The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-24
NEWS AND GOSSIP
WASHINGTON, June %.

There is report. which is pretty well
founded, that Motley will shortly be re.
called from London. r@'
Secretary Boutwell, this morning
issued an order forbidding any person not
connected with the Treasury Department
entering the rooms where money iscount-
cd or handled.
The monthly report Of the Commits.
sioncr Of Agriculture shows the acreage OF
winter wheat to be nearly five per cent
behind last year, while the quality ofgrain
is superior. Winter barley is about as
last year, and spring sowing has been2in-
creased. Grasses are generally flourish
ing. Fruits promise abundance. The
cotton acreage is materially increased in
every State, and the crop is generally
growing we'll
The San Domingo Committee does
not get through with its reports so readi-
" as it thought it might, and they again
70 over for two or three days, carrying
the treaty with them. Senator Howard
is drawing up that Of the majority, and
Gen, SchIrZ that of the minority. Hatch
is supposed 10 b. on his way home, but
cannot reach here till early week after
next. His testimony was not needed.
Such u scene rs FarnswOrths attack
on Butler caused in the House today has
not been witnessed in Congress for {"
long time 1t came up on proposition
10 pass the bill to extend the Smith "
Wcsson pistol patent, known rs the bill
for the relief Of ROllin White, over the
veto OF the President. The Senate had
previously carried it against the PrcSi-
dent by t0rty.twO TO eleven. The debate
had been running on with tolerabIy
smooth course for nearly an hour, when
Butler rose and commenced to speak in
favor Of the extension. FarnSworth ut
once made point Of order that he was
interested in the pending bill, and moved
that he be not allowed 10 proceed. AT
this Butler, in his usual style OF blutl,
ierked out that il was false, and he would
not be choked by man who ran TO beard
rather than to brains. FarnswOrth re-
tortcd that the member might curse his
beard, but he could not come into the
House and steal in the shadow OF It. The
Speaker, in spite Of the general confusion,
managed tOdecide that tho rule applied 10
votes, not speeches. Farnsworth coolly adj
vnnced towards the desk and said that as
the member from Massachusetts had de-
MED the statement that he was counsel in
the case he asked to have the official
documents which he had sent to the desk
read to prove it, AS the page took them
I'D they looked formidable with the blue
ribbons and seal Of one Of the Depart
mcnts, There was suddenly general
Quiet, and several expressed the hope that
no one would object to the papers beng
read in case OF such gravity. Members
from each side OF the House crowded To-
ward the centre, and the aCerG was very
quiet one, considering the intense excite
mCnt while the Speaker and Farnsworth
were exchanging opinions on the prOprie-
" Of reading the documents. Meanwhile
Butler was charging around. acting more
like IL crazy person than sane man. lie
was part OF the time almost choking with
rage, and at the same time more thor
OuGhlv embarrassed than he has ever be-
fore appeared. Il was evident to every
body that he was hit in n sore place, and
was moreover much worried at the looks
of the papers offered. AT last, in the
midst of the rulings concerning the read
ing, he ran quickly down to the Clerk s
desk and got possession of the papers,
hastily ran them over, got out q date, and
seemed little relieved. He then said
tho reading of the documents would
show FnrnswOrlhs statements 10 be false
and malicious They showed from the
: record Of the Patent Office that Butler
had some time since received fec OF
s! 600 from White, and that lie acknoWl-
edged himself TO the Patent Office as
Whites Attorney. The reading caused II
great sensation. Butler ut once claimed
that the date showed the fec 10 have been
for preparing brief in the case for the
Supreme Court. At this point an attempt
was made to have vote, and Butler
seemed anxious to get off that way, but
FarnswOrth opposed so us to get further
chance to speak The House sided with
the latter and refused to second the call
for the previous question, and so Farms
worth got the floor. He went straight at
Butler rs ifwith IN aX or CleNver; charged
him with fraud, with false prctences, with
rendering himself liable to prosecution
for misdcmcauor in bringing his law cases
on the floor in his capacity Of member,
and of being on one side in this case
before he was retained and paid, and on
the other side rs Il member since, closing
up with the lines from Hudibras-
"Compounding sins he IL inclined, to.
by danning those he has mind to-
Butler wrlthed terribly during this OK
coriatiOn. For about the first time in his
Congressional career, he showed to all on
the floor or in the galleries that lie was
hit in very sore spot. Butler tried TO
answer by putting himself on high moral
ground. lie had never brought private
grievances before the House. HecXplain.
ed the fee by claiming it was for printed
brief which he had filed in the Supreme
Court, and lie appealed TO his fellow mem
bers to say whether there was anything
discreditable. Pointing in asneering way
ut Farnsworth, he cried out, "Malice, aid.
ed by weakness, Is iniamy," and added
that FarnswOrth's blow, was that Of u
coward and an assassin. The Speaker
raped him to order, but he repeated near
" the same words, and closed with Il quo.
tation from ShylOCk, which more seemed
to regard US natural This ended the
hacking and hcwing in the House. 1t is
the universal subject Of talk throughout
the city tonight.
Tn hnS hcrnnr tnn nurh thn fashion in