The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-12
AMENDING q The RULES
tVsry Lille Other Business ofInp0rtanes s' siI'
pu y bile Interest Transacted In the House. 3
THE QUESTION or FUNERAL oBsEQUJllE!ss.
Whns.. Constitutes Is 0uorum2-Ruiesss
TO Ro Changed without Preyiolssl
Noticc-PriviieEes OF the FIoori
10 Press Associations ResuIateda-
Tive Lobby Denied to JournaIisss.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 1o-( (IolseJ
The House proceeded at once to the
consideration in the code of rules prot-S
posed lby the committee. At the stigeI
gestton of Mr.. Henderson the para-t
graph regulating the counting OF ae!s
quorum when one fails to vote on anY(
question was temporarily passed ssssssf
Mr.. Wheeler moved to strike out thef;
paragraph providing that "on demandl
OF any member at the suggestion of Std1ef
Spealser, the names of members suff1.if
cient to make n quorum in the halIFofG
the House who do not vote shall be-
noted by the Chair and recorded in theT
journal, and reported to the SpeakeI.E
with the names of the members yotinsb
and be counted and announced in da-ii
termining the presence of q quorum TOT
40 business. His first objection to H,I
Mr. Wheeler said, was that 1t wassSllI.lt3
constitutional. and IL not unconsst ftai- Z
tional It's operation would permit thets
passage OF bill, or even the declara-t
tton of war by the House by votes OF \
less SIS than majority of a quorum. Sf5S
Ihe amendment was lost q
Committee amendments were a s.reedH
70 providing that the previous question
shall be ordered by the votes OF m
majority OF those voting, IL q quorlrlss
pe present; amendments to the tltIei
OF q bill or resolution shall not be %int
order until after It's passage and 5ber
decided without debate; requests for u
correction of records shall be decidedlI
without debate. ls2i'!sIf ~
Motions to refer any claim to the
court of claims shall be considered sinS
the committee of the whole
Mr. Curtis (Rep) of New York pro-
posed an amendment to substitute for
memorial services over the death Eicfe
member In the course OF a Cong ras,5f
resolutions rcciting the services Of theF
deceased, which, IL adopted by s tf,e,]
House, shall be printed in the Record {{ssSs:;
l., Ills proposed'innoyation led to llyesS
Mr.F Henderson suggested an amend.
ment TO Mr.. Curtis amendment efyfnf!
members who desired ITO perpetlIatess
theirpersonal tributes'to deceased assn-ss
ciates leave to print ~ f,sf
An amendment proposed by Mr. 4 a ,.ns,a ,,s,asg
Nenor QRepo, of Ohio, excluding from
the operations Of the rule members VIM
nave died previous to tlfis debate, Wasi
TseeJcted. And then the whole proposi-l
ton was voted doWn--31 to 1870. KS
The lremaindhr of the Commit taag,
amendments We're agreed to as follows: :s
Making 1t possible to change the rliissS
without previous notice: regulating the;
privilege Of the floor granted ito thaits
representatives of the press assoc,aSIS
tons and striking out the reg,IIafin,1,ff;
governing the printing OF documents.s; \;
that nave been covered in the new
Mr.. Wanger GRep). Of Pennsylvania /
proposed TO re-enact the rule Of t9leN
f1tty-third Congress by which they
priVhege OF the lobby in rear of theE
nan OF the House was given to newspa-E Il
per correspondents. but Mr.. Hendersonts
opposed II on the ground that the IobbyS;
should be preserved for thecom fort and II
convenience of members only. Mr.Sa
Wanger's amendment was Iost-I7 ~, 3
"a. 80 80 ss-sg
Mr., Morse (RepD, of Massachusettsf 81
got the floor to state that the sugges19s51
tton regarding his eulogy upon thei Iaf,sG
Representative O'Neil. of PennsyIyaniaSiSss 81
that hat, he was mistaken regarding theaal
not warranted by anything in the lsnsss
logy itself. ~ sssssyS
a number Of unavailing efforts yyHa
made to secure amendments "a ssfhss1
rules. Among them was one byshST.
Turner Dem), of Georgia, to retfiIITlfts
the provision making a majority &c sths{s
whole membership a quorum OF ssStha
committee of tho whole. This tSSs,d3 d3s
been the unvarying rule In the, ifsfSrY,lA 4 L
save n,dIt, in the Fifty.tirst Congress, hesss
a quorum OF the committee of 4fthe3S
is incorporated in the present code