Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-06-18

After the reading OF the journal Senator
Brown rose to a question of privilege. He
had the clerk read the remarks Of Senator
Ingalls,, made yesterday, relating to Sena-
tor Browns revi sion of his (Brown's) re
marks made in the debate OF Friday last.
When the clerk had finished the reading
Senator Brown said that he had not replied
ed TO Senator lDgalls's remarks yesterday,
because he did not wish to speak under
the irritation which Senator Ingalls's re
marks were calculated and intended to
provoke. In what he had to say, he would
keep within the decorum OF the Senate,
and had reduced his remarks to writing.
tIa called the attention of the Senate
70 the insulting and onprobIious
lanGuaae-- Lsr--sazv senator from
Kansas (Ingalls) toward member of the
Senate, who could not repel such insults
without violation of the ru'es which all
Senators were III duty bound to obey.
Senator Brown did not wish to glaze over
this matter. The charge OF the Senator
from Kansas was that of falsiiying the
record and committing a forgery upon the
records OF the Senate. This language was
deliberately planned insult, and uttered,
not only in violation OF the rules OF the
Senate, but in defiance Of the authority of
the presiding officer.
The Chair remarked that if the Senator
was employing that language to the Sena
tor from Kansas, he (Brownl was doing
the thing he was charging against that
Senator. In accusing brother Senator
OF deliberately planning an insult, the
Chair said the Senator from Georgia was
out OF order.
Senator Brown-Then, sir, that remark
is withdrawn under the ruling OF the
Chair.
The remarks OF the Senator from Kan
sas, Senator Brown said, were not made
hastily, but after two days had elapsed
and after ample time, and as he (Brownl
supposed, a satisfactory disclaimer from
himself had been made of all offensive in
putation. Senator Brown then referred
to the uDbroken custom of revision accord
ed Senators. No matter how careful a
reporter may be, he could not hear all the
Senators with equal distinctness. Had the
Senator from Kansas called his (Brown's)
attention to the words complained of, as
WIS usual in such cases, he would have
voluntarily and publicly diyested the
language OF every trace OF even seeming
unkindness or depreciation. Notwith-
standing even the assurances given in the
Senate by him Brown the Senator from
Kansas had persisted in his purpose OF
insulting Senator.
The Chair thought this observation out
of order
Senator Brown submitted to the Senate
whether it would permit such an out
rageous aud inexCusable breach of is
privileges to 90 unnoticed. In regard to the
insinuation of want OF courage, he ven-
tured to say there was nothing in the per-
son, character or antecedents of Sena-
tor from Kansas to make him an object OF
apprehension or to excite the fear OF any
EhaTa xyaG Dlopn fn fh; G
Senate chamber for a man OF discreet
. courage to bluster and parade his vituperB-
ti.e rhetoric. No ot' er Senator would
have used language as the Senator from
Kansas bad used under the protection of
the senate, and he (Ingalls) would not use
it except under the protection of the
Senate.
Senator Ingalls, said il the Senator from
Georgia would allow the remarks made
this morning to stand as they had been
delivered he Qngails) would be becontented,
but il these remarks we're to be amended
by interpretations and observations not de-
livered after they had been sent to the
| printing house he Ungalls) preferred to
wait before canvassing the vote until all
/ the returns were in. The Senator from
Georgia, Ingalls, said, was mightier with
! his pen than with either the tongue OF
sword. That Senator shed ink like water
| lie was very courageous with his pen.
lie (Ingalls) would not be diverted from
| the real question at issue. That question
| was, whether the records ad been falsi-
| fed by the Interpolation of matter per.
sonal in its character susceptible only ol
an offensive Interpretation, after the record
had been made up by the reporter This
would not have been done in the ordinary
affairs OF life between one gentleman and
another.
The Chair thought this remark out OF
order.
| Senator ingalls, then Withdrew the re-
| marks, and said to the Chair it would not
appear in the record. He inquired how il
would be if a Senator should some day ap-
pear here to represent Alaska, and he In-
CALLS, after debate with that Senator
should write into the debate statements tc
| the effect that the Senator from Alaska
was cunning and sanctimonious hypo
| crite, who was forever washing his hands
with invisible soap in impercepible water
/ and that they were not oyerctean, moral
| ly-after that performance, suppose he
! were to characterize the Senator from
] Alaska SIS the :. Uriab Heep" of the Sen.
ate. Suppose me were to say he was the
Joseph Surface" of American politics,
| that he was sniveling political "Peck.
I. sniff" who had been ON all sides of every
| political question, who had belonged to
/: every political party in his lifetime, and
; hsd belonged to none that he had moi
| betrayed, would that be within the
/, privileges OF debate, or in accordance with
i the proprieties of legislative proceedings
| These observations, Senator ingalls, said
| he used as Illustrations; they had no per
sonal application. As to the imputatior
/ of the Senator from Georgia upon his
| {lngallsl personal courage and appear
ance, he begged to say to the Senator
from Georgia that he lIngsllsl here dis
tinctly ayowed al that he had hith