Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-08
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. THESILVER BILL'CONTEST The Resolution Adopted
 After a Hard Fight. GENERAL BUTLER LOSES HIS SUIT. Death of Representative
 Kendall of Kentucky.
GENERAL ALGER IS 4 CANDIDATE.
Austin COrbin Says He
 Will Decline.

Austin COrbin Says H' | Will Decline.
 THE FREE COINAGE FIGHT.
 A Hot Debate on the Silver Resolu
 ton n-Representatives Tracey and l Fitch of New York as Leaders ol l the Honest Money Forces-Speake1
 Crisp's Ruling Sustained-After 6
 Long and Protracted Discussion
 the Resolution is Adopted.
 WASHINGTON, March :. 7.-Notwithstand.
 ing the earnest efforts of Colonel Isaac
 Hill, the whipper-in of the democrats, to
 secure large attendance of democratic
 members to vote upon the resolution set ting apart three days for the consideration of the silver bill, when the speaker called the house to order at noon to-day he was confronted with large array of empty l seats.
 Before the reading of the journal MT. Catchings of Mississippi called up the res | olution and the clerk proceeded to read, and upon it's adoption Mir. Catchings de- manded the previous question. MT. Tracey of New York called attention | to the fact that the journal had not been | read. The speaker declared it was in or der for the gentleman from Mississippi to call up the resolution, and the reading of the resolution was concluded. Mir. Dingley of Maine-Has the chair ruled that this report of the committee on rules can be considered before the journal has been reads
 The speaker-The chair has. That is the provision of the rule. MT. Dingley-The same provision of the rules would confer the same privilege on conference reports.
 The speaker-It does not confer the same privilege on conference reports. The gen. tleman is mistaken; there are express linn itations against conference reports. MT. Dingley-Then the chair decides that business can be done before the read ing of the journals
 The speaker-The chair so decides. MT. Tracey-I appeal from the decision of the chair.
 it would be an unfortunate precedent to make that the committee on rules, con- efstipg practically of three members, could come into the house and force upon the 300 odd members the consideration of any resolution they might desire to call up. The house ought to proceed with great caution.
 Mr. Fitch of New York seconded his col leagues remarks, prefacing his own re- marks with an expression of the highest respect for the fairness of the chair. But in regard to the danger of the precedent which it was proposed to set. Those dem ocrats who had sat here over and over again, demanding the reading of the jour nal in the last house, knew that that de- mand had always been granted and that in democratic house, in case like this, a refusal should be made, was as unfair to hls mind as anything that had been done in the last house. Every parliamentary body in the world corrected it's own journal before it proceeded to the work of another day; and if the rules authorized such 8 ruling as the speaker had made it was an innovation that ought to be changed. There was good deal of talk in his state about a premature or snap convention. If there was ever anything premature or unexpected to those who opposed the sil- yer legislation it was the snapping of this resolution on them before the reading of the journal. The representatives from New York would stand by what they thought right with the same steadfastness and courage they had stood by the present speaker when, as the gentleman from Georgia, he had protested against things that were no more unju than was the bringing in of this resolution before the reading of the journal.
 MT. Bland, proceeding, said that when the committee on rules had reported the resolution certain anti silver men had come to him and said that if alluded to to take the floor.
 MT. Cochran said that the gentleman | Il : view with him he (Mr. Cockran) had un- to it's action to-d day Thatswas not correct, though it might be the gentleman's under standing. He had appealed to the gentle man from Missouri to consent that a vote be taken today and the gentleman had re- fused to make any agreement whatever, and there the conversation had ended. It had been carried on in the presence of MT. Andrew. He (Mr. Cockran) had to appeal to the committee on rules for this disposi- tion, because the gentleman from Missouri refused to consent.
 MT. Bland inquired whether the gentle man had not stated that there would be no opposition by flibustering. Mr. Cochran denied that flibustering had been referred to.
 Mr. Bland-You said in that conversa- tion that you would vote without flibus- tering.
 Mr. Cockran-My recollection does not | cover any such conversation. MT. Bland-Mine does, most emphati | cally.
 Mir. Cochran, continuing, expressed him. l self as opposed to flibustering methods. When he fl;bustered it would be when | the government of his country was in | danger, and not when fiscal question | came before the house. The ruling | of the chair was dangerous one. Until the journal was read no member could tell whether the house was | legally in session. A recess of three days might have been taken. The decision wes an erroneous and dangerous one-one that ought to be cured but whether it stood or ] fell his attitude on this question would re- main the game. He did not believe that there had been any intention of flibuster- l ing over the journal. He hoped that the l journal would be read, and as soon as it | was he stood ready to vote on the ques- ton.
 l MT, Andrew of Massachusetts stated that his recollection of the conversation between MT. Cochran and MT. Bland was in entire accord with the recollection of the former gentleman. He did not think that the l anti silver men ever intended to filibuster on the journal.
 l MT. Bland-Why not take a vote before
 the reading of the journal if there is no
 intention of flibusteringsthe journals MT. Cockran-Because one is orderly
 and the other is disorderly.
 Mir. Grain of Texas inquired of the chair
 whether motion to adjourn would be in
 order before the reading of the journal
 The speaker-It has always been SO
 held and never questioned, and the same
 language applies to this rule as applies to fha motion tO adjourn.
 Mir. Blunt of Georgia said he agreed
 with the chair that there was no occasion
 for so much excitement over the pending
 question, which was merely a question of
 the proper construction of the rules of the
 house.
 MT. Lockwood of New York said that
 his recollection was that during the Fifty
 first congress the democratic side of the
 house had always successfully protested
 against any business being transacted be-
 fore the reading and approval of the jour.
 nal. ssI would like to know" said he,
 "whether the rules that we have adopted al
 this congress are more arbitrary than the
 rules of the Fifty first congressa''
 This inquiry was greeted by laughter
 and applause on the republican side and
 cries of "Yes, yes."
 The speaker-The chair will state to the
 gentleman from New York that if he will
 take the trouble to read the rules he vii
 find they are different. [Applause.]