Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-02-16
Exnelling Reporters.

Pryor OF Virginia, in thc House, and Bennett Of
the N. Y Herald had been bandyins e2ithcts at
each other. until Bsaneitbcat himat his own game.
Whereupon Ashmore, of South Caroline, a fire.
eating friend Of Pryor, moved to expc the Hcralds $
Reporters from the galleries, though acknowleds
ing in his speenh that they I'd n2t offended, but he
wished to punish Bennett through them. We now
quote from the Congressional Globe: ~, III
Mr.. CoIrAx. i desire to say few words in re-
gard to the same subject alluded to by the gentle
man from South Carolina, Mr.. Ashmorc.l There
is no member on this floor who deprecates person
alities, upon either side, more than do; nor who
has listened with pain to the attacks that have
been made by gentlemen on. either side OF this
House on the motives or the principles OF those
who differ with them. have nothing tosay in re-
gard to this particular, and yet, the House and the
country will remember that there has been in regard
to the two persons alluded TO by the gentleman
from South Carolina, language used in the New
York Herald, and upon this floor, which had far
| better not have been used at all. III liei.
Mr.. AsHMoRE With that have nothing TO do.
Mr.. CoLrAx. merely allude to it, l 90 not
stand here as the champion or ape,ogist of the N.
! Y. Herald. But if the gentleman from South Car
oliaa is about to commence system OF purgaton
of the reporters gallery want him to go back and
commence in the regular order in which these trans
gressions have occurred and wish to draw his at
teulion to the fact that he viii find thatth official
organ of the administrations ailude to the w ash
ington Constitution has far forgotten the dignity
its position as to brand Representatives, on this
foor who have dared to vote for the nun of their
choice, for Speaker, "trltors," and hasuscd the
most dishonoring nyectives in regard to them. say
ing rs friend reminds me that they hive been
"bought with n shilling" only draw the atten-
ton of the gentlemn from South Ca olina to this
- f,ll f..ll fall oil
who transgress the rules ofdecorum, which the gen
tleman has alluded to.
! Let me add one thing further The language to
which the gentleman refers is language | cannot
and DO not approve. / have never, as gentlemen
will bear me witness, used personalities of any
kind here in debate towards those who diifer from
me: and those who have seen the paper that have
conducted know that do not indulge in PERSONAL
| ties there. But stand here, and | shall always
stand here as the defender of the freedom of tho
press in this country and If gentlemen do not lik
the press to strike back they should themsclvc
| withhold the blow which provokes it, l always re
gret to see gentlemen rising here with newspapers
extracts in their hands, and blsing upon them per
sonal explanations, in which they employ Language
which for harmony and concord and for the sake o
keeping our record free from personalities, nigh
as we'll be omitted. These differences and dispute
had better be settled elsewhere. / do not allude t
the the code of honor but outside of this House il
the courts, and not be brought here
Gentlemen who set on this side ofthe House hav,
been attacked by the very paper to which the gen
tleman allules, in the severest and bitterest Ian
ruarc of invective. We have been called traitor
to our oaths, traitors to the ConstitlIton and hars
and irritable as the language yesterdays Heral'
Is it is not harsher severer than the previous Ian
ruare of the same paper, used against gentlemen
who know themselves to be loyal to the Constitu
ton and the Union, and which has been copied an
incorporated in speeches of gentlemen Of the othe
side. Have they note lied Us incendiaresl Hav
they not branded us as guilty Of treasonl Hav
they not in a variety of ways gone beyond that par
liamentary decorum which should govern in bod
like this7 And they should remember that to thu
characterize their fellow members is as irritating an
offensive any personal language that can be use
in the columns OF q newspaper. tA
have been betrayed into taesssemarks bcyon
the point intended. desire to state to the gentle
man from South Carolina that, if it is his desire I
expe reporters from the reporters gallery VIII
themselves T. ingress the rules parliamentary dc
coram or to xDes them when the editors whom the
represent off nj in SIMILAR mlnner, | hope his i'm
partality viii induce him to search out all the pl
pers that have thus rasy ;esscl, AMI apply the pun
ishment equally to all.
IAfter Mr.. Colfix's speech. Nc. Ashmore with
drew his resolution oni the m Utter dropped.l