The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-26
AL. NIGHT SESSION.

i Wednesday night, June IS, which con
tinued till II 80 a. NJ, June 10, bu
no business was transacted except call
ing the roll to see if a quorum wa;
present, and requiring the Sergeant-at
Arms to look up and bring in absent
lees. During the night some SHARP
words We're spoken by Senators Lamar
and Coakling. Tie following is a re
! port Of the Senate proceedings from
III 80 p. NJ, to A. NJ, the Army ap
Epropriation bill being under consider
alton. aa M M
/ 1870 F.. M.-The situation is IN
lchanged, and no intention to compro
mise is shown on either side. An oc
casional motion to direct the Sergeant.
| ALARMS to summon absentees leads te
running discussions Of the rules.
j Mr.. Hereford said, under the rulings
Of the chair, the thing would continue
to go round and round all night.
! Mr.. ConkIng-It is revolution
/ Laughter.
/ Mr.. Hereford es, you are engaged
in revolution, and we are trying tC
get out of it. .
/ Mr.. Burnside-If it is in order, will
ask why we are staying here?
The presiding officer-The chair is
unable to answer the question. Laugh
ter. t4lGaa
Mr.. Conkling was willing to accept
his full share Of the responsibility for
resistance to this arbitrary and out
ragecus attempt. It had shown that
the majority could not ride roughshod
over the rights of a minority in the
Senate. He then denounced tbs Army
bill. After the time had come when
the majority dare not adjourn the ses-
sion and leave the Government to Ian
guish and starye-now, when the
whole battle had been fought--it is
proposed by trick, artifce and q Jug
Cling of words to do what had failed
as an open measure. The words "as a
police force" were a mere cheat. The
operative words were 'to keep the
peace at the polls" He was glad to
accept the responsibility, call it OBJ
lstruction Or anything else, to prevent
| the passage Of such bill without de
bate to show its real nature.
MI. Conkling having charged the
other side with bad faith in not allow
ing the time taken by the Mississippi
River Commission bill this morning to
be allowed in debate on the Army bill,
Mr.. Lamar arose at the conclusion of
Mr.. Conkling's remarks, and said that
as far-as any intimation Of bad faith to
him was concerned he had lived in
vain if he was not superior to such a
charge from such q source. ''It is not
my purpose he SAID, "to indulge in
personalities, but will say to the Sen
ator that if he intended to intimate
that anything [ have done is not in
good faith. pronounce his statement
a falsehood which I repel with all the
unmitigated contempt I feel for the
author of it, =
Mr.. Conkling, who had been slowly
walking back and forth behind the
benches, advanced to his seat and said:
"Mr. President, was diverted during
the commencement Of the remarks, the
illumination Of which I heard, from the
member from Mississippi. i'll under
stood the member right, he intended to
impute, and did in plain and unparlia-
mentary language impute, tome an in
territorial misstatement-- pauslng] =
the Senator does not disclaim thatY'
Mr. Lamar will state what in
tended, sir SO there can be no mistake.
The presiding officer (Cockrell) call
ed MI. Lamar to order, and Mr.. Conk-
ling proceeded: " Whether [ am will
ing to respond to the member from
Mississippi depends entirely upon what
that member intends to say, and for
the time being do not choose to hold
any communication with him. I un-,
derstand the Senator to state in plain
supplementary language that the
statement Of mine to which he refers
was falsehood. III caught his words
Alright, have only to say (this not be-
ing the place to measure with any man
the capacity to violate decency, to VIC
late the rules of the Senate or to COM
nit any Of the improprieties Of life)-
| have only to say that, if the Senator,
the member from Mississippi, did i'm
-pute, or intended to impute, to me a
falsehood, nothing except the fact that
this is the Senate would prevent my
denouncing him as a blackguard and a
coward. Applause and Kisses. Let
me be more specific, Mr.. President.
Should the member from Mississippi,
except in the presence Of the Senate,
charge me, by intimation or otherwise,
with falsehood, I would denounce him
as blackguard, as a coward and a
liar. The rules of the Senate are the
only restraint upon me. lido not think
/ need say anything else, Mr.. Presi-
dent. Applause and hisses.]
The chair demanded quiet in the
galleries.
Mr.. Lamar-I have only to say that
the Senator from New York under
stood me correctly. / did mean to say
just precisely the words and all that
they imported. / beg the pardon Of
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