Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-08-26

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ing worse than a piece of paper, the
purport Of which will be stated pres
emily. After q while the chairman got
the house quiet and it was moved that
Mr.. Cox's words should be taken down
and they acre taken down and read by
the clerk and did not sound any bet
ter than they did at first.
And one moved that any one using
such language should be expelled, and
then a count Of the house was moved
to see If there were a quorum, and
there wasn't; and all this took up time,
and thatwas what the Radicals wanted,
for they were afraid that time might
yet be found for some one to answer
Kasson and prove that he told a--well
what Cox said he told only Cox should
not have cs!led it by that name, and
that was what the Democrats wanted,
for they knew that, whateveryou might
call it, what Kasson said was not so;
and still they tried to get their man in
and still the radicals tried to wear out
the time and mems patience, and the
doOrkeepers looked dismal and the
pages curled themselves up ON tables
and benches and went fast asleep and
somebody moved that the sergeant at
arms should go out and arrest members
enough to make a house and some
raised doubt whether body which
was not a quorum and Mr.. Holman
showed that by the rules any 10 MEM
bers could compel others to come in
and make quorum, could pass such
motion, and it was disputed and
not settled and in short it was
night of filibustering till broad day
light of which no mortal man could
tell the proceedings or ought to
try. At last about 6 o'clock in the
morning Mr.. Cox, we know not how,
got at length hearing and this is what
he said.
Mr.. Speaker, was interrupted
while speaking last evening as the
house is aware, by a point of order,
which perhaps was well taken, owing
to the use of language which is not re-
garded as parliamentary, it was used
under peculiar provocation as the
House saw, and for its use l have to
make an opology TO the House and to
recall the language as supplementary.
And then an explanation had to be
made about the piece. of paper which
had been so belligerently handled, and
which turned out to be a denial pub
lished years ago on behalf of Mr..
Tilden that certain secret circular
issued in his name and made capital of
by Mr.. Kasson, had ever been issued
by his authority. And then Mr.. Cox,
being lit 6 a. M in possession of the
house announced his intention of CIV
ing the rest of his time to Mr.. Hewitt
of New York.
Mr.. Hewitt then arose, had to give
way however for some counter expla-
nations of Mr.. Kasson in which
Touchstone's "if'' was the main peace
maker. Then commenced Mr.. Hew-
tits vindication of Tilden--he is an
inexperienced speaker and the Radi-
Gals in the House let loose on him
their whole artillery of questions inu-
endos and contradictions, hoping still
to confuse him and prevent his making
the reply. He meant business howev-
er and was not to be impeded. And
he did the matter in most business
manner replying infinitely to every
charge, not only showing that they
we're false but had long been known to
be false, and having completed that
work, took Mr.. Kasson himself in
hand and administered a castigation
to him which even that not very thin
skinned party hack must have felt q
little.
The whole thing of course as Rad
ical trick was a dismal failure, and it
will long be recognised as fitting ter
mination to their last struggle against
overwhelming public indignation and
disgust, that the radicals in the House
should get up tissue of the dirtiest of
scandals against Tilden which the slums
New York have been teeming with,
then filibuster the whole night to
prevent q reply, and then receive con-
dign defeat and cruel castigatiOn from
plain business member which will
turn the attempted attack on Mr.. Til
den into first class campaign docu-
ment in his favor.