The herald., 1894-04-04
THE DEADLOCK BROKEN
Democrats in the House Mus
ter a Quorum.
The JOy-O'Neil Election Case
Disposed Of.
0'Neil, Democrat, Declared to Be En-
titled to the Seat.
The English Hilborn Case Taken Up-A
New Deadlock Results The
Tariff Debate in the
Senate.


By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The deadlock
which has prevailed in the house the
week past over the Joy-O'Neil con-
tested election case was broken today.
The Repu bllcaus refused to answer to
their names, but the Democrats raised a
bare quorum, 162 to IL, and, amid some
applause. the speaker announced the
deadlock had been broken and that the
motion to table the motion to reconsider
the vote by which Joy had been declared
as not entitled to the seat had been car
ried. The speaker then stated the pre-
vious uestion to be on the Republican
substitute for the resolution declaring
O'Neil elected and entitled to a seat, the
substitute declaring he was not elected
and not entitled to his seat. AS the
question was being stated, Mr.. Joy, who
had been unseated, came down the aisle
from the cloak room, hat in hand. The
publicans with hand and voice cheersd
their departing colleagues.
Ten Democrats and two Pbpulists
fOL6u dkhiuob tuO I05OluJlUu w uu6chb
Mr.. Joy, as follows: Boen (Pop. of
MIMI, Bryan Dem. Of Neb,), Cooper
(Dem. OF Ind), De Almond (Dem. OF
MOI. Hall Dem. of Mo-, Harris (Dsm.
of Kan.). Harter (Dem. of Neb.), Nc
Pa, Morgan dem. of MOI. Ryan
dem. of N. ", and Marshall dem. of
Mo-.
IT, DaDrbl;car raaolrt;on doolo vino
O'NeH not elected to the seat was de-
feated, 100 to 90. In addition to those
who voted against the uneeating of Mr..
Joy, the following voted in favor OF the
resolution, adverse to Mr.. O'Neil's
claims Cooper (Dem.l of Texas, Dunhpy
! Dem of New York, Everett (Dem }
of Massachusetts, Geary, (Dem.) of Cal.
ifornia, Griffin (Dsm.) OF Mississippi
! Hendrix, Dem of New YORK, Hutch.
inson (Dem.) Of Texas, Outhwaite
! (Dem. of Ohio and Pendleton (Dem.
Texas, and KEN (Pop.) of Nebraska.
Weaver (Rep.) OF New York moved to
reconsider the vote.
Outhwaite made the point that it was
an intervening motion and therefore
not in order.
After some debate, the chairsustained
the point of order, and refused to en-
tertain an appeal from his decision on
the demand of Lacey (Rep.) OF Iowa.
The last vote was taken on the fol-
lowing: Resolved, That John j.
ONeil was elected q representative to
the Fifty-third congress from the
Eleventh congressional district of Mis-
souri, and that he lie entitled to his
seat."
The resolution was adopted, 12e to %.
There was some Democratic applause
upon the announcement, and by direc-
ton of the doorkeeper Mr.. O'Neil, who
was in the hall, came forward to the
bar of the house and was sworn in.
According to the terms OF the special
order, the house then proceeded with
the consideration of the Hilborn- ng-
lish case, two hours being allowed for
debate.
Cobb (Dem.) of Alabama tried to
effect an arrangement by which the
time for debate should be extended two
hours, but Grosvenor (Rep.) OF Ohio OBJ
jected and Brown (Dem.) of Indiana,
chairman of the committee on elections.
took the floor and made the opening ar
gument in favor of the Democratic con-
testant, Mr.. English.
Reed, in reply made very able ar
gument in favor of Mr.. HilDorn. He
said in conclusion, addressing the DEM
ocratic side of the house: "Gentlemen,
you cannot afford to discredit yourselves
twice."
After some further remarks by Waugh
(Rep. of Indiana and Daniels of New
York, iii favor of the claims OF the con-
testee, Mr.. Hilborn himself took the
floor in defense to his right to the seat.
After some further debate by Bowers
and Loud of California, in favor of the
contestee, and Mcclure and Brown
against, the de bate closed and vote
was had upon the first half of the sub
stitute of tue resolution of the election
committee, declaring Mr.. Hilborn le-
gally elected aud entitled to his seat.
The first part of the substitute resolu-
tion was defeated, 83 to 1856.
The next vote wac on the second part
OF the resolution declaring Mr.. English
not entitled to his seat. Eleven Demo-
Gratis and four Populists also voted for
the contestee, as follows:
Democrats-Abbott OF Texas, Bartlett
of New York. Breckinridge of Arkansas,
Coombs of New York. Crawford OF North
Carolina, Harris of Kansas, Latimer OF
South Carolina, McLaurin OF South Car
olina, Ryan Of New York, She'll and
Strait of South Carolina.
Populsts-Bell OF Colorado, Boen of
Minnesota, McKeighan OF Nebraska and
Pence of Colorado.
The Republicans refused to vote on the
English portion of the resolution, and
the Democrats failed, the result being IL
to 160. A truce was then declared for
the night, and al 40 p. m. the house
adjourned,