The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-03
HAWAII BEFORE THE HOUSE
BOutellO Again IndulgeS His Mania
For Exhibiting Himself.


ulous in the Eyes of the House and
Boutelle Demands That He Be Com~
PEELED to Retraot the Words-Harri-
sons Course Toward Hawaii Spoken
of in Condemnatory Terms.
Washington, Feb. 2.-eIn the House to-
day, Immediately after the reading of the
journal, Mr.. Catchings, from the commit
tee on rules, reported a special order for
the consideration of the report from the
committee on foreign affairs, relating to
Hawaiian affairs. This provided that
every day, for three days, the House
should consider this question, and at 4
o'clock on the last day the previous ques-
tion should be ordered and vote taken
on the resolution and pending amends
ments.
Mr.. Boutelle made a point Of order
against the special order just brought in.
He asserted that his question of high
privilege should take precedence over a
special order. This was a question which
involved not only the privileges of the
House, but its very constitutional powers.
He had introduced this question of priv
ilege in the House six weeks ago, and 3
hoG bNNh hiopAbNOh OJ u oRC1ldA OI0CA
from the committee on rules In order to
consider the tariff bill, and now another
was brought, again setting aside his priv
ileged resolution, and the committee on
rules might go on and draw from its
quiver another special order to the abso-
Lutte exclusion of every other matter of
business to the end of the session. And,
so it could destroy the fundamental right
OF privilege.
CARLIsLE's RULING.
The ruling of Speaker Carlisle, brief
but luminous, covered the ground COM
pletely, and, it seemed TO him, was the
only safe ruling, and that was, that such
matters presented a question for the
House, and not for the chair to decide.
Some weeks ago he had offered this reso-
luton, calling on the navy department for
certain information, and that resolution
was hanging in the air, and could not be
reached He read "a number OF de-
cisions supporting his contention, that It
was a question for the House, and not for
the chair, to decide He asked the
speaker TO reconsider his decision, and he
had no doubt that the chair would change
its ruling.
The speaker, in the course of his de-
cision, said that the special order had
been arrived at by the House, and not by
the committee on rules. He therefore
held to his former ruling, and was of the
opinion that when the resolution OF the
foreign affairs committee had been de-
cided the privileged resolution Of the Ren-
tleman from Maine might then be taken
up and disposed of.
REED YIELDS TO BoUTELLE.
A motion for the previous question was
put and agreed TO, and the speaker recog-
nized Mr.. Reed to speak on the question
Mr. Reed yielded few minutes to Mr..
Boutelle who said he desired TO call to
the attention of the chair
the fact that il seven-eighths
Of the members of the House de-
sired to consider his privileged resolution,
y could not be done except by voting
down the previous question, or voting
down the special order. He asserted that
the gentleman from Mississippi, MIR. Catch
ings, had been constituted sole guardian
of the privileges and rights of the House.
Except the gentleman from Maine,~
interrupted Mr.. Catchings.
COULD HAVE BEEN SETTLED.
Mr. Reed said the difficulty could have
very easily been settled by raising the
question of consideration against any
other matter brought up. The committee
seemed to have arrived at its conclusions
by the same process of reasoning which
women were said 10 employ. They were
ing through the intermediate steps Of
logic. Republican laughter
MMr. Catchings was recognized and
spoke in favor of the special order of the
committee on rules In referring TO MIR.
Reed, he said he was too great a man to
descend TO the language used by his col
league. Democratic applausel. The
special order had not been submitted for
very obvious reasons to the gentleman
from Maine, who had been indulging in
fantastic and bedlamite gyrations on this
floor.
BoUTELLE OBJECTS TO THE WORDS.
Mr. Boutelle demanded the gentleman's
words should be taken down and the gen
tleman be called to order, and he also de-
manded that the gentleman take his seat.
This Mr.. Catchings did amidst the laugh
ter Of the House, and the excitement con-
tinued while the House waited for the Of
fetal reporter to transcribe his notes and
hand the copy to the clerk.
The speaker then called the House to
order, and IN breathless interest the mem
bers listened to the reading of the obIec-
tionable words.
Mr.. Catchings was permitted to resume
his remarks. He had not uttered q
couple of sentences before Mr.. Boutelle,
under the mistaken impression that Mr..
Catchings was again indulging In person
allties, interrupted him. The speaker
assured MIN JnaJ nothing 0D)6c-
tionable had been uttered for the
reason that the gentleman had
spoken only about a dozen words,
and Mr. Catchings again proceeded
Again he was interrupted, this time with
more reason, for he had said that he
(Catchings) in common with many other
gentlemen on the floor of the House, had
regarded the gentleman from Maine as
afflicted with a species of harmless mania
for making an exhibition of himself.
Laughter on the democratic side
BoUTELLE OBJECTS AGAIN.
Mr. Boutelle demanded that these words
be taken down, and he desired the speaker
to call the gentleman TO order, and that
he should rule upon the words OF Mr.
Catchings. There was another interval
while the House was waiting for the
words to be transcribed from the re-
porter's notes, during which the members
crowded into the space in front of the
speakers desk. When order was restored,
the words were read, and the speaker,
after weighing the sentence carefully,
said he hardly thought the language
parliamentary.
Mr.. Catchings was called upon to ex-
plain, which he did, and then finished his
speech upon the report of the committee
on rules.