Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-30
CRISP TOOK THE FLOOR.
The Speaker Sharply Answers
 Ex-Speaker Reed.
LONG FIGHT IN THE SENATE BEGUN

peal Bnl Silver Men Say They Win
 ProIong the Struggle.
 WAsHINGroN, Aug. 3n. The chairman of the finance committee was. as he had promised to be, very prompt in reporting to the senate the action of the committee on the house bill to repeal part of the Sher. man law.
 As soon as tle reading of the journal was finished MT "orhees rose and reported hack that bill with an amendment in the nature of n substitute IL was placed on the calendar and will be, according to the notice given by Mr. Voorhees,, pressed for consideration to the exclusion of other
 business
 The substitute is, word for word, the same bill that was reported by the finance committee two weeks ago.
 The first speech against the substitute was made by Mir. Gordon of Georgia, who argued that it would delay indefinitely the
 repeal of the sherman law, which he wanted to be immediate and unconditional.
 Mir. Teller made long argument to show that the sherman law had not pro duced the existing financial stringeuCy.
 A resolution which Mir. Stewart had offered last Monday, inquiring of the secre- tary of the treasury whether there will be
 a deficiency in the revenues of the gov ernment during the current year, was re ferred to the finance committee after long discussion.
 Silver Men Win Make Long Fight. There was an interesting executive ses- sion of the senate at which there was an outcropping of politics and silver. After a batch of names had been acted upon Seua- tor German acting for the steering com
 mittee, submitted a proposition that at this extraordinary session of congress financial matters, and they alone, should receive the attention of the senate. \ brief speech was made by leading Democrat urging that such legislation should be speedily transacted and that thereupon congress should adjourn.
 This stirred up the silver men from the l west, who at once began an assault upon l the proposition suggested by Mir Gurman. They took the ground that the session
 would be long one and stated that they would never give up their fight for silver, l and propheSied that Dec would find con gross still in session and discussing the | financial question. It is said that there l was some plain talk ou both sides of the sil- ! yer question, and the general sentiment | when the session adjourned was that the | senate was farther apart than ever. No ac- | tion was taken on MT. Germans >ugSes- | tion.
 Crisp Answers Reed. | The feature of the house proceedings was | the debut of MT. Crisp as d speaker on the | floor, He was led to leave his chair by | some caustic criticisms made by Mir. Reed | upon the proposed code of rules. and his
 warmly applauded. The discussion he tween the two leaders was very animated but led to no conclusion.
 | Mir. Reed twitted the Democrats upon
 their partial approval of the rules of the | tifty-first congress, but in a humorous | vein, and contended that they had unt gone | far enough. He then. in a more serious
 manner, argued in favor of the rights of | the majority, which rights had been firmly | maintained in the fifty first congress. Now | the house was in the habit of lodging | measures instead of meeting them. He criticised the provision Of the rules | which he claimed vested the committee on | rules with the authority which should hc | vested in the speaker. Why not adopt a | system of rules which would give Ia the
 majority control and take away from the l flibuStercr his opportunity 10 stop he con
 sideration of a measure. It WAS better to
 have speaker exercise power in the full ! light of public opinion than to exercise it | in the seClusion of the committee room. Then, for the first time this session, the | speaker took the floor. having called Mir
 Richardson to the chair. and replied tn the l criticisms of the gentleman from Maine. | ne Sdlu IntFt were prov lSlhuS lt NtllN tRhlt | which were taken substantially from the rules of tho fifty first congress. \elther | himself nor any member 0t the committee | on rules would refrain from rtportiug rules
 simply because they were pat "t 'he rules | of the fifty-first congress Nerv much of | those rules was to be commended. very | much of those rules had been hv the cuuu- try absolutely condemned L-lpplluse l The gentleman from Maine, when LU stood up before Jkc country and spoke ol JAe | rules of the tif;y-iirst louGress, failed to speak Of the practices aoopteu before the l rules were adopted which were SD odious
 to the country. lApplau>rl The first ac- l jon in the tifty-tirst congress N hich WAS odions to the country Was not an action | under any rule but il was the arbitrary, Ihigh handed action on the part of the
 speaker without authority ot rules, with
 put authority of any one
 Reed Has Regrets.
 Mir Reed. in reply, said that il was un-
 usual for the presiding officer of this body to leave his exalted position and partake in the discussion on the floor. It was even a Iquestion whether he ought to do it at all But of this action he ms.le no question. The gentleman from Georgia alone was tho judge of his action. If the gentleman did Inot believe that the other members of the lcommittee on rules were adequate for the discussion, it for him to decide when this powerful aid should be thrown into the
 balance. He tReed1 regretted that the Ispeaker had taken the floor not only on