Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-08-30
AN ANIMATED OEBA TE
Between Crisp and Reed
Concerning The Rules.
NO RESULTS, HOWEVER,
Voorhees, Starts the Silver Bill Rolling
In tho Senate.

WASHINGTON. .Apg. 80 MIR Crisp was
led to leave - IN Ia Ia the house by
caustic criticisms unde by MIR. Reed upon
the proposed code vi rilcs, AID his appear
snce upon the arsaa ~ debate was warmly
spplauded
Mr.. Reed twiited the Democratic party
upon their partial approval of the rules
of the Fifry-lrst con :ress, but In a hu-
moroU. vein, and contended that they had
not 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-frs
congress. Now the house was In the
habit OF dodging measures instead Of
meeting them. He criticised the provis-
ion of the rules, which, he claimed.
vested the committee on rules with tina
authority which should be vested In the
speaker.
Why not adopt a system of rules which
would give control to the majority and
take from the filibusterer his opportunity
to stop the consideration of measure IL
was better to have a speaker exercise
power In the full light of public opinion
than to exercise it In the seclusion Of the
committee room.
Crisp Replies to Reed.
Then, for the first time this session, the
speaker took the floor, having called Mr..
Richardson Dem., Tenn.) to the chair.
and replied to the criticisms Of the gentle
man from Maine. He said there were pro-
visions in this code which were taken sub
stantially from the rules Of the Fifty first
congress. Neither himself nor any mem
ber of the committee on rules would refrain
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were part Of the rules of the Fifty-frst
congress. Very much Of those rules was
to be commended very much of those
rules had beeE, by the country, abso-
lutely condemned.
The gentleman from Maine Reed) when
he stood up before the country and spoke
Of the rules of the Fifty-frst congress
failed to speak Of tho practices adopted
before the rules were adopted which were
90 odious to the country. The first action
In the Fifty-frst congress which was
odious to the country was not an action
under any rule. but 1t was the arbitrary
high-handed action on the part OF the
speaker without authority Of rules, with
out authority of anyone
And Reed Replies to Crisp.
Mr.. Reed, la reply, said that 10 was nm.
usual for tie presiding officer Of this body
TO leave his exalted position and to par
take In the discussion on the floor. 1t was
even question whether he ought to do IL
at all But OF this action he made no
question. The gentleman from Georgia
alone was the judge Of his action. II the
gentleman did not believe that the other
members Of the committee on rules were
adequate for the discussion, Il was for
him to decide when his powerful aid
should be thrown into the balance
He (Reed) regretted that the speaker had
taken the floor, not only on general princi-
ples, but because he had introduced into
the debate certain amount of partisan-
ship, thereby showing that though the
rest OF the house here survived the meas
ures Of the Fifty-frst congress the present
speaker had not. To what had been said
about him, personally. he would not reply,
for he would not allow this debate to de-
generate into personal question.
The debate was continued by Springer
(Dem., Ills.l Boatuer Dem., La) and
Hooker Oem., Miss.l who conteuded that
the membership on the committee on
rules should be increased, Pickler Rep.,
S. d. who agreed with Hooker on this
point, Cummings Dem., N. Y.) Hepburn
(Rep., Ia.) and Bryan Oem., Neb)
Then the subject was dropped, and
Springer Dem., nls.) introduced bill to
provide for the coinage Of the seignoirage
silver In the treasury Referred. The
house then adjourned.
Senate Proceedings.
The chairman of the finance committee
was las 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 Sherman law. As
soon as the reading Of Mondays journal
was finished, Mr.. Voorhees, rosa and re-
ported back that bill with an amendment
in the nature OF q substitute 1t was
placed on the calendar and will be, &C.
cording to the notice given by Mr..
Voorhees,, pressed for consideration to the
exclusion Of other business. The sub
stitute, Is word for word, the same bill
that was reported by the finance commit
tee two weeks ago.
The first speech against the substitute
was made by Mr.. Gordon Oem., Gal who
argued that It would delay indefinitely
the repeal Of the Sherman law, which be
wanted to be immediate and uncopditiona!.
Mr.. Teller (Rep., Colo) made long
argument to show that the Sherman law
had not produced the existing financial
stringency.
"A resOiutlon WHICH MT OteWdrt nau
offered last Monday inquiring from the
secretary Of the treasury whether there
would be deficiency In the revenues Of
the governments during the current year
was. after a long discussion. referred to the
finance committee.
CleveIand's Thanks.
Representative Wilson Of West Vir-
ginia. who had the honor Of introducing
into the house the bill repeating the silver
purchase law and making the closing
speech In its favor, received q dispatch
from Gray Gables cordially copgratulatina
him ON the passage Of the bill The dis
patch read as follows:
To Hon. William L. Wilson, Washington:
Please accept. for yourself and your sssoci-
ates In today's achievements, my hearty con-
gratulations and sincere thanks.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
He Was Melancholy.