Show additional TEL EGRini I 1 ex spelter carlisle aarli far li lays till the case of his col gwm mm before I 1 lie be country NOTON feb 3 an au address to I 1 country explaining tb alio ep atthe atlie tion of 0 the democratic DemocrAt lc member d of f the baft has been prepared b by ex ex speaker carlisle and N ft ill be L signed tined by all the minority mt abera to tomor morn row tow the address bays says I 1 in part although nearly two montha mouth haa has elapsed since the committee on rules waa was appointed I 1 it lias has made no report except the partial one made on the oth of december and tile houpe house haa has be been en com compelled pelle to conduct its business without any rule or pys tern tem except hie the gereral gir oral parliamentary law aa as const construed raed by tie oie speaker the american iloie 0 rebye erta tives liaa has been during all this time and still la is so far as rules for its gov eminent are concerned in precisely the same paine condition as a popular meeting or political convention in which the tile chairman and his ilia absolutely control all be the pr proceedings I 1 ago N ko 0 measure can get before the house fo for r consideration unless the speaker chooses to allow it to be presented and tho the members have no means of knowing in advance what they are to bs be railed upon to decide this is lie file first fl st time in our lii tory hist a legislative or even a public mec meeting ting haa has at empeI to 10 transact for any considerable sid erable period without a regular code of rules prescribing the cr or ler of the and the inconvenience and injustice resul resulting tin 9 from bichan an attempt been visibly viably illustrated in tile pre aut instance 1 his personal and partisan domination of the tile bousi was put submitted rallied to though not w without repeated abed prot et until we became cori convinced conin vinced ced it WAR the lie deliberate purpose of the speak r and hii supporters Bup portera to aeed without rulea rules to oust tile democratic Demora tc members a ate am are concept contested d and arid admit their ke ite publican lican op parents ahn when on JAI Jl january nuary lUary 25 li it the tile committee un uri eec bec ions called up a contested el elthon elt ebion lon case hie tits democratic benl rs that viat in n the absence ol 01 rules it il should nut not ba be considered if they coid I 1 prevent it b by rl any proper parliamentary proceed proceedings ings they ralpd the tile question quei tion of conf fidei wion demanded thedeas and lays and on abo ali call of the roll refi retia sned ned from voting the tile result was wag that jeub le 8 than a constitutional quorum voted but the tire speaker in violation of ilie ilia uniform p of the tl e laoue lit u e for more than a century proceeded to count the members who were present but rot voting and de do cae blaed hat that the be air nee decided to take the tile case up from this decision a aa appeal waa was taken and on tit i mot ion n to lay jay the lie appeal on the table fio tile yeas and nays were aiken and leas lees than a quorum voted but the tile S eaker aan counted the members not riot voting and decided the mo ion agreed to and his big ruling t eiery sustained T e constitution of the tile united states provides that the tile ginaj my tty of if ea h house louse shall constitute A t to do business buBi neBB hut but a smalle r may adjourn from day to day and may he ile authorized d to compel the tile at of absent members in in such I 1 enables aa U adi each house may in y provide arother another claue of the tile constitution r requires qu ires eai ea it house to katip a loll 1011 mal it if ita it proceedings proceeding 8 slid A id provides tint thit nhen lien one fifth ot ilia tile littria bers present desire it the kimond nas shall bo be taken on any bat emst ston on anil anti entered yince since ahe thebe winning ol 01 the government govern uklet under tholon alm coo sli tulio aloro n ore titan a hundred undred li oara care aeo ago tl ti a lluu ilou e of and tl if 0 b S nao have uniformly construed th first clause of the constitution quoted ab ve to mean thai thal i majority of all the members elet el ct mw mua ie to present resent an aal 1 actually actual lv arlic pale in lit the 1 cf I bisi noss and that wh wilt never un ulon lie the c cill 11 of yean yem and arid nac nap it a appeared from front tha th journal wu lk is is