Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-20


lie also had a letter read written By Mr.. Fos7
ter, IRepublicanl of Ohio. and which had
been picked up in the streets of Brooklyn,
Iii which he said that he had been prepared
to
Rap Old Cookie
[ROars of laughter, in which Mr.. Butler
himself joined most heartily while
wiping the perspiration from his brow
He also had read an affidavit made by
Martin Warwick, witness before the Way
and Means Committee, that Foster had
said to him at the Fbbitt House,
s'Baui butler; He Ought TO be Inyesti-
gated.
All the men connected with these con-
tracts are Buffers friends, and you are his
friend also"
Mr.. Foster pronounced the statement an
uncomfortable falsehood.
Mr.. Butler went on 10 say he had no OBJ
lection to being Investigated by anybody,
friend or enemy, especially the latter, for
the more they investigated him the worse
they liked him. But he objected to the
public money being spent for that pur=
rose under the eirecti5n OF the Coinmlttee
on WAYS and Means. If that committee
had been attending to finances, a two
thirds majority of the House would not now
have TO
Hang Their Heads I'm shame
that CtngreSs had to 30 homie after six
months session with no comprehensive
measure Of revenue or finance passed or
even reported. That committee instead Of
attending to proper duties had been rapping
Old Cock-eye, examining into his private
atiairs and inquifillg into the fees which he
had received from his clients, but said he
triumphantly, Old Cock-eye
Escaped as Usual
without a rap. In conclusion, he said:
look forward to time when the majority
of this House will be opposed tome inpoli-
tics, and then ask them To Investigate
every act OF mime and publish the results
to the country. | invoke investigation OF
gent.emanly political opposition and not
of a malignant personal spleen and spite
egged on by political rivalry.
Because | humbly trust when my every
act is known and understood auithorlta-
lively in its breadth and motives, the kindly
judgment of my countrymen will be, she
was a man whose virtues oyerbalanced his
faults, who loved his country, his kind, JUS
tice and nobleness." [Applause.l
Mr.. Foster, (ihOckingly. Let us pray.
Mr.. Butler, (defiantly. 1.-The gentleman
will lead, suppose. Laughter and ap-
plause.l
Fosters ReIoinder.
Mr.. Foster followed, and remarked, IRON
ically, that Of course the gentleman (Mr.
Butler) had no connection with the San
born contracts. / don't suppose that the
gentleman knows of Prescott having an
office i'm the same building with him in
Boston. | don't suppose he knows any
thing abort the Offtr of 5000 to a
Brooklyn paper to take SanbOrn's
side. | don't suppose he knows anything
about Prescott buying up the man who
stole my letter and gave it TO the gentle
man from Massachusetts. Why,
Expected my Letters TO be stolen
after got into a controversy with the gen
tleman from Massachusetts,, and | wrote
them on purpose. [Laughter.] This
House had TO pass resolution to keep the
gentleman (Butler) from stealing tele.
grams, for it was aimed at him.
| know that men have been
sent Ia my district TO find
out something about the manner of my
election. Further, am In ormed that the
SecreG g., rSlce
have been used to se.tl man to my dis
trict, and under RiC u. ism as Secretary of
Treasury, and Bantield, Solicitor, ostensi-
bly, to look after a 6fty-Cent counterfeit
plate; but dOn't suppose the gentema
from Massachusetts, knows anything about
it. | dOn'tsuppOse he knows anythingabOut
Jayne sending anybody there, but they had
been. 1t seems TO me that under these
prOvOcatiOns, had right TO say Old Cock
eve now and then. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Foster then gave the history OF the
case of Phelps, Dodge * Co., aud said thai
a more unprovOked, unwarranted and out
rageOus assault than that which Mr.. Butler
had hade upon thOse gentlemen he had
never heard EOr had the House.
Mr.. L. III. Roberts also replied TO Mr..
Butler.
Mr.. Tremaine said the time for the gen
tleman (Butler) to make his defense had
been when the question was before the
House in regard to the importation of
statuary; that was stale old slang, dug up
from the cutters to sustain a rotten cause
of SanbOrne and Jayne.
Mr.. Butler rejOined: Tray, Blanche and
Sweetheart-little dogs all see-they bark
at me. Laughter.) Does any other cur
want to snap? Q4aughter).
Mr.. Tremaine quoted the speech OF Jack
Cade to Dick the butcher, and his follow
ers. The difference between the ancient
and
Modern Jack Cade
was that, instead of there being no more
money, the modern one would have bas-
kets full of greenbacks.
The House at 1910 A. NJ. Adjourned.