Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-12-13
REPRESENTATIVES. IN THE HOUSE.

privilege, offered preamble and resolution
reci,ibg that J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, on the
5th of July, 1884, having obtained the MOOR
occnnied the time of the House for six
minutes; that subsequently he obtained
leave TO extend bis remarks in the Record
that instead of extending his remarks, he
had printed in the Record, after the ADJOURN
ment Of Congress-, written speech or paper
containing sentiments and paragraphs re-
fleeing on members of the House, q COM
mittee of the House, and the House Itself,
and reporting, or purporting to report, the
action Of one Of the committees OF the Sen
ate-all in violation of his leave to extend
bis remarks in the Record, and of the rules
of the House and declaring that the parts
of the speech rejecting on members OF the
House, on a committee of the House and
on the House, and referring to what took
Mace in a Senate committee are not leglt-
innate part of the proceedings of the House.
Mr.. Warner stated that he was directed
by the Committee on Pensions bounty and
back pay to bring the matter before the
House. He sent to the clerks desk and
had read the portions of Mr.. Taylor's speech
TO which objection is taken. They reflect
upon MIR. Warner as chairman of the Com
mittee on Pensions, bounty and back-pay,
on the Committee itself, and denounces the
action OF the House upon the Mexican
pension bill.
Mr.. Warner 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
bsck-pay last session reported only one bill
for the relief of the soldier, and that On Oh.
iectionable one, and be quoted from the
records of that committee to show that
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.
J. D. Taylor TO- attributed the motive
which influenced the offering of the resou
ton to the fact that DIR. Warner and him
self had been rival Congressional candi.
dates in the recent election, and that MIR.
Warner claimed to be elected by majority
of 2l7. He Mr.. Taylor had carried every
county except Monroe.
Good for Monroe" exclaimed Mr. Da-
wilson, amid laughter and applause on the
democratic side.
Mr. Taylor read from tables prepared by
the public printer, showing that Mr.. War
advantage of the privilege of leave to print
in order 10 show that it was the habit of
members 10 avail themselves of this per-
mission. Oae OF these tables discloses the
fact that during the Forty fifth, Forty sixth,
Fmty seventh and the first session of the
Forty eighth Congress $50 speeches were
priuted which were never delivered on the
a .or, while 118 speeches delivered were
withheld for revision, and substantially al
tered He also read letter from Edward
Mcpherson, giving the opinion that there
was mol hing parliamentary in his speech,
and calling attention 10 the fact that the
salt in Politics" speech of Mr.. I OK, of New
York, was hot delivered in the House, but
was a reprint of Fourth of July address TO
Tammany Hall. Laughter.
Mr.. Warner said that the action of Mr..
Taylor in printing such speech was un-
precedented He did not wish TO 60 iuto
discussion of the Ohio election, but he
would say that never has campaign been
carried on any here where methods 50 cor
rupt, forbidding and abhorent were resorted
to IS were 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 words
be taken down, and they were read from
the clerks desk.
Mr.. Warner-"I withdraw the remarks,
which | can llainly see to be unparliameu-
tary, but say this That do not think
campaign was ever carried on anywhere in
which methods more corrupt, forbidden and
abhorrent were resorted to to achieve po-
litical ends than were resorted to in the
seventeenth district of Ohio during the
last campaign on the part of the republi
can purity" Applause on the democratic
side.
Mr.. Warner ridiculed the assumption
made in the speech complained Of that Mr..
Taylor was the special representative of the
soldiers of the country. Had the gentle.
man represented them on the field during
the war? Applause on democratic side.
He knew something of the gentleman's
record during the war. He knew that
when the war was well nigh over, when all
the great battles were fought, the gentle.
man had enlisted in the Home Guard of
Ohio. One of the conditions under which
the regiment existed was that it should not
be required to 60 out of the State. Laugh
ter. The gentlemen represented the Union
soldiers on the goor of the House, indeed
self appointed, probably. They would nat
urally select gentleman of courage, and
it certainly took courage after Congress had
adjourned to 60 to the printing Office and
insert in the Record what had been alluded
to. But it was the kind of courage which
the assassin displayed when he approached
and stabbed a sleeping victim. Applause
on the democratic side.
Mr.. Taylor said that the regiment in
which he was enlisted had served a year
and half outside of Ohio.
Mr.. Cox IN. Y. asserted that there was
a rule about publishing speeches after ad |
rule of honor-that no reHec |
ton on the integrity of members should be
in them. The gentleman from
Ohio (Mr. Taylor) had called on the ex-
clerk of the House, Mcpherson, to show
that others had violated this rule, and
bis Mr.. Cox's) name appeared in the reply.
He had never printed anything after ad.
journment rejecting on any one. AS to
his salt in Politics" speech, it was a
falsehood to say that be had not deliv-
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