The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
BIAND STILL HELD AT BAY.
Every Effort TO Get a Quorum to
Vote on His Bill Bailled.

the House LOT ADSeuI6e1bu- all O1Ve
GOOD Excuses and are Excused by
the Speaker.
Washington, Feb. 20.-When the speak
.r.s gavel fell to-day there was less evil
oorce of the presence in the House of a
o,,orum of democrats than yesterday.
TeIerraphic requests for leaves of alb
sepce were read from several members
and granted.
Nessrs Apsley, of Maine, and Post, of
Illinois. who were in custody of the ser.
yeant-at-arms, demonstrated that they
we're present, and voting yesterday and
were released.
Tn order that the House might have &C
curate knowledge of what had been done
nnder the order of arrest, the speaker
said the sergeant-at-arms would make
report.
cergeant-at- Arms Snow reported that
under the warrant issued to him yester-
dav he had sent thirty-seven kilograms,
IN which fifteen responses had been made.
These showed five members at home sick
and ten en- route to the capital. Seven
members had been placed under arrest,
az follows: Messrs. Apsley, Gardner,
/
dali The fact that they were all repub-
Iicans led Messrs. Reed and Burrows to
inouire whether or not any democrats
had heen included in the speakers war
rant. or whether the efforts of the ser
geant-at-arms had been restricted alto
Sether to republicans. Later MIR. Gros-
yenor. rep, of Ohio, asked if warrants
had been issued for the arrest of the dem
o,rats who failed to attend the caucus
Yesterday afternoon.
The representatives named except
Nessrs. Apsley and Post, appeared before
the bar of the House and the proceeding
attracted the attention of the members to
an unusual degree. They thronged the
pit in front of the clerks desk and TESTED
with the unfortunate victims until point
of order enforced by the speaker put
them back in their seats.
EXCUSES OF THE PRISONERS.
The speaker said to each one of the re-
pubhcans: you are shown to have been
absent from the House without leave
What excuse have you to offerF" The
responses were as follows:
By Mr.. Gardner-The statement of
the speaker is one of fact. was not alb
sent from the House, as every roll call
but one in the record this morning dem
onstrates. And on that roll call came
to the clerks desk and particularly called
attention to the fact that l was present
and responded to my name.
The Speaker-The chair endeavored to
secure information from every possible
source as to the status of the members in
cluded in the warrants of arrest, and re-
grets that any error should have occurred.
The gentleman will be excused.
Mr. Hilborn-I was present in the
House until p. NJ, when l went to the
departments on important business and
spent the afternoon there. That IS all
the excuse l have.
Mr. HilbOrn was excused.
Mr. LuCas-I was present until p. m.
and asked the gentleman occupying the
chair, Mr.. Cultivate, to have me ex-
cused. Surprising this would be done, l
left.
Mr.. Cultivate confirmed the statement
and explained the failure to have the
gentlemen excused by sa wing he lost his
voice while in the chair yesterday.
Mr. Lucas was excused.
Mr. Marvin must traverse the re-
turn of the sergeant-at-arms, / was ex-
cused for ten days on the 9th instant
on account of illness, which would relieve
NE OF the duty of attendance until this
session.
Mr. Marvin was excused.
Mr. Randall was engaged with the
affairs from 30 o'clock Yesterday after
noon until the House adjourned. l re-
sponded TO my name on every roll-call
but one.
BLAND MAKES AN OBJECTION.
On the suggestion of the Speaker that
Mr.. Randall be excused, Mr. Bland said
OF course he should not object to excusing
the gentleman, but he desired to enforce
the suggestion that a quorum would
never be obtained until member staid
IN their seats in the House, and not in the
committee rooms.
This brought Mr. Cummings, chairman
OF the committee on naval affairs, to his
1eet with the remark that the committee
on naval affairs was sitting every day I'M
DER special permission to sit during the
sessions of the House.
Mr. Enloe, dem, of Tennessee, re-
marked that he supposed the chances of
quorum were not diminished by the alb
seuce OF the gentleman from Massachu-
sets, (Mr. Randall0.
Alter the call of the committee for re-
ports, Mr.. Bland moved that the House
resolve Itself into committee of the whole
upon the bill to coin the seigniorageof the
D1lIIon IN the treasury, and that the
general DEBATE thereon be closed in ten
minutes. On seeonding Mr.. BANDS
uemand for the previous question on this
MoIlon, the House divided-ll7 to nome
ana Mr.. Bland demanded the yeas and
nays These were ordered and resulted
cas- lb2, nays 5.-l2 less than a quorum
Oh This vote the following republicans
Ioleu with the democrats: Messrs.
aiken, Bowers of California, Broderick
DIoolltte, Funston, Hartman, Linton,
HSafshal, Moore, Murray, Post, and
99WG5et-l2. Populist-Baker. of Kansas,
Del OF Colorado, Boon, Davis, and KEN
=, The negative vote was composed of
AeSSrs Everett, O'Neill, Pigott, Rusk
anu Hail. of Minnesota-all democrats.
AQUORUM PRESENT.
Mr., Bland moved call of the House
ana II was ordered, showing 264 mem bers
present.
Another vote on Mr.. BANDS motion
was then begun. II resulted: Yeas 1856
n94S o-lo less than quorum and loss
U SIX from the first vote.
IT, a second call of the House was ordered
IHc call disclosed the presence of 269
l ll5i loers, eight more than on the first
gdI IL was stated that twenty-eight
0oNl0crats were present who did not vote
il Uhe previous call for the yeas and
Mr.. Bland offered a resolution revoking
al al leaves Of committees to sit during the
ol2oIoh OF the House. except to the com
-uIvsee on appropriations. He said it was
very evident that SO long as these leaves
t "a yea IL would be practically impossible
I'd ,oorlng a quorum into the House.
ne resolution provoked brisk discus