St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-24
BLAHD'S BITTER HARkNGUE
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he cannot understand what | say"
Laughter.
Il %trust,' he concluded, that the
house Will take warning and proceed ill
accordance with the constitution of the
United States. OF course, after your
vociferation it will be difficult, but you
should be patriotic enough to
SACRIFICE PRIVATE FEELINGS
for the public good. Come back into
the true path" said he, smiling, land
live happily yer afterWard."
Mr.. Turner, of Georgia. who replied
to Nh. Reed, directed his attention to
members had been arrested.
Mr.. Dunn (Dem., n. j. asked whether
MIR. Turner believed members could be
arrested when inside the bar of the
house.
Il believe" replied Mr.. Turner,
shat the house of representatives has
the right to arrest delinQuents wherever
they are found, even if they were in the
White house." [Applause.l
Nov let me come to the decision of
the supreme court" said MIR. Reed.
THAT decision was that a present quo
rum is a constitutional quorum. not a
voting quorum. The simple question
then remains, how shall we ascertain
tIlC ldCt-lt ltc ptNOSltNS VI q HOOl an IL
a fact. Now, if the gentleman does not
choose to trust the speaker-then it is
perfectly right that he should vote to
exclude the speaker from the exercise
of that function.
But in the absence of any method
being adopted, there is one officer who
is the organ of the house. charged to act
as its agent, and that officer very prop
erly counts the presence of a quorum
when there is one. and If any gentle
man is dissatisfied with his action there
is an appeal to the house, and when the
house itself has once declared that that
counting is proper, why, then. that is
the action Of the house.
Twill the gentleman from Maine par
don another inquiry?" asked Mr.. Tur-
her.
Does the gentleman from Maine in
sist that the speaker of the house has
the authority to count the quorum with
out a rule of the house?"
81 do.p
"Then the gentleman differs from the
supreme court itself"
mot at all. If the gentleman will
read More carefully that decision of the
supreme court he will tiud that the SUI
preme court. like a supreme court, con-
fined itself to the question at hand, and
dCCiuCu tidt q ptSoCub QuOIulu was t10
I constitutional quorum. / want to get
that into a reasonable number of minds
of the other side, and then
WE SHALL BE VICTORIOUS"
Evil the gentleman from Maine per
init me to correct n impression that l
think he would not wish to have misap-
/ prehended?" asked MI. McMillin. "Tne
gentleman has stated that he was sus-
tanned by the house in his ruling that
The had a right to count a quorum
before the adoption of the rules.
BY referring to the digest the gen
tleman will find that from this
ruling, the one that l have named, an
appeal was taken and debated for two
days. but no vote was ever taken in the
house OIL sustaining the decision of the
chair. A motion To lay the appeal on
the table was, however, declared carried
on a vote by yeas and nays, a quorum
not voting. but being supplemented in
the same manner as was lone in the
ruling appealed from. So that the
ruling that he had a right to count a
quorum, being appealed from, was sus-
tanned only by his counting a quorum
himself" Applause on the Democratic
side.
'.Oh. we'll. now" drawled Mr.. Reed.
''thls Democratic applause at these ut
t%erances, you know, is getting fainter
and fainter. l measure your advance
in knowledge by your approach to
silence. There is no trouble about you.
The only difficulty with the Democratic