The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-18
INGALLS, AND BROWN.
The Two Senators Have Another
Round in Their Bsttle of Words.
Both Men Come Up Smiling and Get
in Some Fine Work-BrOwn
Leads on and Ingalls,
SkiIlfully Counters.

Brown were early on the floor of the senate
and both in good trim. Brown carried a roll
of manuscript, and after the journal had
been read rose to question OF privilege. He
sent the record to the speakers desk and had
certain marked passages read Everybody
was eagerly attentive, the galleries full and
several representatives on the floor. Brown
then began reading his reply. He
said he did not wish TO reply
to the imputations which Ingalls,
remarks were calculated and INTENDED to
provoke. In what he had now to say he
would keep within the rules of decorum He
called the attention of the senate to Ingalls,
charge of his Brown classifying the record,
as a deliberately planned insult, uttered in
violation of the rules of the senate, and in
defiance of the presiding officers authority.
The chair interrupted, directing to this,
and Brown promptly withdrew that portlon
of his remarks
Brown went on to say that those insults
were not given in the heat of debate, but were
premeditated The remarks he was charged
with interpollating in the report were sub
stantiaIly used by him in the debate, as could
be testified by senators who heard him utter
them He would not make the senate cham
p6T THO st6Dc u u COdiSC 4uhlIoi- no ScH-
ator from Kansas insinuated that he Brown
had inserted something in his speech which
he was afraid to utter in that senator's pres
ence Lack of courage was never imputed
to him BROWN. Il venture to say" contin-
ued Brown, "that there's nothing in the
character of the senator from Kansas, nor
in the antecedents of bis history, nor in his
person, that could make him an object of
apprehension or excite the fears of any man.
Laughter.
Brown, concluding, sail there was no place
on earth for man of discreet courage like
the senate chamber, and that nc other sena-
tor would have used the protection Of the
senate as the Kansas senator had done.
Ingalls, rose amid great excitement.
He spoke clearly and deliberately
If tie senator from Georgia would
allow the remarks just made to remain
unamendei after going to the printing house
he ingalls, was content. But with the sena-
tor from Georgia the pen Is mightier than
tongue or sword. Laughter.l ale shed ink
like water" Renewed laughter Tbs per-
sonal tone given to the debate should not,
however, divert him from the real question
of whether the senate records have been
falsified of matter personal in its
character, and susceptible only of an
offensive Interpretation Ingalls, said the
official reporter had told him that Brown
had not used the language interpolated in the
speech, aud held up the manuscript that
Brown had changed. Said Ingalls,, This
would not have been done in an ordinary
| affair of life between one gentleman and
| another" [Sensation.l
Tha chair palla1 fha cnDatNr IN Ordar fof.
his remarks, and they were withdrawn. In
gals assured the chair that the remarks
| would not appear in The Record in the morn
ing. ILaughterl After a sharp sarcasm
contained in hypothetical question of the
privileges Of debate, Ingalls, concluded by
saying that so far as the imputation of the
senator for Georgia was concerned, Il have
distinctly avowed all that l have said here
tofore in this matter, and he may give it
any sense he sees fit to attribute to it"
Hampton, by permission, said he had heard
the senator from Georgia make the remarks
alleged to have been interpolated in the
record.
This ended the scene, and the noise Of the
spectators leaving the gallery caused a sus-
pension of business for several moments.
Ingalls, took the floor later, on the call for
petitions, showing his usual dignity and
sangfroid
After routine work, Sherman moved to
lay the motion of ingalls, to expunge from
the record the alleged interpretations in
Browns speech on the table; agreed to with
out dissenting voice, and another scene
was avoided
In the house, Slocum, of New York, from
the conference committee, submitted a re-
| port on the Fitz John Porter bill, recon-
mending concurrence in the senate amend
ment; adopted-yeas, 15S; nays, 81.
| The effect Of the senate amendment is to
strike out of the bill the words. together
with all rights, titles aud privileges" and te
insert the words, provided that said Fitz
| John Porter shall receive 10 compensation
| or allowance whatsoever prior tC
his appointment under this act" in
stead of the following words il
the bill: "But this act shall not be construed
as authorizing pay, compensation or allow.
ances prior to his appointment under it"
Payson, from the committee on public
lands. reported back the bill to restore all
lands held in indemnity limits for railroad
and wagon-road purposes Placed on the
house calendar.
At noon the house went into committee Of
the whole on the deficiency appropriation
bill.