Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-23
The Democrats Cheer, the Repnbli-
cans hiss, and PandemOnium
Reigns For a Time.
The Members Almost Come to Blows
and the Speaker Calls the
Sergeant-at-Arms,
Who With His Mace in Front of him.
Drives the Excited Members
to Their Seats.
A Tempest in the House,


WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 2O.-The house
of representatives OF the Fifty-first congress
has been the arena of many stormy scenes;
but the incident which to-day threw the
house into turmoil eclipses any other in
noise, confusion and general i'll feeling.
The duration of the tempest was brief,
not more than four minutes being con-
sumed in its enactment But these four
minutes were replete with excitement.
While Mills was hurting his denunciations
at the speaker, members of the house
massed themselves on their respective
sides of the aisle, the democrats giving
cheer after cheer to their champion, and
the republicans greeting his remarks with
Kisses and other manifestations of disgust.
Words were banded to and fro;
but above the tumult Mills voice was
heard in objurgation of the speakers rul-
.ings and the action of the majority of the
house in sustaining them. The speaker
remained calm, while epithets more or less
polite in their character were passed; but
at the end, the dignity of the house re-
quired the services of the sergeant-at-arms
to preserve order; and after some time the
tumult was quelled, though escape from
general collision was narrow one.
Some Of the republican members
of the house are making
earnest effort to effect a compro
mise among their colleagues on the silver
question, based on the lines of the suggest.
ed senate amendment restricting full coin
age OF the American product
HOW THE ROW BEGAN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-In the house to-
ing of the journal, Bland made the point
that the journal had not been read in full,
and demanded description of the various
executive communications, resolutions,
bills and petitions (Which are referred to
under the rules and not in open house) be
read. The speaker directed the clerk to
read this portion Of the journal, which
is ordinarily omitted. This was by far the
longest portion Of the journal, and its
reading was not completed until 1 O'clock.
Then ensued one Of the widest scenes of
confusion the house has seen during the
stated the question to be on the approval
of the journal, and having counted and
stated the affirmative vote, Mills, of Texas,
rising to a parliamentary question, asked
whether the proper question was not on
ordering previous question. This query
was based upon the fact that when the
clerk had finished reading the first part of
the journal (the portion usually read),
Mckinley, of Ohio, had demanded the
previous question. The speaker, in re-
sponse to the inquiry, stated this fact, but
said the demand had not been renewed
after the reading of the completed journal.
Mckinley corroborated the statement of
wish to debate the question of approving
the journal, but the speaker declined to
recognize him. ON the ground that the
house was dividing. II
THEN THE STORM CLOUD BURST.
With excited gestures, Mills strobe down
the aisle, and shaking his fist at the speak
er, poured out a volume of denunciation,
accusing him of practicing fraud on the
house. You are perpetrating fraud
upon the house," he thundered, "and you
know it," ana his party colleagues burst
into a round of applause and cheers, and
gathered around the champion. But the
speaker was immOvable, and amid the ex-
citemnt requested those opposed to the ap-
proving of the journal. to rise. Phlegmat-
fcally be counted, "One, two, three" and
announced the vote carried-97 to 3.
The yeas and nays were demanded by the
democrats and ordered, and as the clerk
his Recommendations. Again he accused the
speaker of perpetrating a fraud upon the
house, and referring to Mckinley, said:
y.We did not expect the gentleman from
Ohio to lend himself to such.a proceeding.
We relied on the gentleman from Ohio. for
we believed him an honorable gentleman,
and we know he indicating the speaker)
was not. .4ESs h 55s
Perkins Of Kansas lsarcastically): and
he ndicating M Ills j Is a gentlman.
lien of Mississi ippi: That ID more than,