The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24

rested shall be brought by the sergeant
alarms before the House, whereupon he
shall be noted as present, discharged from
arrest and given an opportunity TO vote
and his vote shall be recorded.
'If those voting on the question and
those who are present decline to vote
shall together make a majority of the
House. the Speaker shall declare that
quorum is constituted and the pending
question shall be decided as the majority
of those voting shall appear, and there
upon further proceedings under the call
shall be considered as dispensed with. At
any time as the rollcall has been COM
pleted, the Speaker may entertain a
motion to adjourn, if seconded by a
majority of those present, to be ascer-
tanned by actual count by the Speaker,
and if the House adjourn all proceedings
under this section shall be vacated. But
this section of the rule shall not apply to
the sessions of Friday night until further
orders by the House.
A long discussion followed Henderson's
explanation of the rules.
Miles 3D. of Maryland offered an
amendment providing that the result of
pending proposition shall be decided by
the votes of majority of those members
present. The debate was continued by
Grow (R.) of Pennsylvania and Gibson
(R.) of Tennessee and concluded by Dal-
zell (R.) of Pennsylvania, all supporting
the amendment, which was agreed to
after Miles amendment had been rejected.
Walker (R.) of Massachusetts proposed
an amendment giving to members Oldest
in the service the first right to draw for
seats at the beginning of the session. 1t
was lost.
Crisp CD of Georgia moved to substi-
tute for the code of rules the rules of the
Fifty-third Congress. Pending action on
this motion Dolliver (R.) of Iowa made
humorous, semi-sarcastic speech, con-
graduating the House and the country
upon the fact that even the Democratic
was consenting to a return of reign of
reason in the conduct of affairs.
The events of to-day, he said, demon
strated that the Democratic party knew a
good thing when they had seen it long
enough.
These remarks drew from Crisp Cd of
Georgia an earnest defense of the action of
the Democratic members in the Fifty-first
Congress in protesting against what they
deemed then, and which he still deemed, a
revolutionary proceeding on the part of
the Speaker at that time. He closed by
reminding Dolliver that the rule of the
Fifty-third Congress giving the Committee
on Rules the right to report at any time,
which had formed the subject of part of
Delivers remarks, had been adopted word
for word by the Committee on Rules and
agreed to by the House. 81 merely men
tion this" he said, $50 that when the
gentleman again assumes to make a speech
he shall base it upon facts and not expose
his ignorance"
Dolliver explained that he had not in
tended when he took the floor to say any
thing that should disturb the serenity of
the Democrats and if any word of his had
tended to do so he regretted his utterance.
He could only account for it, he said, by
the nervous irritation caused by the indul-
gence of an afternoon of constitutional
debate. [Laughter.]
Crisp's substitute was rejected and the
rules reported adopted.
A resolution was agreed to authorizing
the printing of 1000 copies of the digest
and rules of the House.
Speaker Reed announced that Payne (R.)
of New York would act as Speaker pro
tem.at the Friday night session and unani-
nous consent was given that at that ses-
sion appropriation bills might be reported
for printing only.
The House then at 4 80 o'clock took
recess until Friday night and at the con-
clusion of that session to stand adjourned
until Monday.