The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., June 17--After
the reading of the journal, Brown rose
to question of privilege. He had the
clerk read the remarks Ingalls, made
yesterday relating 20 Browns revision
OF his (BroWn's) remarks made in the
debate of Friday last. When the clerk
had concluded reading, Brown said he
had not replied to Ingalls, remarks Yestsr
day because he did not wish 70 speak I'M
der the irritation which Ingalls, remarks
were calculated and intended to provoke.
In what he had to say he would keep
within the decorum of the senate and
had put his remarks in writing. he
called the attention of the senate TO the
insulting and opprobrIous language used
by the senator of Kansas Qngalls) to-
wards . member of the senate who
could not repeat such insults
without violation OF the
were in honor bound to obey. Brown
The charge of the senator from Kansas
was that of falsfyiDg the recond and
committing forgery upon the records Of
the senate. This language was delIb-
erately planned insult, and uttered not
only in violation of the rules of the SEN
ate but in defiance of the authority Of
the presiding officer.
The chair remarked If the senator was
implying that language TO the senator
from Kansas he (BroWn) was doing the
thing he was charging against that sens-
tor. In accusing brother senator Of
deliberately planning an insult the chair
said the senator from Georgia was out
of order.
Brown-'Theu, sir, that remark is
withdrawn under the ruling. The rs
marks of the senator from Kansas"
Brown said, ''were not made hastily, but
after two days had elapsed and after am
pie and, as Brown supposed, satisfac-
tory disclaimer from himself had been
made of all offensive imputa-
tions" Brown then referred
/ to the unhroken custom of the revision
accorded TO senators. No matter how
accurate the reporter may be he conld
not hear all the senator's with equal dis
tlnctness. Had the senator from Kansas
called his attention to the words COM
planned of as was usual in such cases, he
could have publicly diVest-
ed the language of every
trace OF even seeming unkindness or de-
probation. Notwithstanding the assur-
ance given in the senate by Brown, the
senator from Kansas had persisted in
his purpose of insulting q senator.
The chair thought the observation out
of order.
Brown then submitted to the Senate
| whether it would permit such an out
| rageous and inexcusable breach of its
privileges to go unnoticed. In regard to
the insinuations of want of courage, he
ventured to say that there was nothing
IN the personal character or antecedents
of the senator from Kansas to make him
an object of apprehension or 10
excite the fears OF any man.
There was no place SO safe as the senate
chamber for a man of discreet courage
to bluster and parade his vituperative
rhetoric, and no other senator would
have used the protection of the senate,
and he Qngalls) would not have used
| it except under the protection of the
senate.
Ingalls, said If the senator from Geor-
gia would allow the remarks made this
morning to stand as they had been de-
livered he Qngalls) would be contented,
but If those remarks were to be
amended by Interpolation and observa-
lions delivered after they had been
sent to the printing house, he, Ingalls,,
preferred to wait before canvassing the
vote until all the returns were in. The
senator from Georgia, Ingalls, said, was
mightier with the pen than with either
his tongue or sword; that the senator
shed ink like water, and
with the pen. Ingalls, would not be d.
verted from the real question at issue,
and that question was whether the rec
Ords of the senate had been falslf1ed by
| the interpolation of matter personal in
it's character and susceptible of an Of
! fensive Interpretation, after the record
has been made up by the reporters.
This would not have been done IN an Or
| binary officers life between one genera
ton and another.
The chair thought the remark out OF
order.
ingalls, then withdrew the remark and
SAID to the chair it would not appear in
| the records. He inquired how it would
be If a senator should some day appear
here to represent Alaska and that he
| Qngalls) after the debate with that sena-
| tor should write into the debate state
ments to the effect that the senator from
| Alaska was cunning and
sanctimonIous hypocrite, who was for
| ever Washing his hands with invisible
soap, in imperceptible water, and that
| they were not oyer clean morally after
that performance; suppose he were
| to characterize the senator from
| Alaska after the debate had closed
| as the Urlan deep OF the Senate
suppose he were to say he was the Jo-
seph Surface OF American politics: that
he was q sniveling, political Pecksnif,
who had been upon all sides Of every
political question, who had belonged to
every political party IN his lite
time, and belonged to none that he had
not betrayed; would that be within the
privileges of debate, or in accordance
with the propriet1es OF legislative pro-
ceedings? These observations, Ingalls,
said he used as illustrations. They had no
personal application. As to the imputa-
| lions of the senator from Georgia upon
his, Ingalls,, personal courage and ap
pearance he begged to say to the senator
from Georgia that he (lngallsl here dis
tinctly avowed all that he had hitherto
said in any sense that the senator from
! Georgia saw fit to attribute 20 IL, and he
| Qngalls) did not shield himself behind
the privileges Of the senate chamber.
The usual breathing pause fol-
| lowing this sentence was
characterized by dead silence in the
chamber and the crowded galleries.
When Ingalls, added, This ia all l de-
sire to say, sir. in response to the gentle
man." general buzz was heard and the
galleries were instantly half emptied.