Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-02-17
The Haskell-T0Wnshena Difficulty.
TIN CORRESPONDENCE IN rHH CASE.

NcpTcScutdIfc IOWuSuenu, OI 1llnOlS, lQCO one u
the committee rooms OF the House and there asked
him for the history OF his controversy with Rep
resentative Haskell, OF Kansas Mr.. Townshend
said:
II have heretofore refused to be interviewed on
print there Is OF course no longer any impropriety
on my part In breaking silence. Before and since
had to further reply to his remarks
Of my democratic colleagues and friends.
AS advised by them correspondence
tory to me and my friends. Now the substance OF
the whole affair is just this: Notwithstanding
my disclaimer in the House, Mr.. Haskell, and some
OF his party friends insist that charged him with
corruption, to use his frontier phraseology with
being 'scoundrel;' and I have Informed him
that am willing to leave him where his own con-
structlon OF my language has placed him. II he
is contended to answer such a serious imputation
with words, certainly do not feel JUSTIFIED in
Reporter.-Are you willing to submit the CORE.
spopdence to the public through THE START
M MT - Townshend-I am There are all the let
reporter the letters published herewith.)
FIRST LETTER
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league 6oi. Morrison. member Of the committee on
and s I saa
with YOU leave You he Opportunity to Judge from
Sssss xasSss {ss S.S nj my ny
This epportanty has BEEN % Presented e You in the
Reeord Of and in view Of your silence feel that
and ask . response.
-. am. Sir, respectfully, &C.,
HAsKELL's REPLY.
w.1z2gsEes H9gsE OF krfdREsEN1ATvH B. d Fsp = 1sss
-. SIR: You're BY the hand Of Hon. VIM. Morrison.
You say that leave 'the opportunity to judge
from the report Of my remarks as found
pIeted my language and replied thereto in unwarAnted
In reply beg leave 10 submit clippings from your re-
marks as they % appear n the Record draw my pen
attention to:
aesss
been to n the Of e hsn
fully watched the manner in which this bill has been
t.
ss n sssa ses %
kSs sng TO to The rHIns g. tbs HGHsf fse
has Wen organized the upon that side Of
House: TO the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr.
IS Sas sna
9ssigs.ed the important duty Of combating otjections bK
s e"% ras s%nsg assss 81
hs Democratic member of the COM
mittee on ways and means would say what You say
Mr: Ioynshend m.)-1 will not be interrupted by
Mr.: McKinley.-Not line Of the bill but was con-
The chairman. gentleman from Illinois declines
Mr.. Townshend. of Illinois.-I want further to call
attention to the fact that those three distinguished gen
ma for
her5aRRs come met d do not want % but
and ,yiIiicstion: That work has been assigned to
anoh,eI whose VOICE manners and
seen on several occasions when on demand for the
e na%sses to and % de-
knew NOu they y had M not o an opportunity to reply
the Or
bs and 'na a T
ever such shameful proceeding inausursted W in the
American merle Congress- with such a measure as this, !"
viz divide the portion Of the clipping marked
Soes nos ornase in Congress-
2nd: II was sired by lobby Of hired agents Of mo-
,Ss nfeush. forth in secret oonave
1st The bill was Originated" by the ways and means
2nd. It was 'sited" by the ways and means commit
ges and
before Congress- in every line and letter. bears the i'm
ss.ons and OF the ways
70, refer to thst portion o, the Record marked
work Of making Ingenious areaments M and cun ane
s 5 BE-
Against your remarks placed the following:
The Tn GemmItte Of the whole resumed It's session.
on
shs a
shend) charges that this bin was the creation Of cor
sa Ssrs hs ssse
i Vay apd Of sn @ SHd brsa G that m
fPsS from
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Mr.. Haskell.-Stop! have the door. Not man was
on TSe @ IN
e 1 Carl Garlse as h0Rorabe
Mg sssT y 9S|s Of Of them
Mr. H. we sat there in that committee
BIZ N ane Ne
Kasson. MT. Mckinley. not including nor excepting
myself. are % %chaExed upon this door as acting the
fslssheod what believe t. Sc debsrst
nsstsf to Mr.
M M ,IoTnshend. Of Iilinois.-Just go on.
character before the country and the woric invite
aaf ss
S H ys to
mis- committee or any other. lApplause the repub-
win not stand here to assert my integrity. 1t is
mHSs 1nown where am anown and make no defense Of
democratic colleagues and republican colea9uee want
@ brand here and now such Declarations those with
The appellation that belongs to them.
ARenet your statement that In some 'eecret con.
clave" Of hired lobbyiss outside Of Congress and
was prepared-TH1s BILL-and that after it pre-
pared by them It was 'Gdopte by the ways and means
committee and reported to the House. used the Ian.
suage that appears In the Record :
AFTER that LANGUAGE OF mine you used the following.
solng TO confirm the nterpretation-T assert what
repeat here that this bill was made up by. inspired
oy s eas s.ea Sy the hired agsnts Of gna ta
hat the caucus Of your republican members have re-
ported It to this House")I had put upon your first
The ways and means committee, or at least tho0 Of
nat committee who voted to report this bill to the
mere tools in the hands Of lobby Of hired monop-
'lists Such lobby designated as corrupt and
,candalous lobby. and your remarks make the ways
md means committee merely agents. Of lobbyists,
md members Of Congress who thus act agents" or
In Si @ snss ana also
,ome Of party frsnds learn that the interpreta
don put upon your remarks at the time they ut
cred. and that nOU put upon them. they appear
before me In plain type is the that reasonable
re compelled to adopt From the articles in this
hat It is the interpretation put upon them by he
d answer therefors to your implied questions con-