The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-23
STATEHOOD TO CONFERENCE.
NO INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO THE
CONFEREES.
s1r. Williams Moves That They BE Instructed
TO Concur in the senate Amendments,
but Is Decentralization Bede Makes q
Funny Speech in Favor OF Concurrence.

N 70 CONCUR IN lHG bChAt0 NhInuhiNufSf
but L. Decentralization Bede Makes q
Funny Speech in Favor OF Concurrence
WARRINGTON, March 22.-Speaker Can
mon and his lieutenants In the organization
% the House OF Representatives were able
10 SECURE a majority Of only 10 to-day
IN the vote upon the resolution sending
the Statehood bill to conference upon the
4 Ronate amendments made to the House
measure. Forty-one Republicans separated
from their associates on the vote, whloh
was: Yeas. 175; nays, 1853.
Mr.. Dalzell rep; Pa reported from the
Committee on Rules to the House OF Repre-
aentatives to-day, Immediately after the
Trading Of the journal, a substitute resolution
4 providing for the taking Of the Statehood bill
from the Speakers table and sending It az
once to conference on the Senate amend
ments thereto. he asked the previous ques-
ton on its passage, and on this a vote by
yeas and nays was ordered.
The vote resulted: Yeas, ITO; nays l4o'
50 the previous question was ordered
4 BY the rules forty minutes debate was
4 allowed; equally divided between the two
sides.
The time was taken up by Meesrs. DalzeL,
Foster; Sibley and Grosvenor in avo OF
the resolution; and by Messrs. Williams
FUlkerson, Bede and De Almond against IL
Mr.. Bede Rep.; Mimi made a character
istic speech against the resolutionj securing
liberal and frequent laughter and applause
He said: H.
Mr., Speaker, II there Is any gentleman In
this chamber who is opposed to the admis-
sion Of Oklahoma l pause here to give MN
An opportunity to say 80 now. and II ne ooes
not / will ask him forever after to holo ms
peace. II we are all In favor OF admitting
oklahoma-and you say IL is one OF the Ad-
mlnistration measures-and you ave GOT
an opportunity to do 1t In ten minutes, why
do you not get busy and admit Oklahoma
and not hitch 1t UP with some other propo-
sition that Is not an Administration ques-
ton? Hitching up Oklahoma with Arizona
and New Mexico is about like the way Moan
nut the animals into the ark when he num-
bered the animals two by two, tho elephant
and the kangaroo 1t is about time we get
down to business and do things right and
leglsiate on one question at a time.
I like the President. ! like him because he
A enlisted in a great work-he is In the midst
Of great things. / like him because when
he got ready to give his daughter away he
gave her to a real American. In every way
worthy of the gift, and not to some degen-
crate Prince, who would be unappreciative
uf our institutions. j like him because when
he rave her away he gave her to a member
OF the house of action and correction at
this end of the Capitol and moi of the house of
detention at the other. But the Senate has
acted.
20 do. to admit Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory as one State. and in two minutes
wo can make these Territories as a State.
The question is will We do lt2 Are you not
willing to do part Of what the President
recommended because you know that you
oannot do all that he recommended An
you throw a lot of criticism at the Senate.
wish to go on record as saying never IN
the history Of the United States have We
had 90 able a United States Senate as you
have got to-day, never. They talk about a
SENATOR Of the United States holding up
the whole country. We have a strong man
A the House who can hold up a hundred
thousand square miles more than anybody
I'm the Senate. Now they have done some
thing. We are looking for a quarrel With
the Senate Let us quarrel with 1t when
the Senate is wrong and we are right. Let
us not quarrel with the Senate when we are
wrong and it Is right. 1 appeal to every
man who stands for justice and fairness
10 vote against this resolution and let us
get to this business on it's merits. which we
are refused the opportunity to do under this
rule Of Che House.
FI 4 10 ECeOluuiOh wac abiNSu w ~
and nay vote-l75 to 1856. Speaker Cannon
had his name called and cast the last, vote
IN support of the resolution. The follow
ing Republicans voted against it:
Adams twis.), Babcock. Bannon. Bede.
Beldler, Bonynge, Brooks tCol). Brown.
Calderhead, Cushman. Darragh, Davidson.
Esch. French. Fulkerson. Gillett tCel.), Goebel
Groinia, Hayes tCal), Hermann. Howell
fUtahl, Humphrey wash. Jones (Wash.).
Kennedy (Ohiol, Knowland. McCreary tPa.).
McKinlay (Cal.l, McLAchlan, McMorran.
Marshall. Miller. Mondell. Mudd. Murphy.
Needham, = Often, Reeder tKan.). Smith
tcal), Waohter, woodward and Young-4l.
There was much coAfusion attending the
voice was inaudible for more than a foot or
two as he read the list of conferees-Messrs.
Hamilton OF Michigan, Brick of indian
and Moon of Tennessee.
Mr.. Williams was rushing down the aisle
waving az paper in his hand and yelling,
sMr. Speaker at the top Of his voice.
Speaker Cannon pounded vigorously with
the gavel, demanding order and vehemently
directing the clerk to read the conferees.
sMr. Sp-e-a-k-e,r!' shouted Williams,
II have O motion that is in order here and
Pulling himself up, the Speaker blandly
remarked: "If that be the case, it will
be heard here and now"
IA MI. WllllamS = mOJlOn pTONeu W NC ohS VI
instruction to the conferees to agree to the
Senate amendment striking Arizona and
New Mexico from the bill, and Mr.. Payne
QRep., N. " made the point OF order that II
came too late-conferees having been named.
Upon this point Mr.. Williams and Speaker
Cannon came into conflict, the latter main
tanning that the conferees had been APP
pointed, and the former that, II recog-
nized to make the motion at all, the recog-
milton related back to the time when. he
endeavored first to gain it and therefore
as a matter of legislative fact the con-
8ferees had not been appointed.
SOut of courtesy" said the Speaker, the
Speaker will hear the gentleman from Miss
ksippi, but will state that he is ready to rule.
based upon precedents that are very strong"
And when Mr.. Williams had concluded
Speaker Cannon quoted a ruling of Speaker
Carlisle in the Forty-eighth Congress, and
held that, the matter having theoretically
gone out Of the control of the House, the bill
was no longer before it for action and that
Mr.. Williams's motion was out OF order.
Mr.. Williams appealed from the decision,
and the decision stood as the Judgment Of
the House-145 to OF, Messrs. Bede and
wachter CMd.) being the only Republicans
noticed in the negative vote.
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