The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-01
FARSswORTH AND BUTLER.

the other day we had occasion to refer
to some sharp words passing between
himself and Logan and others on the
Cuba question and now the wires tell
US of skirmish between him and
Farnsw orth. This time Butler seems
worsted. Farnsworth rather had the
''papes" on him this time. An exchange
gives the particulars thus:
Such q scene as. Farnsworth,s attack
on Butler caused in the House to-day
has not been witnessed in Congress for
long time. II came up on PROPOSE
ton to pass 3 bin 10 extend the Smith
& Wesson pistol patent, known as the
bill for Rollin White, over the veto OF
the President. The Senate had pre-
viously carried it against the President
by Al 10 IL. The debate had been rum
ming on tolerably smooth for nearly an
hour, when Butler rose and began to
speak lin favor of The extension.
Mr.. FarIsworth made point of or
der that he was interested in the pend
ing bill, and should not be allowed to
proceed. AT this, Mr.. Butler, in his
usual style of bluff, jerked out that it
was false, and he would not be ehoked
off by man who ran to beard rather
than brains. Mr. Farnsworth retOrted
that the member might curse his beard,
but he could not come out of the House
and steal in the shadow of it. The
Speaker, in spite of general confusion,
managed to decide that the rule applied
to votes, not to speaking.
Mr.. Farnsworth coolly advanced to-
ward the desk, and said that the men,
Der from Massachusetts had denied his
ola hot he 0nn al IN he
case, and he asked leave to have the
official documents which he had sent to
the desk read, to prove it. AS the Page
took them up, they looked formidable,
with the blue ribbons and the seal of one
of the departments. There was sudden
ly general quiet, aud several expressed
a hope that no one would object to pa
pers being read in case of such gravity.
Members from each side of the House
crowded towards the center, and the
scene was very quiet one, considering
the intense excitement, while the Speak
er and Mr.. Farnsworth were exchang-
ing opinions on the propriety of reading
the documents. Meanwhile, Mr.. Butler
was charging around, acting more like
a crazy person than sane man. He
was part of the time almost choking
with rage, and at the same time more
thoroughly embarrassed than he has
ever appeared. 1t was evident to ali
that he was hit in a sore place, and was.
moreover, much worried at The looks of
the papers offered. AT last, i'm the
midst of the rulings concerning the
reading, he ran quickly down to the
Clerks desk, got possession of the pa
pers, hastily ran them over, got out a
date, and seemed little relieved.
He then sa d the reading of the doc
ments false and malicious. The Illinois
They showed from the records of the
Patent Office that Butler had some time
since received $1,000 from White, and
that he acknowledged himself to the
Patent Office as Whites attorney. The
reading caused a great sensation.
Mr.. Butler at once claimed that the
date showed the fee to have been one
for preparing brief in the case for the
Supreme Court.
At this time an attempt, was made TO
have q vote, and Butler seemed anxious
to get off that way, but Farnsw orth OPP
posed, so as to get a further chance to
speak. The House sided with the latter,
and refused to second call for the pre-
vious question, and so Farnsworth got
the floor. He went straight at Butler,
as with AK or cleaver, and charged him
with fraud, with false pretenses, with
rendering himself liable to prosecution
for misdemeanor in bringing his law
cases on the floor in his capacity of a
member of the House, and of being on
one side in this case before he was re-
tanned and paid, and on the other side
as a member since; closing up with
lines from Hudibras:
Compromising sins he is inclined to-
By QOmileerinC those he has no MIND to-
Butler writhed terribly during this
eXcoriation. For about the first time
in his Congressional career, he showed
to all on the floor and in the galleries
that he was hit on very sore spot.
Butler tried to answer by putting him.
self on high moral ground. He had
never brought private grievances before
the House. He explained the fee by
claiming that it was for printed brief
which he had filed in the Supreme
Court, and he appealed TO his fellow
members to say whether there was any
thing discreditable. Pointing in a
sneering way at Mr.. Farnsworth, he
cried out, "Malice aided by weakness
is infamy," and added that his blow was
that of q coward and an assassin.
The Speaker raped him to order. but
he repeated nearly the same words, and
closed with quotation from Shylock,
which some seemed to regard as natural.
This ended the hacking and hewing
in the House. 1t is The universal sub:
ject of talk throughout the city to-nigt.
To add 10 all, the House has ordered
Butler to be investigated" in regard
| to certain expenditures he had a hand
in. making, but this proceeding has
opened rather as If Butler was fully
ready for it. He tells the committee
he has bushel or two of vouchers fol
their perusal, and suggests that this
will be good for hot weather work, SC