The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-03
AND WEARY DAY
FOR HOUSE MEMBERS
Bailey Makes an Attempt to
Block Legislation.
MAD AT THE SPEAKER
ANOTHER SESSION TO BE HELD
THIS AFTERNOON.

Washington, March 2.-Throughout
today the house has been in the throes
of the closing hours of the session, with
many measures clamoring for atten-
ton and with crowded galleries look
ing down upon the weary legislators.
Work began at a. m. and proceeded
until in the afternoon, when a recess
was taken until $50 p. m. to permit
conference reports to be framed.
Under suspension of the rules,
number of important bills were passed.,
including those for national stand
ardizing bureau, for comforting bronze
navy and marine corps for distin-
guished heroism, to amend the Chi
nese exclusion laws and what is
known as the omnibus public build
ing bill The legislative appropriation
bill was also finally disposed Of and
many conferences were advanced to Il
stage which gave promise that there
would be no failure of important legis-
lation.
IN the morney Bailey CTexas) object
ed TO action upon all bills by unani-
nous consent. He was appealed to on
all sides not to block proceedings, but
he refused to yield. The speaker had
refused him recognition and he was Oh
durate. The speaker then recognized
Mr.. Sperry (ConuO to move the pas
sage under suspension of the rules of
the senate bill to prohibit the sale of
firearms, opium and Intoxicating
liquors in certain islands of the Pa
cffic.
Mr.. BaiIy demanded a second hearing
and then brought matters to a COM
plete standsti1l by making the point
of no quorum. A call of the house was
ordered and the erSeant-at-armS was
instructed to bring in absentees. 1t
was 1920 ~eforc enough members were
brought make up the quorum. Mr.
Sperry the.-- proceeded to explain that
the bill was designed to prevent the
sale by Americans of firearms and in
toXtcants to the aborignes of the New
Hebrides.
Were Not Sincere.
Mr.. Bailey declared that the men, be-
hind the pending bill We're not entirely
sincere in trying to protect savages
from the baneful influences of intOXi-
eating liquors. Why were not the
Philippines and the Hawaiian islands
included? He understood that since
the American regime began there, over
LOCO saloons had sprung up in Manila
In Hawaii, where saloons were I'M
known until we "benevolently assim-
Hated" there were now over 400 sa-
looms. Mr.. Bailey contended that Of
tenders under the bill could not be pun
any federal court in America in spite
of tie fiction in the bill that such Of
lenses should be considered to have
been committed on the high seas.
Mr.. Gillett (Mass.), in reply to Mr.
Bailey's suggestion regarding the legal
phase of the bill, said that the '.fic-
ton was copied from law applying to !
the Guano islands which had been sus-
tanned by the supreme court.
The bill was defeated-117 to 1.-TWO |
thirds not having voted in the affirma-
tive. 1t was 1910 when the roll call /
was completed and the result was an
nounced.
AS the regular hour for meeting I'll !
o clOck) had already passed, the house |
could not adjourn, so the legislative /
day Of Friday continued. AS the house /
viii not adjourn again until the sine /
die adjournment at noon on Monday
there will be no Saturday in the house 4
Inaugural crowds filled the galleries !
at the night session. which began at /
$3.50 O'Clock. Attention was given to |
routine business. The conference on /
the bill amending the laws relating to /
Alaska was agreed to.
At 1920 D. m. the house took q re- /
cess until ID. m. tomorrow.