The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-28

record as absent and arrested when he
had been neither absent nor arrested.
He insisted that if Mr.. BANDS sUbsli-
tute were carried he would have no
redress. Each case should be taken
seriatim and decided in accordance with
the circumstances surrounding it,
Mr. BANDS Philippe.
Mr. Bland. after Mr. Johnson's state
ment, decided 10 withdraw his substi-
tute and confne it to the discharge from
custody of Mr.. Adams. On this modif-
cation of his motion he demanded to
be heard. He got the floor and delivered
a scathing arraignment of his side of
the house. He realized. he said. that
il was humiliating to be brought before
the bar of the house in arrest. 1t was
hard, he declared, to give leaves Of an
sence and Immediately revoke them and
order the arrest of members. But public
eXigency sometimes required such a
course The house had been deadloclSe1
for days. The whole press of the country
was full of il and every member must
have been aware that his presence was
needed He maintained that when
member OF congress was elected he en-
tered into a solemn contract with his
constituency TO leave his private bust
ness and attend 10 the public business
for which be was elected He then went
on in an impassioned way:
l. saw S-lillEiLtl mere. FdlU ne ElAah-
ing his head savagely and lifting his
voice until it fairly rang through the
hall, 'disobey the rules and commands
of this house. l saw gentlemen rise and
boast that they had dehed the power of
the house. If that is not anarchy and
revolution. what is il? Democratic APP
plause) We. in the house. are the
fountain source Of order. the law-making
body. Shall we resolve ourselves into
body of anarchists? If someone were TO
throw d bomb from yOnder gallery te
would be no less an anarchist than he
who, on this floor. defies the power Of
the house (cries of Shame" shame
and hisses) while the people of this
country are in the thrOes OF hunger and
starvation continued Mr.. Bland.
angeTed at the demonstration against
him.
Where they expect us To do some
thing, TO become filibusterers and OBJ
structionists is TO become anarchists for
its purpose is the defiance of the laws
of the country. We were sent here TO
do our duty. At a time when the cities
are thronged with mObs and the people
cannot go to bed in peace and comfort
is not the time when mob law should
obtain here
At this point Mr. Bynum called Mr..
Bland to order. and after being admOn-
ished by the chair to ccnfne himself 70
the question at issue he proceeded 10
say that since the deadlock a suggestion
that the speaker should count a quorum
had been advanced by the democratic
side Of the house. Quorum counting, he
maintained, was an invitation 70 alb
senteeism It was an invitation TO mem
bers 20 go wishing and wandering mp
and down the earth. He insisted that
is was the duty of the house to keep
members in their seats. The democratic
party had a majority Of eighty in the
house and ought 10 do business.
4 sharp Dialogue
81 don't think it is the duty Of the
gentleman from Missouri" INTERCEPTED
Mr.. Dunn of Missouri. Ito lecture the
democratic party"
IF that Is a lecture retorted AR
Bland. the people will read it to the
gentleman and every other man who is
obstructing business to his hearts con-
tent. Democratic applause)
While the opposition" he confined,
"has a perfect right ia break the quo
rum, what a spectacle we present 10 the
country. with eighty majority. rising in
our congressional dignity and defying the
authority of the house. We should pro-
coed to business or acknowledge our in
competency. If we don't the people viii
read the riot act 20 us"
They will: they will" came I'm chorus
from the republican side
Mr.. Bland then drifted into a discus
sion Of the merits Of the silver seignior-
age bill, which was being opposed by a
portion of the democratic majority. in
the course Of which he was three
times called to order by Mr.. Coombs, a
democrat of New York.
The difficulty is, finally blurted out
Mr.. Bland, that ] am too much in or
der. I am telling too many plain truths
that the country ought 10 know" Dem
Ocratic applause)
That is the fact" shouted Mr.. Den
son. a democrat Of Alabama; give it
to the democrats for revenue only
Il thought gentlemen on this side7
said Mr. Bland. would realize that
they could not afford to be revolutionists
and anarchists. L say we should either
do business or surrender" Republican
applause and shouts CT give it 10
them
1T will be no outrage for the people
to rise up in a mob and cast us down
for we are exercising mObOCracy here.
If this is a bad bill vote it down If
you want more debate we will give it
to you, but to stay here and not vote
is simply political suicide
Mr.. Bland then demanded the previous
question. but as there was a clamor on
tunity to be heard he withdrew il.
MIR. Reed scOrnfuI.
Mr.. Reed demanded recognition in his
own right and when Mr.. Bland offered
him five minutes he rejected it with
scorn.
Mr.. Compton. democrat of Maryland.
secured five minutes. He went right
into the heart Of the contention The
validity of the house warrant had been
challenged, he said, because it did not
contain the names Of those to be ar
rested. He declared that was in accord
ance with the uniform practice of the
house and defied anyone to produce a
warrant in which a name was incorpor-
ated.
Il have one here" shouted Mr. Bur-
rows. 1ourishing a yellow, time-stained
document above his head.
Mr.. Compton disregarded Mr.. Burrows
and appealed to Mr.. Reed 10 bear out
what he had said.
Mr.. Reed denied that he had any re-
collection of whether the warrants he
had signed contained names or not. To
him CReed) the trouble lay not so much
with the warrant. but with the irregu-
lar manner in which the resolution or
dering the arrest had been passed.
Mr.. Compton went on to pay high
tribute to Speaker Crisp, who had signed
the warrant, and Sergeant-at-Arms
Snow. VINO had executed ii.
Mr.. Burrows then being appealed to
read the warrant he held and explained
that Il was issued I'm the Twenty-second
congress-siXty-siX years ago-when they
tanned the name Of Sam Houston, the
hero of the war for the independence Of
Texas.
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