The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-03-01
Characteristic.

tional disgrace. 1t is well known that
Bland has been trying to force the con.
sideration of his bill for the coinage OF
the seigniorage in the Treasury. This
silver is held as a matter OF good faith
by the Government. John Sherman
and the ablest financiers claim that its
coinage and issue would be an act OF
bad faith. But Bland and his coadjutors,
with that recklessness which is their
main trait in financiering, insist that
there shall be no consideration for those
to whom the government is under actual
or implied obligations. In another form,
it is the old spirit which bapkrupted our
treasury and ruined our credit when
Democracy we're in full control before.
But there are Democrats, taught by ex-
perience, who hesitate to obey the man.
dates of their party. They do not care
to be pressed to an open revolt, but
have been seeking to defeat the measure
by absenting themselves and making it
impossible to secure voting quorum.
Under these circumstances Speaker
Crisp has been having a good deal OF
trouble, and has kept the sergeant at.
arms scurrying hither and thither try
ing to bring in quorum. At last, In
desperation, the Speaker ordered the ar
rest of absentees.
Among those absent was Mr.. Hulick,
of this district, who was away on leave
of absence attending the funeral OF Con.
gressman Houck. His leave extended to
the 2Sth of this month, but he was ar
rested, all the same, and yanked before
the House.
When the sergeant alarms made his
report Mr.. Hulick demanded to know
by what right he was arrested when
absent with leave.
Tom Reed came to his support, and
this precipitated a pandemonium.
Mr.. Hulick declared that common
courtesy and decency demanded that
member absent on leave should at least
be notified of the revocation of that
leave before he is subjected to the in
dignity of an arrest.
Mr.. Bland moved the discharge OF Mr..
Hulick from arIest. A dozen members
were talking at the same time, when
General Sickles, the one. e.legged hero OF
Gettysburg, moved an adjournment.
Speaker Crisp was absent, but Mr..
Dockery in the chair refused to enter.
tain the motion, but was compelled to
reconsider his decision, and the motion
was lost
Then General Sickles, like a lion in
his wrath made himself heard above the
tumult and demanded by what authority
he was under arrest. Mr.. Dockery de
cared he could not interrupt the pro
ceedines of the House.
Snodgrass. ex Confederate OF Tennes-
see, said if Gen Sickles was under ar
rest he had no right to be heard
81 am not convicted" yelled Sickles,
"and have right to be heard
"He ought to be squelched +" shouted
Meredith. But Sickles stood firm and
fearless.
IL hC ioo io w opSon5 iS heto
no right to vote shouted Wilson, of
Washington.
The chair ruled Sickles out of order.
He appealed to the House, and Mr..
Post, Republican, moved that he be al
lowed to explain.
Springer demanded that Sickles
should be compelled to take his seat.
'Don't touch him " shouted Wilson,
'he's cripple!"
In the face of an impending riot
which the chair was trying in vain to
quell, Cummings jumped on to his desk,
and with clenched fists and defiant
voice shouted at the Confederates.
''You didn't call him to order at Get
tysburg I"
Mr.. Dockery announced that demand
for the previous question on the Bland
bill had been carried by vote 81 to 0.
AS no one knew they had been voting
this was a surprise. But the point of no
quorum settle the matter.
1t was announced triumphantly by
Gen. Sickles that none of the names of
those arrested were included in the
warrant, and therefore the proceeding
was null and void.
This raised another storm. 1t was
claimed that the sergeant at arms was
liable for his extraordinary action. The
tumult was fearful and it looked as if
violence might ensue at any moment.
AT last Mr.. Bland, to escape the con-
sequences, moved an adjournment,
which motion, because Bland made it,
was at once entertained by the Speaker,
though he had refused to recognize
such motion by the opposition.
Sickles protested against being left in
chains, but the motion was declared
carried
Thus, once more, has Democracy
lodged the conflict when brought face
to face with an issue.