The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-27

| | anticipating this. created a smile by di- 1 recting the clerk to read the journal Tn | full" The reading of the journal con | sumed twenty minutes At the conelu- sion of the reading MT. Payne moved us | approval, but Mir. Richardpn demanoed l the reading of the bills and resolutions introduced yesterday. The Speaker said | while 1t had not been the practice 10 | read these addenda, if demanded he would l direct the clerk to read them Mir. Richardson insisted and they were l read.
 | It required fifteen minutes to read the addenda.
 MT. Payne then renewed his motion to approve the journal, but withdrew it to allow Mir. Russell CDem., Tex) to ask unanimous consent to correct the journal | In regard to vote he cast yesterday. MT. Hay Dem., Va~) objected, but the Speaker somewhat sharply ruled that | member had the right to make such | correction.
 Bad feeling began to show, and a mo- | ment later when Mir. Payne again re- newed his motion, he exchanged sharp words with MT. Richardson. MT. Payne said he made the motion as there was an evident disposition on the other side to delay proceedings and all sorts of mo- tiohs to amend the journal might be made.
 | MT. Underwood Protests.
 Mir. Underwood Dem., Ala.) protested against the previous question without giving his side an opportunity to reply. but MT. Payne declined to yield and de- manded the previous question. Another roll call was forced upon this demand.
 The previous question was ordered-154 to 52. Another roll call was forced on the motion to approve the journal
 The journal was approved-1% to 6. T Just before the vote was announced MT. Underwood (Ala.) changed his vote from no to aye and after the announce ment he entered a motion to reconsider.
 "I make the point that the motion is dilatory." said MT, Payne.
 ''The chair sustains the point" an- nounced the chair.
 'I appeal from the decision of the chair" said MT. Underwood.
 '"The chair rules the appeal out Of or der on the ground that 1t is dilatory," | replied the chair.
 MT. Wadsworth (N. Y) attempted to ask unanimous consent to send the agri- cultural appropriation bill to conference but half dozen Democrats demanded the regular order.
 MT. Olmsted (Pa.) then called up the contested election case of Wagoner vs. Butler from the Twelfth Missouri Dis trict, and MT. Richardson raised the question of consideration against 1t. The roll was called again. The House de. cided to consider the case-15S to 109. 6 party vote.
 MT. Olmsted fin charge of the case. ther took the floor in support of the majority report which recommended the unseatins of MT. Butler and the seating of MT
 Wagoner.
 MT. olmsted then reviewed the history
 of the contest.
 MT. De Armond Speaks.
 MT. Feeley in arguing that MT. Butler
 should not be unseated, protested tha' the whole proceeding before the Flee
 tions Committee was irregular and un ) precedented. MT. Feeley spoke f1fty-ont
 minutes, and then yielded the rep aiming nine minutes of his time to MT. De Ar mond (Mo) Two requests were preferred
 to extend the latters time but MT. Olm
 sted objected.
 l Mir. De Armond was exceedingly SC , were in his arraignment of the majorit! , and aroused his side to great enthusiasm He characterized the conduct of thu
 G SC as "a remarkable proceeding, devoi'
 of honesty and decency, a shameful spec , tacle, whose base and sordid motive wa 3 to vote the contestant $10000 in salary" [ Says It is Theft.
 He declared that it was an act of thief and in conclusion warned the other sid | that from now until March rhe Demo v crats proposed to do what they could t t impress upon the country and put on tn
 record the fact that they would not tame
 ly submit to this larceny" | "If legislation fails" said he. address [ ing the Republican side, remember tha when you vote to steal Buffers seat yo | vote to kill measures in which you are in 7 terested." Democratic applause). . MT. Miller (Kansas) replied to Mir. D
 Armond declaring. amid applause on hi
 side of the house. that neither vitupera tion nor threats could prevent the major
 ity from doing its duty"
 |, MT. Olmsted continued the debate In five-minute speech, and then demande
 the previous question. It was ordered
 15O to Ill. The vote was then taken o
 the minority resolutions declaring MI
 Butler entitled to his seat They wer = voted down-1l2 to 155.
 < Mir Underw ood Oem, Ala.) then move
 to recommit the case to the Committe
 on Elections, and on that motion MI
 Payne demar ded the previous question. - Meantime the Democrats had left tn n hall, and when the House divided tn l vote SIOOu 100 IO I, QlSC4OSiILS tHo dDSeHC :. of a quorum. This forced call of tn @ House.
 After waiting an hour, a quorum az l. peared and the previous question was ol l. dered-1H to F, with eighteen present an s not answering to their names.
 The vote then recurred on the motion [
 recommit. On a rising division the vot f stood to 165. Mir. Richardson demande . a division, but the chair ruled that tn
 demand was dilatory.
 n Scene of Wild Confusin. A A scene of wild confusion followed I'll ,t Republicans cheered the ruling of M s Dalzell CRep., Pa.). who was in the chai d " hile Mir. Richardson (Dem., Tenn0 ar l. MT. Underwood (Dm., Ala.) stood n their places and denounced 1t in unmea' Ia ured terms. The vote was then taken O
 the resolution declaring MT. Butler nc Il entitled to the seat. On viva voce vot d the chair declared the motion carried. dt
 clining to recognize MT. Richardson's dC . mand for a division.
 "a Mir. Richardson again denounced th - chairs action crying out that 1t wa
 'tyrannical, unheard of, unfair and uT 7. just" The Republicans jeered, but | S continued to inveigh against tho chair e action in loud tones. When the vote O ' the resolution declaring MT. WaSoner CT
 titled to the seat was taken, a simila @ scene followed. A division was allowed y and the chair declared the resolutio l AI ItAt.a fn A1fn fn