St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-01


Called in Order to Break the
Deadlock - Silver Men Will
Endeavor to Secure a Vote on
the seigniorage Bill Today-A
Day OF Roll Calls.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The dead
lock in the house was broken today
after two weeks of continuous filibust.
ering against the Bland seigniorage
bill, and no sooner had the quorum been
procured than the house managers
brought in a special order to crush the
filibusters and bring the bill 10 direct
vote after two hours of additional de-
bate. Although Mr.. Bland secured 1S4
votes when the deadlock was broken,
several Eastern Democrats, including
Messrs. Cummings, Clancy and Magner.
of New York. and Dunn, of
New Jersey, refusing to act
longer with tine filibusters. Messrs.
Doolittle, Aiken. Ellis orr and
Lacey, Republicans, stopped voting
on the next vote, and the previous Ques-
tion on the adoption of the order was
only sustained by one more than
quorum. When it came to adopting the
special order, Messrs. Bowers, Lucas
and Pickler, Republicans, and Dunn,
Democrat, again Joined the silent host,
and the quorum was lost, only 176 men,
bers responding to their names. The
hrst will be resumed when the house
meets tomorrow, and if quorum is
secured on the adoption of the order, a
vote on the passage of the bill cannot
be prevented. Mr.. Bland believes Ii
will have majority of from five to ten
votes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. - After the
opening OF the session this morning Mr..
GelsSenhainer (Dem., N. J.) tried to Sc
cure unanimous consent for considera-
tion of the bill making an appropriation
to save the armament OF the wrecked
Kearsarge. but Mr.. Bland demanded the
regular order. Mr.. Geissenhainer is one
OF the Democrats who have refused to
vote OH MIR. BANDS motion. After the
calls of committees for reports. Mr.. Kill
gore Dem, Tex.) presented the follow
ing resolution as question of privilege:
Whereas, The laws of the United
States. section 40, chapter 4. of the Re-
vised Statutes. provide that when any
member of the house of representatives
shall be absent for any cause except
that of sickness of himself or his
family it shall be the duty OF
the sergeant-at-arms to deduct from
the monthly salary the amount
due him each day he is So absent from
such cause, and. whereas. during the
present session many members have
Deen a0sent,as appears from the record,
s for~esuses- other than those named in
the statute; therefore, be it resolved.
mat the sergeant-at-arms be required
to report to this house without DELAY
the names of such absentees, and
whether or not the law in such cases
made and provided has been by him
complied with, and that If it has not
been complied with. to report his rea-
sons why he has been
DERELlCT IN HIS DUTY
in that regard; and if in his Judgment
the law cannot be complied with, that
ne De required to give his reasons why
1t cannot be enforced. Mr.. Reed made
the point of order that the resolution
was not privileged. The speaker de-
cided that the resolution as drawn was
not privileged, but If it contained an
allegation to the affect that an officer
of the house has been derelict
in his duty 1t would be clearly
of that character. Accordingly Mr..
kilgore withdrew it to make
the change suggested. Thereupon MIR.
Bland moved that the house go into
committee of the whole for considera-
ton of the seigniorage bill. Mr.. Bland
also moved that general debate on his
pill close at 3 o'clock tomorrow. On the
latter motion he demanded the previous
question. The vote was the signal for
a break In the New York delegation.
Messrs. Cummings, Clancy and Magnor
declining longer to give countenance to
the filibuster of their colleagues by not
voting. During the progress of roll call
MIR. johnson Oem., o. rose to a point
of order. He called attention to the fact
that the rules required members to vote
and that the member whose name the
clerk had just called (Mr. Bingham had
refused to answer to his name.
THE SPEAKER SAID
the roll call could not be interrupted.
MIR. johnson then reserved the point Of
order and the roll call proceeded. At
its conclusion Mr.. Livingston, of
Georgia, renewed the point of order
made by Mr.. johnson and read rule s,
which is as follows:
Every member shall be present
within the hall of the house during it's
stttings, unless excused or necessarily
prevented. and shall vote OIL each cues
tiOn put, unless on motion made by di-
vision or the commencement of roll call.
he shall be excused. or unless he has a
direct personal or primary interest in
the event of such question" Under
that rule he demanded that MIR. Tracey,
who had refused to vote, be held in con-
tempt of the house. Mr.. johnson said
he had list Of twenty-five members
who had violated the rule. Mr.. Living
ston demanded that the speaker enforce
the rule under the de cision of the SUI
preme court.
But" returned the speaker, "the
chair has no power to en- force the rule.
The rules require that gentlemen shall
not smoke OIL the floor. The chair ONLY
has the power to request members to
abide by the rules in this particular.
The chair is the organ of the house, not
its master [applausel and as long as the
present occupan is in the chair, he will
never make rule" Renewed ap-
plause.] Mr.. Boatner declared that it
must be in order to make a motion,
under the rule cited, to place
MIR. TRACEY IN CONTEMPT.
Whenever member willfully vio-
lated the rules he was in contempt, and
IL was unnatural to suppose that the
house, which had the power to make
rules, had no power to enforce these
rules. The chair then stated that the
discussion was proceeding by unan-