The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-02-05

I this language to member Of the House
Mr.. Brown-NO sir; | am describing
a character who is in my minds eye.
( The Speaker-The chair understood
the gentleman to refer to a member Of
the House.
Mr.. Brown-No, sir; l call no names.
/ This man name was linked to his
crimes, and to-day throughout the world
it is known as "Burking" If was to
desire to express all that was pusillani-
nous in war, inhuman in peace, forbid
/ ding in morals, and infamous in politics,
l should call it "Butlerizing. Sensa-
! tion.
The Speaker, interrupting Mr.. Brown
The gentleman did not deal in good
iaith with the chair. He did not answer
in good faith the question addressed to
! him.
Mr.. Hale, of New York, insisted that
| Mr.. Browns language be reduced to
writing, and read from the clerks desk.
While the reporter was writing It
down the excitement in the House was
at red heat.
The Speaker took occasion to remark
IuTlucTj tIuI Hc udu HOl ucSh pay y'hS NiO'N
attention TO what the gentlemen from
Kentucky had said, and had addressed
an inquiry to him which had been an
swered either denyingly or evasively,
the Chair could not tell which. 1t would
have been inexcusable in the Chair to
have permitted such language to be used,
and his exculpation rested on the eyasive
reply of the gentleman from Kentcky.
The report of Mr.. Browns objectiona-
Bile remarks having been read from the
Clerks desk, Mr.. Hale, of New York, Of
fered a resolution that in that language
as we'll as with the prevarication by which
the gentleman from Kentucky, was gull
ty of the violation of the privileges of the
House, and merited the severest censure
of the House; and that he now be brought
to the bar of the House, in the custody of
the Sergeant.at-Arms, and there be pub
licly censured by the Speaker, in the
name of the House.
Mr.. Dawes offered the following as a
substitute for Mr.. Hales resolution:
ReSoLrcd, That John Young Brown, a
member of the House from the State OF
Kentucky, be expelled from the House
for gross violation of the rules and
privileges OF the House, in the use on the
floor by the language just read by the
Clerk, and for falsely stating to the
Speaker of the House that he did not re.
fer to any member of the House.
Mr.. Hale declined to yield for Mr
Dawes, and invoked the previous ques-
ton.
Mr.. Cox to Mr.. Hale-You cannot
force this thing on the House. There
has been provocation for what the gentle
man from Kentucky said.
The House refused to second the pre-
vious question.
Pr. Dawes said he regretted the neces-
sity of offering resolution as his con-
nection with the gentleman from Ken
lucky had been always kind. He had
been shocked and panied by what had
occurred, and nothing but the belief that
it was i'm eratiyely necessary that the
House should vindicate itself and its
rules would have induced him 10 offer n
resolution after an exciting debate. Mr..
Dawes asked whether the gentleman
from Kentucky desired to speak now.
Mr.. Brown, rising and speaking with
great deliberation, said that this was the
first time that evasion or prevarication
had ever been attributed to him. He
always spoken in plain terms susceptible
of no misunderstanding, and he was
willing to stand by the record.
Mr.. Dawcs-I would inquire Of the
gentlemen from Kentucky whether he
has any remark to make in regard TO the
character OF the language he used.
Mr.. Brown stand by my record.
Sensation.
Mr. +. K. Hoar said whether the Com
monwcalth of Kentucky would feel in
dignant at n vote of censure upon one OF
her representatives, he did not feel GER
tain, but he knew the Kentucky charac-
ter for manliness and for truthfuncss to
be such, that that common wealth would
spurn a man from its borders, who for
the sake of getting successfully through
personal attack upon member, would
falsify when he was called upon by the
chair.
Mr.. Lamar have only one reply to
make to the Gentleman from Massachu-
setts Mr.. Hoar), and | make it with
great respect, after pause), upon Consid-
Grafton, | will not make it. | will just say,
however, that he has used, with reference
to the gentleman now on trial, language
which | think require neither courage
nor courtesy for man t. use. Sensa-
ton, and increasing excitement.
Mr. Hoar asked Mr.. Lamar whether
he meant to impuga his courage or
courtesy.
Mr. Lamar do not; but ! say that
remark which the gentleman made did
not require the exhibition Of either; and
sir, in my opinion does not comport with
the high character which that gentleman
bears.
Mr.. Hoar-What remark do you al
lude to?
Mr.. Lamar-To the expression of the
word Justification.
Mr.. Hoar-I said that the question be-
fore the House was, whether the gentle
man from Kentucky had fslsifed.
| have made no statement tina: he did.
Mr., Lamar (courteouslyl then ! with
draw the remark, and beg your pardon.
Applause.
Mr.. Dawes said he had not only desir-
cd to see whether the members on both
sides would not stand up for the decorum
of the House, but had also desired to give
the gentleman from Kentucky Brown
an opportunity to express regret. That
gentleman, he was sorry to say, had not
availed himself of that opportunity. On
the other hand, in the presence Of the
House, he had reiterated and resfiirmed
the position which he had taken. He
found, however, that his Dawes resolu-
tion. would gain nosupport from the Dem.
ocratic side of the House, and now, said
he, rather than have my resolution fail for
want of aid from that side, | withdraw
it, and call for the previous question on
the resolution offered by the gentleman
from New York Hale
The previous question was then sec
onded.
Mr.. Eldridge asked to have the word
"prevariation' struck out of the resolu-
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