts called to the clerk to
hand up the result. which be did. and
vote. but bedlam broke loose in
the house in howls for a verifi-
cation. There was rush of
members to the clerks desk as the
howls increased from all sides.
Then ensued scene the like OF which
has not been witnessed in the chamber
since the memorable days of the Haines
legislature. Speaker Crafts was heard
to declare that the call for verifica-
tion of the roll was not made until after
the roll had been prepared by the clerk
and given to the speaker, and that then
il was too late.
That's lie and you know it"
you're an internal scoundrel!' We'll
fix you for that swindle" and other ex-
pressions of similar purport were made
by members close to the chair, who
were heard above the tumult which
had been occasioned.
Somebody made a motion to adjourn.
The speaker put it and declared it car
ried, paler and more agitated than be-
fore. He was surrounded by fifty rep
resentatives as mad as men can get
Force was necessary to prevent fisti-
cuffs without number and to restrain
the belligerents from reaching for the
man with the gavel.
The procedure from the time the vote
was taken on the $3.50. 900 amendment
was the most remarkab BILE in the annals
of legislation. ThNe members who had
voted in the affirmative desired to change
their votes, but the speaker would not
recognize them; the demand for the
verification of the roll was ignored, and
although fifty hands went up for the
yeas and nays on the motion to adjourn
the chair put it viva voce and declared
it carried in the face of o laundering
"No! to which the affirmative vote
was a murmur.
1t took half an hour for the agitated
members to make up their minds to
leave the chamber, and they did this
only after it had been determined that
there shall be reconsideration of
the vote. The feeling is intense
ly bitter against Speaker Crafts,
who is the only Cook county member
who opposed s1.00O,ooo and who is
charged with taking his course for the
smaller sums in the expectation that it
would make MIN ltNOIitc loH tuc
nomination for governor.
Speaker Crafts endeavors to justify
himself by saying that neither Pad
dock, Griggs. brooks, Miller, Prince
nor Hayes addressed him as Mr. Speak
er when they were calling for ve-ilica-
ton of the roll. He also claims, it is
said, that he did not hear either Mr..
Reid or Mr.. Keller when they sought to
change their votes.
This is the way the worlds fair bill
stands now: 1t has been amended SO as
to make the amount of the appropria-
tion $3.50, 000 II provides for eight
hours a day labor and arbitration OF
disputes between employers and EN-.
ployes. The governor is TO approve all
contracts The secretary is to make
northly reports of all expenditures,
and all payments are to be made by the
state treasurer on bills of part cusars
and vouchers. These are the material
changes in the till The debate con
tinued all day.
SPRIyGFIELD, H., June 4.-The Sx
pected fight over the worlds fair bill
was not resumed in the house at The
morning session. During the reading
of the journal of Wednesday friends o.
the bill listened at;entivel., but nc
error was discovered in the roll call on
the $3.50, 600 amendment. and the jour
nal was approved, showing this substi