The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-19
BROWN-INGALLs.
Sequel to Mondays Sensation in
the Senate
The Georgia Senator's Reply 10 MIR. I'm
gals sPeech-scaihing RejOinder from
ths Kansas senatOr-KngaIps Motion
Tabled.
(special pespatoh to the Bnston Adrertiser

Especial Despatch to the Boston Advertiser)
WASHINGTON, June ia rarely sensational
scene between Senators Ingalls, and Brown, fifty
folowing that of yesterday, agitated the usually
dlgnihed upper house to-day. Senator Brown had
gwen notice yesterday that he would reply to In
galPs charges of having fasifed the record. So at
noon the galleries fnll. Almost every seat on
tne moor was taken by Senators pretending that
tIelr presence at prayers was merely accidental.
Wnlle score OF Representatives clustered on each
SIDE behind the desks. No debate a most i'm
portant topic would have attracted such a crowd.
Very soon Mr.. Brown of Georgia rose to personal
explanation. In nervous fear he read a statement
In which he tried to make it out that he did say
what he interpolated in the record about Ingalls,,
but that the official reporter did not hear him For
support of this he said he would call upon Senators
who did hear him use the words inserted in the
port by him. Then he appealed to Ingalls, to be
mild with him, because he had meant no reflection
upon him, and was, and had been, ready to with
draw any obnoxious reflections. Never was q man
In the Senate, over small thing in more pitiful
position than he while the galleries laughed sheer
ingly, and the Senators out of sympathy affected to
read their papers. Finally with show of buster,
the aged Mr.. Brown swelled up and denounced In
gals as coward who would not have dared to
privilege of tho Senate. AS Browns clear voice
rang through the chamber his plea that the official
reporter f ald not near hm Friday seemed too weak
palliation OF man who knows he has done what he
ought not to have done, but cannot understand
what all the fuss is about, and tries to overcome it
by transparent excuses and then by bluster. Then
calm ingalls,, the most unpopular man, but the best
debater in the Senate, proceeded scientifically to
hay Brown, first on one side and then on the other
He proved by the reporter that Brown did not say
what he claimed, and with dramatic force held up
to the Senate the reporters sheet, upon which
Brown had written in his reflection upon Ingalls,.
Invectye, satire and followed in quick success
sion while Brown turned ashy pale, and writhed in
bis seat. Comparing him to an imaginary Senator
from Alaska, with cutting bitterness Ingalls,
characterized him the Uriah Heep of the Senate,
the Joseph Surface of American politics. snivel-
ling political Pecksni who had been on all sides of
every political question, who had belonged to every
political party in his life time and belonged to none
that he did not betray, sanctimonious hypocrite
that washed his hands in invisible soap, and was
not very clean in morals after the operation. Only
those who know Brown and his career can APP
preciate the feeling which these words carried with
them. No one failed to recognize the picture nor
feel pity for the man thus under the harrow. 1t
was the hardest punishment ever inflicted for a
small offence in the Senate. Brown called Ingalls,
coward, and the latter replied that he would give
Brown satisfaction any time and anywhere but
there will be duel for ingalls, has paid of his old
grudge on Brown, and the latter is too Inundated
to say anything True Wade Hampton declared
that he heard him say what the reporter asserts
was not uttered but Hampton's defence of Browns
veracty did not seem to arouse the Senate to ap
probation of that fact.