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ANEW RULE FOR THE HOUSE
A Scheme TO Fine a Member Present
and Not Voting $50.

washington, FEB. l9.-Mr Dearmond
offered the following resolution in the
House atthe opening Of business to-day:
Resolved, That to paragraph 1, Rule XIV,
be added clause. as follows: But 1t shall
be in order, at the conclusion OF the second
roll call, for any member to inquire Of the
speaker II a quorum has voted and IL the
speaker answer in the negative 20 suggest
that any other member, naming him, is pres
ent and has voted and thereupon the speaker,
who may then cause the doors to be closed,
shall direct the clerk to again call the name
OF such member and record his vote. and
this proceeding may be continued until a
quorum shall have voted And II any mem
ber being thus called third time, and being
present, and not excused from voting, shall
not vote the sergeant.atarms shall, by al.
rection OF the speaker, bring him
before the bar OF the House,
and his name shall be then called
once more ana his vote recorded as that Of a
member present, and refusing to vote and for
every contempt Of the House OF which mem
ber shall be guilty by thus refusing to vote,
the serReantat arms shall deduct as o fine
the sum OF $50 from his salary, pay the same
into the Treasury OF tho United states, and
report such action TO the House.
REPRESENTATIVES AGAINST IT.
Mr.. Hopkins, rep, of Illinois Theirs
seems TO be so much machinery about
that that think II would be better TO au.
thorize the speaker at once to count a
quorum.
Mr. Reed, rep, OF Maine Or have a
justice Of the peace appointed tot adminis-
ter the House
The resolution was referred to the COM
mittee on rules
MIR. Martin, dem, Of Indiana as, chair
man of the committee on invalid pensions,
reported the resolution introduced last
week by Mr.. Tawney, rep, OF Minnesota,
| calling upon the secretary of the interior
for an expression OF the construction
placed upon the law Of Dec. 81, 1893, de-
caring pensions to be n limited vested
right, by the pension bureau, with rec
| ommendation that it pass.
Mr.. Tawney stated that since the reso-
luton was offered, and since the commits
mittee had agreed TO recommend its pas
sage. two of the seven pensioners named
in the preamble had been restored to the
rolls and their pensions paid. So far as
these were concerned, therefore, 1t would
not be necessary for the secretary to re-
port.
Mr. Martin suggested that the resolu-
tion be passed as reported, and 1t was so
ordered.
BLAND CALLS UP HIS BILL.
| Mr.. Bland called up his bill to coin the
! seigniOrage Of the treasury silver bullion
he moved that the House resolve itself
| into committee of the whole and that the
general debate be limited to thirty min
utes.
A division showed 1O5 votes In favor Of
the motion and none in the negative.
Mr. Tracy, dem, of New York. sug-
gested no quorum, whereupon Mr.. Bland
| demanded the yeas and nays, and at l2:3O
O'Clock the call was begun. IL resulted:
Yeas, 15l nays, 4.
No quorum appearing, Mr. Bland moved
call of hn ,ghfnh
Messrs. Baker of Kansas, Bell of Colo
RADIO Boen, Davis, Kem, Newland and
Simpson, populists, and Bowers Of Cali
fornia, Broderlck OF Kansas, Doolittle
of Washington, Ellis of Oregon,
Hainer Of Nebraska, Hartmann
of Montana, Hermann of Oregon,
Lucas Of South Dakota, Marsh and
Piokler Of South Dakota, voted with the
democrats In favor of Mr.. Bland's mo-
tion The negative votes were cast by
Messrs. Hepburn Of Iowa, and Ray Of
New York, republicans, and Page of Com
necticut, and Piggott of Connecticut,
democrats. Two hundred and fifty-one
members responded to their names, upon
! which announcement by the speaker,
| further proceedings under the call were
dispensed with
TRACEY WANTS MORE SPEECHES.
Mr. Walker, rep, of Massachusetts
Mr.. Speaker, suggest to the gentleman
from Missouri that he permit the discus
sion to go on to-day. 1t Is evident that
we have no quorum and the day will
probably be wasted in roll calls.
Mr.. Bland-I should be very glad to
| have the bill debated and gentlemen I
have been willing at all times 10 proceed
under any understanding that
will be agreeable to tho
opponents of the bill and enable us to
come TO vote without filiDustering.
! But, certainly, gentlemen cannot expect
me to consent to have the debate go on
| indefinitely and l shall not consent TO do
! so.
Mr. Walker-If the gentleman will
| bear with me for a moment further,
want to say that do not blame him for
his position, but
Mr.. Bland-The regular order, Mr..
| Speaker, on the second roll call.
| The vote resulted: yeas $50, nays
nothing. Messrs. Funston, Sweet and
! Waugh, rep, joined the affirmative vote
| on this call, but the gain was more than
| Offset by the failure of the democrats and
popuists to vote.
The third roll call resulted: yeas 1852,
| nays 2 and Mr.. Bland asked a call OF
| the House. This was agreed TO by vote
Of rs 10 81.
| BLAND WANTS LEAVES REVOKED.
| At the close of the call, TO which PAL
| mem DefS responded, MT. blanQ OuereQ q
resolution revoking all leaves Of absence
| and instructinR the sergeant at arms TO
/ arrest absent members, the resolution TO
continue in force after adjournment and
| until the further order OF the House.
Mr.. Tracey, dem, Of New York, moved
! that tho House ad iourn.
On this resolution the republicans and
/ anti-silVer democrats voted in the affirm
| ative. The silver democrats and popq-
/ lists joined the bulk Of the democrats ia
| the negative On the division the vote
was announced as: Ayes, "a, nays, l06.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
After some further flibustering, Mr..
BANDS last resolution was agreed to,
yeas lO6. nays 0. The resolution was one
that did not require quorum.
Mr.. Reed endeavored 10 convince the
chair that his ruling 70 this latter effect
was erroneous but the chair, MIR. Dock
cry, Of Missouri. stated that il was very
clear 70 him. and In accordance with the
uniform practice Of the House, that
while the House was proceeding under =
call motions and resolutions could DO
passed by a vote Of less than a quorum.
| This point, he said, had been expressly
! ruled upon by Speaker Carlisle IN the
80. a. tNsH. "a