Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-08
motion to adjourn would be in order be-

fore the reading of the journal.
The speaker replied that it had always |
been SO held and never questioned, and
the same language applies to this rule
as applies to motionsto adjourn.
Lockwood, of New York, said his
recollection was that during the fifty
first congress the Democrats always sue
cessfully protested against any business
being transacted before the reading and
approval OF the journal. .1,
Catchings, OF Mississippi, closed the
debate on behalf OF the committee on
rules, and concluded his remarks by
moving to lay Tracey's appeal on the
table.
Before putting the question Speaker
Crisp stated the question and his posi-
tion. He said, in part: "The rules
provide that it shall always be in order
TO call up for consideration report
from the committee on rules. The rules
also provide that it shall always be in
order to move to adjourn, to entertain a
motion to fix a day to which the house
shall adjourn or to take recess. Ithas
always been held, so far as the chair
knows, that the house may adjourn be-
fore the journal is read. The chair calls
attention to rule 20 as illustrating the
intent and purpose of this other rule
that rule provides that the presentation
of reports of committees OF confer
ence shall always be in order,
except when the journal is
being read, the roll being called or the
house dividing on any proposition.
Now where, respecting conference re-
ports, the words shall always be in
order are used, and we desire to put
any limitation upon it, such limitation
is expressed in the rule. But in the
rule providing for report from the
committee on rules, there is no limita-
ton of the words. The rule says: 1t
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 from the commit
tee 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's appeal from the decision OF the
chair.
Tracey then raised the question OF
consideration of the report.
"The chair will have to hold" said
the speaker, THAT the question OF con-
sideration cannot be raised"
Tracey spoke at some length on his
point. and the speaker quoted rules sus-
tanning his position. "The intention of
the house,. said he, "was, as the chair
understands it, Just what the rule itself
proposes, under the rules OF the last
congress-"
"Does the gentleman endorse the last
congress-" inquired Mr.. Reed. [Great
laughter
"Some parts of it, he may, and some
parts he does not retorted the speak
err" "The chair does not endorse its
speaker" Applause on the Democratic
side.l
'The speaker of the last house begs
leave to say he never expected the chair
to endorse him." replied Reed. Jap
plause on the Republican side.
"Quite right" commented Speaker
Crisp. 81 was just going to say, when
interrupted, that a gentleman from
Maine. the speaker of the last congress,
held that q question of consideration
could not be raised against the order OF
business"
"Well, 1 don't want to have anything
to do with the rules of the ffty.frst
congress-" said Tracey emphatically.
"The rules of that congress should not
be alluded to in this house, excepting
possibly by the gentleman from Maine"
[Grest 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-of enforcing a more arbitrary
rule, in more arbitrary manner than
any enforced by the tifty-first congress,
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cratic majority is here.
Again the yeas and nays were de-
manded, and again Tracey's appeal was
tabled-176 to 81.
Tracey thereupon made motto n to
recommit the resolution, with instruc-
4 lions to the committee on rules to re-
| port it back with an amendment chang
| ing the date for the consideration OF the
silver bill from March 22d to Deem
Der 18th.
The motion was defeated-Yeas, 20 !;
nays, POP.
The previous question was then Or
dered upon the resolution without fur
Their opposition.
Williams, of Massachusetts,, in oppos-
ing the resolution, said the free coinage
men would need much consolation be-
fore the Democratic party got through
explaining to the people why it left
free coinage out OF the platform OF 1888,
and appeal to the people on the ground
that it was opposed to free coinage. 1t
was proposed to give the lie to
one Of its pledges. In the North
pledges meant something, and the
pledges of the Democrats in the north
had changed the great minority to the
great majority. How was that majority
made up? By accessions from the Re-
publican party, and if those accessions
were lost it would be because the Dem.
ocrats were false to their pledges. If
free coinage was established by Demo-
cratic votes reform of the tariff was at
an end. The people of the north could
stand taxation under unjust laws, but
they were not ready to go into national
bankruptcy and pay rs cents on the
dollar. .....
Continuing, Williams said the Demo-
Gratis would have to decide between two
things-the Farmers Alliance in the
south, or the Democratic alliance in the
north. He did not know which was the
more important = that congressman
should be returned from Georgia and
Mississippi, or Democratic president
elected this year.
Reed of Maine cordially agreed, for
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