The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-08


Lockwood, of New York, said his recol-
lection was, during the Fifty first Con-
gress, the Democrats always successfully !
protested against any business being |
transacted before the reading and approval !
of the journal
Catchings, OF Mississippi, closed debate |
on behalf of the committee rules and con-
cludeo his remarks by moving to lay |
Iracey's appeal on the table. Before put
ting the question, Speaker Crisp stated the |
question and his position. He said in
part: The rule provides it shall
always be in order to call up for consider
alton report from the committee on rules.
The rules also provide that it shall always
be in order to move to adjourn; to enter
tain motion to fix a day to which the
House shall adjourn or to take recess. II
always has been held, so far as the chair
knows, that the House may adjourn before
the journal is read. The chair calls atten-
ton to rule 90, 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 journal is being
read, the rou being called or the House
dividing on any proposition. Now, where
respecting conference reports 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 imita-
ton OF 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 reports of the committee on
rules might be called up any time.
The roll was then called and by vote of
1874 TO % the House tabled Tracey's appeal
nm Innr Rsz 1f - h.
then raised the question of consideration
cannot be raised. Tracey spoke at some
length on this point, and the speaker quoted
the rules sustaining his position.
1.-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-"
docs the gentleman endorse the last?"
inquired Mr. Reed. Great laughter.
Some parts of it he may, and some parts
he does moi" retorted the speaker 1.-The
chair does not endorse its speaker Zap
plause on the Democratic side.
THE speaker of the last House begs
leave to say he never expected the chair to
endorse him." replied Reed. Applause on
the Republican side.
Quite right" commented Speaker Crisp.
" was just going to say when interrupted
that the gentleman from Maine, speaker of
/
consideration could not be raised against
the order of business
''Well, don't want TO have anything to
do with the rules of the Fifty first Con-
gress," said Tracey emphaticallJ. 1.-THE
rules of that Congress shou not be allud-
ed to in this House excepting, possibly, By
the gentleman from Maine" Great laugh
ter.
Once more Tracey appealed from the
chair, and Warner, another New York
Democrat, warned his colleagues they
were on the point, Democratic House, of
enforcing q more arbitrary ruling in a
more arbitrary manner than any enforced
by the Fltty-tirst Congress, by virtue of
whose crimes the Democratic majority is
here.
Again the yeas and nays were demanded,
and again Tracey's appeal was tabled, lie
to 81. Tracey thereupon made a motion to
recommit the special order, with instruc-
tons to the committee on rules to report il
back with amendment, changing the date
for consideration of the silver bill from
March % to December II. The motion was
defeated. Yeas, 20; nays, 2O2. the previ-
Gus question was then ordered upon the
resolution without further objection.
Williams OF Massachusetts, in opposine
the resolution, said the free coinage meI
would need much consolation before the
Democratic party got through explaining
10 the people why 1t left free coinage out o.
the platform of 1883, and appealed to the
people on the ground that 1t was opposed Il
Tree coinage. Ii was now proposed to give
the lie to one of Its pledges. In the nortl
pledges amount 10 something, and tn,
pledges OF the Democrats in the north haC
the effect of changing great minority int
a great majority. How was that majority
made up! BY accessions from the Republi
can party, and if those accessions were
lost it would be because the Democrat
, were false to their pledges. If free coin
age was established by Democratic votes
reform of the tariff was at an enu Thu
E people of the north could stand taxation
| under unjust laws, but they were no
i ready TO 60 into national bankruptcy
3 and pay seventy cents on the dollar
: Democrats would have to decide between
two things: the Farmers' Alliance in tn
! south, or the Democratic alliance in tn
t north. He didn't know which was tn
+ more important, that Congressman SHOULD
D be returned from Georgia and Mississippi
S or Democratic President elected thi
= year.
Reed, of Maine, cordially agreed, TO
once, with the gentleman from Massachu
] sets. The latter had pointed out tn
: Democratic majority was secured b.
g pledges to the people, and the pledges wer
= in process of being broken. Under tn
= guise that it was going to give good cuI
] rency to the country the Democratic part
7 had stolen march upon the Republican
. of the north, and the gentleman from Mas
t sachusetts had fifty charged the result
D upon the delusive statement of imprope
means used in the Fifty-tirst Congress
D The Democrats had gone before the peopl
2 denounciug actions which this very da
9 they surpassed. Republican applause.
e They themselves had overridden whs
d they called the sacred rights of th
g minority with q harder hoof than the
ever has been ridden over before. The
r deliberately overruled the decision c
f Speaker Carlisle, who, in the Fiftiet
= Congress, decided no business could b
n transacted until the journal as approved
It In their eagerness to override the rights
s the minority they had overridden the de
n cision of speaker they had hitherto sal
# they delighted to honor. Here was two
r thirds of the capital stock of the last cleo
r tion flung to the winds. When the peopl
% got up to expose them the people woul
Q gladly rectify the frightful mistake the
e made in 1890. Never, since the world wa
= created, had there been such an instanc
V of the power of lying over truth Tt
q gentleman from Massachusetts now hear
d the tramp OF the grand army of trutl
/ sometimes delayed, sometimes defeatet
ID but in the end eternally triumphant IRE
IT publican applause.
n Pierce, OF tennessee, SAID that with
ia the last four years twenty eight Dem
If cratic state conventions had declared fl
u the free coinage of silver. The Republic
it ans in 1858 deceived the people when the
declared they were in favor of the FRI
i coinage of silver.
Bland said the free coinage question w,
l. one which ought to be considered indepe
e. dent of any party exigency connected wit
lie it. Carlisle's ruling refeferred to by Rec
D. did not apply to the present case. Aft
,e further debate the yeas and nays we
e. ordered, resulting in the adoption of u
re resolutlon-yeas 100, and nays 81, as fl
lie lows: yeas
i Abbott, Anderson, Alexander, Allen, A