Daily globe., 1879-06-19
BAD BLOOD.
Exciting and Disgracefnl Scene in thu
United States Senate.
PARTY PASSION CULMINATEs
In the Lie Direct Between Senators
Conkling and Lamar.
The Senate proceedings and discussion
leading to the exciting and disgraceful scene
depicted below will be found on the second

The Senate proceedings and discussion
leading to the exciting and disgraceful scene
depicted below will be found on the second
page. , sss
WASHINGTON, June 1911 80 P. N. The stu.
alton is unchanged and no intention to com.
promise is shown on either side.
Senator Hereford said under the ruling of
the chair the thing would continue to go
round and round all night.
Senator Conkling-It ID revolution.
daughter.
Senator Hereford-Yes, you are engaged in a
revolution and we are trying to get out Of 1t.
Senator Burnside said, if it is in order, ]
will ask why We are staying here.
The Presiding Oficer-The chair is unable to
answer the question. iLaughter).
Senator Conkling wa. willing to accept his
| full share of the responsibility for resistance
to this arbitrary and outrageous attempt. II
| had shown that the majority could not ride
rough shod over the rights of the minority in
| the Senate. he then denounced the army bill.
After time had come when the majority dare
! not adjourn the session and leave the govern
ment to languish and starve now when the
! whole battle has been fought, it is proposed bv
had failed as an open measure. The words las
| police force" were mere cheat. The opera.
tive words were ITO keep peace at polls''. He
was glad to accept responsibility for any pro-
| ceeding, call it obstruction or anything else to
prevent the passage of such bill without de-
( bate to show its real nature.
Senator Conkling having charged the other
side with bad faith in allowing The time taken
by the Mississippi river commission bill. this
| morning, to be allowed in debate on the army
bill, Senator Lamar rose at The CO. clusion of
Conklings remarks, and said, that as far as
| any intimation of bad faith to him was con-
cerned, he had lived in vain il he was not su-
! peIior to such charge fro II such a source. Il
| ia not my purpose, he said, to indulge in per.
sonalities, but will say to the Senator that
| if he intended to intimate anything I have
done was not in good faith
PRONOUNCE HIS STATEMENT FAIsEHooD.
| which repel with all the nnmitigated CON
tempt that I'feel for the author of it.
Senator Conkling, who had been walking
slowly back and forth behind the benches, ad.
vanced to his seat and said: Mr.. President-I
| remarks the elimination of which heard
from the member from Mississippi. If ]
understood the member right he intended 10
| impute and did in plain and unparliamentary
| language impute to me all intentional misstate
ment (pausing.) The Senator does not dis
claim that
Senator Lamar will state what intended
sir, 30 there can be no mistake. The presi6iine
officer (CockrelD called Lamar to order and
| Conkling proceeded. Whether am willing to
respond to the member from Mississippi de.
pends entirely upon what that member intends
to say and what he did say, and for the time
being I do not choose to hold any communica
state in plain unparliamentary language that
the statement of mine to which he refers was
falsehood. If I caught his words
Alright have only to say, this not
being the place to measure with any man the
capacity to violate decency, to violate the rule.
of the Senate, or to commit any Of the impro
prieties of life, l have only to say that if the
Senator, the member from Missouri did i'm
| pute or intended to impute to me falsehnod
nothing except tho fact that this is the Senate
would prevent my denouncing him as
BLACKBOARD AND A COWARD.
| (Applauses and hisses.) Let me be more specific
Mr.. President. Should the member from Mis-
sissippi, except in the presence of the Senate
charge me, by intimation or otherwise, will
| falsehood, I would denounce him as a black
| guard, coward and liar. The rules ant
proprieties of the Senate are the only restraint
upon me. do not think need say anything
else. Mr.. President; lApplause and hisses.)
| The chair demanded quiet in galleries.
Senator Lamar have only to say that the
Senator from New York understood me cor
rectly. did mean to say just
PRECISELY THE WORDS AND ALL THAT THE
/ IMPUTED.
beg pardon of the Senate for the unparli
mentary language. It was very harsh, it wa
severe. it was such as no man would reserve
and no brave man would wear. (Renewe,
demonstrations of approval and dlsapproval.
The Chair-The galleries will be cleared upoI
the repetition of applause.
Senator Conkling-What is the question be
fore the Senate?
The discussion of the power to send for alb
sent Senators was resumed. At A. NJ. ther
seems to be no prospect of adjournment.
June 10. l:30 A. M.-Senator Thurman i
arguing that while Senators cannot be com
PEELED to vote, it is unfair not to do SO, ant
that when Democrats were in the minorit,
they delayed by speeches, but not by refusing
to vote.
| June 10, 2:25 A. MA call of the Senate ha
been ordered, and is now in progress
JUNE 1913 A. M.-The sc geant-at-arms ha
reported absentees. and an effort is being mad
to dispense with the call.