Carbon County News | 1913-12-18 | Page 6 | House Scene of Unusual Tumult

L nr E OF UNUSUAL TUMULI ir spectators CHEER HOBSON HODSON AS HE PLEADS FOR THE PRO AMENDMENT extra extraordinary demonstration contin aed and was not checked until demand for enforcement of the rules washington Washing tom shattering the he rules of the house of representatives chain cham of prohibition who packed the galleries late thursday broke into repeated outa outbursts arsts of applause and f actually shouted from their seats as representative richmond pearson hob son of alabama pleaded for a resola tion aich 1 ch would submit a titu lional p prohibition amendment to the states the extraordinary demonstration continued unrestrained for many mm min utes as mr hobson proceeded dragat icalla to discuss the prohibition question and was not checked until the speaker had drawn into controversy his colleague representative under wood who is now engaged with him in a race for the senate the injection of personal politics into tho the situation brought the mafoi uy leader leder to his feet with a reply to mr hobson and this precipitated applause from the mem bers on the floor republican leader mann at this demanded that tho the rules of the house heuse be observed and representative moon of tennessee who was in the chair admonished the spectators quiet was restored temporarily aftel a voice from the gallery shouted were american citizens 6