The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-25
" ashingtola Letter.

CODE.
WASHINGTON. ID. c., June 10, 1879.
To the Editor OF the Morr1stown Gazette:
Twice a week, on Wednesdays in the
Capitol grounds and on Saturdays in the
White House grounds, the citizens Of
Washington are treated to music by that
gaudy superluity-the Marine Band.
The band discourses selections from the
operas, waltzes, marches, and invariably
plays Pinafore. At the Capitol they
play vulgar music, OF the White House
their repertoire is more classic. At the
one place their audience is mostly
nurses with their baby carriages, little
beys with velocipedes, awkward young
girls. from the public schools, and col
ored lazzaroni; at the White House the
audience is, to all appearances, more
respectable, consisting of grades from
the level of government clerks, to the
exalted station of Army and Navy peo-
pie, and including Congress and the
demi monde, pardon the sequence of
the last two classes, it is impossible in
writing to always avoid the juxtaposition
of antagonistic classes. Yesterday the
Capitol grounds presented a gay and
motley scene. In the centre of the
broad, smooth asphalt plaza stood in
circle the relocated musicians, while
covering the marble steps of the Capitol,
or circling around the band, in endless
promenade, was the Democratic audi
ence; but the chief attraction was an
old grey-haired, lame "sport" with a
very red nose, who had gathered around
him a score of juvenile velocipedists
and was improvising races, giving the
winner in each race a quarter of dol
lar. The old man was a Thorough
bred, and he entered into the sport with
as much zeal as if the stake was the
grand prir OF the gold cup, and the spec
tators shouted, waved, and enjoyed the
fun as intensely as if Goldsmith's Maid
and Parole had been the competitors.
Velocipedes were Overthrewn and one
baby carriage was smashed up, fortu-
nately without serious injury to its &C.
cupant. There were scenes enacted
outside, while the flag foated over the
deadlocked Senate, as the sun went
down on the beginning of the most eX-
citing and boisterous debate of the
present Congress. The cause of the
deadlock was Senator Conkling's I'M
willingness to allow a vote on the Army
Bill. Senators Beck, Blaine, Vance
and VOORHEES, had made fiery speeches.
About six o'clock Mr.. Withers moved
an adjournment, with the understanding
that vote should be taken on the Army
Bill to-day. An hour was spent in fill
clustering under the lead of Mr.. Conkling,
who would not agree upon any hour for
vote. Senator Davis, of Illinois, en-
that he had consulted with all the Dem
ocratic Senators, who were willing to
allow full discussion, provided an hour
for voting could be agreed upon. All
the Republican Senators except Mr..
Conkling were willing to agree upon a
fixed hour, and if he would consent to
these terms the deadlock would be at an
end. Mr.. Conkling, sitting at his desk,
brought his hand down with thump
and said he would not consent even if
every other Republican Senator might
do so. The session continued until af-
ter midnight, when a very serious per-
sonal difficulty occurred. Mr.. Conkling
had been speaking for nearly an hour,
and in the course of his remarks, said
that Senator Lamar in getting up his
Mississippi Levee Bill, and then voting
for adjournment, had been guilty of bad
faith. Mr.. Lamar replied that if the
Senator from New York charged him
with "bad faith" or implied "bad
faith" against him, Il say to the Senator
from New York he is guilty of false
hood and l repel it with all the contempt
/ feel for its author" Senator Conkling,
who had been walking back and forth
in the rear of his desk, said, "Mr. Pres
ident, I did not hear what the Senator
from Mississippi said in the beginning,
but if I understood him Alright, he
charged me with intentional misstate-
ment, or implied 1t; what did the Sena-
tor from Mississippi say2" Senator La
mar arose and tried to get the attention
of the Chair, but Senator Conkling, very
much excited, turned his back and said
he would have no further communica-
ton with the Senator from Mississippi,
and continued, II have only to say that
if he should charge me by intimation
with telling a falsehood, would de-
nounce him as a coward, a BLACKBOARD,
and liar" Senator Lamar replied
very deliberately, 81 have only to say to
the Senator from New York that
he understood me correctly. said pre-
cisely the words he understood me. Ny
language was harsh and unparliament-
airy, and beg pardon of the Senate for
il, but my language was such as no good
man would deserve, and no brave man
would wear" At this point the excite
ment in the Senate and in the galleries
was intense. Applause and Kisses fol-
lowed the remarks of the beligerant
Senators. and the Chair seemed, for a
moment, to be unable to preserve order,
while reporters rushed for the wires. |
This morning there is much talk of
luel, and it is said, by those who know
The code, that, in such resort, Mr.. |
Conkling will have to be the challenger.
G. A. 8.