Show ARRESTED OX THE FLOOR r A Proceeding That Is Almost Without With-out Precedent Washington Feb Sergeantat Arms Snow of the House arrested seven members on the floor of the House this afternoon for having absented ab-sented themselves from the sessions Deputy SergeantatArms puty Hill made eight or ten arrests on the floor The arrests were made by merely touching the members and then taking their paTole to appear at the bar of the House tomorrow noon The arrest of members on the floor is almost without precedent Speaker Crisp has declared the ser geantatarms will execute the wi warrants war-rants of arrest without reference to the place where the members are and this led to the unusual step of arresting arrest-ing members on the floor When brought before the bar of the House tomorrow they will be called upon to explain their absence at the time the warrants were issued on Monday Mon-day night The names of the members now under un-der arrest are now being withheld owing to the discredit attaching to such apprehension Deputy Hill continued to make arrests ar-rests throughout the city wherever a member could be found so that there promises to be a large delegation of arrested ar-rested members at the bar of the House tomorrow |