Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-13
TW0MEN OF OHIO AT WAR
WARNER TAKES ExCEPT1ONS
TO TAYLORS SPEECH.

uay, on motion OF Mr.. Ellis, of IOuisians q
concurrent resolution was passed. recltfng
that the exigencies Of the public service pre-
vent the attendance of Congress at the OPEN
ing of the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Ex-
position at New Orleans, that President Ar
thur has decided to open the Exposition by
telegraph, start the machinery thereof by
electricity from the Executive Mansion IN
the presence of his Cabinet and foreign repre-
sentatlves, and requesting the President of
Tie senate, together with a committee of l3
senators, and the Speaker of the House, with
one Representative or delegate from each
olate or territory, to attend at the Executive
Mansion Tuesday, Dec. l6, at noon, to witness
on behalf of the Congress of the United States
the opening of said exposition by the Presi-
dent, and to adopt and forward therefrom
such address OF cOngratulation as may seem
appropriate to the occasion.
Mr.. Warner, of Ohio. rising to a question Of
privilege, offered a preamble and resolution
recltlng that }. ID. Taylor, of Ohio, on July 5,
1884. the House having under consideration
the Mexican pension bill), having obtained
the hoor, occupied the time of the House for
SIX minutes; that subsequently he obtained
leave TO extend his remarks in the Record !:
that instead of extending his remarks he had
printed In the Record, after the adjournment
OF Congress. written paper or speech con-
tanning sentiments and paragraphs rejecting
on the members of the House. a committee of
the House and the House itself. and reporting
or purportlng to report the, action of one Of
OF his leave TO extend his remarks In the
Rec0Fd and of the rules of the House, and de-
clarlng that parts of the speech rejecting on
the members of the House. on a committee Of
the House and on the House, referring to what
took place in the Senate committee, are not a
legitimate part of the proceedings of the
House.
TAYLoR's CHARGES.
Mr.. Warner stated that he was directed bv
the Committee on Pensions Bounty and Rack
the hp TIa
sent to the Clerks desk and
nau READ the portions of Mr..
IaylOrs speech to which objection is
taken. They reflect upon Mr.. Warner as
Chairman of the Committee on Pensions
Bounty and Back Pay, on the committee itself
ana denOunce the action of the House on the
sion to the action of the Senate Committee on
Pensions.
Mr.. Browne, of Indiana, made the point
that the speech of Mr.. Taylor did not violate
the privileges of the House.
The Speaker thought that 1t was not his
duty to decide that question. If member
rose and alleged that certain thing had been
done in violation of the rules il was the duty
OF the Speaker to submit the question to the
House.
Mr.. Warner then proceeded to argue that
the allegations in Mr.. TaylOr's speech were
not true, and cOntrOverted the statement that
the Committee on Pensions, Bounty and Back
Pay reported only one bill for the relief of
soldiers, and that an Objectionable one, and
TO show that a large number OF bills had been
reported for the action of the House. The
question to be decided was whether the
House would allow to remain as part of its
record what was never spoken in debate.
The paragraph to which he objected most
strenuOusly was the one charging the COM
mlttee with stealth and cOwardice. Did the
geAtleman claim that was parliamentary
languagef His committee was not willing
that 1t should go unchallenged to be quoted
against the committee in the future by gem
lff ali of
bers OF the present House the gentleman
who was the author of it.
MIR. TAYLOR'S EXPLANATION.
j. ID. Taylor attributed the motive which
influenced the Offering of the resolution to the
Tact that Mr.. Warner and himself had been
rival Congressional candidates in the recent
election, and that Mr.. Warner claimed to be
elected by majority of 2l7. He Taylor had
carried every county except Monroe.
Good for Monroe" exclaimed Mr.. David
son, OF FLORIDA, amid laughter and applause
on the Democratic side.
Mr.. Taylor declared that Mr.. Warner would
not have carried Monroe except on the hy-
pOthesis that he had voted for Mr.. Randall
Tor Speaker. He raised a laugh at the eX-
pense of Speaker Carlisle by reading from
Democratic paper published in Ohio, in
which that gentleman Is referred to as having
been free trader throughout the Speaker
ship contest. Mr.. Taylor then submitted
an argument TO substantiate the statements
made by him in the speech to which exception
was taken, and the discussion drifted into
consideration of the Mexican pension bill.
Coming down more directly to the subject in
controversy. he read from tables prepared by
the Pubnc Printer, showing that Mr.. Warner
had himself, on several occasions, taken adj
vantage of the privilege of eave to print, in
order to show that it was the habit of MEM
bers to avail themselves of this permission.
