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from his Democratic colleagues.
Mr.. Burrows moved to lay the report


declined to entertain the appeal.
The question was then put On the
demand for the previous question, and
Oh a division no quorum voted Bur-
rows called for tellerS, and Fitch de-
manded the yeas and nays. Every
Democrat rose to second the demand; !;
and, Gas it requires but one-lifth of the
members voting to order a roll calD
the Speaker, without counting them
announced that sulli Gent number had
| risen.
"The other side," demanded Payne
There is 20 other side," responded
the Speaker.
"Oh," replied Payne, 81 thought there
| was"
The Speaker said that he did not
mean his remark in any offensive sense
He merely intended 20 say there was a
sufficient number rising to order the
| yeas and nays, no matter how many
might rise on the other side.
Payne was glad to hear that there
was another side. He then proceeded
in a pleasant manner, to address the
House; but the House was not in
mood to listen to him, and he was or.
dered by the Speaker to resume his
seat. The vote on the motion to order
the previous question resulted: Yeas
|
and Fitch demanded a call Of the Uou se
and the yeas and nays were ordered
upon it. The Democrats, believing
that their quorum had returned, voted
against the motion, which was made
by Fitch In Orderto give absrntees an
opportunity to return. and the motion
was lost-yeas %, nays l64.
| The vote then required on ordering
the previous question. Before the vote
was announced, Burrows arose and
asked to be recorded. The Speaker put
the sterotyped question as to whether
the gentleman had been present during
the roll call and had failed to hear his
name.
Burrows replied in the affirmative.
Richardson [Dem) of Tennessee
showed some symptoms of questioning
the accuracy Of the response; but the
Speaker said that the gentleman from
Michigan understood the rules, and he
(the SpeakeD must accept his statement
| ThereupOn Burrows voted in the affirm
alive; and as soon rs the result was
announced-yeas 1SO, nays 3-moved
reconsideration.
Fitch moved to lay the motion on the
table. This was carried-yeas 1870, nays
| land the previous question was or
dered.
Mr.. Reed said that he could not equal
the fiery denunciatlonS of the gentle
man from Indiana (Bynum) against the
rules of the Fifty-li!st Congress: nor
could he equal the choice epithets used
four years ago by the gentleman from
Kentucky Q5reckinridge) He Weed)
was suffering from the fact that he
was not backed up by such Il chorus as
had made the air vocal four years ago
The members Oh the Republican side
OF the House were too well educated
to indulge IN more noise. Laughter. |
The Republican party in the Fifty-iirs I
| Congress had made certain rules
First impression were the most power
ful. The Republicans today occupied
an unusal position. They stood to win
in any event. Laughter.l The De-
mocratic party had either TO resort to
every thing they had denounced or to
| be bealen. Laughter.] The De nocrats
had their choice between humiliation
and defeat, and they had chosen hui
initiation. Laughter.]
Mr. CatchingS said That 1t was hardly
worth while to say anything in vindi-
| cation of the parliamentary rulings
made by the Speaker today. 1t was
cruel (sucaStically) OF the gentleman
from Nj .ine to advise the Democrats
that they were in a state of humIiin-
ton. He (Catchings) had not discover
ed it himself. He thought that the
Democrats were getting along pretty
well. Laughter. The trouble with
the gentleman from Maine was that
he had discovered that there were
Other methods than these invented by
him and his associates in the Fifty
first Congress by which the IIonSe
could do business. [Applause Be,
sides, the methods now proposed were
eminently fair. [Applause. The gen
tleman had had Il little taste of th,
power of the House, and it was natural
that he should chafe to find out that
the House could do business without
resortlng to the rules Of the Fifty-frst
Congress. This House stood ready to
90 business whenever it chose, without
the consent of the gentleman from the
other side. Applause.
Mr.. henderson said that the reSolu-
tion which it was proposed to adopt,
under circumstances thai were with
| out parellel, was aimed at the ballot
box. In the name Of the great com.
monWealth which he represented,
which respected the laws, which loved
liberty and which hOnOrei the ballot
box, he entered his protest against a
measure which would destroy the only
safety valve of the Rppublic, the ballot
box. Republican applause
Mr.. Payne OF New York said Con-
gress was asked to place New York
along with the Solid South. Let the
gentlemen have Il care. There was a
time before the war when Southern
slavery was opposed by philanthropc
men In The North, but the feeling was
not general. Then the slavery advo
Gates wanted to deprive Kansas OF its
legal State government, aud then the
republican party arose. The Demo-
Gratis might deprive the negroes in the
south of their votes, but when they at
tempt to deprive the white men of the
north OF their rights, the day Of Ne
ihesis would come. Applause.
mr.. latch saTcastlcally and vigor.
ousiy alluded to Reed as the man who,
IL. III me fllty first Con sress, had ruled
the llouse with hand OF iron, and
who now came In and protested against
majority of the representatives of
the American people controlling its
action. The action today was not, the
action of despotic Speaker; it was the the
action OF the House. [Applause.l 1t