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Show THE BRAKE PUT 0A SpraLrr Rff.1 EitrrUt Kathcr More Actborllj Than I (.Vn- rrallj .Ippreclatrd. THE HOUSE Or REPrtCSCNTA-TIWFS REPrtCSCNTA-TIWFS PESENTS IT 0a Iht bilicr IliII f lVants Etcrjlhin? Ills Orrn Waj. BUT DOESN'T SUCCEEO IN GETTING GET-TING IT Sprlocrr Objects to the Kales Ileln? rrtfttltnlcd Tor Kag- gln? rurpoe. Bj Tcletnpb to tbc Mill Sl ihrn nrtp Ipaet lri X rUnlou oi lbe mlVVr rilll A Ixnc llrbalr VVAiuaTOS, June 1. Mills oflerrtl a rvsolutlou reciting Lbnt the order of refirpnce maje li tlie fcitaktr, rtfcrrlng the llver bill to the commiltn: on coinage, irtichta and mcasumi, was incorrt-a, and made without authority Mndt-r Hit rule, and riollnR thalthe Journal tcorrectI by striking thervfroui this entry. Cannon tlll.'argpwlhat Uic Sin-ate Sin-ate anver-dmfa would rnjuirt. to bu c'aasldcrcd In committee of the whole, and tliat Uiug to, it was the Seakcr-8 duty to nfer it to thi committtc on coinage, wiighls and moncures. The resolution sought to fctriVp mit 1 Tr (till nf Tiff Mills charaiterized Cannon's cm-lion cm-lion as the boldest, mot recK-ieca recK-ieca and obscure iwition he etr luard maintaineil in a legislative legisla-tive bod. Undirtbe Constitution a journal was to In kepi by the Houm, not by the Speakir or his clerks. The republican rty was charged wtth Iitlug faU.- to its pledges on the matUr of silver, but the democratic jarti nculd pin;tho peojilctlie free, unHp'ifd coinage of --ilver A t the hustings the ieo- le wou'i iJ. the npublicans w hy, when thei wire m?ui here as the friends o( eilvtr, thej votiil to pr ent a consummation of the i vople7 wiches and a fulfilniLnt f t:..ir I roraites I'etf" as., thougli declaring hitn-elf a fret, coinage man, sustained sus-tained the fepeaker'a action, contending con-tending that under the rules it wan the Speaker's duty to refer th Mil i as he hud done. lliggs(Cal JpotsA Jiilerrogatorj with wt -ehemence as to draw fo.h tile laughter of the House, which was renewed Hlieii Higg", in trfect gouJ nature, Uit totally oblivious ob-livious of Ttir SI EH 1. 1 US IA FJ.. continued to it li Ii ipieftions Finally the bpiaktr aKeil ternlj Will the gentltuian from t'al' forma bt in order?"' "I will," replied WigKf in a milk and phaMtit oicB,.vhiih again gave rise to merriment. Crisp (Ga. fubmltted an argument argu-ment to show that und;r the rules, the gpeakir had cot the jo er to re-ftr re-ftr the bill :3 he bad doni. Sfrtngir contended for tlie right of the Mouse to n.vLt. the Journal and make it show what tin majority of tlie Houe divided it should kIiou. The purprsc of referring the bill to tlie Committee on Coinage, Wtig'its and Measures was to preert the House from voting on the Uitlon of concurrence in tiiebenateamLnd-ment". tiiebenateamLnd-ment". The rules, w hkh It -as claimed, were Intended to allow the majority to do buines and ptxluce results, w ere now prostituted to the tia.e lurpos; of gnggiug the majority ma-jority Maud htld that no other course wa open but to strike tlie erroneous reference of tile bill from tile journal. That would place the bill on the Speaker's table again and allow the House to get at it. Itutterworth said the time had not come when the Republican partj was willing to abdicate its control over the business of the House. The question would be put next fall, not in time to affect this question. McMillan -But it will lie in time for tills question to atTect it. (Democratic (Demo-cratic applause ) Continuing, IJutterwortli held that the real question before the Houe was w he-tier or not the Speaker referred the bill to tlie ojm-mtttee, ojm-mtttee, riot that it was or was not properll referred. rm tiLfsrios nos whether the Speaker w as authorized to make the reference, lie contended con-tended that he was so authorized. Rule 3) gives the fcpetker authority author-ity to refer public bills to the appropriate appro-priate committees. Springer argued that the sliver bill was not properly, under the rules, before the House yesterday because the bujinevs on the (leaker's (leak-er's table had not tn-en reached. Ilutternurth said the pending proposition sought to unhor-e tlie republican majority and to jut the uemocrallc minority in the sa idle The republicans should not aiidicate In fdMir of the democrats until at least they shojlJ determine that they were unalle to conduct the business of the majority. (Republican (Republi-can applause.) Hewaa in faorof the early consideration of the silver