Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-04
LOOKS LIKE A LAW.
Test Vote On Anti-Option Bill in
the House.
4 HEAVY MAJORITY IN ITS FAVOR,

The Figures Reaching Nearly Two-Thirds
of Ouorum-Sent to a Committee by
the Speakers Decision and Hatch Gets
It's Control - Teller Tells the Senate
That the sherman law Cannot be Re
peaIed-Hill to Move a yote-ArrivaI OF
the Hawaii Annexers
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-Hatch's motion
made Thursday in the house to non-concur
In the senate amendments to the anti-op-
ton bill, and send the bill to conference
committee, against which the point OF
order was made that the bill should first
be considered in committe of the whole
house, would have been long step,if agreed
to, in the direction of early passage of the
bill; but Speaker Crisp decided that the
senate amendment which added flour to
the list of articles subject to license tax
involved the question of revenue and.
therefore. mast be considered in committee
OF the whole house.
The Speaker's Decision of the Point.
The speaker in deciding the point yestcr-
day stated Tint the bill was laid before the
house for reference only, unless il he a
house biz with senate amendments, which
did not require consideration in committee
of the whole, The question was one OF
fact as to whether the senate amendments
to this bill required such consideration. In
the senate amendments the article OF flour"
was mentioned. This was new and dis
tinct subject matter of taxation, and it
seemed to the chair that this amendment,
at least, must have it's first consideration
of Z ha WI nt |
before the house for reference to a standing
| or select committee, and not for present
consideration. The judgment of the chair
was that the bill should be referred TO n
standing or select committee
Gives n kilgore a Chance.
This decision opens wide field for dila-
tory tactics by the opponents of the meas
ure, which could have been avoided had
| the bill been kept out of the house Hatch,
! though disconnected, was Immediately on
his feet with a motion to refer the bill to
the agricultural (his OWN committee, and
| on that motion moved the previous ques-
ton. A shower of points of order was di-
| rected on Hatchs motion by Springer Kill
gore, Boatner, Fitch and other opponents
| of the bill. In the skirmish Hatch came
out victorious and the vote on the question
| of reference showed the overwhelming
strength OF the measure in the house.
I Test of the Bill's Strength.
The division showed a vote of 10 yeas
to Is nays II favor of the previous ques-
| ton. Fitch asked for the roll call on the
Hatch motion for the previous question.
The result was Isl yeas to "a nays The
yeas and nays being ordered Hatch car
rled his motion for reference to his COM
mittee easily. The vote indicated the
ability of the advocates of the bill to pass
| 1t under a suspension of the rules. They
had 15l votes, lacking only 10 to make a
quorum. B9atner admitted that on the
final vote the bill will be stronger than
was developed by the roll call yesterday
| Hatch is confident that the bill will pass
the house Monday, and Forman, member
of the agricultural committee, took the
same view of the subject. 1t is believed
| President Harrison will veto it,