The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-03-07

reconsider it. His remedy was to have
the vote recapitulated, and this he had
t>iled to do.
rhe confusion became so great, mem
ber5 shouting at each other and the
chair, that the Speaker suspended pro-
ceedlngs until com parative order was
restored by members taking their seats
Reed, resuming, stated that he had
been out of the hall while the roll was
being called, attending a meeting OF
the committee on rules, at which he
understood he was to have an oppor-
turity to be heard OF the order report.
ed, and Of course, did not know what
had occurred. The gentleman from
New York Tracey had informed him
that a quorum nad not voted and
knowing that gentleman had been
keeping tally for a number of days
without making an error, he was so
much impressed with the statement OF
the gentleman that be felt it to be his
duty to call the attention of the chair
and the House to it, that the error
might be corrected, if one had been
made.
McMillin Dem.) of Tennessee de-
clared that the gentleman from New
Y ork should speak for himself and
not by proxy.
Meredith (Dem.) of Virginia: Mr.
Speaker, there has been a comedy OF
oIrors here, and the gentleman from
New York has been IN error for some
weeks and is in error now.
MIR. Tracey endeaYored to make him.
self heard, and finally succeeded. He
said that It was matter of but little
moment. a quorum would be secured
in any event, he conceded. But he had
kept what he believed to be correct
tally, and it showed but l74 votes. But
he would not IN 7ertake to impeach
the accuracy of the official count,
Whereupon the storm subsided and the
roll call proceeded. When the letter
"T" was reached there was a slight
soualI. Reed called the attention of
the chair to the fact that the clerk,
after calling Talbert of South Craolina,
returned and called Stockdale of Mis-
sissippl, which he said, was out of
order. The Speaker conceded with the
gentleman from Maine, who continued
from the floor: "Itis decidedly out Of
order. The clerks have no right to
interest themselves in the votes Of
gentlemen on the floor, to back up
their action. But it is only part Of
what we have been having right along"
Springer (Dem.) of Illinois stated
that Mr. .Stockdale had responned when
his name was called. Speaker Crisp
directed the clerk not to return to a
name after it had been passed; it was
not in order.
Outhwaite's demand for the previous
question was seconded-170 to 10-and
again the friends of the pending bill
expressed their pleasure st the result
by vigorous hand clapping.
On the passage Of the order the vote
on the division was ayesl45, nays none.
The ayes and aays were ordered. Be-
fore the call had proceeded far, how
ever, Burrows and Reed criticised the
methods of the. reading clerks Burrows
said the roll was really called four
times, every name being repeated on
each roll call, Reed called attention to
the fac. that the calling was irregular,
some names being called once, others
twice, and some three times. until the
clerk forces an answer. There was no
authority for this they contended.
The Speaker stated that he did not
know how the practice had grown up
but ever since he had been in the House
the names had been called twice, when
the member failed to answer. The
philosophy of the rule, he supposed to
be that. with the least nesessary delay,
every member should have an oppor.
t, nifty to vote, and arepetltion of the
name was probably the best method
of securing that end.
The vote resulted: Yeas l65, nays
11-three less than a quorum-and at
4o'clocS, on motion o, OuthWaite, the
House adjourned until noon tommor-
roW