The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-19
HOUSE LIMOGES MAKE 1T HOT.
RECOGNITION OF CUBAN BELLIGER~
ENCY DEMANDED.

Bailey of Texas Backs De ArmOnds
The Acting Chairman sustains
Point of order Against the Schemes
The Ruling Appealed From anh
the Chairman Sustained by a Ma
jOrIty of 3s Votes.
Washington. Jan. 1S.-The first contested
election case of the present Congress was
disposed of by the House to-day.
Chairman Taylor of the committee on
elections No reported that Thomas
Clark, who filed notice of contest againss
Jesse Il. Stallings, representing the Sec
ond Alabama district. had abandoned HIS
contest, and therefore. unanimously re-
ported resolution declaring Mr.. Stall~
ings entitled to the seat.
The House then resumed considerations
of the army appropriation bill.
When the House adjourned yesterday ~.
point of order had been raised against ~
provision of the bill modifying the method
of computing the mileage of army officers
The chair overruled the point of order.
Mr.. Sayers, Dem, of Texas. said the pro-
| vision would increase the cost of mileage
10 the government After some discuss
sion IL was temporarily passed over.
| Mr.. sayers then raised a point of order
| against the provision requiring the pay
of enlisted men by paymasters in person.
| The point of order was sustained and the
provision went out of the bill.
Mr.. Little of Arkansas offered an amend
ment TO appropriate $4,000 for the repair
| of the National cemetery at Fort Smith,
| Ark. He explained that the cemetery had
been totally wrecked by the storm whlch
| recently devastated the town. The amend-
ment fell under point of order.
| The army appropriation bill was passed.
! and the diplomatic and consular appro~
! priaton bill was taken up. The minority
| served notice that they proposed to debats
our foreign relations exhaustively.
| Mr.. DeArmond of Missouri offered as au
| amendment to the diplomatic and consu-
/ lar appropriation bill resolution for the
| recognition of Cuban belligereney and
| when point of order was raised against it
| he made a strong speech appealing to those
| who sympathized with the struggling in-
| surgents to override the rules of the
| House, assert themselves and adopt this
| amendment now. He declared they could
| never explain their course to their constit-
uents If they did not seize this opportunity.
Mr.. Bailey, Dem, of Texas, next amid
| n burst of APPLAUSE, challenged Mr.. HIT,
| chairman of the committee on foreign af-
| fairs to state that II was the intention or
| those in authority to give the House am
| opportunity TO vote on the Cuban belhg-
| erency resolution.
Mr. Hit made no reply except TO pro-
test that Mr.. Bailey was out of order.
Mr. Hepburn in the chair, sustained the
point of order.
Mr. DeArmond thereupon appealed fron
the decision of the chair and urged that
the members seize the present opportunity
Mr.. DlngIey, the floor leader of the ma
iority. hurried to the rescue. Great ex-
citement prevailed.
The speaker entered the hall OF the
House while Mr.. Dingley appealed to his
side of the House to disregard all the per-
sonal inclinatlons toward the amendmene
and stand by the rules of the House.
In reply to Mr.. Dingley. Mr.. DeArmond
urged the members TO free the House for
q single hour from dominion so apso-
lutte that the mebers TO free the House for
ton for nothing except as those In author
ity had approved II"
Gen. Henderson, Rep, of Iowa, answer
ed Mr. DeArmoud, declaring that II ma
jority of the House was against the Cuban
| resolution there would be no action despite
the fine political play of the Missouri gem
/, tleman.
The excitement on the floor continued.
but debate was temporarily diverted to the
rules and parliamentary tactics, and par
ty lines were broken when Mr.. Fleming,
Dem. Of Georgia, opposed the Cuban
amendment on the ground that it was not
In order, and Mr.. Colson, Rep, of Ken
lucky, followed in vigorous speech ar
rasgning the committee on foreign affairs
and his Republican associates for delay
I on cuba. He warned Republicans that
the people would hold them accountables
for the delays. He declared that Is some-
thing was not done he would be one to joins
; in the most revolutionary tactics on ths
! floor to bring the Cuban question to n
hearing.
ON the motion to close debate on the ap~
peal, the rising vote was yeas, 152; Nays
ia.
without further amendment, the bilf
2 was passed.
The Wheeler resolution for the appoints
nent OF members of the Board OF Re-
e gents of the Smithsonian Institute, was
a also passed.
= Mr. Hit, chairman of the committee on
| foreign affairs, then called up the diplo-
!, matte and consular appropriation bill.
, Mr.. Bailey objected TO any Limitation ON
!, | the general debate
. The bill carries S1.729OO an increase Of
> $33,700 over the law for the current year.
= As soon as the enacting clause had been
/" reached, MIR. DeArmond Dem. of Mis-
souri,. offered an amendment to recognize
the Cuban insurgents as belligerents.
Mr. Hit raised the point of order that
the amendment was new legislation and
obnoxious to the rules of the House.
= Mr.. DeArmond, speaking of the point OF
order, said he fully understood the rules
OF the House, which were designed To
/ suppress, when desired, the will of the
n House.
) The chairman of the foreign affairs
committee, he said, might feel constrain-
: ed to raise this point of order but he
reminded the House that there still re-
l. sldad, in his judgment the power at any
: time, at any place, on any bill, TO place
o what the House believed should be there
y For months, he declared, those in control
, of the House declined to allow to be done
what the people desired, namely, that Con-
gress act upon this question of recognize
ing the belligerency of the struggling pa
triots in Cuba. When the people Of the
a country felt as they did, IL was the duty
Of Americans to override those petty little
rules which had been used to suppress ac-
r. tion. The newspapers were filed daily
,p | with narrowing tales of starvation and
e cruelty in Cuba. Should we emulate the
= example of Nero, who fiddled while Rome
Is burned, and sit suDlnely and indinerentls
II by when men almost within sight OF oul
= | shores We're fighting for princiDles az hol,