Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1920-08-22

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ply, moved that the Walker motion
for reconsideration be acted upon.
Speaker Walker requested him to put
the motion in writing. A brief re-
cess followed while Riddick was
transcribing his motion and in the
meantime the injunction prohibiting
certification was served on the speak
er. Riddick finally offered a melton
amend to provide that the house re-
consider. Walker ruled the motion
out of order for lack of quorum
and added that the injunction Just
served also stood in the way. On an
appeal the house failed to sustain
the ruling and Walker called Repre-
sentative Joe Odle, suffragist, to the
chair.
Odle ordered a roll call on Rid
dicks motion. Walker made a point
of order tEst there was no quorum,
but was ignored and the suffragists
defeated the motion to reconsider,
so to 8.
Riddick then moved that the house
transmit to the senate the senate
joint resolution of ratification. Again
Walker made a point of no quorum
and also challenged the right of the
speaker pro tenn to put any motion
relating to the amendment in view of
the injunction.
Again Odle ignored Walker, order
ed the roll call and the motion car
ried so to 0, ants not voting. Ad-
journment until Monday was then
taken.
Anti-suffrage leaders declared that
the procedure could not be held le-
gal. Speaker. Walker said that on
that precedent he would be within
his rights if he organized an automo-
bile party of the boiling ants at De-
catur, recrossed into Tennessee, and,
declaring the five or six members a
quorum, held a session and rescinded
the action of the house in ratifying.
No power on earth would force
him to sign the resolution under the
present circumstances, Walker said.
Speaker Todd, of the senate, said
the resolution needed no signatures.
Proud of "RolIer"
The suffragists expressed pride in
what they termed their steam roller"
tactics.
ANTS HAVE PRECEDENT
Since the days when Andrew John
son was merely a state figure in pol
itics, legislative "walkout' has been
a weapon invoked in the Tennessee
legislature as last resort and several
legislatures have resorted to it. The
first walk OUT was staged in the
senate in 1S41, when Is Democrats,
one of whom was Andrew Johnson,
broke a quorum TO prevent the cleo
ton of two Wings to the United
States senate, the result being that
Tennessee was without representation
there for the ensuing two years. The
IS senators figuring in the incident
are known in political tradition as
'the immortal thirteen
In 1885, to defeat registration bill
Republican senators barricaded them
selves in rooms in hotel They
were fed three or four days by haul
ing baskets of provisions across the
street on rope.
In 1909 to invalidate new election
laws, Democratic senator's broke a
quorum and left for Hopkinsviiie
Ky, continuing out of the state a
week. This filibuster failed undel
the holding of the supreme court.
When the assembly met January
1911, 81 members regular Democrats
refused to take the oath and tied VI
the legislature until January Z wher
an agreement was reached providing
for withdrawal of contests.
On April IS, 1911, the same session
house independent" Democrats anC
Republicans broke a quorum, going Il
Decatur, Ala, as a result of the cap
ture of the house by regular Dem
ocrats and jeopardizing of the election
law and the prohibition laws.
This walk out" lasted month
the absentees returning May IL. De
alterations finally were resumed jun
23.
House Republicans and tndepend
ent Democrats on April 1. 1913, I'LL
bustered, leaving the state to proven
q change in election laws.