The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-29
NEW RULESOFT THE HOUSE
TIE CHILEAN MATTER ENLIVENS
THEIR DISCUSSION.

The Members Applaud the Pacific
Outcome OF the I'm broglio-Reed
Declares Himself IN Favor Of the
Rule of the Majority Even When It
Is Against Him-Allen Indulges in a
Little Humor Over the Presidents
| Message.
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-In the House
to day the debate on the report Of the COM
mittee On rules was resumed as the first
business Of the day. MIR. McMillin took the
floor and made a speech in support of the
/ proposed rules He had been speaking but
few minutes when Mr.. Pruden, one of the
! Presidents secretaries, was announced and
| presented the Presidents supplemental mes
! Page upon the Chilean difficulty. The mes
sage was not Immediately laid before the
House, the speaker Withholding it in order
TO permit MIR. McMillin to conclude his re-
marks.
THE CHILEAN MESSAGE.
Mr.. McMillin, having concluded. the
Presidents message was lsii before the
House and was read by the clerk. Its read
ing gave rise TO some applause, and then, at
the suggestion Of Mr.. Blount the accom-
panying documents were read. The docu-
ments were listened to with the closest at
tention, ana when, on motion of Mr.. Blount,
they, with the Presidents message, we're
ordered printed and referred TO the commit
tee on foreign affairs. breath Of relief ran
through the chamber and the members
broke into hearty applause.
REED ON THE RULES
The discussion Of the rules was then re-
sumed, Mr. Reed making q speech in oppo-
sition to the report of the committee. He
favored the rules Of the Fifty-first congress
and proclaimed his adherence to the doctrine
OF majority rule. He belle ed in
the rule of the majority, even when
it had been chosen against the
views which he himself entertained
Iu sarcastic vein he analysed and ridicuIed
the rules and especially satirized the rule
limiting the morning hour to sixty minutes.
This would give rise to nothing but filibus-
tering and would put it in the power of a
small minority to prevent the transaction
Of business. "And yet he said, addressing
the democrats, ''you are going to do it, and
will do it. Although every one Of you must
be-the constitution requires it-25 years
old" [Laughter.l
The general debate having closed the
rules were read by paragraphs for amend
ment
WANTED A BIG COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Allen of Mississippi offered an amend
committee on foreign affairs from thirteen
10 seventy-1ve. The great strain, he said,
to which the members of thai committee
had been subjected for the past fifteen days
had prompted him to move to increase the
membership to seventy-fve. The House
had no right to impose such
great responsibility upon the thirteen
men. Thirteen was an unucky
number, and the country did not want any
unlucky thing about it when dealing with
foreign affairs. Laughter Thirty years
ago he had gone to war rather hastily
Laughter His experience in that war had
never daunted his courage, but it had made
him display more caution. LLaughterl
HARRIsoN's HATE
He was not so familiar with diplomatic
correspondence as Secretary Blaine was.
but he knew the code of honor that
governed gentlemen, having spent most of
his life in practicing that code and fighting
for it. GLaughter.l In this case with Chile
there had been some precipitation. Accord
ing TO the code, il one gentleman sent to
another his ultimatum and then
rushed into print before he had
time to receive a reply he would be a per
soma non grdtd. Laughter Among 'us
Mississippi duelistsn it was not the proper
thing, after an ultimatum had been sent to
an adversary, for a man to rush into print
and give his side of the case to the country
before he had heard the other side. Laugh
ter
KEIFER'S LUDICROUS BREAK.
Mr.. Allen then referred TO and rldicuIed
an interview with ex-Speaker Keifer as
published In the press this morning bearing
upon the Presidents Chilean message He
laid special stress upon Mr.. Refers utter
ance that the Presidents Chilean message
was issued just in time" Laughter
just suppose that the President had waited
little while longer. He might have
put a stop to the drift of republican
sentiment alluded to by Mr.. Keifer The
President had refused to travel on Sunday
but according to the Washington Post he
had had a large number of printers work.
ing all last Sunday to get lis message in
lust in Time" Laughter
The amendment was rejected.
On motion Of Mr.. Catchings, an amend
ment was adopted increasing from sixteen
to seventeen the membership OF the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
MERGE.
Mr.. Hemphill Of South Carolina offered
an amendment giving to the committee on
the District of Columbia jurisdiction over
the appropriations for the support Of the
district.
| Pending action, Mr.. Cochran Of New
| York announced the death of Representa-
! tive f. B. Spinola of New York, and the