The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-02

ton. In effect the amendmen. trans.
ferred to those four principal commit
tees of the house the power to report
special orders for the business Of those
committees; power now lodged exclu'
sively in the committee on rules. In
other words It stripped the rules com
mittee Of jurisdiction over the business
OF the four great committees. The
amendment gave rise to a very sharp
and acrimonious debate, in which II
was evident that those who attempted
yesterday to enlarge the membership oi
the rules committee backed up Mr..
Springer.
Mr.. Springer, in advocating his
amendment declared himself as op'
posed to permitting one man to OBJ
struct the legislation Of Congress.
Mr.. Kilgore, Democrat, (Texas) :
You want to have another "business
Congress"
MI. spripger-I want Congress to do
the business which ought to be done.
Applause
Mr.. McMillin made an impassioned
speech against the granting of such
power to these committees. He had
never known a great measure ultimate
ly defeated by filibuster and he de-
clared with an ominous shake Of his fist
at those whom he said "were anxious
to put the bit on and to govern the
house" that If he had believed cloture
was to be applied without the support
of o majority of the Democratic side OF
the house las was the case in the last
Congress) he would have voted against
it in toto. BE believed public senti-
ment could force any legislation as it
demanded without any undue exerciIe
OF gag law, and he declared that cloture
put In operation by any other than the
recognized machine OF the house (the
committee on rules) would prove a curse
instead of a blessing.
Mr.. Boatner, a free silver Democrat
from Louisiana, sneeringly called the
attention OF Mr.. McMillin lone Of the
repeal Democrats), to the fact that he
and some Of his conferes were now very
much afraid of the cooperation of Re-
publicans to force cloture, when but a
few days ago they were glad to stand
shoulder to shoulder with them for the
repeal Of the Sherman law and applaud
ed to the echo their exposition Of DEM
ocratic doctrine.
Mr.. Holman, OF Indiana, in opposing
the granting OF such extraordinary"
errather startled the house by paying
q glowing tribute to Speaker Crisp's i'm
partially, inasmuch as he of all the
Democrats suffered most from the re-
organization of the committees. Mr..
Holman, whose national reputation was
made as "the great objector," " inyeighed
against the concentration of power in
the hands of the committee. He be-
lieyed IN obstruction and delay to a
limited extent. More bad measures
had been defeated, he said, than good
measures by filibustering. BE was OPP
posed to making legislation easy. He
believed in too little rather than too
much legislation.
The Springer amendment was finally
defeated.
Mr.. Reed cameforwa with an amend
ment to strike down two Of the three
privileged flibustertng motions, namely
to fSche day when the house shall ad-
journ and take recess, supporting it
with short speech.
The house had indicated, he said, by
vote and speech that it did not desire
Observation-Disclosures talking one
way aud voting the other. No other as
sembly permitted these dilatory mo-
tions and he desired to take away this
fuel for the filibustering flames. The
amendment was lost-ayes Is, nays 1876.
Another defeat was administered to
Mr.. Reed when his motion to make the
Complementary rule, making the mo-
tions which he had previously attempts
ed to kill privileged ones, was voted
down.
"A motion by Mr.. Hooker, of Missis.
sippi, increasing the numbers required
to prevent business by unanimous con-
sent to fifteen, was defeated, Rhereupon
the house adjourned.