The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-09
BANKRUPTCY BILL DEFEATED.
The House Kills 1t by Taking Out tn.
Enacting Clause.


= Enacting Clause.
Washington, Decem ber 8-The House
today took action which probably kills
the bankruptcy bill. The session be.
gan with an attempt by Mr.. Kilgore Of
Texas to get the bill admitting Utah tc
statehood taken up. Mr.. Kilgore moved
that the House go into committee of the
whole to consider thesbill providing fol
the organization OF constitutional gov
ernment in Utah, ssand the admission OF
that territory as state.
Mr.. Dingley of Maine, raised the point
of no quorum and the clerk was directed
to call the roll. The roll call resulted
yeas, 145; nays, 6, disclosing the absence
of quorum.
r.Kilgore moved call of the House
and Mr.. Dingley demanded the yeas and
nays, which were ordered. The call OF
the House was ordered 156 yeas to 81
nays, but the morning hour having ex.
pired the point of order was made that
The call was not in. The Chair held that
the call had been ordered. Successive
motions to reconsider the vote by which
the call was ordered and to refuse call
OF the House were made. Mr.. Oates OF
Alabama, moved to go into committee
of the whole to consider the bankruptcy
bill, which motion prevailed.
Mr.. Bailey of Texas asked unanimous
consent that the House take a vote to
substitute his bill for the pending
measure, before proceeding under the
five minute rule. Objection was made
and then Mr.. Bland of Missouri, moved to
strike out the enacting clause. On
division the yeas were 70 and the nays
u. The point of no quorum was raised
and Messrs. Bland and Oates appointed
tellers. The vote resulted 101 yeas to 9s
nays The announcement of the vote
was received with applause.
MIR. Bland moved that the committee
of the whole rise and report the bill back
to the House with recommendation
that the enacting clause be stricken out.
The motion prevailed and the committee
rose. Mr.. Bland then moved that the
House concur in the action of the com.
mittee and Mr.. Oates demanded the yeas
and nays.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, understood To
the bill, but Mr.. Hatch of Missonri
raised point Of order that debate was
not admissible upon motion to concur
in the action of the committee of the
whole. Such "a motion required an i'm.
mediate vote.
Mr.. Cannon claimed that a motion to
concur was always debatable. The
Sneaker stated that unless there was
some limitation, debate was always in
order in the absence of the previous
nuestion. He quoted from the digest
That motion to strike out the enactine
ciause was debata BILE and said the motion
To concur was of similar nature.
Mr.. Patterson of Tennessee, said the
questioned to be determined was
whether the majority of the House
favored a voluntary or involuntary
bankruptcy bill.
Resuming, MIR. Cannon said that if the
nending motion prevailed, the bill would
he dead and the posi- bility OF Legislation
IN this question would be ended He
said @ the proper place for full conside
ration and offering of amendments was
in The committee of the whole. He was
nIeading n for an opportunity to have a
ffuiI free and fair discussion with the
r;ght rM' of unlimited amendment In every
saction and locality of this country,
noerohants were embarrassed as a result
nf the financial troubles They should be
GIVEN en- an opportunity to reestablish them
sSalves upon a firm business foundation.
Mr., Voorhis of New York. hoped the
motion would be defeated, or the bill be
ranorted back to the committee with
instr,ictions to rennrt measure which