Evening journal., 1894-04-18
REEDS RULES ADOPTED
House viii Not Be Bothered by
Lack Of a Quorum Now.
AN OVATION FOR THE EZ-sPEAKBR.

tinuing the Tariff Debate-NIr. Smith OF
New Jersey Attacks tho Income Tax
Hit Scores the Administration.
WASHINGTON, April ls.-The house by an
overwhelming vote decided to adopt quo
rum counting rule which for all practical
purposes is the same as that which eX
Speaker Reed Of Maine inaugurated dur
ing the ifty-first congress and which won
for him a worldwide reputation.
Neither undue excitement nor tumultu-
Gus scenes marked the crushing of the old
legislative barriers. Mr.. Reed and the Re
publicans generally were in delightful
humor over the victory they had achieved.
Those who expected that Mr.. Reed would
taunt and gibe his political adversaries
with their alleged Inconsistency were dis
appointed.
Only 10 minutes on a side were allowed
for debate and Mr.. Reed, instead of con
suming that with an arraignment of the
Democrats, good naturedly distributed
most of it to Democrats who desired to OPP
pose the new rule, and when his time was
exhausted he jocularly asked for more
time TO dole out among his frends on the
other side, Messrs. Bryan, Cummings,
Wheeler Kilgore and Russell being the
Democrats who were thus given an OppOr
tunity to protest against the adoption OF
the rule.
When the vote was taken, A. Democrats
voted against it, but it secured every Re
publican vote and was carried by a vote OF
2l2 to AZ. The Populists did not vote on
the proposition.
The adoption of this rule, taken in con
junction with the decision to enforce the
old law of 1916 docking salaries OF mem.
bers absent, save on account of sickness,
will, it is thought, put an end forever TO
parliamentary obstruction.
The enforcement of that law will keep
members at their post of duty, and the
rule will prevent them from refusing to
participate in legislation when present.
Cheers For Reed.
Upon the announcement of the vote the
Republicans cheered. The galleries joined
in the demonstration. While there was
more or less applause on the Democratic
side, IL was not of the character which
marked the applause on the Republican
side.
Mr.. Reed was Immediately surrounded
| by his party friends and given an ovation.
Some Of the Democrats got up a counter
large bunch of la France roses was car
ried up the aisle and placed on Mr.. Reeds
/ desk. Another Republican outburst fol.
| lowed. The flowers were sent with the
| compliments Of Representative Apsley OF
| Massachusetts,.
In order to force a recordingO members
as present, but not voting, in accordance
/ with the provisions Of the new rule, the
/ Republicans declined to vote on the first
roll call.
At its conclusion Mr.. Livingston made
the point of order that under the new rule
| there was no second call of the house, but
/ I'm lieu therefor the list of names reported
by the tellers as present but not voting
should he called. The speaker, however,
| stated that the new rule did not contem.
plate any interference with roll call, and
that the roll call, under rules of the house.
included second call of those who had
failed to respond ON the first call. lie
overruled the point of order, and the roll
call proceeded Finding that "a quorum
had voted on the first call, the Republicans
changed their tactics on the second call
and answered to their names.
The speakers table was then cleared.
! Various executive documents which had
accumulated there were laid before the
/
ence reports were agreed to. Saturday.
April 81, after o'clock, was by special or
der set aside for the delivery of eulogies tc
the memory Of the late Senator Gibson OF
Louisiana.
A regular gorge of committee reports,
blocked by the 6libustering of the past
week, was presented under the call of the
committees The house then, on motion
of Mr.. McCreary, went into committee of
the whole to consider the consular and dip
lomatic appropriation bill.
Mr.. Hit made a strong speech, arraign.
ing the foreign policy of the administra.
tion, i'm the course of which he severely
scored the president for appointing Van
Allen as minister to Italy as a reward foi
his $4,000 political contribution.
Tariff Debate TO Continue.
The early hours of the senate session
were devoted to a skillful parliamentary
struggle between those for and against the
tariff bill. 1t resulted in an agreement tc
continue the arrangement of last week foi
debate until Tuesday of next week, when
the bill will be taken up and rediscussed
by paragraphs.
Very little change has been effected by
this agreement, as speeches may be made
by senators after the first paragraph 1.
read until they are ready TO have il acted
upon. The Republicans were anxious tC
make certain that nothing by any ambigu
Gus wording might be construed as limit
ing the length of speeches or the debate OF
any paragraph or amendment Senator
Hin would not consent to the agreement
until it was made plain that he would moi
be deprived Of making a motion to consid
er the free list first. Senator Harris, In
charge of the bill, believing that a majori
ty of the senate would not consent to turn
the bill around, did not object to this un
dcrstmding.
Two speeches were made on the tariff
bill, Senator McLaurin of Mississippi favor
ing the bill, and especially the income tax
and Senator Smith of New Jersey makinl
a vigorous onslaught upon the income tn,
features. Both are Democrats, and eacl
, | represented his particular section of tn
country i'm his remarks and showed tn
different views of the party in the senat
ON the pending bill. II was expected tha
the Chinese treaty would be considered
but in an early executive session the sen