Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-23
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
SENATE.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to. day.
HnIISE.


crowded this morning in anticipation
of o repetition of the disorderly Genes
of yesterday. There was an absence of
any indications of excitement on the
floor, it being understood that 4 motion
would be made by Mr.. Bland to dis
charge all the members under arrest
and put an end to the unpleasant Incl
dent. MI. Adams, whose case was
pending when the House adjourned
yesterday, occupied a chair in tho
centre aisle directly in front of the
clerks desk, the order to appear before
the bar of the House not having been
exhausted.
The House was called to order by
Clerk Kerr, in the absence of Speaker
Crisp, who is confined to his room by
illness. He read a letter from the
speaker pro TEN, and Mr.. Richardson
took the chair.
After the reading of the journal Mr..
Adams endeavored to secure the atten-
ton of the chair but Mr.. Weels obtained
the floor to correct the record. He was
recorded as voting, but desired to in
form the House that he took no part in
the disorderly proceedings of yester-
day.
Mr.. Bland called him to order, stat
ing that he had no right to make an
argument on a motion to correct the
journal.
Mr.. Cummings stated that his col,
league, Mr.. Sickles, was i'll, ard asked
that he be excused. Agreed to.
There was a tendency on the part of
members to renew the scene of yester-
day, but the chair repressed the ten
dency by ordering the aisles cleared be-
fore proceeding to business.
Mr.. Bland stated that the question
pending at adjournment was a motion
to discharge the gentleman from Penn
sylvania (Mr. Adams) and he renewed
that motion now.
Mr.. Adams here got the floor and
stated that while before the bar of the
House, under the order of the Speaker,
the mace had been presented to him
and he was compelled to take his seat.
He inquired why this iudignity had been
put upon a member who was
endeayoring in an orderly way to
obey the mandate of the House. The
chair said that that was a question
that could not be answered then, but
stated if any indignity had been put
upon the gentleman, he would have his
remedy hereafter.
The chair was proceeding to state
the question upon the discharge of Mr..
Adams, when Mr.. Reed interposed 10
inform the chair of the exact language
in which it was made-'That that gen.
tleman be discharged on the ground
that the arrest was unauthorized"
Mr.. Springer wanted to amend by pro
viding for the discharge of all mem
bers under arrest, but was ruled out of
order on the ground that the previous
question had been demanded on Mr..
Reeds motion.
Mr.. Bland also told Mr.. Springer
that he had q resolution which would
cover the case after Mr.. Adams had
been disposed of.
Some dissent from proceeding on Mr..
Reeds motion having been expressed
on the democratic side, Mr.. Reed said {:
Il think it is better to proceed in order
in this matter, and if you gentlemen
don't like the form of the motion, vote
down the previous question and have
it your own way"
On a division the vote was announc-
cd as Sc to 121. Mr.. Reed asked for
tellers, and Mr.. Bland called for the
yeas and nays, which were ordered.
The vote resulted: yeas 90; nays $50.
So the previous question was not or
dered.
Mr.. Bland offered the following sub
stitute for Mr.. Reeds motion:
Resolved, that all members who have
been arrested by authority of the
House, adopted on the 10th. inst. are
hereby discharged from custody.
To this Mr.. Reed raised the point of
order that his motion related to a single
individual; the substitute covered all of
a class, which was clearly inadmissible.
The parliamentary status of the res
CLINTON was further discussed by Messrs.
Bland, Grosvenor and Reed.
Mr.. johnson then got the floor and
reviewed the circumstances attending
his reported arrest. He claimed that
he had not been arrested and insisted
that the return of the sergeant-at-arms
be amended so as to omit his name from
the list of arrested members. Mr..
Johnson was called to order several
time but concluded his remarks after
two or three lively passages at arms.
He stated that last night, he had called
the attention of the sergeant-at-arms to
the error in his return, and hoped that
bv this time he would have voluntarily