The evening world., 1894-04-12
TIED IN A BOW KNOT.
House at Washington Gets Into
a Fine Parliamentary Tangle,
All Over a Rule Meant to Bring
the Republicans to Terms.
Mr.. Reed Invents n New Filibuster-
irg Plan for the Occasion.
nv Associated Press

WASHINGTON. April 1.-THE Demo
cratic managers in the House to-day
decided to take heroic measures to force
the Republicans to participate In the
proceedings.
! The on Rules consisting of
Speaker Crisp, Messrs. Cultivate and
Catchings CDem) and Messrs. Reed and
Burrows (Rep.). held a meeting just be-
fore the House convened and formulated
a rule to crush filibustering. making
the penalty of failure to vote punishable
by a fine.
Messrs. Reed and Burrows determined
to contest every inch of the ground.
and u fierce parliamentary fight was pre-
cipitated when the House met. Speaker
Crisp, however, was in no humor for
trifing, and with a stern hand he swept
aside all preliminaries and forced the
fight on the main issue.
AS soon as the Journal had been
read. the Chair recognized Mr.. Catch
ings, from the Committee on Rules. to
present the report.
MIR. Burrows attempted to raise the
point of order that no quorum was
Journal having been approved the point
of order could not he made, save on a
vote upon some pending question.
puiIo"S tntU tTleU IL HhnH movement,
with an appeal from the decision of the
Chair. and the Speaker declared that he
could not take Mr.. Catchings off the
floor for that purpose.
Mr.. Reel came forward at this juno
ture ana manifested a disposition to hold
a joint debate with the Chair, but the
Speaker, declined the invitation and d.
reSted the Clerk to read the report.
MIR. Reed .Xaully attempted to interrupt
inc reading with appeals for recognition
on a point of order, but the Speaker,
WITH averted head. refused to listen to
futile. sank down in his chair.
Mr.. Reed was again on his feet when
the reading was completed. but the
speaker recognized Mr.. catchings to de-
mand the previous question. hen he
turned to Mr.. Reed, who said he desired
to raise a point of order.
does the Chat recognize me?" asked
The Chair will hear the gentleman"
II am to understand then that the
ohair recognizes me to make a point of
The Chair has recognized the gentle
man from Mississippi, to demand the
previous question. and pending that he
viii hear the gentleman" retorted the
Speaker.
This did not suit Mr.. Reeds purpose,
however. He wanted n definite as ertion
from the Speaker that he was recog-
ntzed in his own right.
After sorse delicate fencing on this
point, the Speaker seemingly lost
patience and with a bang of the gavel
stated the question to be on the demand
FOL. the previous question.
MT. Reed was left standing in the aisle
TThhlle the Speaker took the rising vote;
when the Speaker announced the result,
quorum.
ed. Eleven OF the Democrats refused to
give the proposed rule their approval
and voted against the demand for the
previous question. These eleven We're
hainer IN. j., Kilgore (Tex.J. Maguire
!Cal), McAleer pa, Paynter Ken.),
Ryan (N.f). Warner IN. y. The Pop
of the demand
The ~announceTien of the vote. l41 to
II. showed that the Democrats were 81
short of a quor I'M.
on motion OF Mr.. Catchings, q call of
the House was ordered.
During the second call Of the roll Uhe
call for excdsesJ the situation was fur,
Reed. Wien the name of Mr., Hui
ut"p., l3.) was reached his colleague.
account Of important business. Alr
Reed objected, whereupon Mr.. Gear
moved that he be excused.
Mr.. Catchings made the point Of order
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quite an elaborate discussion followed
on the point of order. Several precedents
whore such motions to excuse were made
during the second call Of the roll wer.
cited from the record, and the chair over,
1led the point OF order.
me motion being put to excuse MIR
iinil 1t resulted, l2S nays to s yeas.
Thereupon MIR. Reed demanded ~tcllers,
and followed tellers with a demand for
the yeas and nays.
AT > O'Clock the situation in the Hous,
was anomalous, purliam"ntarily speak
ms, IT was tied In a double bow knot.
During the proceedings to determine
Of the House n motion was entertained
and nroll can was had on a motion Ia
excuse Mr.. Hun,
This motion could be followed bv
others Of the same character until tn"
names Cl all the abt,ut"es tower lWJ Ia
numhcr) were exhausted. Each roll rHIl
consumes half al hour, 50 that 80 nll-
buster can be extended into the indeh-
mite future.
Fut although II was competent for
tn" Rouse, Purlian"utr rily speaking, Ia
dispoHHr with further proceedings under
tn" ca.l n any )uncturc, 81 wua noC|s.
sary 10 Complet" the cali 10Y excuse
before "A resolution looking to the arrest
Of absentecs can Ice presented. More
over, the resolution to arrest the alb
s"ut"cS on March - last was still H.
force, but as the absont-"s then were
not he absences to-day nothing could
be accomplished under II. Tn" s!tua-
ton was exceedingly complex and th"r.
seemed no prospect or possibility of
solving II to-day.
m" Democrats. however. said they
would stond fast until the rule pre-
seated today should be adopted.