The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-04-07

, strated the Willingness Of the snsIr-
| gents to make all the trouble hey
| could.
Although that calendar Wednesday
| had passed into history and would
I have been speedily forgotten. but for
! events that followed, the house next
| day took up the wrangle over the
! census Joint resolution. Mr., trum-
! packed again offered it as a privileged
| matter There was more parliamentary
! discussion and more citing OF prece-
| dents. which lasted for nearly TWO
| hours. The Speaker, aware OF the agiT
temper of the allied majority tue pre-
vious day, refused to rule, but pro-
| posed to submit TO he house the queS-
ton: ''Is he bin called up by the
gentleman from Indjrla (Mr. Crum-
| pacIer) in order as question or con
| stjtutional privilege. the rules pres
cribing the order of business to he
! contrary notwithstanding
! This was virtually the same question
as had been disposed of the previous
day, but it had a little different status.
Then its privilege was decided solely
with reference to the rule for calendar
Wednesday. The Speaker, as already
pointed out, ruled that the resolution
| was privileged and the house had over
ruled him and gone on with the busi-
ness of calendar Wednesday. Now
the same question was raised with RET
erence to other rules of the house,
prescribing the order of business on
other DAYS than calendar Wednesday.
The question as the Speaker framed
it was regarded by the aggressive al
! lies as intended to work to their en-
barrassment. The Speaker was not
willing to rule but TO submit 1t to the
vote of the house. A great majority
of the members really wanted to adopt
the census measure But if they voted
to consider il under the Speaker 5
j, framing of the question. many would
have been compelled to stultify them
selves Their two votes on succeeding
DAYS would have plainly been inconsls-
tent.
Accordingly the issue was squarely
Joined once more The Democrats took
the lead in framing the question under
another shape. Representative Under
wood, of Alabama, presented a substl-
tute to read: els the house joint reso-
luton called up by the gentleman
from Indiana in order nova OF
:, curse this. in the final analysis, amount
ed TO about the same thing as the
Sneakers proposition. But II was IN
snoar-coated form. The Underwood
question was accepted by a yea and
, nav vote, 202 to -, and then the Crum'
: packer resolution went through with
r whiz.
That was supposed to have ended
r the long parliamentary wrangle.
t proved only the beginning. Within
\ few minutes, when some routine mat
r TORS including a minor conference re
= mort. correction of the record and
p the signing of an enrolled bill, mac
been disposed of. Representative Nor
: ris came forward with the resolution
that opened the revolution IN earnest
Il present. said he, ga resolution
made privileged by the Constitution.
b, eff it is a resolution made privileged
= by the Constitution, said Speake
l Cannon warily, ''the gentleman vii
! present it, at which there was laugh
- fer. This dialogue was the immediate
= oDening of the big fight. It was spok
=, an ar three o'clock Thursday after
noon and the last words in that con
nection were not uttered till after fon
n o'clock Saturday following.
- Il should be explained that the reSo
. ln+ion had been carefully prepared 4
-, advance hv extended conferences o
Democrats and Insurgents. 1t was 10
. an elective committee on rules, 70 con
- sist Of fifteen members TO be chose
: from various sections of the country
p For the purpose of efectlng an equl
! table distribution of membership IN
= country was to be divided geograph
callv. There was TO be geograPhi
= division of all the States into nine sec
- tions each group containing, as nea
as NAV be, an equal number or men
r berS belonging to the majority party.
= One Of the nine Republican member
=, of rules should be chosen from eac
: groun Of States. Then there was to b
= a geographic division of the states INT
Il six .,rouns on the same principle for tn
choice Of the Democratic member
n Each group in each instance was .
III ,le.+ Is own member. The Speake
- was made ineligible for membership o
rh,. committee. which was to choose II
- own chairman. g..
After much more comforting dunn
the stress Of the succeeding days, 1t
= well to bear in mind that MT. Nofl
y eliminated most Of the provisions {
= this resolution and finally ohere1 u
- substitute. which was adopted ana ho
is the law Of the house, providing II
an elective rules committee OF ten men
/, hers six of whom shall be OF II
i majority party and four Of the miho
> itv party The Speaker snail not oe