The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-27
WILD SCENES IN THE HOUSE.
Pence and Fithian Furnish Excite
men3 for the Members

Pence and Fithian Furnish Excite
men4 for the Members.
Washington, Feb. 26-The proceed
ings in the House were full of exciting
incidents.
Bland, being unable to secure a quo
rum, concluded to allow the debate on
the bill to proceed, at the same time
declaring that he would return to the
assault tomorrow.
Two sensational speeches followed,
one by Pence, of Colorado. who de-
nounced the Republicans for submit
ting to the crack of eX-Speaker Reeds
whip, and warned him if the election
of the president was thrown into the
House in 1896 he would rue his filibus-
tering course, and the other by Fifth
ian, who condemned. in the severest
terms, the action of his Democratic
colleagues in taking part in the fill
buster.
Toward the close of the session,
Fences reflections on Picker and Ellis
of Oregon, drew from them a statement
which Pence characterized as "abso-
lutely untrue" He was twice called
to order and the House, by a vote, re-
fused to allow him to proceed.
1t is probable that Peace's speech
will he the occasion of further COM
ment tomorrow
Hatch moved that his anticipation
bill be taken from the ways and means
committee and referred to the agri-
cultural committee for the purpose of
| insuring early and favorable report.
After some debate the motion carried
l-S8 to 81.
Warner made the point of no quo
rum
Bland called for the yeas and nays.
A quorum was secured and Hatch's
motion carried.
Boutelle had read long resolution
with number of "whereases.'' ex-
pressing the sense of the House that
Willis should be recalled from Hawaii.
A letter from the secretary of the
treasury to the encouragement, ask
ing whether a silver certificate is law
ful money, and the reply of the latter
in the negative were read.
The resolution was referred to the
proper committee. The battle over the
silver bill was then resumed Bland
I moved to go into committee of the
whole on his bill and pending that tc
close the general debate at 4 tomorrow
On the latter motion he demanded the
yeas and nays.
Having again failed to obtain a quo
rum, Bland then withdrew his motion
to limit the debate and moved to gt
The filibusterers interposed no objec
ton, as it left the debate running a.
before, without limit, and it was car
ried
Bland explained his move by sayine
that inasmuch as it was evident tina
no quorum could be obtained today. h,
thought the time could best be spen
lin debate.
Pence followed in a speech denounc
ling the Democratic backsliders from
the silver supporters and Reeds tao
tics in whipping into the ranks of fill
: busterers the Republicans favcr;n,
} silver. He said:
II have never engaged in the role @
a prophet, but I am going to do s
now. The next president of the Unite
States will be elected by the fifty-fourtl
= House of Representatives. If there j
any one man here especially intereste
2 lin knowing what will be the answer O.
/ / the roll call of the states at that time
2 lprobably it is = the gentleman fror
1 Maine, who today, and upon every oc
S lcasion, is standing up to be measure
lagainst Major Mckinley as a candidat
e flor president in 1896. Qaughter) Whe
{ 1.-THE question comes before this House
: the vote of Idaho will be as big as tn
e lvote of Pennsylvania, the vote of Nor
Y tana as big as the vote of New Yorl
d leach state having one vote. l say t
: him, now, that when that roll call come
: by states he will rue this day and til
: last fifteen days"
t Patterson, whom Pence referred to a
n lone of the Democratic backsliders, n
d Iplied, denying that he had changed h
r position. Last summer he made
: Ispeech opposing free coinage, and /
d Twas still opposed to it, but was in fave
: Iof the coinage of the seigniorage.
# Fithian DemocraD, of Illinois, sal
e liz forced to make a choice between tt
S New York goldbugs and the Populist
d THE people OF the south and west woul
O mot be slow in choosing the latter. The
v lare three kinds of Democrats in tn
lHouse-real Democrats. Cuckoo DEM