Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-16
A ROW THE RESULT.

Emery and McKnight Come to Blows.
Immediately upon the O'Clock adjourn.
ment Lee sent page to Mr.. Mcknight
asking him to come to his desk before he
left the chamber. The stalwart Mcknight
walked over at once to his Independent
associates desk, carrying several news
papers crumpled in his hand. The slant.
ing rays of the afternoon sun glinted on
his polished pate, illumined his paper
collar, and met half way gleam of fire i'll
Lees eye. Lees seat is next to the main
aisle and Emery sits just behind him.
What did you vote against Emery's Llo.
tion for ?" asked Lee warmly as Mcknight
walked up the aisle. " You've been work
ing against us for years and you misrepre-
sent your constituents. I meant to tell
you here aud now that I'm going into
your district when you come up for re-
election and help scalp you" "I'll vote
as I please" replied Mr.. Mcknight.
"What do you know about my district
It's my own business how VOTE"
eyes" answered Lee, ''and your constit-
uents are ashamed of you" "You mis-
represent your constituents a d-sight
more than I do" rejoined Mcknight,
and, turning to Emery, he added: "What
do you want to bring me over here and
talk to me this way for? You both mis-
represent your constituents" Emery
started up at this and said "You lodged
votes on this free pipe bill. You 81
don't dodge at all. L" ''Yes you
have" put in Lee. "You know you
have; you didn't vote on this bill two
years ago you misrepresent your cOnstitu-
ents they want this free pipe bill, and
you lodged it," 81 was out of the city.
! stay here and attend to my business
more than either of you," retorted Nc.
Knight, the flush on whose face had by
this time reached in a crimson wave to
the nape of his neck.
Emery had just risen and walked to a
seat across the aisle, remarking that he
didn't want controversy, but Meningitis
last words led him to call out, You do
misrepresent your constituents" Nc
knight turned about and said he didn't !;
his district was given to lumber and min
ing. "They are boring oil %saiitin welt in it
now" said Emery, rising, his voice grow
ins higher in key. cts not so"
answered Mcknight. 81 say you mis-
represent your constituents, and can
prove it by letters" cried Emery. A
crowd rapidly gathered az these hot words
rang through the chamber. Mcknight
had turned to Emery, who stood facing
him and both men were trembling with
passion.
striking From tho Shoulder.
81 say again that you misrepresent your
constituents. You know better when you
say there's not an oil we'll in your district;
you misrepresent your people," shouted
Emery, shaking his bony finger under
T3v,o Cos
Mcknight, shaking his papers in Emery's
it's false.' "You do misrepresent them,
and you've lodged this question right
along" "You're liar" yelled Nc.
Knight, changing his papers from his right
to his left hand. No sooner was the ugly
Emery's hand rushing through the air,
on the mouth. Like the flash of an arrow
or, and, DETECTED little by Emery's in
against the oil champions eye.
The force of the blow made him stag
ger, but he was caught and whirled about
by doorkeeper and Senator McFarlane.
At the same moment, Gordon caught Nc
knight BY the arm just as he was rushing
to clinch Emery, and the crowed rushed
in between. Emery was led away to one
side and Mcknight to the other. Emery
laughed in a half hearted way and Nc
knight brandished his fist and waved his
newspapers in the air, declaring that he
was Scotch and they couldn't misuse him.
:" I'd have licked him like h" said the
Jefferson county doctor, shaking his head
fiercely.
Making 1t Up.
half . dozen ladies in the gallery, who
had been looking on with frightened faces
hardly daring to move, now fluttered away
through the door. Gordon talked eaxnest-
y = Max knieht and peeesrtly NsKnieht