The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-24
! Change OF MIND.
All Orders Of Arrest Vacated
by the House.
sLAND's LoNG.sousHT QUORUM
Shows Itself to BE just a. Elusive as
Ever-Democrats May BE Forced
20 Try Reeds Rules in Order TO Get
aQuorum.


WASHINGTON. Feb. e4.-The galleries OF
ehs house were crowded yesterday In an
sicipation Of repetition Of the disorderly
scenes Of the day before.
The house was called TO order by Clerk
Kerr, In the absence Of Speaker Crisp.
whs II confined to his room by illnesa
He read letter from the speaker appoint
ing Mr.. Richardson speaker pro tenn. and
Mr.. Richardson took the chair.
Mr.. Bland moved the previous question
end declined to withdraw 1t to enable
ether gentleman to speak In their own
right. but offered to yield to any one who
wanted to speak.
A lengthy debate followed, and the vote
On Mr.. Bland's motion resulted; Yeas,
%; nays. 1bo. Be- the previous question
vas not ordered.
Mr.. Bland offered the following motion:
Resolved. That all members who have been
errssted by authority Of the house, adopte on
the 18th inst. are hereby discharged from
custody.
Mr.. Reed raised the point Of order that
De motion related to single individual;
Che substitute covered all of . class,
which was clearly inadmissible.
Mr.. Bland moved that the gentleman
from Psnnsylvania (Mr. Adams) be ex-
sused. Later on he withdrew that motion
and moved that all further proceedings
ander the call Of the house, under which
ohs order of arrest was made, be dispensed
with. This would end all proceedings and
vacate the arrests made.
After debate by Mr.. Springer. Mr.. Dock
cry and others, the chair overruled the
point Of order. and then, at sos, put and
declared carried the motion Of Mr.. Bland,
and announced that all the members un-
der arrest were discharged.
On Mr.. BlaDd's molten to take up the
seigniorage bill and close debate at 5
s'elock today, the house voted on divi-
sien. lat to q The point Of NO quorum
was made. and the call Of the yeas and
nays was ordered.
The remainder Of the afternoon was ex-
Asustsd in hlibustering. and at s O'Clock
. recess was taken till o'clock.
Az the night session the frst bill re-
ported was to . grant . pension to Mrs.
Fannie M Norman. widow of . first lieu
tenant in the Florida Indian war in 1885.
Of - . month. She II ss years old. The
bill was laid aside with Q favorable recon-
nendation. Several other bills were re-
psrted, but the point Of no quorum was
raised, and at $50 the house adjourned.
May Try Rsed's Rules.
Every effort on the part of Speaker
Crisp TO secure . quorum for the passage
sf the Bland scigniorage bill having failed,
me friends Of that measure are willing to
have another. and are circulating petit
Non to that end. in the hope Of agreeing
apon some plan that will relieve them
Rom their present dilemma.
The sentiment Ia favor of tho speaker
counting quorum, a. was done in the
fifty-hrst congress by Speaker Reed, is
Aeurly growing in favor. The silver ad-
vecates and the extreme Dem ocrats have
heretofore denounced that course, but
nsw. when they are desirous of securing
the passage OF their pet measure, they APP
pear to be willing that it, or some other
equally coerc Give plan, should be adopted.
1t is admitted that the Bland bill can
not pass unless some rule 10 adopted to
compel those present to vote or be
sounted. Many of the members who
have been cooperating with Bland to Sc
sure the passage Of the seignioraRs bill
will not follow him longer than another
DAY. Nearly . week has already been
wasted, and they think that the house
should proceed to the consideration of the
appropriation bills that are now waiting
Tor action and ethsr important legisla-
Non,