The age-herald., 1900-03-13

at 2:SO D. m. MT. Briggs, democrat. New York, addressed the house in support or the claims of the sitting member. MT. Young.
 MT. Briggs expressed his opinion that contested election cases should be adjudi- cated by lthe courts and not by partisan majority in the house.
 Clayton Caused Sensation
 During the progress of the remarks of MT. Weeks. of Michigan, who closed the debate for the contestant, some exc1tement was caused by Mir. Clayton, democrat, or Alabama, who arose abruptly and pro- tested that the contestants brother. John s. Wise, who is an ex-member of the house, was abusing the privileges of the floor to which he was entitled as member by ln- terfering with the debate.
 Mr. Wise was sitting along side of MT Weeks, and at the time was writing As soon as the point was made, MT Wlse hur- riedly arose, handed MT. Weeks the note and withdrew back of the railing. MT. Rich ardson, the minority leader backed up MT Clayton's point of order. He declared that Mir Wise was the attorney of record in his brothers case, that he was abusing the privilege accorded lhim by prompting gen. tlemen in the debate, and adverted to the fact that a remark interjected by MT. Wise 1n the course OI uSDdle last 0dpuldaS NoiiSN for a protest from MT. Burke of Texas who was on the floor at the time. MT. Richard son said it was bad enough to turn mem ber>s out of the house without allowing at torneys to come on the floor and persecute them. He appealed to fair-minded men on the other side to protect the house rom such abuses.
 MT. Weeks replied that the note written by MT Wise related in no manner to the debate.
 Docs the gentleman concede that MT. Wise is the attorney of the record? an- quired the speaker.
 "He was the attorney before the commit tee" replied MT Weeks. The speaker called attention to the rule that gave .ex-memDers the privilege of the floor when not inter- ested in any claim or bill before congress.
 "rrhe protection of the dignity or the house and every element of fair play re- ouire that the chair should act" said the speaker. "and the chair holds that the gen tleman shall not occupy place on rhis floor The doorkeeper is directed to excluue MT. Wise until the case is disposed or. Democratic applause3
 MT. Wise Had Gone
 The doorkeeper hurried to the cloakroom to execute the speakers order, but MT Wise had already passed through sue entrance to the corridor beyond. The vote was taken by yeas and nays, first on the substitute resolutions, declaring the sluNhS member, MT. Young, entitled to nas seat. Considerable excitement prevailed, as II was seen that the vote would pc Veuy close At the conclusion ot the secoha Can of the roll the democrats were one ahesu. The democrats called for an announcement of the vote The speaker directed the clerk ao caH his name He responded in the neg atdve This tied the vote, and for mo ment the result hung in the balance. heh Nr. Mann, republican, of llAnols, ascef- xained that he was entitled to vote, as a colleague with whom he was paired had returned to the house. MT. Klutts, demo- crat, of North Carolina, who was pared withdrew his vote. It being manifest fnat the democrats were beaten, Mr. Richard son. tine minority leader, changed from aye to no, and when the speaker announced that the resolutions were defeated, l2S to 132 he moved to reconsider, but the mo- tion was laid on the table, 132 to l2s.
 Mr Wise was then declared entitled to the seat by 132 ito 125, and was sworn in as a member.
 Mir Cannon called up the urgency de- fcency appropriation bill. It carried $l,- 439 5S9 The principal item was 900 for the naval eSta b,ishment and $4SI,000 for the public printing office. In connection With ghe latter item, MT. Richardson called at- ter.ion to the bill he had introduced to regulate the product of the paper trust. The advance in the price of paper was one of the causes of the deficiency asked for. MT. Richardson said the creation of the paper trust had reduced competition and increased prices. He said the number of bidders for supplying paper to the govern ment for the next fiscal year had fallen from 45 to 50 in former years to 3O and the prices had ranged 50 per cent. higher. MT. Steele of Indiana inquired how a tariff. of 8 per ton could be utilized to raise the price from $2O to $36 a ton. He caid ha ui1i uo iOi in m afsti a law for property coG,rolling trusts, but a reduction of the number of bidders 4n these busy times, he said, was not significant. He cited an instance of bids advertised for building a government soldiers home this year. Whereas, in former years con- tractors had fallen over themselves to bid this year there was but one bidder. The biM was passed
 At 5:30 p. m. the house adjourned THE SENATE
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