The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-19
tORTY-ElGHTH CONGRESS--FiRST
SESSION.


, WAsAINGToN, June l7.-Aiter the
Z eading of the journal. Mr.. Brown rose
o question of privilege. He had the
.Ilerk read the remarks of Mr.. Ingalls,
hade yesterday, relating TO his tMr.
srown's) remarks made in debate Fri
lay last. When the clerk had concluded
eading, Mr.. Brown said he had not re-
lied to Mr.. Ingalls, yesterday because
Ne did not wish to speak under the irri-
htion which Mr.. Ingalls, words were
nlculated and intended to pro-
loke. In what he had to say he would
leep within the decorum of the Senate,
nd he had reduced his remarks to writ
hg. He called the attention of the Sem
to to the insulting and opprobrious
hnguagc used by Mr.. ingalls, towards
member of the Senate, who could not
epel such insults without n violation
fthe rules, which all senators were in
lonor bound to obey. Mr.. Brown did
ot wish to glaze over this matter. The
barge of the Senator from Kansas was
hat of classifying the record and commit
ing forgery upon the records of the
Ienate. This language was delib-
rately planned insult and uttered not
My in violation of the rules but in def
nee of the authority of the presiding
fficer.
The Chair remarked if the Senator was
pplying that language to the Senator
rom Kansas, he (Mr. Brown) was doing
he thing he was charging against that
lenator, in accusing brother Senator of
deliberately planning insult. The Chair
aid the Senator from Georgia was out OF
rider.
Mr.. Brown: '"Then, sir, that remark
withdrawn under the ruling Of the
hair
The remarks of the Senator from Kan
hs, Mr.. Brown said, were not made
lastily, but after two days had elapsed,
md after, as Mr. Brown supposed,
hade of all offensive inn
Iutation. Mr.. Brown then re-
ERRED to the unbroken custom of
evision acceded senators. No matter
low accurate the reporter may be, he
puld not hear all the senators with
Dual distinctness. Had the Senator
rom Kansas called his attention to the
rords complained Of, as, was usua! in
nch cases, he would have publicly
Iivested the language of every
race of even seeming unkindness or
depreciation. Notwithstanding even as
urances given in the Senate by Mr..
Brown, the Senator from Kansas had
Persisted in his purpose of insulting
benator.
The chair thought this observation out
Ii order.
Mr.. Brown submitted to the Senate
whether it would permit such an out
ageous breach of its privileges to go I'M
koticed. In regard to the want of cour-
lge, there was nothing in the person,
|haracter or antecedents of the Senator
rom Kansas to make him an object of
apprehension or to excite the
na OF sny sa man f tbs sen wfs
chamber for a man of discreet courage
to buster and parade his vituperative
rhetoric: no other senator would have
used such language as the senator from
Kansas had used under the protection
If the Senate, and he (Mr. Ingalls) would
not use it except under the protection of
the Senate.
Mr.. ingalls, said if the Senator from
Georgia would allow the remarks made |
This morning to stand as they had been
he (Mr. Ingalls) would be con-
tented, but if these remarks were to be |
by interpretations and observa-
lions not delivered after they had been |
sent to the printing house, he (Mr. In
galls) preferred to wait before canvass
ing the vote until all the returns were
in. The Senator from Georgia, Mr.. |
ingalls, said, was mightier with the
pen than with either tongue or sword. |
Mr.. ingalls, said that the |
Senator shed ink like water. He was
very courageous with the pen. Mr.. In
gals would not be diverted from the
real question at issue. That question |
was whether the records of the Senate |
lad been falsified by Interpolation.
The matter was personal in its |
character, susceptible only of an often
,ive Interpretation after the record had |
been made up by the reporter. This |
would not have been done in the ordi- |
nary affairs of life between one gentle |
nan and another.
The chair thought this remark out of
order.
Mr. ingalls, then withdrew the remark |