Show THE HOUSE RULES puzzled as to how to G govern av themselves ARE AFRAID I 1 OF THE REED ROLES RULES the for former m speaker laughs at th the democrats in the their ir pres ent ant dilemma I 1 washington sept 6 the committee on rules presided over by speaker crisp was thie this morning forced to publicly acknowledge the defeat in the rouse in the effort to lead the democratic majority and secure the adoption of a rule making a hundred members a quorum in the committee of the whole when vh en the house resumed the debate on therul the rules esthe the announcement was made that the committee in deference to the objection by some ome s prominent democratic members had decided to abandon that rule role catchings explained that so many democratic members opposed that the committee on mica rules decided to accept kylee kyles amendment restoring the size of the quorum to a majority of the house not the tilt world move laughter and applause 9 LP the be was then agreed to after the rules having been passed catchings then called for or the previous I 1 question lu estion jon the report and burrows offered as a substitute the code of rules ot of tho the fiat Fifty first congress with an till amend amendment mend provid providing ing that when a call of the house is it had bad the yeas and nays shall be considered ab ah ordered this latter amendment would prevent the breaking of A ii quorum burrows then entered upon a general argument on the comparative merits of the two codea of 91 rules and declared the tile rules about to be adopted were absolutely po powerless v vailess to prevent filibustering those ru rulea 1 e as place lace the power ot of legislation absolutely sc in the handsol hands of the speaker and two democratic members ot of the rulea committee catchings and Outhwaite 1 bynum of indiana in reply to burrows into the difference beaw between benthe th counting of the house to ascertain the prea presence ence of a quorum and counting the members to pass laws 1 I care net whether the counting conn ting of members was declared legal bv by the tile supreme court oc or not said lie fie facing hie his old antagonist reed and holding bolding liis lie arm threateningly aloft 1 I no acknowledge no nd body greater than this house to pass ai t upon i its is rights or privileges upon egos 1 h re reference e re ace to the rule of cutting dilatory motions in the tile present the announcement precipitated a lively debate deliver doliver of louisiana said le he was just about to make a speech in tir favor odthe of the P proposition froni which tho committee 12 j juat jat at retreated he ile was sorry the CO committee surrendered deliver doliver then proceeded eded to defend speaker ex reed in Foce his I 1 Is course as speaker springer followed by a general assault on what he lie termed I 1 the tile two fundamental usurpation rules of the fifty first congress the power ot of the speaker to count a quorum and his power er to determine dilatory motions ahw the e power to determine what was a dilatory motion he eaid said placed every member of the house in the power powe of the speaker it enabled him to pass on the motions of members and was revolutionary in character the change made by the present rules comm attee in the interest suppressing filibustering transferred this power arop the speaker to tho tile m majority a 0 ity of the house libuse it gave the re republicans as well as the democrats an opportunity to sustain or op oppose a vote springer proceeded to d discuss ase the question of counting a quorum when he lie concluded reed walked d down own the aisle 1 I would hardly know what to do began reed slowly and deliberately when I 1 find the gentleman from illinois springer and the tile supreme court in opposition were it not that I 1 have convictions of my own I 1 A am in exceedingly sorry the denio crati party cannot understand the fundamental principles of this question tile average democratic mind seems incapable of c alciem tho high minds of the understand something of tho tir 0 essentials but even they are una bleto reach the topmost height but truth will finally prevail 1 I should not reply to these strictures again continued reed but for the fact that I 1 do not want what has been edid to go into the record unchallenged filibustering is a modern invention ven tion you cant go back of disease to look for a remedy there was no remedy for parliamentary filibustering until fi filibustering I 1 became a chronic disease the power of the chair is the power 0 0 r of 0 the house the gentlemen r k a if the speaker aker were ivere an irresponsible individual it I 1 is I 1 impossible in i ble ahns Is for the tile speaker to do wb aliat at the house does not want him to do As w goon 0 n as use a L contrary proposition is stated its absurdity is seen meen therefore whatever charges have been made against me as speaker of the fi fifty aty first house should properly have lodged against that house which uniformly sustained me the gentlemen speak of suppressing dilatory motions it is the plain duty of the speaker under parliamentary parliament law to parliamentary sup suppress dilatory motions arf t declare motions I 1 declare now and here defying contradiction that the power to rule out dilatory motions was never exercised until the speaker an and d every man in the house believed and knew the motions were used uski to delay business in time this whole matter will become perfectly plain gentlemen concluded reed throwing his arms out wildly in the direction of the democratic side 1 I bid you cod god speed I 1 know that and conservatism held you firmly in ip its grabot grasp but U willbe t your bonds ads willbe be broken you will progress as all things do in time for after all does I 1 4 code he lie said the word dilatory need not have been in the rule the rule of the tile fifty farst congress on oil the contrary placed it in the power of the speaker to decide what was dilatory at the conclusion of bynums speech a vote was taken on an the adoption of the code of bulei offered by burrows and was lost by a vote iota of 65 to the tile rule rules then adapted without division at the request of 0 chairman wilson of amys and arid means that committee was given iven leave to sit during sessions of the tile roast the tile giouse then thenn adjourned until saturday |