Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — THEY KICKED. [ARTICLE]

THEY KICKED.

Democratic Congressman Force tho Doors’ to Secure Egress. There was a scene of excitement in the House on the 18th. The Virginia election case was the unfinished business, but the House itself was engaged in the technical proceeding of trying to approve Wednesday's journal. The Democratic members were endeavoring in every way to prevent the consideration of the election case, and in pursuance of this policy almost all of them left the hall to break a quorum on the question of approving the journal. A call was ordered, which brought in a number of Democrats, and a yea and tfcj- vbte was being taken on a motion to further proceedings under the call when the Democratic members again began to decamp. Mr. Burrows called the attention of the Speaker to the fact and asked if the members present could not be obliged I to remain. The Speaker replied tlfatthe rules were intended to secure th’is end. He ad<|ed that he did not see why they were not

observed. Accordingly the assistant doorkeejWr, Mr. Houk, directed all of the doors leading into the ball to be locked. Hardly had this been done before Representative Kilgore (TexT) presented himself at the Speaker’s left hand and sought'to go out into the lobby. He found that the door was locked and the doorkeeper in charge, Mr. Hayes, refused to unlock it. - “Unlock that door!” demanded the stalwart Texan. ’ The doorkeeper moved not, whereupon Mn Kilgore-gave a suuaen and vigorous kick and the frail baize structure flew open anjd Mr; Kilgore strode out. He was followed in about the same fashion by Representatives Crain (Tex.), Cummings (N. Y.), and Coleman (La.), who in turn forced the loca open without opposition from the doorkeepers. At the moment Mr. Kilgore drove the door flying wide open Representative Dingley (Me.) was approaching from the other side. The door struck him full force in the face, bruising his nose badly. For a time it was feared, and so generally re- : ported, that the bone had been broken: but this was found not to be the case upon examination.