the only lal record le leis a llian than a ansti tut ional quor in vo ed on any proposition the vote was a nullity an I 1 no III tt er tm ru aires lre s could be done until the nuite to lumber appeared pared Bp and voted in order to secure certainty and stability in the administration of lan law it is is a rule in our jurisprudence that when a particular construction of the constitution or a statute haa has been for a long time acquiesced to not only by those these whose duty it is to it but also by those vilio e nere per ofil eoral aud a id property rights are affected affe cled id by it the couts contis will recognize it ai the ilia true lille cons con ancion auci ion lien even if this videan q axt ii it would biot i ot bo be dilli lilt 0 to o siw a iw that the i of ilia constitution I 1 aich hat bag prevailed in in lie file flaule ard ben son ate for 0 fr er A hundred years is id the correct oae speaker heal read iu in lie tle on ott the tile fl ekr r of the tile lions e slate starel 1 the true mean ing and the lie true philosophy philo philos ephy phy 0 of I 1 tile conati ConF ti uton ft hen lien he lie rad eald the al meant a quorum is not the pr i r sence of a majority maj rity of all the ra of the house but a maj majority rity of the members pre present bent a and nd participating in the business bus ineLs B of the house it is not their ca I 1 arf a ence but their jud judgment ament an and d vo ej which the constitution cilia cills for general ga held field mr blaine laine Ji sir conger robeson and other e eminent i benj have taken the iv position jitian when therefore the p pie bent sent speaker repudiated this ret 1 e i construction of the constitution we consider it our duty as part art of the rep of the people to enter our protests in every form available to us under t the he s we are ni not 3 t contending for the right of the tile minority to govern aa as supporters of this the speaker have endeavored to make he the country believe I 1 on the itry we are der denying lying the right of il the alry mil only to eject members from their beats seats or to pas la a is a for the tile government of the afo lc under t alie to con a tit ution a majority cf ct the me naters of the floure constitute conti ant tute a quorum to do husi nepa ac d we are simply insist frig that less than a majority chhn noldo td basi business we aie are coni tim loading ding that the majority shall take the yet 1 aich A properly be longs to 0 o them and d shall como come into th the 0 house and arid vote it if they deare to co control the tile proceedings and we a are adaina t ther the r right to crry c rry their we Amires hy by counting when wo a do nt not vf v ie e 1 I hie carill of 11 tile ihal they hae have tile the to govern tile HOUPO without attending atlen diriK its mid rind taking aar M in ili tle conduct of its busi bust toj toi its 3 to require refutation it niina be tie evid evident nt to OL an one n 0 10 lo ho the coition poi po tIon t luLu an u ibyl C 0 Dimo Dem cratic minority in in ilia I 1 it cannot possibly result in in any it jarv to tho tile country or of any injustice to the majority maj rity lt ils only anly effect wll w 11 be e to compel the tile t can major majority ity elected bythe by he people to tho ilia ability impel upon them on ott thes tho oilier other hand no one an foresee tile evils that may result from the inauguration cf of the practice of counting it otos riot catl in order oderto o to malo male a under it a minority of members decoud to he the I 1 II 11 0 and hn 1 may pipa PIPS the tile ml t tyrannical laws for the tile opp rebion 0 n of the 1 anil and flit lie corrupt carrupt lam latta a tor for the tile spoil of the public tre aury abey 11 bother intended adso an or not iti t ten deney Is to it pak cak dowl tile barriers hereto ex exiling ihling for the protraction of the tile ci LI alzen an against the tile of potter power and still the spoliation 1 fcc I ilia treasury hj by dearoy inn ing tho tile limitations which the tile cousta tulion LAS eliely upon the depa constitutions uro ate m made it do to restrain be the major ity it and protect tho the minority I 1 and end ft 41 t I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 T lip i majority majority ru ruling ring without limitations or cestra restraint nt u upon pon ia its power poc r fe Is a pure pur e despotism ald a ld id Is i wit with h our of government goern ment |