St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-24


shaking his head savagely, and lifting
his voice until it fairly rang through the
hail, "disobey the rules aud commands
of this house. | saw gentlemen rise
| and boast that they had defed the
power of the house. If that is not an
archistic and revolutionary, what is it?
| I'VE in the house are the fountain
| source of order. the law-making body.
| Shall we resolve ourselves into a
| BODY OF ANARCHISTS?
IF some one were to throw bomb
from yonder gallery it would be no more
an anarchist than he who, upon this
floor, denies the power of this house.
| [CrieS of shame and Kisses. While the
| people OF this country are in the throes
| of hunger and starvation" continued
| Bland, angered at the demonstration
against him, "when they expect us to
do something. to become fillibusters
and oDstructioniSts is to become an
archists, for its purpose is the defiance
of the laws of the country. We were
sent here to do our duty at a time when
the cities are thronged with mobs and
the people cannot 90 to bed i'll peace
and comfort. is not the time when mob
law should obtain here.''
At this point Mr.. Bynum called Mr..
Bland 10 order, and. after being admon
lShed by the chair to confne himself to
the question at issue. he proceeded to
say that since the deadlock suggestions
that the speaker should count a quorum
had been advanced on the Democratic
side of the house. Quorum counting.
he maintained. was an invitation to
absentees.
1T was an invitation to members to
go fishing and WANDER up and down the
earth. He insisted thatit was the duty of
the house to keep membrs in their seats.
The Democratic party had majority of
eighty in the house, and ought to do
| business.
Il don't think it is the duty of the
gentleman from Missouri" interjected
Mr.. Dunn (Dem.. N. j. Ito lecture the
Democratic party"
''If this is a lecture" retorted Mr.
Bland, 1.-The people will read it to the
gentleman and every other man who is
now obstructng business to his hearts
content. While the opposition he
| SOh1ilidCOs ioo @ POAASSS iASiiS ~ NhNAh
the quorum, what spectacle we pre-.
sent tothe country, with eighty majority,
rising in our congressional dignity and
defying the authority of the house. We
should proceed to business or acknowl-
edge our incompetency. If we don't
the people will read the riot act to U.s."
"1hey will; they WILL" came IN cho-
rus from the Republican side.
Gfx,I RI fny. NE
the merits of the silver Seigniorage bill,
which was being opposed by portion
of the
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY,
in the course of which he was three
times called to order by MIR. Coombs.
"The difficulty is," finally blurted out
Mr.. Bland, 'that | am too much in
order. l am telling too many plain
truths that the country ought to know
Democratic applause.
THAT is the fact" shouted Mr.. Den
son (Dem., Ala.)
"Give it to the Democrats for revenue
only"
Il thought gentlemen on this side"
said Mr.. Bland, would realize that
they could not afford to be revolution
lists and anarchists. l say we should
either do business or surrender" Re-
publican applause end shouts of "Give
it to them"
at will he no outrage for the people
to rise up in mob and cast us down,
for we are exercising mobocracy here.
If this is bad bill vote it down. Ii
you want more debate we will give it tc
you. bnt to stay here and not vote is
simply political suicide"
MIR. Bland then demanded the pre-
vious question, but as there was a
clamor on both sides of the house for al
opportunity to be heard, lie Withdrew it,
Mr.. Reed demanded recognition in
his own right, and when Mr. Bland
offered him five minutes he rejected il
with Scorn.
Mr.. Compton (Dem., Md secured
five minutes. He went right into the
heart of the contention. The validity
of the house warrant had been chal-
lenged, he said, because 1t did not con
tain the names of those TO be arrested
He declared that it was in accordance
with the uniform practice of the house
and defed any one to produce warran
i'll which name was Incorporated.
II have one here" shouted Mr.. Bur
: rows. flourishing yellow, time-staineC
document above his head. Mr.. Comp
, ton disregarded Mr.. Burrows, and ap
pealed to Mr.. Reed to bear out what hi
had said.
Mr.. Reed denied that he had any
recollection of whether the warrants HI
+ had signed contained names or not. II
? | him (keed) the trouble lay not so mucl
5 with the warrant, but with the irregu
, lar manner in which the resolution or
derlng the
ARREST HAD BEEN PASSED.
] Mr.. Compton went OH to pay higl
. tribute to Speaker Crisp, who hac
: signed the warrant, and Sergeant-at
f arms Snow, who had executed it. Mr.
a Burrows then being appealed to, reat
the warrant he had, and explained tha
it was issued IN the Twenty con
greSs, SiXty-SiX years ago, when the,
D did things In order. Laughter. 1t con
: tanned the name OF Sam Houston, tn,
y hero of the war for the independence O
. Texas.
Mr.. Reed said there were two aspect
OF the case worthy of the consideration
l of the house. First, the house shoul'
4 proceed in an orderly manner to trans
= act its business, even though that bust
ness were bringing members here t
constitute house. a great error hat
been committed. Members had beel
u arrested who had been present, and no
i even technically guilty. Besides al
S analogy of legal procedure requires
/ that the names be included in the war
" rants. The Sergeant-at-armS was act
ing as the constable of the house, ant
;, his warrants should show who was
u be arrested. Mr.. Bland. he said, ha
: charged that members were acting In a
# unsuitable manner when they refused
g to respond to their names. He insisted
s that whether member voted aye c
nay, or did not vote at all. was que:
ton solely between the member and hi
constituency.
/ II did not deny that" interjected MI
e Bland.
is II was addressing those charged wit
d the responsibility of power"
A. II shall address myself to that" IT
torted Mr.. Reed, ''in a minute, [I1augt
Is teri. The supreme court, "he continued
], mad decided constitutional quorul
1t to De present quorum, and tf
st whole difficulty here grew out of til
"a fact that the house denied the right {
= members constituting quorum b
their presence"