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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Bland Still Unable to Secure
a Quorum.
SESSION IN THE HOUSE

The Arrest Of Members Absent without
Leave causes an Exciting and Dis
orderly Scene r No Attention Paid to
Appeals From the Chairman or Ser
gernt-at-Arms For Order.
WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. Mr.. Bland
did not secure quorum in the house
TEursday as he expected to- Although
1t was Washington's birthday and
usually the house takes day of rest,
bnt on account of the tangle on BANDS
sieeniorage bill a session was held /.
Speaker Crisp being sick Mr.. Dockery
Of Missouri took the chair. and from
that moment the Repu blicans, backed
m BIZ the New York Democratic dele
CATION, had veritable monkey show
with the Democratic side. The mem
bers who had been arrested claimed
that the warrant for their arrest was
worthless.
9eneral Sickles took the floor and in-
sisted on making known why he was
arrested He declared that he was to
all intents and purposes in chains and
dc demanded trial at once All the
time he was trying to speak the house
ii = uproar, some of the members were
IauRhing as if their 81 les would not
stand their merriment, while others
gesticulated wildly and demanded that
she chairman make Mr.. Sickles take his
J seat, while others growled and walked
about as if they We're in misery.
, xuhfla naDd ~,
seased sufficiently for Mr.. Dockery to
sAll the arrested members to the bar
Tor excuses for their absence. None of
sheni came for some time. Finally
Republican named Adams from Penn
sylyania came forward and gave as his
excuse for being absent that he went to
his home to perform the highest act of
an american citiZen--that is, to vote,
and he had con ributed to making the
Repu blican majority in his state about
10000 The Republicans fairly yelled
with delight and it became irhpossib le
10 do anything. la vain M. Dockery
raped for order. The assistant SER
geant-at-arIas carried around the mace,
which is generally supposed to quell
the most obdurate member, bat he was
on tbis occasion only jeered at for his
IaDors. Finally some one moved to adj
joWn.
Mr.. Sickles kept repeating, Don't co
chs and Leave me arrested; don't do
this and leave me in ehainsT His sal
lies were greeted with roars of laugh
ter BY the Republicans. who gave him
every encouragement.
Mr.. Cultivate, following the Bla..d
side. made the motion to adjourn. THIS
was voted down, many members ca
the Democratic side voting against 1T
because they thought the motion ought
30 come from Mr. Bland Again pau
aemoRinm peigned and everybody was
talking at once. Finally Mr. Blaad
himselr made the motion and It was
carried, but this was net done until
&,ll call was foreei b. Bonrke Cochran.
There has never been such a disor-
iegly scene in the house. The mem
beEs cared no more for the chairman or
the sergeant-at-arms or propriety as if
there were no such things 1t was
lisgraceful spectacle and as such re-
seired the condemnation of everyone
who saw it. The warrant of arrest
an6ar which the members were
brought to the house was simple war
rant issued by the speaker under the
order of the house to the sergeant at
arms directing him to bring all repre-
sentatives bsent without leave before
he bar of the house. The warrant
contained not single mama The SER
seant-as arms proceeded 20 ascertain
from the roll the names of members
absent. which he pat down on paper,
sid proceeded to make arrests.
The senate.