St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-30
TWO LEADERS LOCK HORNS
SPEAKER CRISP AH0 EX-cZA.2 REED
HAVE A LIVELY I'LL.
THE QUESTION OF RULES UP.

| THE QUESTION OF RULES UP
Over the Minority Criticised
Republicans, Becom In
ra9ei, Attempt Most Unusual
Fili3ustering Tactics-l'ande-
moninm Reigned for a Time.
| WASHINGTON. March 29.-When the
| house met at noon today feyersh
anxiety was manifested as to the fate
of the Bland seignlorage bill. After
the reading of the journal, Mr.. Dock
| cry, from the juint commission to in
vestiga,e the expenditures in the eXecu-
tive departments, formally introduced
the bill prepared by the commission to
improve the methods OF accounting in
the treasury department On motion OF
Mr.. Hall (MInn.). a bill authorizing the
construction Of a foot and wagon bridge
across the Mississippi river at Red
Wing, Mimi, was passed. The regular
Order, the Joy-O'Neill contested election
case, was then taken up, and the fill
buster against the seating of ONeill
was resumed.
At %. while the roll OF the house
was being called, Mr.. Pruden, the presi-
dents executive clerk. appeared at the
bar OF the house and transmitted the
Presidents special message vetoing the
! Bland seigniorage bill.
The vote on the pending motion was
| no, faly Nd tnH W
short of a quorum. OF the eleven who
voted against the motion lin effect
against giving Mr.. O'Neill the seat
there were ten Democrats, as follows
Messrs. Dearmond, Everett, Griffin,
Hail (Missouri), Morgan. Cultivate.
Ryan, Sibley, Harter and Warner. Mr..
McKeghan Pop. Neb.) cast the other
negative vote. Then came more fill
clustering, and Mr.. Patterson offered a
resolution to revoke the
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
and instruct the sargeani-at-arms to
take the absentees into custody. The
order, according to the resolution. was
to continue in force from day to day
until vacated.
MIR. Reed attempted to make the point
that quorum was necessary to adopt q
resolution continuing an order in force
beyond adjournment. but the speaker
oyerruied him, holding that it was
plainly within the power Of less than a
quorum to adopt means to compel the
attendance of absenteeS. The previous
| question was oriered-162-2.
+ Mr.. Reed took the floor. and in brief
speech, scored the Democratic side.
| fitvniiinU nartjpilt1riV the n he
ity OF "a proceeding which aimed at
/ procuring quorum by -duresS. and
| alter one was secured left the house
! pOwerless to record its presence. Some
thing in what Mr.. Reed sad evidently
stung Speaker Crisp. who was on the
floor at the time, and when the eX-
speaker sat down Speaker Crisp. arose.
The speaker said it was noa his pur-
| pose to enter INTO discussion of the
merits of the question. He only wanted
| to call attention to the persistence with
which the leader of the minority Mr..
Reed had called attention to the
| ABSOLUTE IN1QUTrY
| of the practice of members in refusing
to vote when their names were called.
I'VE have been denounced time and
again." said he, ''for refusing to vote"
II counted you," interjected Mr.. Reed
amid laughter.
MIR. Reed. Speaker Crisp went Oh. had
| placed his party in position when he
made his qnorum-counting ruling where
| it either had to sustain that ruling or
renounce HIM. 1t was an open secret,
he said. that Mr.. Reed had been unable
| to get the Republican caucus to author
iZe such ruling.
Il never tried" said Mr.. Reed. But.
| continued Mr.. Crisp, when Mr.. Reed
had once made the ruling his party
was forced to sustain HIM. The
| speaker proceeded to picture the
absolute power of the eX-speaker
over his side of the house. He described
how an agreement entered into by tile
| minority and majority Of the elections
committee had been broken at Mr..
Reeds dictation. lie was the chief SUI
| peryisor of his side. ut LOOKS as if you
| needed chief supervisor OIL your own
side" shouted MIR. BOutelle.
"What We possess and what you
| need" replied the speaker deliberately.
lis independence OF thought. There
never was and never will be a chief su-
perviSor on this side. MIR. Reeo's
whole PURPOSE" continued Mr.. Crisp,
was to force the Democratic side
to count a quorum. All other
questions paled into insighiiicance be-
fore this overshadowing one of self
vindicatiOn with Mr.. Reed. Every
member should feel his responsibility.
He should vote whether lie approved
proposition or not. Ii he opposed it he
should exercise the time-honOred Demo
cratic privilege of
VOTING AGAINST IT.
'de should not join hands with the
enemy across the aisle"
Mr.. Reed expressed desire to reply
to the speaker, but his time had expired,
and ha narnittll Tn n In
then asked for division of the resolu-
ton, but MIR. Stone (ky.), in the chair,
ruled that the proposition was not
divsible.
Party feeling had been aroused by the
remarks of Mr. Reed anu Speaker
Crisp. and the Republicans began fill
bustering with redoubled vigOr. An
appeal was taken from the decision of
the chair by Mr.. Payne. Mr.. Springer
moved to lay that motion on the table.
Mr.. Payne. pending that, moved to ad-
journ. This latter motion was lost-72
TO It's. The appeal was laid on the table
III 10 Is. Mr.. Lacey Uowa) moved to
reconsider, and Mr.. Payne moved to
adjourn.
The motion to adjourn was lost. The
speaker then stated that the motion
made by Mr.. Lacey to reconsider the
vote by which the appeal was laid OH ,
tie taOle was not IN OrQer. MI. Lacey
appealed from the decision of the chair.
The speaker refused to entertain the
appeal. Mr.. Reed. who was standing
IN the center aisle, insisted OH knowing
the grounds upon which the speaker
declined to entertain the appeal, but
the speaker only raped with his gavel.
and declined enphatically to state the
grounds of his refusal. Mr.. Payne
moved to adjourn, and the speaker de-
clined to entertain this motion also. By
this time the members on both sides
WERE WILDLY EXCITED.
Partisan blood was at fever heat, and
for several moments pandemonium
reigned. From all parts of the floor
members were shouting their defiance,
and several personal collisions were
narrowly averted.
''Shut up" yelled some one across
the floor, while the speaker banged his