St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-24
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During all this time Mr.. Adams, the
prisoner at the bar, had been seated in
the revolving chair in front of the bar
OF the house. lazily swinging to and fro,
an amused spectator of the proceed
lngS. and a laugh was occaSloned when
Speaker Pro TEN. Richardson an
nOunced that ne had excused the
gentleman at the bar of the house to get
lunch. Representative Dunn (Dem.. n.
j., II Of the members arrested. de-
nounced the arrest as a breach of his
constitutional rights. He offered a
resolution to the effect that the warrant
was void and the names should be
stricken from it. MIR. Reed held up
THE ORIGINAL WARRANT,
showing that the names of members to
be arrested were OIL a leaf attached to
the mandate of arrest. The mandate
did not identify the attached list of
members as the ones to be apprehended.
This was irregular. in Mr.. Reeds judg-
ment, and failed to observe those
jealous safeguards against arrest which
the law recognized. Mr.. Bartlett CRep.)
said that the general warrant under
discussion would not have a standing in
a barbarouS community. AT this point
MIR. Bland Unexpectedly withdrew his
amendment, and moved to suspend all
further proceedings under the call of
the house under which the arrests were
made. The purpose of this move was to
drop the much confused question i'll
stead of attempting TO straighten it out.
Mr.. Reed made the point of order that
Mr.. Bland could not dispense with a
call partially executed and on which
members were now under arrest.
Mr.. Springer insisted that vacating
! the order of the house of Feb. 10 would
release the members under arrest.
Many members attempted to talk. and
the chair protested that he could not
hear half a dozen members at once.
Mr.. Reed said that every respectable
man must be so sick and tired of this
MIR. Bland might be a blessing. This
closed the opposition. The acting
speaker overruled the point of order,
and then put the question OH the Bland
resolution for ~yacating the call of Feb.
19 and releasing the members under
arrest. The was carried by a loud viva
vOce vote with very
FEW DISSENTING VOTES.
Thus the tangle was suddenly ter
minated, and the arrested members of
congress were again free. Representa-
tive johnson (Rep., Ind.) offered a reso-
luton calling on the Sergeant-at-arms
to investigate whether Mr.. JohnSon's
arrest was with proper authority, and to
correct the writ ii error was discovered.
The resolution was agreed to. Then
the call of committees, usually coming
at the opening of the days session, was
begun. Mr.. Bland moved tina the
house go II committee of the whole
to consider the silver bill, and that all
debate close at 5 p. III. tomorrow (Satur-
day. On this the previous question
was demanded. Filibustering at once
began again as Mr.. Tracey (Dem.,
N. " demanded a division on the
vote for the previous question.
The division showed LAT to 2-no
quorum. MIR. Bland moved a call Of
the house. MIR. Tracey moved to adj
journ. Mr.. Meredith said he wished to
call attention to the systematic filibus-
ter. A yea u nay vote was taken
OIL the motion to adjourn, resulting 10 to
2O5, and the house refused to adjourn.
Mr.. Reed moved to take a recess until 8
p. m. This was agreed 10.
AT he night session of the house,
which was to consider pension bust
ness, Mr.. Russell (Dem., Ga.) started to
play the role of Objector Kilgore. There
were only fifty-two members in the hall
when s o'clock arrived, and, OH Mr..
Martins motion to go into committee of
the whole. Mr.. Russell made the point
of no quorum. Subsequently, he yield
ed to the urgent solicitation or his col
leagues aud withdrew the point. At
$50 the house adjourned.