, 1892-03-08
SILVER TRIUMPHANT
Like Banquo's Ghost it Will
Not Back Down.
In Solid PhalanX the Ants
Meet a Waterloo.
The Bland Bill Will Go
Through the House.
Gar Reed Leads Up His CO.
horts in the Rear.
House.


age issue will not down. Gentlemen of both
parties who have been hoping it would be
postponed until after the elections are to-
night convinced the issue must be dis
posed of by the house before the date of
the national conventions. The free coin
age men of both parties are. of course.
highly elated. The gold men 10 the
democratic party are filled with dismal
~forebodings, while the anti-free coinage
republicans, who comprise IS per
cent of the republican membership in
the house, are disposed to view the situa-
ton with complacency. The vote today
indicates the house will surely pass the
Bland bill, so decisive and overwhelming
was the victory of the advocates of free
coinage. 1t was a significant feature of
the proceedings. hat on all disputes that
arose on a parliamentary question, the
antl-free coinage men did most of the
talking.
To one unfamiliar with political
methods the conclusion would have been
irresistible alter listening to the denuncia-
ton of Speaker Crisp's rulings; to the i'm
FASHIONED oratory and dIretul predictions
OF those opposed to the Bland bill that
the free coinage men were to be swept
away in a whlrl wind OF popular indig-
nation. Yet when the vote cams-not
one silver resolution alone, but all the
auxiliary questions-the free coinage men
came to the front in an unbroken pha-
lanx and by a vote of over 2 to l, routed
their opponents. On the last and vital
proposition-that setting apart three
days for consideration of the Bland bill =
the free coinage men won by an over
whelmlng vote of 100 to "a.
Congressman Cochran of New York,
expressed himself as opposed to fliibust-
ering methods. The ruling of the chair.
he said, was a dangerous one. Until the
journal was read no member could tell
whether the house was legally in session.
Craig of Texas inquired whether a
motion to adjourn would be in order be-
fore the reading of the journal. The
speaker replied it had always been SO
held and never questioned and the same
language applies to a motion to adjourn.
Lockwood of New York said his recol-
the democrats always successfully pro-
tested against any business being trans
acted before the reading and approval of
the journal.
Catchings of MIssissiI pi closed the de-
bate on behalf of the committee 90 rules
and concluded his remarks by moving to
lay Tracoy's appeal on the table.
Before putting the question Speaker
Crisp stated the question and his position.
He said. in part. the rules provide it shall
always be in order to call up for consider
alton a report from the committee on
rules. The rules also provide it shall be
in order to move to adjourn, to entertain
a motion to fix a day to whicn the house
shall adjourn or to take a recess. 1t has
always been held. as far as the chair
knows. that the house NAV adjourn before
the journal is read. The chair calls a:ten-
ton to rule 30 as illustrating the intent
and purpose of this other rule. That
rule provides that 'the presentation of
reports of committees of conference shall
ALWAYS be in order. except when the Jour
nal is being read, the roll is being called
or the house dividing on any question. "
Now, respecting conference reports. the
words shall always be in order are
used, and if we desire to put any limita-
ton upon it such limitation is expressed
in that rule. But in the rule providing
for reports from the committee on rules
there is no limitation of words. The rule
says it shall always be in order. The
chair has undertaken to enforce the rules
of the house as he finds them. The chair
might say, however, that in the last house
there was no such rule as this providing
that reports of the committee on rules
might be called up at any time.
The roll was then called, and BY a vote
of 1874 to 70 the house tabled Tracey
appeal from the decision of the chair.
Tracey then raised a question of con.
sideration on the report.
The chair will have to hold" said the
speaker, that the question of consider.
alton cannot be raised"
Tracey spoke at some length on his
point and the speaker quoted the rules
sustaining his position. THE intention
of the house" said he, was as the chair
understands 1t, just what the rule itself
proposes, under the rules of the last con
gress"
Does the gentleman endorse the last?"
inquired Mr.. Reed. (Great laughter.
Some parts of it he may and some
parts he may not" retorted the speaker.
The chair does not endorse its speaker. "
GApplause on the democratic side.
The speaker of the last house begs
to endorse him." replied Reed. Zap
plause on the republican side.
Quite right" commented Speaker
Crisp. II was just going to say when
interrupted that the gentleman from
Maine. the speaker OF the last congress.
held that the question of consideration
could not be raised against the order Of
business"
We'll, | don't want to have anything
to do with the rules of the City first con-
gress." said Tracey emphatically. The
rules of that mgr should not be
alluded to in this house, excepting. posi-
bly, by the gentleman from Maine"
lGreat laughter.
Once more Tracey appealed from the
chair, and Warner, another New York
democrat. warned his colleagues that they
were on the point-a democratic house