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Show TIIE BRAKE PUT ON. Sp-ralcr Hrcd Kxrrrlr leather More Aolliorllj Than U (.Vn- rrallj Apprrriatrd. THE HOUSE OF REPnESCKTA-TlVrS REPnESCKTA-TlVrS RESENTS IT. On the Sllicr Hill lip Wants Eicrjthlnf Ills Own lVaj. BUT DOESN'T SUCCEED IN GETTING GET-TING IT. SprloKcr Objects to tbe Itulrs IWns rrustltntcJ for Ca;- glns I'urppc. By Teltnpli w toe Mwj. SIkiki:k in"i-r Vpacl In Sbt rVlaJnaalon on Ihr K1tVr Hill: A Iibe; llrbnlc. Wasiiixoto.n, June 19. Mllla oflVmJ a resolutioii reciting Uint tbe order of referencB tuatlo by the Sliker, nfcrriiiK the ilver bill to ttie commiltn: on coiuaxf, wt-iglita anil tucnfuri. was Incorrect, nrnl made without authurity umler tlicj ruk-f, nud reolrlniT liiatllie Journal I torrrcl"! liy !riklug thim-frotn I thl entry, fan iioim 1 11-' argranl bal uic Senate Sen-ate arerilmrit3 would require tu be rtnjlderwl in rommittet! of the whole, and that beiiiK to, it was the Sjiker-s duty to nfer it to the committee on coinapi-, weights and meaaures. The rewlutioii sought to Urike out a recital of ticL i Mills characterized Cauuon'sio-i-tion ns the boldtt, most rccK-Its rccK-Its and obcure aitioii he ever heard malutaineil in a legila- i tivebody. Under the Constitution a journal was to lu keix. by the House, not by the Siiker or his ciera;. ine repuuuean lriy wai . charged wtlh lieiug fake to St! llcdi;es on the matter of silver, bui tbeOemocralic ittrty would pive th . tiletlie free. unlirMp-d colnagt I ofsilrer. Atthtolittillnira tlieiico-j tlieiico-j ih; '.rt'itj iak the republican why, I when they were M?nt here as the friends of diver, they voted to prevent pre-vent a consummation of the oilv withes and a fulfilment r zii.t liromit. I'ele "tVas.), though declaring himself a fret- coinage man, attained at-tained the Sjieaker' action, contending con-tending that under the rulo, it w the Sjieaker's duty to refer that .li as he had done Higgs(Cal.)jotfr. i.terrogatory with aw Tehemence as to draw forth the laughter of the Houm-, which was renewal when lliggs, in perfect cowJ nature, Uit totally oblivious ob-livious of TIIE SI'EAKI'.It'.s AVEI., cnntinuI to 4tt hU iiuestions. Filially the Speaker aked ternly: Will the gt-ntUuian fnm California Cali-fornia be in order?-" "I will," replied Higgs in a meek and LiteaMtiT. voic'o,-whJeh again gave rise to merriment. Crij ((ra.i fubmltted an argument argu-ment to show that under the rules the Speaker hail cot the power to refer re-fer the bll' S3 he had done. Si'.nger contended for the right of the House to revise the journal and make it show what the majority of the House decided it should show. The purpose of referring the hill to the Conimltteeon Coinage. Weights and Measures was to prevert the House from voting on the iuetion of concurrence in tlieSenateameud-tnents. tlieSenateameud-tnents. The rules, which it was claimed, were intended to allow the majority to do Im-ines and produce results, were now prostituted to the lose purposv of gagging the majority. ma-jority. Iiland held that no other course wa ojien but to strike the erroneous reference of the bill from the journal. That would place the bill on the Sjwakcr'a table again and allow the lioutetogi-tat it. liutterworth said the time had not come when the Republican jnrty was willing to abdicate its control over the busiuem of the House. The luestion would tw iit next fall, not iu time to affect this question. McMillan -Hut it will 1. in time for this question to affect it. (Democratic (Demo-cratic applause. ) Continuing, llutterworth held that the real question before the House was whether or not the Speaker referred the Mil to the cum-mittee.riot cum-mittee.riot that it was or was not properly referred. TIIK tiUESTIO.N AKOSK whether the Speaker was authorized to make the reference. He contended con-tended that he was so authorized. Rule i gives the Speaker authority author-ity to refer public bilk to the appropriate appro-priate committee". Springer argued that the silver bill was not properly, under the rules, before the JIoum; yesterday because the business on the Siieak-er's Siieak-er's table had not lieen reached. " llutterworth said the pending proposition sought to unhorse the republican majority and to iiut the deniojratir niiimrlf t.. .i... . ,, rhe republicans sliould not aWirate Inf-ivorof the democrats until at least they shojld determine that they were unable to conduct the business, of the majority. (Iteiiubli. ran applause.) He wa5 in favor of the eatly consideration of the silver Anderson (Kan.), while ifcclariu" Iiimaelf an earnest advocate of free S Vjf qS,SInVlln,1J Ule "Wtness ta ,al Pe,.kert' Ul,K- ,Ie Wa"' to ask the chairman of the commlt-U-eou coinag.