bill Anderson (Kan.) while declaring himself an earnest adiortteof free coinage, maintained the correctness of the (speaker's ruling. He wanted to ask the chairman of the commit tee on coinage, weights anl meas ures,whetherthat committee would give tlie House a chance to vote upon the measure. Concert Iowa) chairmnn of that committee, replied that as far as he was personally concerned he would make every etrort to secure legislation legisla-tion on tliis subject Crisp said the" committee on rules might interfere, as It did to prevent pre-vent a vote on the free coinage of siher. Milis said the point he made was that under the existing rules the silver bill remained upon thebpeak-cr's thebpeak-cr's table, to be distoscd of as the Houe, and not tlie bpeaker, should determine .,?." tlDn,iBe KJ"- argued that if the fcjieaker went beyond the score of his authority in reference to this bill, his action wis. not erroneous, erron-eous, BUT ILLEGAL. AND VOID. The Speaker in rendering his decision, de-cision, said that he desired the members of the House to divest themselves of the idea that any unusual un-usual precedent had taken place In connection w ith this bill. Tlie reference refer-ence of bills of this kind and in this way had been a dally occurrence since the adoption of the tin-sent jules. The Chair also desired that the House should know that this particular par-ticular transaction did not take place in accruer. In the regular course of business the journal clerk informed in-formed the Speaker that among the list of bills to be referred under the rules to the appropriate committees was the silver bill with the Senate amendments. The Speaker had been asked whether he had an v particular direction to make In regard to it. Knowing the bill to be one of grave jwblle importance, and anxious that he should have all possible light on the subject, tlie Chair had consulted con-sulted the Democratic members of the Committee on Rules (Mount aud McMillan) and the gentlemen from Mi'souri aud Illinois I Man J aud Springer), not for the purpoeof throwing all responsibility upon tliem, but la order that be might Unetltb any light they might be able to give. After conversing with those gentlemen it had seemed dear to the Chair that the rules of the House covered the question, and that his duty was to treat the bill as he would treat any other. Accordingly Accord-ingly the clerk was not directed to make any charge In regard to the reference The Housemust beariii mind that this was not 1 QUESTION OS IMl ITICf. If not satisfied with Aie reference directed b (he Speaker and tlie present system of rules, the House could ihange this present system of rules. The Hou-o could change this reference did this bill contalu provisions w hicb, under the rules, ottKlit to la considered In commiltes ofthe whole. There ws . tiroVl-'-len In, th,'vi2"ial llou-e bill by '-hleU certain bullion was to be lurchaseil and certificates issued thereon. The Senate, amendment w as fr free Coinage and for this an appropriation was made If anything any-thing was clear in parliamentary usage, it w as that this bill was one of those which would be ruperly consiJervd In eomm!tt"ei ( the . hole, tnd this Itlm- to. It Was the obvious dtit ot the Chair to refer it. In thcsauie mauncr lu which hundreds hun-dreds and thousands of bills had lien n-fTx-J d.Hng U.a present N-s-'ci The luint of order raised l the gentleman from Illinois put the Chair in an embarrassing embar-rassing lositiou, because the proposed pro-posed action of the House was a declintlun tliat an error hail been made In parliamentary law. Itwas proposed to erase from the journal a fiiisfii-i (if fxt f Willi, thn f'ltriir might have some doubt about the joints of order he felt It was n question ques-tion the House ought to determine, and he would therefore overrule the points of order ami -ulmlt the question ques-tion to the House Cant.on moved to table Mills' resolution. res-olution. On a standing otc this was carried IS) to 110. Morrow Cai ) Bartine Oev nni Towns-end Towns-end tal voted with the democrats. Thej wireoecrIookeelbytheSaktr ill the first count, but Morrow called attention to the omi-sion anj itwas rectified t Onavoteb t-" a the ;.ioJon to tau'c - as lost 3 eas 1 IS, na s I S3. THL c-LESTIUN KIXllllJ on Mills' resolution and It was agreed to yeas Ul, nsjs 117. At the con lil'lon of the mll fell the vo'e stood .yens 'I", iCys 117. A fhafv iT one vote would be uece-t oarv to defeat the resolution, and that