The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1906-03-23
HOUSE ADOPTS SPECIAL RULE
SENDING STATEHOOD BILL
TO CONFERENCE.
MAJORITY on MOTION ONLY NINETEEN
NEARLY TWO SCORE REPUBLIC.
ANS VOTE WITH DEMOCRATS
IN OPPOSITION.

| ually urge attendance of members
and spectators were present when the
house met IN contemplation of action
sn the statehood bill. They we're not
disappointed, for as soon as the jour
nal had been read Mr.. Dalzell tPa.) }
was recognized and presented a spe
cial rule from the rules committee. II
provided that the statehood bill be
taken from the speakers table, that In
| SO doing the senate amendments be
| disagreed to and a conference be
| asked of the senate and that the
speaker Immediately appoint the house
conferees.
Mr.. Dalzell, as soon as the rule had
been read, demanded the previous
question, which, If ordered, carried
with 1t forty minutes debate to be
| divided equally between the friends
and opponents of the rule. On ris-
| ing vote 149 voted for the previous
question and 124 against.
On demand of Mr.. Williams, minor
ity leader, a roll call was ordered. The
roll call resulted In ordering the pre-
vious question, the vote being Ill to
lao.
The Republicans who voted with the
vious question were: Adams, Bab-
cock, Bannon, Bede. Beidler, Bonynge,
Brown, Calderhead, Cushman, David
son, Esch, French, Fulkerson, Gillette
(Cal), Goebel, Gronna. Hayes, Her
mann, Howell, Humphrey (Wash.)
Jones (Wash), Kennedy, Knowland,
Mckinley, McCreary, McLachlan, Nc
Moran. Marshall. Mondell. Mudd, Muir
ply, Needham, Tyndall. Smith (Cal)
Wachter. Welborn, woodward. Young.
Mr.. Dalzell was recognized for
twenty minutes and began an explana-
tiOn of the reason for the special rule.
Special Rule Discussed.
There were. Mr.. Dalzell said, but
was to send 1t to committee, another
to ask unanimous consent to send to
conference.-the would be impossible.
The third was the method adopted. 1t
was proper TO send the bill to confer
ence and there could be no just criti-
cism OF the orderly course pursued.
In opposition Mr.. Williams, the Dem
ocratic floor leader. pointed out that a
vote to adopt the special rule was a
vote against concurrence with the SEN
ate amendments. Ordinarily under
the rules of the house a motion to con-
cur would be In order.
A severe castigation of the party
organization was made by Mr.. Hum
phreys (Wash). Mr.. Fulkerson (Mo.)
followed along the same line. Speeches
in support of the rule were made by
Messrs. Foster (VtD, Sibley (Pa) and
Grosvenor tO), after which a five
minute speech by Mr.. Bede Mimi
kept the house in commissions OF
laughter. He was against the rule.
He said he had supported the ad-
ministration on everything save the
statehood and whipping post bills. He
praised the president for allowing a
member OF the house lMr. Longworth)
TO break into his private family with
out sounding an alarm, also that when
he gave his daughter away he gave
her to a good American instead OF
degenerate foreign prince.
BY a vote of It's to 156 the house
then adopted the statehood rule and
the speaker appointed Messrs. Hamil-
ton (Mich.), Brick (Ind) and Moon
(Tenn.) conferees.
Mr.. Williams tried to have the state
hood conferees Instructed to concur In
the senate amendment omitting Ari-
zona and New Mexico, but was de-
feated on a point of order.