-, weights and meas-ures,whetlierthat meas-ures,whetlierthat committee would giveUie Hou-e a chance to vote Un the measure. Congert Iowa), chairmau of that committee, replied that as far as he was jK-rsonally concerned he would make every effort to secure legislation legisla-tion on tills subject. Crisp said the" committee on rules might interfere, as It did to prevent pre-vent a vote on the free coinage of sliver. Mills said the jwlnt he made was that under the existing rules the silver bill remained uion the Speaker's Speak-er's table, to bo dlsiosed of as the House, and not the Speaker, should determine. .rI.ir,'cyDri,lKe (KJ"- rzul that ir the bjicaker went lieyond the fC0.,A",fj!i'. """'ori'J- In reference to this bill, his action ws nut erroneous, erron-eous, a HUT ILLEGAL ASO VOID. The Speaker in rendering his decision, de-cision, said that he desired the members of the Houm.- to divert themselves of the idol that any unusual un-usual precedent had taken place In connection with this bill. The reference refer-ence of bills of this kind and in this way had been a dally occurrence since the adoption of the present Jules. The Chair also desired that the House should know thai this particular par-ticular transaction did not take place inaccrner. In the rvgular 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 tho silver bill with the Senate amendments. The Speaker had been asked whether he had nnv pmticular ; direction to make In regard to it. Knowing the bill to be one of grave jsibllc Importance, and anxious that ; he should have all possible light on the sul ject, the Chair had consulted con-sulted the Democratic members of the Committee on Rules (Illuunt aud McMillatii and the gentlemen from Missouri aud Illinois (Ulan J and Springer), not for tho purjose of throwing all resionsibllity upon them, but in order that he Ttilcht benefit by any light they might" be able to give. After conversing with those gentlemen it had teemed clear to the Chair that tho 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 uot directed to make any change In regard to the reference. The House must bearm mind that this was uot A QUESTION OK IIII.ITIO. If not satisfied with Aic reference directed by the Sea!ter and live present system of rules, the House could change this present system of rules. The House could change this reference did this bill eontiilu provisions which, under the rules, ought to lie conaldered In commitleb orthe whole There :vss timVl-lenity timVl-lenity Hre.nk,i!hfJ llou.-o bill by 'VhtcU (.eriain bullion was to be 1 41 aliased and certificates issued thereon. The Senale ,racn0mcnt was fer arte coinage and for this an appropriation was made. If anything any-thing was clear In parliamentary Usage, it was that this bill was one of those which would be properly caiiaiilereil In commltteu of the whole, ntid this Ifl tig so, It was the ( obvious duty of the Chair to referiL. In thesnuiu mauner In which hun- druLs and thousands of bill, had lawn ref'.-rvi! d'-Hcs U;o present i -es-!c;i. The laoint of order raised by Uie gentleman from Illinois put the Chair in an c.-ubar- Kissing tuition, because tho pro- I pocd action of the House was a declaratiun that au error hail Kin j made in parliamentary law. It was . proposed to erase from the journal a j question of fact. While the Chair I might have some doubt about the i pointsuf order, he felt It was n qurs- j tlon the House ought to determine, and he would therefore overrule the i imirits of order and submit the quia- i tion to Uie 1 louse. I Cannon movI to table Mills res- i oiution. iiu a siauuing vote till' I was tarried 13) to IK. Morrow ; Cal.). Itsrtlne (Nev.l nnd Town. ' end lal. . voteti with the democrats. s TheywereoverlookedhytheSi-akei . in the first count, but Morrow called attention to the omission anJ itwa ' rcrtified. ( On a vote by tel'-'a the ;aoilon to 1 tab'e r..w iot yeas IIS, nays li3. the iicisiiun nixTimm on Mills' resolution and It was agreed to yeas 1-1, najs 117. At the con luslon of the mil ml! the vote stud yens H", nlys 117. A rhaT; 'tiT one vote would lie ncccs-oary ncccs-oary to defeat the resolution, and that chnuge