San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-20

the confusion. A dozen members were
on their feet clamoring for recognition
at one and the same time. The au-
thor of the resolution, Mr.. Love, was
recognized and made a speech in IA
vor of the resolution under many dis
advantages as various members were
pelting him with spit balls, pamphlets
and the like. AS soon as he finished
his speech, Mr.. Evans, of Hunt, secur-
ed the floor and wanted it generally
understood from the very outset that
he proposed to talk until the fee bill
came back into the House to be signed
and he did not propose to yield the
floor until that time. With this pre-
face to his remarks Mr.. Evans began
a general talk against time. He
touched on the Cuban resolution &C.
casionally but more frequently was
talking about something else. He had
not been on the floor a minute before
the various members began pelting
him with spit balls, packages of bills,
House journals, waste baskets or any
thing else that was handy. Quite a
number of these implements of warfare
were aimed true and found a lodgment
on Mr.. Evans head or shoulder. Moth
ing daunted he either threw them back
at the thrower or caught some member
nearer at hand and gave him a broad
side. Occasionally he would pick up
a whole batch of loose House bills and
throw them up in the air. The various
members continued to pelt him with
everything they could lay hands on un-
til finally the floor around where Mr..
Evans stood and the entire centre aisle
was several inches deep with waste
paper, old House bills and House jour-
nails. A dozen or more waste baskets
were lying in close proximity of .Ir.
Evans, many of them having been
thrown clean across the hall and as a
result it looked as though there had
been a regular pitch battle in the hall.
This assaulting of Mr.. Evans did not
in any way deter him from his purpose
of holding the House together and pre-
venting an adjournment until the fee
bill had been signed He continued
to talk and finally came down and
climbed up on the press table where a
number of members again pelted him
with spit balls. After he had been
talking about fifteen minutes the fee
bill came over from the Senate for the
speaker to sign. The House was by
| this time at least twenty-five shy of a
quorum. AS the bill was brought into
| the House to be signed Mr.. Blair
| started down the aisle to raise the
point to order of no quorum. The
| speaker handed the clerk a printed bill
| to read the caption of the bill and
signed the enrolled bill while the
| caption was being read. In the mean
| time Mr.. Evans of Hunt was still hold
| ing the floor and talking at a two
| forty gait, though not a soul could hear
| him above the din that had broke loose
on all sides. The bill was properly
| signed by the speaker who then recog-
| nized Mr.. Blair for his point of order
| of no quorum. OF course the recogni-
ton was too late and having nothing
| more to do the House adjourned until
| tomorrow morning at o'clock.
over in the Senate nothing more was
done that to pass finally the anti-mob
| law bill, kill the bill prohibiting the
use of the gate system" on Texas rail-
roads and sign some bills that had al
! ready previously been signed. Along
| about noon hour the Senate became
| engaged in a wrangle about whether
| they should retain any clerks after adj
| journment to fix up the journals and
other matters. This resolution was
| finally adopted after much quibbling
and the Senate adjourned until
| o'clock tomorrow morning also.
At noon about one-third of the mem
| bers left on the Nashville excursion.
| There were not nearly as many sena-
| tors as were expected to go but the
| House end held the crowd up pretty
well.
Tomorrow practically closes the spe-
| cial session. OF course neither House
will adjourn sine die until 10 o'clock to-
| morrow as that is the hour fixed for
sine die adjournment, but as there is
not a quorum of either House present
there can of course be no business
| transacted.