The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-08
WILSON BILL NOW.
Lukewarm and Drugs"
Democrats Made Toe the
Mark in Washington.
OBSTRUCTIONISTS DEFEATED
congressman Now Voting on the
Motion to Immediately Con-
slider the Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. s, 1S94.-When the
Speaker took his seat this morning there was
an air of bustling activity, in the House.
The galleries were unusually full, there being
scarcely standing room in the public
gallery--a condition rarely seen except
on very interesting occasions. A feeling Of
subdued excitement pervaded the floor of the
House, and little knots of members were
seen in different parts of the hall earnestly
conversing.
The susual controversy between Mr.. Bou-
telle and the Speaker came up Immediately
after the reading of the journal,
and gave rise to more excite
ment than on any previous day. Mr..
Reed and Mr.. Boutelle spoke in favor
of considering the latter's Hawaiian resolu-
tion, and the latter again made the point that
it was a question of privilege while
the special order from the COMMITTEES
on Rules relative to the tariff
bilD was merely privileged report,
and that the former took precedence over
the latter. The Speaker repeated his ruling
made in the fifty second Congress, holding
that the question of consideration could
not be raised against a resolution emanat-
ing from the Committee on Rules, and that
it took precedence over all other questions.
brought in special order changing GER
tain rule that no member could attack the
resolution and entrench himself behind the
rule to be changed.
BOUTELLE TOOK HIS SEAT.
When the Speaker finished he requested
that Mr.. Boutelle should take his seat.
sfYes, yes" said Mr.. Boutelle sarcastic
cally
'sThe gentleman said the Speaker, still
more emphatically, twill take his seat"
''Yes, [ know, said Mr.. Boutelle, taking
step to the rear-he had been standing in the
area fronting the Speakers table
1.-THE gentleman" said the Speaker, with
asperity in his tone, twill be seated now
''Oh, yes" responded Mr.. Boutelle, def
antly, 81 shall do it under duress."
The Speaker again repeated his request,
emphasizing his words by pounding his
desk vigorously with his gavel, whereupon
Mr.. Boutelle quietly dropped into the nearest
seat, amid vigorous applause from the
Democratic side of the chamber.
A QUORUM VOTED.
The yeas and nays were ordered on Mr..
Catchings' motion for the previous question
on the resolution reported by him last Fri
day fixing the time for considering the Tariff
bill, and resulted as follows:-Yeas, 1S9;
nays, none-ten more than a quorum-and
the previous question was ordered.
IN THE SENATE.
After the routine business, which occupied
nearly an hour and in which there was noth-
ling of public interest, Mr.. Chandler rep,
IN. H offered a resolutmg directing
the Judiciary COMMITTEES to inquire and
report its opinion as to cases in which the
President may constitutionally send agents
or commissioners to foreign countries, with
out the advice and consent of Congress.
''Let that resolution lie overn said Mr..
German, Dem. Md) and the resolution
| went over till tomorrow Then Mr.. Hoar's
resolution Offered last week. calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for a statement as
, to payments to Mr.. Blount, Commissioner to
Hawaii was laid before the Senate, and Mr..
| German moved its reference to the Commit
| tee on Foreign Relations.