The morning call., 1894-03-30
He Can Ride Over Rules
Himself.
LEADERS IN WORDY WAR.
Reed Meets the Speaker Upon
the Floor.
PARTY FEELING GREW BITTER.
While Men on Opposite Sides, i'm
Fierce Anger, All but Came
to Blows.


was manifested as TO the fate Of the Bland
seignlorage bill. After the reading of the
journal MIR. Dockery. from the joint COM
mission to investigate the expenditures in
the executive department, formally intro
duced the bill prepared by the commission
TO improve the methods of accounting in
the Treasury Department.
The regular order, the Joy-O'Neil con-
tested election case, was then taken up
and the flibuster against the seating of
O'Nel was resumed. At - :05, while the
roll of the House was being called, Pru-
den, the Presidents executive clerk, ap-
peared at the bar of the House and trans
mitted the Presidents special message
vetoing the Bland seignioTage bill. The
vote on the pending measure was taken
and resulted-154 to IL, fourteen short Of a
quorum. OF the eleven who voted against
the motion--in effect against giving O'Neil
the seat. there were ten Democrats, as fol-
lows: Dearmond, Everett, Griffin. Hall OF
Missouri, Morgan, Cultivate, RYAN, Sib-
ley, Hartner and Warner. McKeighan.
Populist of Nebraska, cast the other mega
tive vote. Then came more fiibustering,
and Patterson offered a resolution to re-
woke the leave of absence and instruct the
SergeaDt-at-Arms 10 take the absentees
into custody. The order according to the
resolution was to continue in force from
day to day until vacated.
Reed attempted to make the point that
a quorum was necessary to adopt a reso-
luton containing an order in force beyond
adjournment, but the Speaker overruled
him, holding that ii was plainly within
the power Of less than a quorum TO adopt
means TO compel the attendance of the
absentees. The previous question was
ordered-162 TO .. Then Reed tnok the
floor. and in a brief speech scored the
Democratic side. dwelling particularly
upon the absurdity of a proceeding which
aimed at procuring a quorum by duress.
and. alter one was secured, left the House
powsrless to record its presence. Some
Thing in which Reed said evidently stung
Speaker Crisp. who was on the floor at the
time when the ex-Speaker sat down.
Speaker Crisp arose and said it was not
his purpose to enter discussion Of the
merits of the question. He only wanted
to call attention to the persistence with
which the leader of the minority. Reed,
had called attention 10 the absolute in
iauity of the practice of members in re-
fusing to vote when their names were
called. I'VE have been denounced time
and time again." said he. ''for refusing to
vote
81 counted you." interrupted Reed, amid
laughter
"Mr. Reed" Speaker Crisp went on.
"had placed his party in position when
he made his Quorum-counting ruling where
it either had to sustain that ruling or re-
nounce him. 1t was an open secret that
Reed hsd been unable TO get the Repub-
lican caucus to use such a ruling"
'I have never tried" said Reed.
But" continued Crisp, when Reed
had once made the ruling his party was
forced to sustain him."
The Speaker proceeded t. picture the
absolute power of the ex-Speaker over his
side of the House. He described how an
agreement entered into by the minority
and majority of the Elections Committee
had been broken at Reeds dctatlon. He
was the chief supervisor of his side.
SIT looks as IL you needed a chief sup er-
visor on your own side" shouted Bou-
telle.
what we possess and what you need"
replied the Speaker deliberately. "ls inde-
pendenee OF thought. Applause.J There
was never and never Will be a chief super
visor on this side" be continued. Reeds
whole purpose he said was to force the
Democratic side to count a quorum. All
other questions paled into iDsignificauce by
The overshadowing one of standardization
with Reed. Every member should feel
his responsibility. He should vote whether
he approved proposition or not. If he
al n IN ehnuld ha
honored Democratic privilege of voting
against it; he should not join hands with
the enemy across the aisle. [GIeat ap-
plausc.
Reed expressed desire to reply to the
Speaker, but the time had expired and be
was not permitted to do so. He then
asked for division on the resolution, but
Stone of Kentucky. in the chair. ruled
that the proposition was not advisable.
Party feeling had been aroused by the re-
marks of Reed aud Speaker Crisp and the
Republicans began filibustering with re-
doubled vgor. An appeal was taken from
the decision OF the chair by Payne, and
Springer moved to lay that motion on the
table. Payne moved to adjourn. and this
latter motion was lost-72 to 81. The ap-
peal was laid on the Ia able-177 10 6s.
Lacey of Iowa moved to reconsider and
Payne moved TO adjourn. The motion to
adjourn was lost.
The Speaker then stated that the motion
made by Lacey to reconsider the vote by
which the appeal was laid on the table
was not in order. Lacey appealed from
the decision Of the chair. but the Speaker
refused to entertain his appeal. Reed.
who was standing In the center aisle, in
sisted on knowing the grounds upon
which the Speaker declined to sustain the
appeal. but the Speaker only raped with
his gavel and declined emphatieally TO
state the grounds of his refusal.
Payne moved to adjourn, and the
Speaker declined to entertain this motion
also. BY this time the members of both
sides were wildly excited. Partisan blood
was at fever heat, and for several minutes
pandsmonium reigned. From all parts of
the floor members were shouting their de-
fiancas and several personal encounters