Show HOUSE IllOCEKDI OH The nrrimrrilnlire From Urorsln IIn the Floor VTASiiMCUTOsr Feb IIn the Senate House CrIsp ofTered a a substitute for the resolution of the majority of the election committee those of the minority declaring that smith was not elected from the Fourth rn of West Virginia I and that Jackson had been and was entitled to retain his seat He went on to say that his ilde of the House felt It right and proper to enter a protest against IcIng required to acton act-on a contested blccUon case In the absence within tho meaning of the Constitution of a quorum of the House Crisp then defended the course of his side of tho House Justifying I particularly on the press reports of the recent republican i can caucus to the effect tIp thli and other election cases wero to bo disposed of under general parliamentary Ip pdla mentary law lit ONe to Inc > e the republican majority and that then the rfcldlty of Ute ntV code was to be relaxed ce McKtnlcy declared there h been in that caucus no discussion whatever this or any other dec tlonrauoAeIttnL nn Intln no instructions and no eiprcsIous opinion bad been passed or given thereon the subject of contested elections lowell added that Crisp had had personal Information from him the day after the caucus that the newspaper news-paper statement of it was not correct cor-rect reetCriSp nlpjlltSd that fact but said the statement had appeared in many liapers anti had never been denied bide there was a corroboratiou of I in the fact tile nllbsugh the r puMIcia leader had pbtcn lolr McKinley assured as-sured tho House on thu 7th of January Janu-ary that the code of rules would b reported within a week no rules had yet been reported A llRS 1Ssl a to the lephlbII y for delay In reporting the rules took place at this point between McKlnUy and Ca lisle thu former attrlbullnft I in part to the ftcl thai Carlisle bad rln rlfro len prevented by illness from attending at-tending the meeting of the committee commit-tee and the latter stating that he bad been absent only two days on account of illness and declared his readiness at a times to meet with committee on Miles Skid oven expf vsslng a llllugness to hAte the committee report the rules to the House without reference to him Springer In order to give the commitUe on rules a chance to report re-port I move the House adjourn Speaker Tho gentleman from Georgia has the floor CrisprWhaevet tieuu the House i1 Uo may take trel plain that If the committee on elections reported this case with undue haste the committee tee on rules has not been in too great hurry Crisp then proceeded to argue the contested election case gl toRo At the close of his argument liowell took the floor He said be was glad to find out at last why the time of the House hat been wasted many dijf The House had been told it had been Ihe Intention of the minority mi-nority to meet thin contested now tlen case by dl cu < 4lon and without delay until they found a statement intention In a republican of newspaper a t the Tilt JJlVjJCA N SIDE of tho Rouse andyetCrispadmittcd that he had been promptly informed by a colleague on the I committee I of elections that there wan not a Word r t of truth In tint newspaper statement j Ln 15 ment ROw he nqwell would call attention to another nciYipapbr statement published widely s long ago aa September last and published on the authority of the democratic IcaJer of the House that It was the intention of the minority side to resist sist by every means known to parliamentary parlia-mentary law the uncrating of any democratic member wllbst scat wsa contested and tlrt 10 without reference to the right or wrong of the cO Ro well went on to discuss the contested election tho facts in coll elton Roe and spoke until 530 There wasn motion to adjourn made on the democratic side but I wa3 voted down by a r t6 vote and OFarrell proceeded with the argument in favor of Jacksons right to the seat After OFarrall had been speaking more than half an hour he stopped and suggested that he l allowed to finish his argument ar-gument Monday On this there was much confusion and finally OFarraU w directed to go on with his remarks OFar tall said as the facts In the case were not known to the member he would proceed to read from the printed record or would ask the clerk to read The Speaker ruled that it could not be read and there was considerable consid-erable contest over the point Finally after much contusion and excitcmvnt I was agreed that each side b allowed three hours for debate de-bate Mondoy and with that understanding under-standing but none a to the time of taking a vote the House adjourned |