The morning news., 1892-03-08

on that question the gentleman
from New York (Mr. Tracey
demands the yeas and nays. The question
is on laying upon the table the appeal of the
gentleman from New York. upon which
question the gentleman from New York de-
mands the yeas and nays.n The vote was
then taken with the result as above.
TIE QUESTION OF CONSIDERATION.
In ruling against Mr.. Tracey's question OF
consideration the speaker said: "The
chair will have to hold that the question of
provide that it shall always be in order to
call up for considerat on report Of the
committee on rules"
Mr.. Tracey spoke at some length on the
point he had raised and quoted from past
decisions to sustain his position.
MEANS JUST WHAT 1T SAYS.
"The chair understands the rule on this
question: said the speaker ''to mean ex-
actly what it says. The language Of the
rule is very plain: 1T shall always be in
order to call up for consideration reports
from the committee on rules.' II there
we're any doubt about the meaning Of the
rule the chair would look to the Intentions
OF the House. The intention OF the House
was, as the chair understands it. just what
the rule itself proposes. under the rules Of
the last congress-
"Does the gentleman indorse the last
congressp inquired Mr.. Reed. IGreat
laughter
'Some parts of it he may and some parts
of it he does not" retorted the speaker.
THE chair does not indorse its speaker. "
Laughter and applause cn the democratic
side.
THE speaker of the last House begs leave
to say that he never expected the chair to
indorse him :" replied Mr.. Reed. TApplause
on the republican side.
quite right commented the speaker,
laconically.
81 was just going to say when inter-
rupted, that the gentleman from Maine
held in the last congress that the question of
consideration could not be raised against an
order Of business"
"Well, l don't want to have anything to
do with the rules of the Fifty-hrst con-
gress." said Mr.. Tracey, emphatically,
[great laughterl "The rules of the Fifty
first congress should not be alluded TO in
this House, excepting possibly by the gen
tleman from Maine" [Renewed laughter] ].
THE CRY OF ARBITRARY ACTION.
Mr.. Warner of New York said that it had
been called TO the attention of this House
that they were on the point, as a demo-
cratic House, of enforcing a more arbitrary
rule in more arbitrary manner than any
ouAOA OOu Wy buo HlAb1-uTob COukE6SS, DI
virtue OF whose crimes the democratic
majority is here. [Applause.l The speaker
has very properly called the attention of
the House to the fact that the rule is made,
not by him, but by the House, and that
whatever his opinion may be, il
Is his duty to enforce the
rule as he reads it. II that be
the case, then it becomes the duty Of the
House to coustrue the rules which it has
ms Ia fONsf 70 fdoVA
ter what may be the personal opinion of the
| speaker. or his views OF his duty, the demo-
| cratic majority OF the Fifty-second congress
have upon them now a responsibility that
they cannot shirk, that of deciding whether
| we intended to make a rule which is more
| arbitrary than any which we have de-
| nounced in the last congress and which the
| people of this country have sustained us In
denouncing. [Great applause
~ desire, y said Mr. Rayner of MARYLAND,
ito calrto the attention Of the speaker, and
present to the House a decision of
| Speaker Carlisle on this very point, which
is directly opposite to the decision of the
| speaker now.n
Mr.. Catchings, having moved to lay the
| appeal upon the table, objected to the speech
| Of Mr.. Rayner
| WILLIAMS CHARGES INCONSISTENCY.
In the final debate, after the previous
| question had been ordered on the resolution
| reported from the committee on rules, Mr..
| Williams Of Massachusetts, ia opposing the
| resolution said that a vote had been taken
| whichshowed that seventy democrats in the
House were opposed TO free coinage OF
silver aud would oppose IL TO the bitter end
Those men were democrats in this House
daughter and .epplause.) The gentlemen
might laugh; a bad conscience required
consolation and they would find that they
needed consolation before the Democra tic
party had got through explaining
TO the people why it had lef
| free coinage out of the platform of 1888 and
had appealed to the people on the ground
that 1t was opposed to free coinage, thereby
justifying its administration for four years
1t was now proposed to give the lie 60 one
of it's pledges. In the north pledges to the
people meant something and the pledges OF
the democrats in the north had changed q
great minority into great majority. How
was that majority made up9 By accession;
those accessions were lost It would
be because the Democratic party
had been false to its pledges.
| A DAY OF RECKONING.
| The day of reckoning came upon this
| question. If free coinage was established
| by the democrats the effort to reform the
tariff was at an end. The people of the
| north could stand taxation under unjust
laws, and would stand them. but they were
not yet ready TO go into national
| bankruptcy and pay 70 cents on the
dollar. bankruptcy would come for those
| democrats who were trying to make a
| Farmers Alliance party out of the Demo-
cratic party. They would have to decide
etween two things, the farmers alliance
| in the south, or the democratic alliance in
the north. One of the two they must give
up. This question went deeper into poll
| tics than any body conceived. The organi-
zation Of this House had been directed
towards forcing this question upon the
country He did not know which was tbs
more important, that congressman should
be returned from Georgia and Mississippi OF
that a democratic President should be
elected In 1927
REED MAKES A HUMOROUS TURN.
Mr.. Reed cordially agreed for once with
the gentleman from Massachusetts,. That
gentleman had pointed out that a vast de no
| cratic majority had been secured by false
pledges to the people, pledges that were
now in process Of being broken [laughterl
| The gentlemen had singled out one instance
before the House, and no doubt the rest of
his party would carefully point out by
| action the other. Indeed the
party all the way along had been
engaged in the noble work Of uncovering