The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-12-24

New Mexico. The Vice President submitted q letter
from the Secretary Of the Interior calling Cor $1s.-
100000 an additio nal pension appropriation abb
soutely required for the current year. The bill de-
creasing the time during which Territorial Legisa-
lures may remain in session from forty to thirty
days passed. The nomination Of Judge Woods 70
the Supreme bench was confirmed, but was recon-
sidered and the Senate adjourned leaving the matter
unfinished. The House was informed by Mr. Haw-
ley that Connecticut had transmitted ior the
portrait gallery oil painting OF Jonathan rum
bull Mr.. Robson introduced resolution that the
two houses assemble in February in the Honse
chamber to count the electoral votes, but the
members refused to consider II. Fernando
Wood urged the necessity OF passing me
funding bill before the holiday recess, ard
the House went into committee of the whole
thereon, when Messrs. Weaver, Bland. ana
Mills stated that they wod oppose immediate action
by every possible means. In the prolonged debste
as liar and the latter reterted that the Greenbacker
was scoundrel and villain. Each then advanced
toward the other, each attempting to remove MS
coat, but friends hurried them from the chamber.
The Sparks-Weaver AltercattOns
(Associated Press Report
Mr. Weaver made humorous speech, arraignin5
the Democratic party for inconsistency on the fina-
eal question: and stating that the party IN its State
and national platforms, encamped every four years
on ground where the Republicans had encaInped
four years before. He was frequently interrupted
by Messrs Reagan Warner Finley, Bland and 9TH
ter on the Republican side.
= Mr. Bland inquired for what Presidential candi-
date Weaver had voted in 1876.
Mr.. weaver-For rutherford b. Hayes, and 4 am
sorry for it.
Mr Biand-And you have good reason why.
CIaughter.l ~
The discussion, which was very noisy and irregu-
lar drifted into the question to the responsibility
for demonstration, and the credit for renonetiza-
ton of silver the Democrats casting discredit on the
Republicans for the former, and claiming for them
selves the credit for the latter
Mr.. Reagan afked Mr.. Weaver to state categori-
cally.whether he was in favor of paying the public
debt in greenbacks.
Mr.. Weaver replied that the Greenback party pro-
posed not to violate any contract existing between
the Government and its bondholdeas. ef
Mr.. Reagan-That is exactly what the Democratic
party said after he passage of the law of 1869.
Mr.. Buekner asked Mr.. Weaver when he had left
the Republican party ye
Mr. Weaver replied that he had left It in 1877 Just
when the gentleman (Buckner) stumping his
district in favor OF substituting greenbacks for ma
tionalbank notes.
Mr. Warner sent to the Clerks desk and had read
a paragraph from the Independent Republican plat
form in 1863 in favor of greenback currency and of
paying interest on bonds in legal money where the
bonds SO provided.
Mr.. Reed suggested that all parties acted fooishly
then but that the Republicans had the good sense to
get right.
Mr.. Bland replied to Mr.. Weayer's speech and said
that that gentleman had shown his aniInus in at
gentleman had had in the House. loud la ghter
on the Republican side. He referred to the charge
made against Mr.. Weaver in the last campaign that
he acting in the interest Of the Republicans, and
said that his action then correspohded with his
speech to-day.
Mr. Weaver tried to interrupt Mr.. Bland assert
ing that his statement Was not true.
Mr.. and declined to yield, and went on charging
Mr.. Weaver with Inconsistency ana bad faith. He
asserted that all the reform that had taken place
Gently in financial matters had from the Demo-
cratic party. The Republican party might, by its
assessment of oficeholders, and by corruption and
fraud, succeed in putting down the grand Old DEM
ocratic party which stood for the rights and liberties
of the peope but sooner or later seyeral Repub cans
Later! y reform would come, not through the Re-
pubicans or Greenbackers, but through the Demo-.
Gratis.
Mr.. Weaver replied to Mr.. Band, and challenged
him to quote one word that he (Weaver) had said in
the last campaign in favor Of the Republican party.
