The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-05
Fun IN THE HOUSE.
The Recent Encounter Between Lilliput
Cox and Brobdingnag Horr.


Cox and Brobdingnag Horr.
4 IAssociated Press Report.l
/ Mr.. Cox closed The general debate
Tupon the revision Of the rulesl in al
4 hours speech, and during his remark:
| turned his attention to Mr.. Horn Of
Michigan "a very pertly gentleman
who had recently referred to him in a
/ humorous speech. Mr.. Cox said:
Now, sir, 1 submit, was my size a
subject for any gentleman's Nlsgical
/ laughter? l never claimed, because OF
its smaHneSs, exemption from the. de-
! nlands of courage or IN the arena of
debate. Laughter. is health. 1t oils the
joints laughter and the countenance,
causing it to shine. An animal that
tries to laugh, like a hyeDa, is, specially
despised : bat a babe, when it first be-
holds the sunshine, laughs! The gen
tleman was once babe [laughter], an
/ innocent babe--a cberub Laughter. I
He may have ciildren-all little round
tiles, all dimpled beauties, which, with
:. fitcherin' noise, and glee,''s rush to
meet their dad-aad alike their dam
dam bad father. Roars of laughter.
Does he not love them? Doubtless, as all
genial natures like his love children.
But where is the point of making my
tsmall person-though am the average
man, 40 pounds-the butt of his ridi-
Guile? Why should smal]ness, in such
an immensely of creation, and when
every thing may be reduced to atomies,
be- accounted eontemptiblep l once
buried burly body here for insinuating
that was small. least his soul, which
was very small, through a neither key
hole, for he was little ia every thing ex-
cept in size. Ns5fV 81 ~
When one comes to consider all uni
versal physical relationship size, say,
of this dome and the goddess on it.,
much bigger, even, than the gentleman
laUghter], Their of the iaoIiatains of
our earth, sthen of the sun,of Jupiter,
or the star Sirius, and then the eopstel.
latiens and,systenis far beyond, pinnaI
cled dim in the intense inane of creation,
how contempible member of Congress
seemsl [Great laughter Therefore,
where or what is the hurnor Of making
member of Congress. rout to be little,
and laughing at his sizep What is there
to boast of in this enormity of flesh and
size? eAtIthe best Gohah did not reach
more than twice as high and was only
one-sixth more than the size of some
gentlemen here. Lambert, with all his
opulence of oil, was only poor, weak
man, unable. to grasp what Isaac Newt
ton kneY-whoses Enother put shimin a
quart cup when he was born. Laugh
ter. Sir Isaac Newton! Does the gen
tlehlan} think heC could get into such a
cupP Laughter. Why, then, why
should the spirit of tploftal be proud?
Proud flesh is not a sign of health.
Laughter.
My friend evidently meant to be famil-
lar with me in two respects: First, to
humble me for my size; and, second, to
be witty over what can not help, my
size.
never knew how much till the other
day, when / failed to recognize him,
how imperfect was my body took
him by mistake for a gentleman from
North Carolina. 1t was my poor eye
sight, Yes, on my failure to recognize
him, he called me, first, genial, and,
second, little-all of which implies a
rather undue familiarity on short
unrecognizing acquaintance. Laugh
ter. -tf SF-t
l endeavor to debate here impersonal-
ly; never refuse to yield; never invade
another's right; always consider my
person almost an abstraction. | am not
proud -Of-my appearance as some men
are who swell. Laughter Why, sir,
/ argued against making Congress too
big 10 years ago. Two hundred and
fifty was enough. Had | known the
advent of this leviathan into our troubled
waters, / should have favored 200 as
our number Laughter. But that is
to be settled next year. Corpulency is
not strength. Let us remember thatl
When the gentleman was thus bel;ttling
me, what was he about? Two yards
laughter or so. Does that, under our
Constitution,z prevent my being dis
equalP There is no disability under
the law on account of ones size, only
ones age or his rebellious antecedents,
Ii were a mountain of mummy, or
Lilliputian, | should be eligible here.
daughter. L represent large folks,
fighting folks [laughter], good folks;
they did not measure my girth or take
my altitude when they sent me here,
Thew did not think me Unconstitutional
laughter They did not think blubber
indicated brains; nor meat manhood;
or that tum0rs /. necessarily tend to
intellectually. They did not regard
me as unworthy of their trust, because
I had not layers Of lard over immense
abdominal muscles. Prolonged laugh
ter. They are intelligent; they know
that tissues Of fat do not control tissues
OF fact or of politics. rAe1nananiay be
$40 pounds, or several gentlemen rolled
into one, yet he might still be as tallow
candle to the sun. Laughter. ]si MAJ
What, sir, are none but Falstaffs to
be of the elect? If 50, the House would
be overrun with the qualities he is -eele--
brated for,s including stealing, carcass,
aud fun. Are we to haze only inor-
dinate, lumpish incarnatlons of swelling
vanity-behemoth in our Congressional
waters? Nothing. but butter and no,
-bread? 'Sir, Shakespeare. was master
,ofwit, and he told us.of Ealstaff he.
knew that flesh and frailty go together.
Laughter. : He said the devil would
never havethe. fat knight damned, lest
the oil that's in him should set hell on
FIRE. [ Laughter,] HOW well he advised
him! 'fMake less your body and more
your grace, for the grave doth cape for
YOU thrice wider than for other people. -
I Laughter. ts..psr,.e i5s ...a
Il am -sureI gave my friend $40 provo
cation for reducing my dimensions in
the REGARD. / hardly knew him, except