Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-18
REEDS RULES ADOPTED
House Will Not Be Bothered by
 Lack of a Quorum Now.
AN OVATION FOR THE EX-sPEAKER.
Senators Arrange a Programme For Con. tinuing the Tariff Debate-NIr. Smith ol New Jersey Attacks the Income Tax. Hit Scores the Administration.

Senators Arrange a Programme For Con.
 tinuing the Tariff Debate-NIr. Smith Ol
 New Jersey Attacks the Income Tax.
 Hit Scores the Administration. WAsHINGTON, April lS.-The house by an overwhelming vote decided to adopt a quo rum counting rule which for all practical purposes is the same as that which eX Speaker Reed of Maine inaugurated dur ing the fifty-first congress and which won for him worldwide reputation.
 Neither undue excitement nor tumultu ous scenes marked the crushing of the old legislative barriers Mir. Reed and the Re publicans generally were in delightful humor over the victory they had achieved Those who expected that Mir Reed would taunt and gibe his political adversaries with their alleged inconsistency were dis appointed.
 Only l5 minutes on a side were allowed for debate, and MT. Reed, instead of con stunning that with an arraignment of the Democrats, good naturedly distributed most of it to Democrats who desired to Op- pose the new rule, and when his time was exhausted he jocularly asked for more time to dole out among his friends on the other side, Messrs. Bryan, Cummings, Wheeler. kilgore and Russell being the Democrats who were thus given an oppor tunity to protest against the adoption of the rule.
 When the vote was taken, II Democrats voted against it, but it secured every Re publican vote and was carried by vote ot PIP to 47. The Populists did not vote on the proposition.
 The adoption of this rule, taken in con- junction with the decision to enforce the old law of lS46 docking salaries of mem bers absent saveon account of sickness, will, it is thought, put an end forever to parliamentary obstruction.
 The enforcement of that law will keep members at their post of dut<, and the rule will prevent them from refusing to participate in legislation when present.
 Cheers For Reed.
 Cpou the announcement of the vote the Republicans cheered The galleries joined tn the demonstration. While there was more or less applause on the Democratic side, it was not of the character which marked the applause on the Republican side.
 Mir. Reed was immediately surrounded by his party friends and given an ovation. Some of the Democrats got up counter demonstration over Mir Catchings. A large bunch of La France roses was car ried up the aisle and placed on Mir. Reeds desk. Another Republican outburst fol lowed. The flowers were sent with the compliments of Representative Apsley of Massachusetts.
 In order to force a recording of memb bers as present, but not voting, in accordance with the provisions of the new rule, the Republicans declined to vote on the first roll call.
 ' NTr I twin ton NAh.a the point of order that under the new rule there was no second call of the house, but in lieu therefor the list of names reported by the tellers as present but not voting should be called The speaker, however, stated that the new rule did not contem- plate any interference with roll call, and that the roll call, under rules of the house, included a second call of those who had failed to respond on the first call. He overruled the point of order, and the roll call proceeded. Finding that a quorum had voted on the first call, the Republicans changed their tactics on the second call and answered to their names.
 The speakers table was then cleared. Various executive documents which had accumulated there were laid before the house, and several unimportant confer ence reports were agreed to. Saturday, April 21, after o'clock, was by special or der set aside for the delivery of eulogies to the memory of the late Senator Gibson of Louisiana
 A regular gorge of committee reports, blocked by the tilibustering of the past week, was presented under the call of the committees The house then, on motion of Mir. McCreary, went into committee of the whole to consider the consular and dip lomatic appropriation bill.
 Mir. Hitt made a strong speech, arraign- ing the foreign policy of the administra- tion, i'll the course of which he severely scored the president for appointing Van Allen as minister to Italy q reward for his $50,000 political contribution.
 Tarif Debate to Continue.
 The early hours of the senate session were devoted to a skillful parliamentary struggle between those for and against the tariff bill. It resulted in an agreement to continue the arrangement of last week for debate until Tuesday of next week, when the bill will be taken up and rcdiscussed by paragraphs.
 Very little change has been effected by this agreement, as speeches may be made by senators after the first paragraph is read until they are ready to have it acted upon. The Repu ublicaus were anxious to make certain that nothing by any ambigu ous wording might be construed as limit