Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-05
1T WAS DEFEATED
District Appropriation Bills Fate in
the House.
fHE YEAS AND NAYS DEMANDED
A Motion to Reconsider Was
Finally Carried.
A n EXCITING TIME

The House got into an extraordinary sit
uat!on this morning over the District of
columbia appropriation bill, resulting in
the defeat of the bill by a vote of lS5 to
l43, on a yea and nay vote. The motion
was then made to reconsider the vote
when the House met this morning Mr.
Catron of New Mexico asked unanimous
consent for the passage of a bill for pun
ishment for prize fighting in the District
OF Columbia Objection was made to that,
and Mr.. Grout Immediately called UP the
District appropriation bill
Votes the Amendments
A separate vote was asked on those
amendments adopted in the committee of
the whole which struck out the appropria-
tions for the German Orphan Asylum. the
ST. Johns Orphanage Association, the St
AIMS infant Asylum and the House of the
Good Shepherd The first vote was on the
amendment striking out the appropriation
Ior the German Orphan Asylum. The
House rejected this amendment: A vote
was then taken on the Hainer amendment
adopted in committee Of The whole yestcr-
day. This was accepted by the House by
vote or IS to 81. The amendment strik-
ing out the paragraph to 81. Johns Or
phanage was adopted by d vote of 20 to AZ
The other amendments on which separate
vision Then the amendments as a whole
were adopted as reported from the COM
:nittee of the whole. The question was then
put upon the passage of the bill as amend
| ed.
feas and Nays the Bill.
Mr.. Crisp demanded yeas and nays This
demand caused considerable excitement on
the floor, and an effort was made to pre-
| vent the yeas and nays being taken Mr..
HEPBURN asked if a r,oipb .za
to recommit the bill. The Speaker said
that it was too late for such a motion, as
| the roll call was begun. During this roll
call there was considerable excitement end
much confusion. At the conclusion Of the
call members gathered around the Speak
1 ers desk, some changing their votes from
| yea to nay and others from nay 40 yea.
When the vote was announced II was found
| that the bill defeated as above stated
| by vote Of l55 to 143 Mr.. Grosvenor tncn
moved to reconsider the vote by waich The
h.n was defeated, and Mr. Crisp moved 10
| lay that motion cn the table. On a rising
| vote the motion to lay on the table wss lost.
by a vote of al to 14o. Mr. Crisp then de-
| manded the yeas and nays, and was
seconded by sufficient number, so that
| the yeas and nays were ordered. On the
| first roll call a considerable rumber OF
members refrained from voting, and there
was a great discrepancy between the
| standing votes, which make no personal
| record and the vote by yeas and nays,
| where each man is recorded.
Detailed Vote Defeating the Bill.
The detailed vote on the bill by which
it was defeated was as follows: Sixty-one
republicans voted against the bill.
| Yeas-Acheson, Adams, Aldrich, Allen
| Gtah), Andrews, Arnold Pa.), Arnold Or.
ID, Baker CMd), Baker On. H.), Barham,
Barney, Bartholdt, Bell (CoL), Bingham,
Bishop, Bowers. Broderick, Bromwell, Bro
sius, Brown, Brumm, Burrell Cannon,
| Clark (Mo.), Cooke CWisD, Cooke Qll),
! Cooper Wis.), Corliss, Crowther, Crump,
Curtis Qowa), Curtis QNan.), Danford, Day
| lis, Evans, Fairchild. Faris, Fletcher. Fow-
| ler, Gamble, Gardner, Gibson, Gillett
CIass.), Graft, Griffin, Grout, Hadley, Ha-
ger, Han er, Halerman, Hanly, Harmer.
| Comm, Henry Qnd), Hepburn, Hermann.
Hicks, Hilborn, Hill Comm, Hit Qll),
Howe, Howell, HUFF, Hulick, Hull Hyde,
Jenkins. Joy, Kirkpatrick, Knox. Lacey,
| Leighly, Leonard, Linton, Loud, Loudens-
lager, Mahon. Mccall Mass). Mccall
CTenn.), McCleary, McEwan, Mereer. NIL
lands, Northway. often, Perkins, Phillips.
| Pcker, Pitney, Ray, Reyburn, Russell
| CCorn.), Samerhering, Scranton, Shafroth,
smPsns smi1h G Smith s9as ish
| (Wfs.), Stone, c. W., Strobe ,Neb.), Strong,
Taft, Tayler, Thomas. Towne, Tracewel,
Tracey, Treloar, Van Voorhis Walker (Va.),
Wanger, Washington uad1, Wilson ddahG),
| Wilson (Ohio), Wood and Wright-135.
Nays-Abbott, Avery, Babcock. Eailey,
Baker, Kansas; Bankhead. Barrett, Bart
nap, Bell. Texas; Berry Black, Georgia;
Boatner. Brewster, Burton, Missouri;
Calderhead. Chickerins, Catchings, Clardy,
| Clark, Iowa; Cobb, Alabama; Cobb. Mis-
souri,; Cockrell Coffin, Cooper, Florida;
| Cooper, Texas; Cox, Crisp Culberson, Cum
| mings, Curtis, New York; Dalzell, Daniels,
lott, South Carolina; Erdman, Fischer.
| Foote, Gillet, New York; Griswold, Gros-
venor, Grow, Hall, Missouri; Hardy, HGr-
ris, Harrison, Hart, Heatwole, Henderson,
| Hendrick, Hooker, Hurley, Hutcheson,
johnson, California; johnson, North Da-
kota; Jones. KEN, kiefer, Kyle, Latimer,
Layton, Lefever, Lester, Lewis. Linney,
Little, Long. Low, Mahany, Mcclellan. Nc
| Creary, Kentucky; McCulloch, McDearmon,
1 McKenney, McLaurn, McAIilin, Mere
dith, Meyer, Miles, Miller West Virginia;
| Mines, Money, Moses Neill, Noonan, Og-
| den, Overstreet, Owens, Parker, Patterson,
| Payne, Pearson. pendleton Poole, Powers
| Pugh Quigg, Richardson, Robbins Robert
son, Louisiana; Royse, Russell, Georgia;
Sorg, Spalding, Spencer, Stallings, Stephen
| son, Stewart, New Jersey: Stokes, Strait,
Strcwd, North Carolina; Sulzer, Swanson,
| Talbert, Tarsney, Tate, Tawpey, Lacey,
Tucker. Turner, Georgia; Turner, Virginia:
Underwood. Updegraff, Wadsw orth. War
nTer; Wheeler, White; WI. WtibeE; Williams.
| Carolina; Woodman-l43.
Motion to Table Defeated.
| The motion to table the proposition to re-
| consider the vote was defeated on a yea
| and nay vote by SO to 1872. The vote then
required upon the proposition TO reconsider
| the vote upon which the bill was defeated
| On this Mr.. Crisp demanded the yeas and
| nays. He was seconded by sixty-four men,
| hers, which was not a sufficient number
| He then demanded that the count be taken
| by tellers.
The yeas and nays were finally ordered
on the proposition to reconsider the vote
and resulted in the reconsideration by a
| vote of 1S9 to so. This reconsideration was
adopted in order to enable a motion to be
made to recommit the bill to the committee
| On appropriations. Mr.. Grosvenor on the
announcement of the vote was recognized
| by the Speaker, and moved to recommit the
| bill, with instructions for the committee to
| re-examine that part of the bill under the
| head of charities Mr.. Dockery asked If
VI der this recommitment any ether para
graph might be re-examired. The Speaker
| replied that 1T might not The previous
| question on the motion to recommit was
| then demanded and ordered by the House.
MIR. Crisp's Contention.