Until he could do so, he should "shut up He had
In that campaign arraisned the Republican party,
and he arragued it to-day. He repudiated the idea of
inytis xesffel from the Democratic PARTY
during the campaign and said the only evidence he
had OF 1t was in the shape OF forged letter pub
lshed III the New York Star. and which he believed
was in the same handwriting as the Mores letter.
pr. Band asked Mr.. Weaver about his repHted
interview during the campaign with Jay Hubbell
Chairman of the Congressional Republican Com
mittee
Mr.. Weaver, denied that any such interview had
taken place, and charged the fasehood of that story
on D. d. 'Lum, Nho, he said, had sold out to
both the Republican and Democratic parties
and both parties were cheated when they
bought him. He did not charge incongist-
eney upon the Democratic party itsef, but
on its legders-on the men who ran with the hounds
and held with the hare. These were tie men whom
he desired to ho.d up to pubic condemnation as be-
ing unworthy to lead the opposition to the Republican
party, which sought to fasten on to the country the
British system of perpetual debt. A N
Mr.. Sparks got the floor, and alluded to circum-
stance that had occurred during the Interruptions
between Messrs. Weaver, Band, and others, in
which Mr.. Weaver had used offensive term 10
aim that he was "crazy'). He went on, in good
natured manner, to excuse tue offensive remark a
rising from misunderstanding on Mr.. Weaver's
part OF what he (Sparks) had said to call it out.
Mr.. Weaver replied in the same tone of pleasantly
and good humor, declining to take offense at what
Mr.. Sparks had said. and intimating tn t no one
could venture to Insult him Intentionally by ascrib-
ing fasehood to him without feeling the force of his
(Meaver's) right arm. Laughter and uproar.l
Mr.. Sparks, on hearing the latter remark, changed
his tone from one of peasantry to of anger and
said " spurn with contempt the reach of his arm.
The reach Of his arm would affect me as little as it
affected the last Presidential election"
Mr. Weaver (stin in jocular ne)--well, that was
sufficient Does not the gentleman see that he ought
never to open his mouth at all when he is excited p?
never neverl He spurns the reach of my arm? He
can do so. the temper am now in he can do so.
would not hurt hair of his head. daughter. ;
HIS apology was ample, and accept it. But call-
ton him against the further use of the term
" falsehood" or s. de-" That in Kentucky is re-
garded, believe, as lick I" or blow, and, even
II was not as large a mouse would assail any
msn who would apply such term to me Extensively
Tue gentleman has alluded to my weight, but warn
him that my fighting weight is 1856 pounds
!, Nj. sparks-Does the gentleman say that / use1
the word " falsehood
Mr.. Weaver-So l understood
Mr.. sparks-Oh, no; yours was certainly the FIRST
offensive word. lf
Mr.. Weaver (stil good-humoredly)-w are all
right now.
Mr.. Sparks-You misunderstood me- 1 said that
you were stating what was not true, and that you
were waGttng in the qualities Of gentleman inyour
failure to remedy it. Excitement and confusion |
Thatwas all that there of it. but it was devel-
oped at the last election that you wanted those quail
ties
Mr.. Weaver NOW thoroughly angered and excited)
i denounce the gentleman personally as a liar on
the floor of the House.
Mr.. Sparks equally excitedl --You are scoundrel
and villain 49, !
Mr.. Weaver thereupon, amid great uproar, left the
place where he was standing, and advanced menac-
ingly toward Mr.. Sparks, who In his turn moved to-
ward Mr.. Weaver, but both were Immediately sur
rounded by members, who prevented them getting
to close quarters, and made them put their Coats
which each was in the act of taking off as he ad-
vanced into the area. OF course, the
greatests confusion and disorder pre-
val ed on the floor and in the galleries.
but in the midst of it the Speaker took the chair,
and called upon the Sergeant-at- Arms TO do his
duty. Just then. however. there was nothing in
batants had been removed by their respective friends
and there no danger of their assaultinr each
other. After the disorder bad subsidized, Mr. Covert
resumed the chair, the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
Shocking Calamity.
Retween twenty and thirty lives were lost by