Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-03-09
ORGANIZE A "RUMP" HOUSE.

An Attempt to- Discredit the Regular
Republican Organization and speak,
c1. Farr Meets With Popular Com
domination
Harrisburg, March The boiling
Republicans in the legislature under the
leadership of bosses Martin and Finn
made Il scnndalous record for themselves
last week. Without the slightest justif
cation they attempted to organize a
trump meeting of the house of repre-
scntatives
Taking ruling Of the chair as Il pre-
text TO make trouble, as was done on
the previous break in the senatorial con-
vcntion, the insurgents organized what
was practically Il mass meeting after the
house was adjourned last Friday. The
boiling Republicans, with their Demo
cratic allies ecging them on. sought to
dscredit John Il. Farr. the speaker Of
The house, and 10 contribute to a SEN
sational scene with the purpose of injur-
ing Senator Quay in his canvass for re-
election.
Never was scheme for the breaking
haliwicks of either of desc two bosses
worried so boldly. For = : :, IL the lead
ers OF the rump meeting actually as
sumed to be conducting the proceedings
OF Il regularly organized and properly
constituted branch of The general as
scmhly. When they came To their sober
senses. however, as they did after their
previous boiling experience, they realized
that they had no legal standing as Il
body, that their action was unwarranted
and revolutionary, and if carried much
farther might have led TO serious con
sequences TO the men who assumed 10
usurp the positions of he regularly
elected officers of the house.
MUST HAVE TROUBLE.
Matters had been going atonG entirely
too smoothly for the boteis. Their var
ious attempts Mt sensational plays had
all fallen dat. They were evidently
yearning for an opportunity to figure
agnin. to disconccrt the regular Republi-
cans and TO excite public sympathy for
their cause The thin reform veneer OF
this Finn Martin Wanamaller outfit had
worn off long ago. The whole state had
sized up the entire outfit The seryile
followers of Finn, in the west. and of
Martin in the east. all politicians of the
most practical school, and the disap
pointed aud disgruntlcd candidates for
the spcakershp, Bliss OF Delaware and
Koontz of Somerset. and the others in
this queer contingent of business men
~
people. Their hlibusterng tactics for
weeks in the McCarrcll bill fight had
seriously impeded legislation. They re-
allied that they were being generally
condemned, aud especially by the Re-
publicans who believe in party supremacy
and in the rule of the majority and who
have in every county in the state given
expression to their disgust at the man
euvering of the men seeking to defeat
the regular nominee OF the Republican
caucus for the senatorship.
The row occurred when Representa-
tive Marshall, of Allegheny. at II o'clock
in the morning, called the order of
the day" which, under the rules OF the
house, meant adjournment. There had
been Il flibustcrins move made earlier in
the morning by Representative Slater de-
manding the reading of the Journal The
boiters had scheme set up les spring Il
lot of sensational resolutions criticizing
| the action Of the committee appointed to
investigate the charges OF bribery af-
fecting the McCarren Jury bill vote. The
regulars We're determined 10 block this
move, IL possible, knowing that it was
a mere play for the galleries and also
that the Investigators had planned to
push their work in the afternoon.
Speaker Farr gave . dccisics that under
the rules the house, upon Mr.. Marshalls
call, stood adjourned. The boilers,
with Bliss of Delaware in the chair, af-
terward held meeting, in which they
denounced the speaker and appointed
committee to draft resolutions con-
demning his action. The meeting was
made up mostly of Democrats. with the
boiling Republicans doing the talking.
They had not quorum, however, though
they talked wildly about electing a new
speaker. 1t was all done to create dis
cord and to discredit the regular Re-
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