was made by Kun'ton (Kas.) amid Uie derisive cheers of the democrats. This left the votes yeas IIS, nayIlB, but the change provitl unavailing. Abbott (Tex.) and Itullock (Kl.i.j, whose natms were not recorded, statitl thattlicy had voted in the ntttmiRtire. nnd the Sjieaker, arceptlng' their tlata ment. the vote stood: Yens IS), nays llv. Then McKinley arose and changjal h's vote to the n.l'rm-ative, n.l'rm-ative, and th'- voi- as filially announced an-nounced as yeas 1-1, imys 117. v-iTi-Kiitle"y was tliri rtgQicti. to' move a reconsideration 'and aBif to move an aiijuurinu lit, Mills managing man-aging to sandwich the motion to"r i-orc-iilii mi the table. in a motion to lay .Mills' resolution on the table the following republicans voted witli the democrats in the negativa-: Itartiiic. Carter. De Haven. Kwart. Kelly, Mnrrownnd Towiiseud. On the resolution itself Kwart did not vote, but the others named voted iu the atll rniativc, but only for the purtose of moving a reconsideration. reconsidera-tion. The motion to adjourn was lost yeas MP, nays ISO. The vote then recurring on Mills' motion to table the motion to reconsider, recon-sider, it was agreed to yeas 121, naylH. A! ILLS THKN MOVKIi to approve the journal as amended, asking to withdraw the preamble, which recites that the order of reference ref-erence made 113- the Sjieakcr in referring re-ferring the silver bill to the committee com-mittee on coinage, weights and measures was Incorrect under the rules of the House, and done without authority under said rules. McKinley objected and the question ques-tion recurred on the adoption of the preamble. It was lost jcas, KM; nays, 1-1. Rejiublicau npplauae.j Springer moved the approval ot the Journal nsnmended, pending which, on motion of McKinley, the House .".iIjouriR-l. Krnnle. Wamiinotun, June 10. The following fol-lowing Senate bills were reported nnd placed on the calendar: To adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea; to authorize colorations colo-rations to licomesurety in certain cases in courts of the United States. The Senate resumed consideration considera-tion of the legislative, executiveand judicial appropriation hill. All the committee amendments having lieen disposed of. the bill was opened for general amendments. Paddock moved to Increase the salary of the commissioner of the general land office from SIOOO to $3000, and of Mm- ns.4-l.ant tvmmis- sioner rrom SS-'KIO to $3500. Without action the bill was laid aside. A message from the president in relation to the reciprocity treaties with the I-ntiii-Anieric-an nations was laid 011 the table. Iu connection connec-tion with it Hale presented an amendment to lie 'jtlen.il to the tariff tar-iff bill as follows: "And the President Pres-ident of the United States is hereby authorized, without further legislation, legis-lation, to declare the loits of the United Slatts ojin to all the products pro-ducts of any nation of tin; American Ameri-can hemisphere upon which no export ex-port duties am Imiiosed, whenever aud so long as such nation shall admit ad-mit to its ports free of ail national, nation-al, provincial, municijal and other taxes. Hour, cornmeal and other breadstuff, preserved meats, fish, vegetables and fruits, cottonseed cotton-seed oil, rice and other provisions, Including all articles of food; lumber, lum-ber, furniture nnd all other articles of wood; agricultural Implement! and machinery, mining and mechanical me-chanical machinery, structural steel and Iron, sleel rails, locomotives, locomo-tives, railway cars and supplies, street cars, refined petroleum or such other products of the United Stites as may be agreed on." After eulogies on the deceased New York Representatives, Nutting Nut-ting and Willier, the Senate adjourned. ad-journed. Mount Sliaala'a IeaLj. Rkdluno, Calx, June 10. The disappearance of Mount Shasta's peak is still the subject 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 Mouday, overflowing Mie floor of tbe Springs House. A party par-ty who arrived yesterday say the-appearance the-appearance of the mountain on the east side indicates considerable commotion, com-motion, large quantities of smoke and vajior are rising. SnlCrlimrn Itrsnme Work. Cleveland, O., June 19. The backbone or the switchmen's strike was broken tonight The Eric yardmen and the Big Four men have agreed to return to work on the Lake Shore scale. The Lake Shoro and Klckel Plate mT) are still out. |