Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01


lay celebrated Washington's birthday by
very noisy and fruitless session; in tact,
he speaker pro tenn, felt called upon to
INFORM the House that it was mot bear
mrden."
The wrangle was caused by the deadlock
pvef BANDS Seigniorage bill. and the ex-
Htement became So great that the House
had'tu be adjourned at 3 o'clock. Chair
man Bland, having once more failed to
ret enough OF his followers among the
Democrats to attend and vote to make,
ogetheT with the Populists and the Silver
Republicans" the long-desired quorum
Tor the consideration of this bill, was so
EAST down to-day. that he practically aban-
1Oned this attempt to get immediate action
BY submitting motion providing that
general debate ON the bill should close on
eaturday at 8. He did not succeed in get
hing vote on this motion, which Will
come up Tomorrow. because Amos Cum
mtngs of New York, after protesting
vigorously against being arrested with
other eastern members by the sergeant-at-
Erms as an absentee, because he has not
been voting, moved an adjournment out
z Of respect to the day, and, although Bland
mustered votes enough to defeat this, he
had to move an adjournment himself
later on, because of the uproar i'll the
House.
So much confusion prevailed that the
the sergeant-at-arms to parade with the
mace in his arms by way of quelling the
iumut. Unfortunately. Speaker Crisp
bad gone to his hotel early in the day. sick
with cold, and Mr.. Dockery (MO.l whom
he had left in his place, either did not
Know Just what to do, or else did not know
how to do 1t; so the situation got worse
and worse until all semblance of order had
vanished, and there was nothing left to do
but to adjourn, leaving Bland's motion
and the arrested members waiting for the
Notion OF the House. The opponents of
BANDS bill were naturally so encouraged
BY the events OF to-day, and especially by
BANDS own motion, which was practl-
3 paliy equivalent to an admission of defeat
On the particular point he has been urging,
that they were confident they would be
able to defeat him.
a The managers of the House are greatly
disturbed over the fact brought out so
clearly i'll the turbulent scenes of to-day
that party discipline seems to be tenn
porarily upset, 50 that the programme OF
business cannot be followed, and the
House seems paralyzed. ...
CONGRESSMAN ADAMS CASE.
In the view of parliamentary law, Con-
gresham Robert Adams, Jr., of Philadel-
phia, is spending tonight under arrest
i standing before the bar of the House of
4 Representatives,, awaiting punishment or
discharge, as the House may decide. This
was the unpleasant parliamentary position
of Mr.. Adams when the House adjourned
this afternoon. He had been brought to
the bar on the warrant of the sergeant-at-
arms, who had arrested him this morning
because he had been absent without
leave. When MIR, Adams was brought up
Mr.. Reed moved that he be discharged as
the sergeant-at-arms had arrested him
without authority, but before this motion
was acted on u motion to adjourn was
carried.
During the vote and amid the disorder
which preceded, Mr.. Adams appealed
several times to the chair in terms of much
alarm, inquiring Where he would be at
if the motion prevailed; but he received
no satisfactory answer to his inquiries. In
deed, MIR. Dockery, who was in the chair,
far from feeling sympathy with the
lamentable parliamentary situation of the
young member from Philadelphia con-
strued his inquiries into disorderly pro-
ceedings and sent deputy sergeant,at-
arms, bearing the mace, to arrest him.
Finally, the House adjourned, leaving
MIR, Adams still standing before the bar
unpurged of his contempt, and theoreti-
cally unable to take his seat. go home or
do anything else but stand there. Mr.
Adams, however, did not feel called on to
respect the theory Of the House, and went
home with the other members.
When lie first appeared before the bar
of the House and was called on by the
Speaker to explain why he had been absent
without leave, Mr.. Adams said he had
been at home to exercise the highest right
of an American citizen, to cast his ballot
for member of this honorable body. At
this there was Republican applause, which
encouraged Mr.. Adams, and, after pause,
he went on to say that the vote he cast had
helped to make the Republican majority
of 10000 in Pennsylvania ON Tuesday.
Then there was more applause.
The whole proceedings was the most tur-
bulent witnessed in the House in d long
time and no doubt there will be more Of
the same sort when the House meets to-
morrow.
DETAILS OF THE RUMPUs.
After the motion to adjourn, made by
Mr.. Cummings. had been defeated, Ser
geant-at- Arms Snow presented his report,
addressed to Speaker Crisp, as follows:
'G4"I present herewith u detailed report of
my further action under House warrant
of February 10Th, 1894. OF the list of
absentees returned to me by the clerk, the
following are reported to me as sick and
unable to attend: c. A. Boutelle, w. H.
Grain, John Dalzell, J. C. Hendrix and J..
A. Scranton.
"rhe following are excused by the
House: h. Ii Gillette (Mass.), W. A.
Il.
B. Wright, NJ. Brosius and S. A. North
way. .........
THE following members have been re-
ported to me as arrested and are present in
the house Robert Adams, Jr.. II. L. Beltz-
hoover, c. A. Cadmus, J. NJ. Clancy. IL. A.
Colleen, q. NJ. Cooper, A. J. Cummings
(who refuses arrest) ]. T. Dunn (who pro-
tests, O. J. Erdman, NJ. d. Harter, G. 4.
Kribbs, I. Nj. Mahon. William McAleer,
G. w. Murray, ii. NJ. Mutchler, j. Is.
Reilly, II. W. ltusk, ID. L. Sickles, G. W.
Hulck, A. Mcdowell, Ii. U. Johnson, Il.
NJ. Woomer.
lit is but Just to say that these honorable
members, when notified by wire or other
wise, voluntarily came to the House and
responded to their names OH roll call, but
the order of House warrant to me di-
rected, to arrest them wherever they NAV
be found left me no alternative but to
execute the order.
1.-The following have not been found :
X. II. Clarke, John q; Houk, 4. L. John
Hicks, ]. @. Hutcheson, NJ. T. Steyens.'
BEAR GARDEN SUGGESTED.
AS the reading of the report by the
clerk proceeded there was rush of mem.
beers to the front of the desk. and at the
close of the reading the disorder had
grown into great uproar. The Speaker
pro tempore directed that the gentleman
named as under arrest should present
themselves at the bar of the House, but
Gen. Sickles was again on his feet, demand
ing Separate trial. The order for mem
bers under arrest to appear before the bar
was repeated, and MIR. Sickles shouted his
demand for separate trial, insisting that
his demand entitled him to the first trial,
The Speaker pro tempore (Mr. Dockery)
pounded the desk with the gavel, appeal
ing for order, and saying: This is the
House of Representatives and not bear