Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-01-26
MORE REPUBLICAN HIDES
READY FOR THE TAN YARD.
HON. JOHN ID. ANDERSON DEVOTES
A LITTLE MORE OF HIS VAL
UABLE TINE
TO SAYING HOT THINGS ALOUD
SUCCEEDED IN BALLING UP THE
SPEAKER AND WHOLE RE-
PUBLICAN MAJORITY.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register
CHARLESTON, w. Va. January %.
The hottest day of all was to-day
in the House The caloric was early
on tap, and the mercury did not fall
until the adjournment for dinner.
Alderson's resolution to investigate
the office of Secretary of State was the
bone of contention, and Anderson, Ken
ney and Brannon on the one side, Rey
nolds, Martin, Darst, Jackson and
Smith (of Ohio) on the other, were the
contenders. The speeches were acri-
monious in the extreme. Anderson
opened the ball, Jackson followed,
Brannon responded and was replied to
in turn by Darst, whom Kenney an
swered, and was replied to by Reynolds
and Smith, the latter of whom, at the
end of a bitter harangue, moved the
previous question.
This was done, of course, to cut OFF
further debate, and seemed to have the
Democrats completely gagged. But
two or three days ago the speaker
held, for the accommodation of Re-
publican, that member in explaining
his vote had right to T axe a speech,
SO Anderson took advantage of that
ruling and when his name was called
rose to explain his vote.
This he did in a speech that was a
scorcher for the majority. AS he pro-
ceeded the Republicans squirmed and
twisted and grinned, and then turned
req and looked mad; until finally Mar
tin, who had come in for the hardest
or the SHINING, got up and made the
point of order that Anderson was out
of order. The speaker held the point
we'll taken, and Anderson acknowledged
his right to so hold, but went on with
the lanyard preparation. Again and
again Martin raised the point, again
and again the speaker held it we'll
taken, again and again Al4erson bow
ed to the force of the chairs ruling
and proceeded with the hlue stripping.
Martin foamed at the mouth; Jackson's
face was a painters study for anger
and chagrin; Reynolds glowered like
a man ready to do murder; Smith
grew whittier and whittier until he had
corpse-like look, but never lost his
smirk, while the speaker seemed to be
boiling over with impotent rage.
Finally somebody suggested that the
ergeant-at-arms be called in to COM
pei the gentleman from Nicholas to
take his seat To save that function
airy the trouble, Mr.. Anderson sat down
but not before he had appealed from
the decision of the chair. The Speak
e. was so angry he did not know how
to put the motion, and stated it beck
wards. But he declared himself sus-
tanned, and the episode was at an end.
This is not the first time the Speaker
has made one ruling for Republican
and another for a Democrat Old ex-
perienced parliamentarians say the &C
lions of the majority were the most
outrageous and despotic they ever saw.
Meantime. while these things We're
going on out in the hall of the House
an interesting scene was being enact
ed in the Speakers room. There Sec
rotary Dawson and two or three others
were congregated, and the secretary
dictated and some one else wrote a
resolution censuring Anderson, which
was sent out into the hall for introduce
tion, but by the time it got there the
trouble was over and the House was
proceeding with business.
But the Republicans are very sore
and there is talk not only of censuring
Anderson, but of actually expelling
him. Of course if such an extreme
measure as the latter is attempted
there will be fireworks, and even the
former and miIder maacura will dro II,
from Anderson remarks worth going
miles to hear. If the work of the ma
jority was fine, and intellectual. it
would be more interesting; but it is
SO coarse, so brutal. so devoid of in
tellectual strength as to make it only
disgusting. The Democrats had all
the way through, right, decency and
parliamentary adroitness; the Repub-
leans had nothing but the brute
force of numbers.