The daily gazette., 1882-07-22
CONGRESSIONAL CoURTEsIEs.
Robinson Gives RObesOn a Trouncing and
Senator Butler DenOunces Representa-
tive Miller as q Our. L-.-

WASHINGTON, July 21.-Richelieu Robin
son, the twister of the British lions tail,
gave Ex-Secretary RObeson severe tongue
lashing this morning in the House for an
ill-timed jest in regard to the hearing of the
New York Representative. The latter ad-
dressed himself TO Robeson, who sat but a
few feet distant across the main aisle, say
ing that there was but one member on the
floor deafer than himself and that was the
one who had sat quietly the other day,
serenely oblivious to tile fact that he was
heHlg branded a liar, thief and perjurer.
H6 thought in view Of these circumstances
that the reflection of Mr. Robson on
fellow -lnember because of his ai1lietion was
not at all In keeping with the courtesy due
gentlemen and seemed to show that, his
early training had been neglected. The
burly Jerseyman sat unmoved during this
tirSde, which evoked the comment that his
hide was thicker than that of hippopota-
mus and that he shed abuse as placdly as
Ben Butler in his palmiest days in the House.
1t was expected that Mr. Robson would
assist in keeping up the commotion, but he
declined to crafty the curiosity-seekers in
the galleries. He took his bitter medicine
like whipped hound. His action was very
distasteful, however, to his Speaker from
Ohio, who, finding that "George did not
want to say anything" declared Richelieu
out of order and business was resumed
SENATOR BUTLER ANGRY.
During the discussion in the House on
Wednesday, Representative Miller, in
speaking on the Smalls-1illman contested
election case, referred to the massacre at
Hamburg, South Carolina, July \, 1876,
duplicating Senator Butler, one of the pres
ent Senators from the Palmetto State, who,
he said, was the leader Of the mob. Mr..
Miller also, in the course ofhis speech, said
that at one poll, the home of Senator Butler,
more than two thousand people were pre-
vented from voting and armed militia were
drawn up near and commanding the ballot
box. The South Carolina Senator was put
in very bad light by the Pennsylvania Re-
preventative, and when the former saw Mr..
Miler's speech printed in the Record to-day
he could not retain his feelings. Conse-
qnently the sleepy Senators were considera-
bly, astonished when Wade Hampton's col
league rose to a question of personal privi-
lege and said : " Mr.. President, | observe
in the Record this morning, that a
person in another place made a
wanton attack on my character
and committed breach Of the privileges
Of this body, for which he was not called to
order, in discussing contested election
case. / shall not at this lateday be betrayed
into a controversy with this individual,
whose acquaintance | have never had the
misfortune to make, but shall rather leave
him to the Judgment and contempt of all
honorable men for attacking another in Il
forum where he (under the cover of the
privileges of that torum) could not be
answered for declining to allow the corree-
tiop of the falsehoods he was uttering, for
garblmg the evidence, perversion of the
truth and Justification of the record aud for
refusing to give the person attacked the
benefit of his own statement. have with
stood the mastiils of the Radical party in
the past and can afford to dismiss with this
brieinetice the yelphlg of this cur of slsw
degree. The name Of this creature, believe,
is Samuel H. Miller. lltff p&