The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1884-12-23
A BADDAY FOR JUDGE ADVOCATES.

DAD UAl FUN JUDGE AUvUCATESs
Mr.. Warner Pnurs Hot Shot Into
Mr.. TaylOr--Sunset Cox Joins In
the Fray--He Refers to MIR.
Blaine's Trip Up Salt isiver--Mr.
TaylOr's Speech Expunged from
the Record.
WAsHINaToN, Dc. 12.-Mr. Warner
~ J, rising to q question OF privilege.
offered preamble and resolution reci
ting lha; J. d TAYLOR. OF Ohio. on the
5th OF july, 1884 (,he House having un-
ier consideration the Mexican Pension
bill }. having obtained the 4 ,or, occupied
the time OF the House f,r siI minutes
thst subsequently, he obtained leave to
extend III. remarks in the Record; that
instead of exten ling hi, remarks, he had
printed in the Record, after the adjourn
n1ent of Congress, written speech OF
paper containing sentences and para
graphs re6aciine on members OF the
House. committee of the House and
the House itself, and reporting OF pur-
porting to report the ac'ion Of one OF
the committees ot the Senate, all in
violation OF his leave to extend his re-
marks in the Record, and Of the iules
OF the House. and declaring that the
parts OF the speech rejecting on mem
bers of the House, on cOmmi tee Of
the House and on the House, and refer
ring TO what took place in Senate CON
mittee. are not a legilimite part Of the
proceedings Of the House.
The paragraph to which he objected
most strenuonsly was one charging the
committee with stealth and cowardice.
j D TAYLOR 20. J attributed the mo-
tive which Influenced the offering o. the
resolution to the fact that Mr.. Warner
and himself bad been rival Congressional
candidates in the recent election, and
that Mr.. Warner claimed to ne elected
bv a maioritv OF pit. He (Mr. Tav-
lor) had carried every county except
Monroe.
"Good for Monroe!" exclsimed Mr.
Davidson, Of Florida, amid laugh'er and
applause on the Democratic side.
Mr.. Taylor then submitted an argu-
ment to suhstantiate the statements made
by him in bis speech to which exception
vas taken, and read from tables prepared
by the Pubic Printer, showing that il
was the habit Of members to avail them
elves Of permission to print, Ole Of
these tables discloses the fact that dur.
ing the Fortv.f tn, Forty-sixtb, Forty
seventh and the first session of the
Forty eighth Congress 500 speeches were
printed which we're never delivered on
the q ,or, while 1,lS3 speeches delivered
we're withheld for revision and substan-
tally altered. He also read q letter
from Edward Mcpherson, giving the
opinion that there was nothing unparIia
mentary in his speech, and calling. at.
tention to the fact that .he 'ssa't IN poll
tics" speech of Mr.. Cox, Of New York
was not delivered in the House hut was
a reprint OF Fourth of July address to
Tammsny Hall. daughter.
Mr.. Warner, in rising b close the de ;,
hate. said be dill not wish to 60 into a
discussion OF the OHIO election. but he
would say that never had campaign
been carried on anywhere where meth
DDS so corrupt, iorbi iden and sbhorreni
we're resorted to a. we're resorted to by
his colleague. his confederates and his
paid staff of scoundrels to circulate the
very speech which he had printed.
Mr.. TAYLOR demanded that these wo,ds
be taken down, and they we're read from
the Clerks desk.
Mr. Warner-I withdraw the remarks,
which l can plainly see to be unparli,-
mentary. but say this: That l do not
think eampsign was ever carried on
anywhere in which methods more cor.
rnpt, forbidden and abhorrent were re-
sorted 10 to achieve political ends than
were resorled to in the Seventeenth Dis
,rict of Ohio during the last campaign
on the part of the Republican party.
(Applause on the Democratic side
Mr.. Warner, continuing, said that Mr.
Taylor WAS the special representative of
the soldiers OF the country. Had the
gentleman represented them on the field
during the WARP (ADplause on the
Democra'ic side.) He knew something
of the gentleman's record during the
war. He knew that when the war was
well-uigh over, when all the great battles
we're fought, the g'nileman had enlisted
10 the Home Guard of D ,io. One OF
the conditions under which the regimen
enlisted was that it shouid not be reqnir-
ed TO go out Of the State. Laughter u
Mr.. Cox IN Y. asserted that there
was rule about publishing speeches af-
ter adjournment-a rule of honor-that
no reflection on the Integrity Of mem.
bers should be Contained in them. The
gentleman from o lio Mr.. Taylor) had
called on the Clerk of the House Mc-
Pherson) to show that Others bad vio-
lated this rule, and his Mr.. Cox'~ name
appeared in the reply. He had never
printed anything alter adjournment re.
aacing on any one. As to his "Salt i1l
Po itics" speech, It was falsehond to
saw that he had not deliver it or anv
part of it on the door. When q certain
River and Harbor hill was unier con.
.iderstion his humorous friend from
Kentucky Mr.. Whit offered an amend
meut appropriatine $4,000 for the i'm.
provement Of Salt River for the benefit
of Democi ats, but they had not gone np|
that river. Laughter.) The magnetic,
me andering statesman from Maine had
gone up Salt River, with all the mean.
derines thereof. At that time he had
made some remarks in regard to "salt,
and had obtained leave to extend his re.
marks for the purpose OF showing the
qualities OF salt as applicable to politics.
Gentlemen might go back for twenty
five years and they would find that be
had never taken advantage of leave to
print 10 mske reflections on any one, and
the man who would dare do it---weil. u
be were to characterize him properly his
words would be taken down.
Mr.. Warner-rhe gentleman from
Ohio never saw an armed enemy.