Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-01-08
COT A QUORUM AT LAST
THE HOUSE NOW READY FOR
THE TARIFF BILL.
Absent Members Arrested And
Brought Into The HOuse-B0u-
tell III q Daily Nuisauce-The
Senate aud Hawaii.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. SIN the
Senate today after the routine morning
business Chandler offered resolution
directing the Judiciary committee to in
quirc and report its opinion as to the
cases in which the President may consti-
tutionally send agents or commissioners
to foreign countries, without the advice
and consent Of Congress
LET that resolution lie over" said
Mr.. German, and the resolution went
over till tomorrow. Then Mr.. Hoar's
resolution, offered last week, calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for state.
ment as to the payments to Mr.. Blount,
commissioner to Hawaii, was laid be-
fore the Senate, and German moved its
reference to the committee on foreign
relations.
FINALLY the Hoar resolution was re-
ierred to the committee on foreign rela-
tions. Then Mr.. Turpe offered resolu-
tions which went over until tomorrow,
declaring, among other things, that
foreign Intervention in the political affairs
Of the Ha waiian Islands will be regarded
as an act unfriendly tn the government
Of the United States. The Frye resolu.
tion as to Hawaii was laid before the
Senate, and went over until Wednesday.
After four days Of fruitless effort to
secure the presence OF voting Demo-
cratic quorum, the House adopted just
before adjournment Saturday night the
extreme expedient of ordering the arrest
OF all members absent without leave. OF
the forty members absent without leave
twenty-one we're Democrats and nineteen
Republicans.
When the Speaker took his seat this
morning there was an air of busting
activity in the House. The usual con.
troversy between Mr.. Boutelle and the
Speaker came up Immediately after the
reading OF the journal, and gave rise to
more excitement than on any previous
day. Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Boutelle spoke
in favor Of considering the latter's
Hawaiian resolution, and the latter
again made the point that it was ques
ton of privilege, while the special order
from the committee on rules, rela
tive to the tariff bill, was merely
a privileged report. and that thu
former took precedence over the latter
The Speaker repeated his ruling, made
III the Fifty second Congress, holding
that the question Of consideration could
not be raised against resolution ema-
mating from the committee on rules, ant
that the latter took precedence over al
other questions. He held that when th
committee on rules brought on specia
order changing certain rule no mcmbe
could attack the resolution and entrencl
himself behind the rule to be changed.
When the Speaker finished he requested
that Mr.. Boutelle should take his scat
"Ycs, yes" said Mr.. Boutelle, sarcasti
cally. "The gentleman" said the Speake
still more emphatically, will take hi
seat" "Yes, know" broke in Mr.
Boutellc, taking step to the rear. H
had been standing in the area trontin,
the Speakers table. 1.-THE gentle
man." said the Speaker with som
asperity in his tone, Twill b
seated now" "Oh, yes, responded MIR
Boutelle dehantly, II shall do it undc
duress." The speaker again repeatc,
his request, emphasizing his words b.
pounding bis desk vigorously with hi
|gavel, whereupon Boutellc quictl
dropped into the nearest seat, amid Wig
orous applause from the Democrat
side of the chamber.
The yeas and nays were ordered o
Mr.. Catching's motion for the previou
Question on the resolution reported b
him last Friday fixing the time for cor
sidering the tariff bill, and resulted a
, follows: Yeas 1S9, nays O-1O mor
than quorum-and the previous que'
ton was ordered.