The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-10

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as to the outcome.
II desire to know" said Boutelle
under what rule Of the House did the
Chair decline to entertain my appeal?'
The Speaker answered somewhat
tartly that it was not the duty OF the
Chair, on demand or request OF the
gentleman from Maine, to furnish him
with any information. daughter
among the emocrats).
The question was then put on Catch
ings' motion for the previous question
which was ordered BY viva voce vote
the House dividing on party lines, Bou
telle called for division and as he
took bis seat, shouted to his Republi
can colleagues. Don't vote, don''
vote" The result was that the Repub
licans strictly abstained from voting
and the Democrats cast only l3S votes
Al short Of quorum.
Catchings asked for the yeas an ]
nays, and after the call had been com
plete0, Springer asked that the names
of those voting should be read. This
was done, showing that 1863 had Votec
in the af1irmative-al Democrats-ano
one in the negative (Bell, Popullst OF
Colorado
Before the vote was announced
Campbell, Democrat Of New York, sail
that he was paired with Belden, he;
publican, of New York, on political
questions; but be would vote now to
make a quorum. He made the state
ment because some of the newspapers
had commented upon his not voting
Yesterday Sperry, Democrat, of Con.
necticut, did not vote; neither did
Haynes, Democrat, of New York. Cad.
mus. of New Jersey, Cochran, New
York and Blanchard and Price Of Lou.
isiana, all voted with their party asso-
ciates. No quorum having voted
Catchiogs moved call of the House.
which showed the presence Of 273 mem
bers-94 more than quorum. Catch
ings then moved to dispense with fur.
ther proceedings under the call; and
although no quorum is necessary on
this question, 1t afforded an opportup!-
ty for small filibGster, and Reed de-
manced a division. This resulted:
Yeas IA; nays 40; but Reed thought
that the question should be determined
by teliers and accordingly he and
Catchings went through the form OF
counting the vote and announced that
there was 135 in the affirmative and 1C
in the negative. Accordingly it was
ordered that further proceedings under
the call should be dispensed with; and
the question REQUIRED on Catchlngs mo.
tion for the previous question. The
ayes and NAYS were ordered snd again
the Republicans renamed dumb while
169 Democrats voted to order the pre-
vious question, the names being read.
AS the majority still lacked 10 o. q
quorum, Catchings again moved call
os the House, and on this question
Reed again called for division, stat
ing, sotto voee, that. "all We need is
mathematics"
The motion of Catchings was agreed
to by vote Of 104 yeas to 81 nays, and
this, the second call, showed the pres
encs of 257 members.
Catchines again moved to dispense
with further proceedings under the
call, and this was ordered after sho,t
sklrmish, led by Burrows. The motion
to order the previous question then re-
CURED and the roll was again called.
Before this was completed, the clerk,
becoming weary of the monotonous
round of roll calls, began to slur over
the titles. and finally came down to
calling the members by their surnames.
The Democrats seemed further of
than ever from a quorum. for on the
third call of yeas and nays. but 16S
members voted, as against 1863 OF the
second and first. Gatchings, however,
did not lose heart and again moved a
call of the House, which showed the
presence of 27l members. 1t being
then ordered that further proceedings
under the call be dispensed with, the
question required on Catchings' motion
to order the previous question.
The fourth roll call resulted: Yeas
166; nays none. Mcmillan. Democrat,
OF Tennessee, asked that the names of
those voting should be read, which was
done-his purpose doubtless being to
call attention to those who refrained
from voting.
CatchiDgs then threw up the sponge,
and at $50, at his instance, the House
adjourned until tomorrow.