The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-24
HOT SHOT FROM BLAND.
a Bitter Philippe Against FiIibust-
ering Democrats.

ering Democrats.
Washington, Feb. 2S.-Speaker Crisp.
who is confined to his house with a Sc
,Sere sore throat and cold. sent a note
appointing Richardson, of Tennessee,
speaker pro TEN. for the day. The gal
.leries were crowded in anticipation OF
8 e. repetition of the exciting scenes yes
serday.
As soon as the journal was read,
, Adams Democrat) began clamoring Tor
recognition on a question of personal
privilege He was being tried when the
House adjourned yesterday. He yield
ed, however. to Wells, Of Wisconsin,
who said he was enormously reported
Is voting no on the motion to adjourn.
He denied that he had taken any part
in the proceedings, but said he would
have voted, if at all, to adjourn, in or
der to put d stop to the disgraceful
performance"
On request of Cummings, Sickles was
excused on account of sickness. The
speaker declared the pending question
was the motion to discharge Adams
from the custody of the sergeant-at-
arms.
Adams was given leave to state his
question of personal privilege. He want
ed to know why yesterday, while eX-
planning his case, the mace Of the
House should have been used to force
him to his seat 1t was an indignity
while he was endeavortng to carry out
the mandate of the House.
The chair stated that the question
would have to be stated later, as the
pending question was on discharge OF
a gentleman from CUSTODY.
Reed made the point that the ques-
ton should be to discharge the gentle
man because the warrant under which
he was arrested was unauthorized.
Springer tried 10 interpOSe a motion
TO discharge all under arrest as the
shortest way out OF the tangle, but
Reed demanded the previous question
cutting him off
The Democrats decided TO vote down
the previous question to give Springer
2 chance. but some eastern Democrats
voted with the Republicans and the
previous question was lost, IS TO 159.
Then Bland moved as a substitute fol
Reeds motion to discharge ali under
arrest. Reed made the point of order
that the amendment was not germane
and the question was argued at some
length. In the course of the debate
Bland denounced the New York delega-
ton in heated words. He was caller
10 order several times by Coombs, OF
New York, amid a general uproar.
Hands speech was sensational in IFS
criticism of the disorder which prevail
ed Yesterday. He declared the men
who were obstructing legislation anG
defying the House were anarchists and
revoluticaistS.
II was hard, he declared. to give
leaves of absence and Immediately re-
woke them, and order the arrest of
members, but the public EFFICIENCY some
times required such course. The
House had been dead-locked for days,
The v ole of the country was full OF
il. and every member must have been
aware that his presence was needed.
He maintained that when a member
of Congress was elected he entered
into a solemn contract with his con-
stituency 10 leave private business
alone and attend TO the public business
for which he was elected. He then
went on in an impaSsioned way. Il
saw gentlemen here" said he, shaking
his head savagely, and lifting his voice
until it fairly rang through the hail,
ssdisobey the rules and commands of
this House I saw gentlemen rise and
boast that they had defied the power
of the House. If that is not anarchy
and revolution, what is it? Democrat
ic applause). We in the House are the
fountain source of order and a
law making body. Shall we
resolve ourselves into a body of an
archists? If some one We're to throw
y bomb from yonder gallery, he would
be no more an anarchist than he. who
on this floor, defies The power Of the
House (cries of .tshamei Shamer' and
hisses.9 While the people of this coun-
try are in the tilroes of hunger and
starvation continued Bland, dngered
at the demonstration against him
s.when they expect us to do something
to become filibusterers and obstruction
lists is to become anarchists, for its
purpose is the defiance of the laws OF
the country. We were sent here to dc
our duty at time when cities are
fhronped with mobs and the people
cannot 90 to bed in peace and comfort
II is not a time when mob law should
obtain here.
AZ this point .Bynum called bland to
ersar. and after being admonished by