Show WHAT IS A I 1 tho the act ot of speaker BLED la in counting as 03 present for the purposes 0 of it a quorum a sufficient number of tho the members ot of the house ol of representatives that ho he could see in their places has caused a veritable upheaval among parliamentarians as well as among the people yet it is a plain common sense proposition anil a n I 1 speaker RUED will bo be sustained in his position both technically and by tho the popular voice among tile the humbug traditions that have haie grown up op about tho the national capital none Is more worthy of 0 obliteration bl iteration than this fictitious absence n N hen I 1 1 on tho the member Is in tact fact present another nuisance Is tho the rulo rule that a motion to adjourn Is always lit in order it Is so to bo be sure but it ought not to bo be tho the motion to adjourn especially N w ILL tho the call ot of ayes and noes upon it should not bo be in order moro more than once during any days session but to tile the question of 0 tho the quorum it is ot of C course oil arse tho the subject ot of rulo rule by tho the body in abich tho the quorum Is required I 1 in A tho the absence ot of rule tho the general proposition that when whan a member Is in fit ills bis ho he is present must apply its his business Is to bo be there he Is paid far or being there and when there ho he can bo be counted by tho the speaker tho the usage in tho the british house of Con Commons inions front from li whence the very men idea ot of parliamentary law comes is that when forty members con can bo be counted con led within tho the view ot of the speaker aspea ker there isa Is ili quorum and wo we do not understand ell and this to bo be because of a rulo rule to that effect but simply an immemorial custom that Is what makes parliamentary law tho the london cor correspondent adent of tho the now new yolk boik times thus describes tho the process 1 the ihloff Is not understood liero horo cry cl purly beci uitto no rubb mitt as a roll cull parliamentary here la 6 it a quorum of tony furty members couill within alow of tho hot speaker peak c r if a member doslich to count out tile house lio lie rises und and says botho to alio speaker iPeR 1 I call your attention to alio f jet ili hint there aro not forty nic robers pie sent T thereupon 1 ter too upon a two IHU boll throughout aholo building il lehto lito 1 leave 0 0 do so those thoo lie ho m lie desire to eon con 1 11 it 10 tile hurry harry in fit thun then the speaker Sp taking if lila ills coehen hat bat la in his hnud hand ft A aich ho he never wears and never uses tor for any other oilier ho points lib ill it to each man na ll 11 bo be counts abern if I 1 there them are forty tanio abo speaker calls cil on tile tho etian imn h lie in tho the floor to vr if nui not lie ito simply lem eq I 1 alio llio ito chair aud and ib a aoud balcon by lite iho speaker SiKuk rr it hii I 1 g site into I 1 be lubby lobby arto are do open atilt and lio to counts us as far out lit in tile lobby ui ill lili 1114 nyo call caa roii cli bi alint nio careful to step aside out of his ran range e A I 1 lilston lout leal precedent lit in tho the any of getting betting a quorum that Is I 1 vastly moro inore ous than the method a adopted by speaker wo we use A M citation lallon cl lit in lite sentinel Is recited by prof suns jons fiam lit in ills critical period of american histel y it was adopted in the iho legislature Legisla turc ot of on the motion to call a state convention to net act on nil the federal and plot thus tells U alls tho the story hory the contest began in lite pennsylvania L on tho the 28 ewh it of I 1 lite ho atry cry uy oil u welk congress decided to ab sub ailt D aliu to tile aimea lind hild lc ile foro 1110 news ut of tile action gilld hed live roal real of at five iod reda elsts m at so 10 inu amu that they could is valt nit no suitor and they hurried tile tho event mith ili it highhanded clor that VM tana not alt altof ogeth thor locady tito bly moo on iho 0 avo v 13 of it breaking up ind aud a u ww now 0 lee ti oil was wan to bo be field on tile first crat Tue sulay lit ill NO ku tito an antl I I bcd ed or na s to oa mako ko a li crim cuip pallin aln and baich 1 L n bority lit in tile now low cekis daturo laturo as a to prevent tho constitution front from being laid buforo thu lite lint their game wits frustrate d by george Cly iner who ld had but bat ill tile ind and now most unexpectedly in moved c red that a sarto convention ito called to c conil oi dor tho the pro pa form of nt n I 1 6 great re at WR ana a tit uio 0 wrath of r the iho autt anam mr clynick wits quite out or of enter they flioy paid CongrE im oRs lind lend not yet pont bent them tile con AtIt ution ond and besides no such could bo be roudo mulu without notice given n beforehand nor could it lye bo voted ou OIL until it had passed three readings parliamentary was waa doubtless on tho the sill neilo ot of tho the aull anti but lion majority were clarn clam circus anil and overa overwhelmed helmed them with crina f thu Thil question wits tile ihen I 1 put lint find curried by forty votes vota rind nod tile tho house adjourned till 4 finters going colne dinners tho the ligac teen field an air ut at bich it was waa decided that they could foll foil choso proceedings by staying a awny w dr it took 47 to make maka a quor utu and AIt bout ailiese malcontents the assembly numbered only 43 when tho the giouse vaa mas called to it haq ft a found that t hero were only 43 45 present the at arms Uns ni iopu lo 10 summon alio lint hilpi defied him and su so it become neres necos sary to adjourn tint anu unu ll 11 next morning sturm it ans now noir the iho turn of tile to in uncork vials of v tile girair was disc umed aad io in ilie lovcan t until after midnight and tho 19 were abowd It hoal stint find ciotto aio oio 11 flair next doit morning two iwo ot it them acro let visited by it a crowd of 0 teen inon ciul nit dras eged them off to tit thoS state laco I 1 louse where they acro fol bibly hold down in their keats growling and met anul joring this rondo made a in avid a state convention m an appointed for of november |