Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-03-02
Rumpus in the Massachusetts Legislature.

Rumpus in the Massachusetts Legislature.
The solid men of Massachusetts Bay, have had
quite stirring times in their General Court'-aS
they call the lower House Of the Legislature. Ii
appears that the majority reported bill, and pro-
posed certain day for its consideration. The mi
| nOrity asked for more distant day, TO enable
them TO prepare substitute. The delay was
granted. When the urne arrived the minority
were not ready-and they attempted to defeat
ton by systematic series OF motions of disorder
ly character. The Speaker arrested the proceed
ing by ruling some OF their motions out of order-
Thereupon they became highly indignant and
exceedingly uproarous. One proclaimed, that the
time had arrived for shedding blood. One went
to the Clerks table, and said aloud that he would
"knife that 'old cuSS' ''-(the Speaker.) When
the House adjourned at late hour Saturday
night, the minority called a meeting Of its own, to
concert revolutionary measures Most ofthe prom
nent actors in the tlisorderly in liquor
and after venting their fury, adjourned. The
Atlas of Tuesday morning gives the following ex.
PLANTATION from one of the most blood thirsty of the
rebelionStS
made threat to knife the Speaker-a threat which
we presume 10 be indictable at law. He rose,
yesterday, to make a personal explanation. He
said that he did not say old cuss, and did not say
that he would like to knife the Speaker but only
the rulings of the Speaker 1t was the rulings
of the Speaker that he would like 'to knife.'-
Mountaineering to avoid direct question of We
| racty between the member from Lowell and our
gentlemen who heard him make the remark, and
they willing to make affidavit of the fact before
any Justice of the Peace in the Commonw ealth.-|
That he made use of the remark, we have no
| doubt; but it would appear from the explanation
which he favored the House with yesterday, that
he did not say he would like to knife the Speaker,
| but only the decisions of the Speaker. From the
| body corporeal he turns TO the mere knitting of an
abstract, myth, thing intangible, ghostly SUBJ
stance not known in criminal law. To knife de-
cision, is like knitting disembodied spirit. 1t is
the concretion of thought, and is not unlike the
air drawn dagger which Macbeth when on
his way to knife King Duncan. And we would
propose to some of dramatsts, caricaturiss, or
theatrical managers, 10 have the member from
Lowell put forth in the character of acbeth with
his plilipeg and tartan trews, shield and all that
Just as he came from the Norwegian wars; in an
attitude, not as repeating 'ths is sorry sight,"
with couple of bloody daggers, one in each hand,
as usually represented on the stage-but as COM
ing down from his place in the House of the Mas
sachusetts Representatives, towards the Speakers
chair, with bowie-knife in his fist, striking all
along at distinctions that stop his ways in the
form of decisions, until he reaches the Clerks
DESK and there taking up the Journal of the House,
i'll which are inscribed the decisions of the Speak
en- and striking the knife, with deadly thrust,
Unto the heart of those decisions, Transcribed in in
nocent ink, on fair. faced fools-cap. This would
be picture worthy OF a painter.