change was made by Kun'ton (Kas ) amid tlie (It naive cheers of the democrats This left the votes yeas us, nays 11s, but the change I roved unavailing. Abbott (Tex) and Itullock (KIa., whoe nanus were not reronlcd, sttttd that they had voted in the nllirmatire. and the r-pe-akcr, arcepllng'tliilr statement, state-ment, the vote stood e-as ISO, nays lis Then McKinley arose and eliang-d hi vote to theaJVrm-alive theaJVrm-alive ai J t! voL was finally announced an-nounced cs eas 121, najs 117. r-itclviniry was thvn ta&gOuA to move a re-consKIeratlon'and aTq to move an ailjuu rjimi nt. Mills man; aging to sandwich the motion to reconsider re-consider on the table Oil a motion to lay Mills' resolution on the talile the fol'owing republicans roted with the democrats In tue negjtive-Iartiiit, negjtive-Iartiiit, Carter De Haven, Knart, Kellv, Alnrrow1, and Townsend. On tlie resolution itself I wart did not vote Iit the others uamed voted In tlie afllnnaUve, but only tor the purjose of moving a reconsideration. reconsidera-tion. The motion to adjourn was lost i ens '1, na j s 1 3). The vote then recurring on Mills' motion to table the motion to reconsider, recon-sider, it was agreed to jeas ll, uavs, 114 MILI TIIIN MOV tn to api rove the journal as amended, asking to withdraw the n-amb'e, which recites that the order of reference ref-erence made l3 the Speaker In referring re-ferring the silver bill to the committee com-mittee on coinage, wcighta and measures was incorrect under tlie rules of the 1 lou'e, and done without authority under said rules. McKinltj. ol jetted and tlie question ques-tion ret-urrt-il oo tl c adoption of the preamble. It was lost jea, 1(19; uajs, IJt ( Reiblicau a plau'e.J priiiger moved the approval ol the journal as amended, pending which, on motion of McKIniry. the House adjourned. Krnntr. Vsiii(,tun, June 10 Tlie following fol-lowing Senate bills were rejioited and placed on the calendar To tdopt regulatioas for preventing collisions at sea; to authorize corto-rations corto-rations to ltcomesuretj in certain cases in courts of the United .States. The Senate resumed consideration considera-tion of tlielegislative,executiveand judicial appropriation bill. All the committee amendments having been disposed of, the bill was opened for general amendments. Paddock moved to increase the salary of the commissioner of the general land otlice from StOUO to $.VKK), and of the assi-pint commis sioner from $xm to S3500. Without action tlie bill was laid aside. A message from the president 111 relation to the reciprocity treaties with the Latin American nations was laid ou the table. In connection connec-tion with It Hale presented an amendment to be jilcrcd to the tar-itr tar-itr bill as follows "nd the Pre Ident ofthe Ciilted States is hereby authorized, without further legislation, legis-lation, to declire the ports of the United states ojien to all tlie jro ducts of any nation of the American Ameri-can hemiqihire upon which no export ex-port duties are imposed, whenever and so long as such nation shall ai-m'.t ai-m'.t to its ports free of all national, nation-al, provincial, municlial aud other taxes Hour, cornme-al and other breadstutiV, preserved meats, fish, vegetables and fruits, cottonseed cotton-seed oil, nee and other provisions Including all articles of food, lum ber, furniture and all other articles of wood, agricultural Implements and machinery, mining and mechanical me-chanical machinery, structural steel and Iron, steel rails, locomotives, locomo-tives, railway cars and supplies, street cars, refined petroleum or such other 1 roducts of the United Stdes as may be agreed on." After eulogies on the deceased New York Representatives, Xut ting and Willier, the Senate adjourned. ad-journed. Mount Missive I'rak. RKDDIJ.O, Cala., June 10. The dlsa pearance of Mount Shasta's peak is still the sulject of discussion. At Lower Soda Springs, some fifteen fif-teen miles distant from the mountain, moun-tain, the water In the spring rose rapidly on Monday, overflowing the floor of the Springs Houe. A party par-ty who arrived yesterday say thes appearance of the mountain on the east side indicates considerable commotion. com-motion. Large quantities of smoke nnd vapor are rilng. Snllrlimrn Hrsnme Work. Clevxla.d, O., June 19. The backbone of the switchmen's strike was broken tonight. The JZrle yardmen and the Big Four men have agreed to return to work on the Lake Shore scale. The Lake Shore and nickel Plate m-n are still (Ut, |