The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-02-20

resulted-Yeas, 152; nays, 2. Mr.. Bland
asked for a call of the House and this
was agreed to, IS to 81. At the close OF
the call, TO which PAL members re-
sponded, Mr.. Bland offered resolution
revoking all leaves of absence ana IN
structing the sergeant-at-arms TO arrest
absent emhers, the resolution to con,
tinue in force after adlournment anu
until further order of the House.
Mr.. Tracey, Democrat of New ork,
moved that the House adjourn. On TINS
motion the Republicans and antl-sllver
Democrats voted IN the affirmative ana
the silver Democrats and Popullsts
joined the bulk of the Democrats IN the
negative. On division, the vote was an
nounced-Yeas, "A; nays, 106 and tne
yeas and nays ordered. BY a vote OF 20
to 1853 the House again refused to ad-
journ, whereupon Mr.. Tracey moved that
when the House adjourn it be until
Wednesday noon. This was declared by
the chair, Mr.. Dockery, Democrat of
Missouri, out of order, while the House
was proceeding under the call.
Mr.. Reed, Republican of Maine This
is not proceeding to compel attendance
of mem bers to make quorum, but TO
require the presence of absentees atter
the quorum has been developed, Inc
House with a quorum cannot be de-
prived of the right Of determ lnlng TO
what time it will adjourn.
Mr.. Springer" But not while cal! IS
in progress; not until after proceedings
Hereunder are dispensed with" : .
Mr.. Reed-"It is immaterlal whether
the House dispense with proceedings
about the call or not"
The Chair-".The decision of the Chair
is thatsupon motions and resolutions un-
der call of the House, quorum is not
necessary"
The resolution of Mr.. Bland was
agreed to 116 to nothing.
Mr.. Reed again made the point OF no
quorum and upon this was proceeding to
state the grounds upon which he baseo
the point.
Mr.. Bland-aBut the Chair has already
declared the resolution agreed to and
nothing is before the House.
Mr.. Reed" But the Chair retracts that
decision in order that he may hear me. "
(Laughter.) Continuing, Mr.. .Reea
stated that it was only necessary to con-
slider by what vote this resolution could
be revoked, if it was adopted, to demon
strate the manifest absurdity OF the pro-
ceedine. It adopted by less than a
Quorum, it could be revoked or resclnded
by less than a quorum at future
session. He did not presume that any
one would insist that a motion to re-
scind a resolution could be passed by less
After a colloquy between Mr.. Reed and
Mr.. Hatch, Dehnocrat Of Missouri, re-
specting Mr.. Reeds rulings upon this
point, while he was Speaker in the 5lst
Congress, the Chair announced his readl-
ness to rule upon the point made by Mr..
Reed, just as the latter was about to
quote from an authority given him by
Mr.. Burrows II was just about to give
the Chair some information" said Mr..
Reed, "but of course when the Chair
gets through listening to me, I am through
addressingsthe Chair."
The Chair stated that 1T was very clear
to him, and, in accordance with the uni
form practice of the House. while the
House was proceeding under the call,
motions and resolutions tould be passed
by vote of less than 2 qu5rum. This
point, he said, was expressly ruled upon
by Speaker Carlisle in tne first session OF
the 50th Congress.
The House then, on motion of Mr..
Bland, adjourned