AN ODD SHOWING.
One of these tables disclOses the interesting
fact that during the FOrty-fifth, Forty sixth.
Forty seventh and first session of the Forty
eighth Congress 500 speeches were printed,
which were never delivered on the floor. while
l,lS3 speeches delivered were withheld for re-
vision and substantially altered He also
read letter from Edward Mcpherson, giving
the opinion that there was nothing unparla-
mentary IN the speech, and calling attention
to the fact that the ''salt in politics. speech of
Mr.. Cox, OF New York, was not delivered in
the House, but was reprint of Fourth of
July address to Tammany Hall. Laughter.
Mr.. Rogers, OF Arkansas, said that the re-
markable spectacle was presented of a COM
mittee of the House consisting of Democrats
and Republicans, unanimously requesting
their Chairman to present certain charges
against the gentleman from Ohio (LaylOrl
and asking that the Objectionable features in
the speech of that gentleman be eXpunged from
the record. The gentlemsn seemed to be
totally insensible of the attitude in which he
was placed and instead of undertaking to
establish the falslty of the charges in an hon
orable and manly way, he went into discus
sion of OHIO politics and brought in certain
records of the Public Printer, who might well
devote his time to the public sarvlce instead
of answering inquiries of partisan charac-
ter. Mr.. Rogers then went on to defend the
Committee on Pension, Bounty and Back Pay
from the charge of neglectIng the interests of
soldiers.
A GEORGIAN'S VOICE.
Mr.. Hammond, of Georgia, said that it
was perfectly immaterial how the election in
Ohio had been conducted or how it had ended.
The question was whether, by the paragraphs
complained of, the gentleman from Ohio had
committed a breach of the rules of the House.
He (Hammond) thought that the genteman's
remarks to-day were virtual admission that
this was so, and he would vote to eXpunge
from the record the Objectionable article.
Mr. Warner. in rising to close the debate,
said that the action of Mr.. Taylor in printing
such a speech was unprecedented. He did
not wish to go into n discussion of the Ohio
election, but he would say that never had
campaign been carried on anywhere where
methods so corrupt, forbidden and abhorrent
were resOrted to by his colleague, his con-
federates, and his paid staff of scOundrels, to
circulate the very speech which he had
Mr.. Taylor demanded that these words be
taken down, and they were read from the
clerks desk.
Mr.. Warner-I withdraw the words which
can plainly see to be unparliamentary, but
| say this: that do not think that a cam
paign was ever carried on anywhere in which
methods more corrupt, forbidden and abhOr-
rent were resOrted TO to achieve political
ends than were rcsOrted to in the Seven
teenth district of Ohio during the last cam
uaign Oa the part of the Republican party.
Applause on the Democratic side.
VINDICATING HIS COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Warner was permitted to proceed in
order, and he continued with a vindicatiOn of
the committee of which he is Chairman. He
ridiculed the assumption made in the speech
complained of that Mr.. TAYLOR was a special
representative of the soldiers of the country.
Had the gentleman represented them on the
field during the war; Applause on the Dem
ocratic side He knew sOmethlngO of the gen.
tleman's record during the war. lie knew
that when the war was well nigh over, when
all the great battles were fought, the gentle
man had enlisted in the guard of Ohio.
One of the conditions under which the
regiment enlisted was that it should
not be required to go out of the State.
Laughter The gentleman represented the
Union soldiers on the floor of the House in
deed. Self appointed, probably. They would
naturally select a gentleman of courage, and
it certainly took courage after Congress had
adjourned to go to the printing office and in
sert in the Record what had been alluded to-.
but il was a kind of courage which the as
sassin displayed when he approached and
stabbed a sleeping victim. Applause on the
Democratic side.
TAYLOR ON HIS RECORD.
Mr.. Taylor said that the regiment in which
he was enlisted had served year and a half
outside OF ONO.
was rule about publishing speeches after
| adIournment-the rule of hOnor-that no re
| iection on the integrity of the members should
| he contained in them. The gentleman from
| Ohio Taylor had called on the eX-Clerk of
| the House. Mr.. Mcpherson, to show that 9TH
ers had violated this rule, and his (COX'sl
name appeared IN the reply. He had never
printed anything after adjournment reflect
| ing on any one. AS to his "salt in politics.
| speech. il was a falsehOOd to say that he had
| not delivered it, or any part of it, on the
| floor When a certain river and harbOr
| bill was under consideration, his humorous
friend from Kentucky tWhltel offered an