The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-28
BURNSIDE AND BUTLER.
Burnside Charactcrizes the Charge of
Bargain with Malone us False-Butler
Says He will Prove 1t or Resign.
Specia. Dispatch to Me,us and Courier.

Bargain with Malone Us Falsc-Butler
Says He will Prove 1t or Resign.
Special Dispatch to Ne,rs and Courier.
WASHINGTON, April 20.
Another bitter attack was made upon
the South to-day, this time by Senator
Frye. He delivered long and bloody
shirt TRADE against the Southern people,
couched in that loose informal style Pc
culiar to the debates in the House of
Representatives, where statement goes
for fact and charges are hurled about
reckless of proof.
While Senator Butler rose to answer
Senator Frye and vindicate the State of
South Carolina another of those extraor-
dinary scenes occurred which have re-
Gently distinguished the Senate Chamber.
BE had just begun his speech and had
declared that the purpose of this general
attack upon the South was to hide the
real issue. This issue was, said Senator
Butler, whether q corrupt bargain had
been made in this Senate.
Right here Senator Burnside jumped up
and excitedly declared that Butler had
stated falsehood. The Senator from
Rhode Island was very emphatic. He
repeated several times that this charge of
bargain was false, and any senator
on the other side who made it uttered q
wilful falsehood. Senator Burnside
wrathfully clinched this at every point
with blow upon his desk, which made
things rattle generally and caused the
nervous listeners to start.
The outbreak was so unsupported and
violent that the astonished senator from
South Carolina paused moment and
turned toward the President. There was
no stopping Mr.. Burnside. He had no
sooner taken his seat before he jumped up
again and fell to pounding his desk and
reiterating that it Yas falsehood, and the
senator from South Carolina was stating
q falsehood.
Every time Senator Butler attempted
to proceed up went Senator Burnside
again. saving the air like fish woman.
Great confusion reigned in the galleries,
and applause and Misses told how much
interested the spectators were.
When the old man quieted down a
little Senator Butler began severe retort
in kind, but wisely checked himself in
the midst of it, saying, "But no, I will
not here on the floor Of the Senate"
This brought Senator Burnside up
again, and this time he told Senator But
Ter to 20 ahead and say what he pleased.
In fact the Senator from Rhode Island
appeared to be spelling for row, and he
carefully spread his coattail before the
Senator from South Carolina and insisted
on his treading on it.
This Senator Butler declined to do, and
Island was his friend and was excited.
Up went Senator Burnside once more,
to prove how calm he was; but, while he
was illustrating it, he lost his balance
and pounded his desk as iercely as before.
This exhibition of calmness set both
gallery and senate in roar of oflaughter at
Senator Burnside's expense. 1twas some
time before the confusion subsidized, when
Senator Butler proceeded with his speech,
avoiding the matter of the quarrel for the
time being and repeating his charge of a
bargain only at the close. He declared
then that he would prove it by irrefragi.
BILE evidence or resign his seat in the
Senate. This proof, he stated, he would
present ut an early day.
| An Ample Apology Graciously Received.
WASHINGTON, April %.
Senator Burnside took occasion to-day
to make the an,ende honorable to Senator
Butler for words spoken in debate on
| Wednesday. The conduct of the Sena-
tor from South Carolina on that day has
been highly commended, yet while judi
ciously refraining from the unparliamen-
tary language which the case seemed to
Justify, Senator Butler, it is understood,
lost no time, outside of the Senate, in
requesting retraction of the offensive
language, if it was meant to be so, or else
public statement on the floor of the
Senate that it was not so intended. The
result of the reported conference was the
following from Senator Burnside in the
Senate to-day: "It was very far from my
mind, as far as anything could be, to i'm
pute personal al.untruthfulness to anybody
on that side of the Chamber, much less
the senator from South Carolina with
whom my relations have been always of
the most friendly nature, peculiarly so,
and would be the last man on this floor
to inpute to him any personal dishonor
or any personal untruthfulness. Any
body, no matter who he is, anywhere in
this country, who draws any other infer.
ence from what I then said, draws a
wrong inference, and I don't think he is
borne out by the language. My Ian
guage was emphatic, and I intended it
to be so; I meant it to be so. | was
replying to a general charge made on
that side of the chamber, and unfortu-
nately for the senator from South Caro-.
lima and myself, who were such good
friends and who had never been in col
lision in debate before, we happened to
be the two people to meet. 1t would
have been as unfortunate in the case OF
any other"
TO this Senator Butler replied: "Mr.
President, I am quite sure, without the
disclaimer on the part Of the senator
from Rhode Island, that he did not in.
tend to impute any dishonorable conduct
to me- I understood him 10 say that he
was denouncing the charge generally,
and making no personal application of
his remarks to me. My relations with
that senator have always been friendly
and kind. know his kindness of heart
is so pronounced that he is incapable of
making reflection of that kind on a
brother Senator. 1 am happy to hear
what he has said publicly, and l accept
it of course in the spirit he has made it,
and I am sure as far as l am concerned
our former relations have not been disturb
ed in the slightest"