Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-13
IN Which Over-the- River Members
Play Star Parts.
Mr.. WARNER PARALYzEs TAYLOR,
While Sunset Cox Adds Dash Of Fun to
What Threatened to be
Tragedy.
THE LATE ELECTION IN OHIO.

question of privilege. He offered paper
charging that on =. the 9TH of July last Mr..
J. D. Taylor spoke on the Mexican Pension
bill, and two GO later obtained leave to
extend his remarks in the record; that,
taking advantage of this leave, he had
printed in the Record, on the first OF Au-
gust after Congress had adjourned,
speech which did not contain the remarks
made by him in the House. but IN which
he
Assailed Members of the Committees
of the House, the House itself, and at least
one committee of the Senate. Mr.. Warner
declarej that such reference was unparlia-
mentary and an abuse Of the privilege OF the
House of Representatives. -,
Mr.. Taylor attributed the motive which
influenced the offering of the resolution to
the fact that Warner and himself had been
rival Congressional candidates at the recent
election, and that Warner claimed to be
elected by majority of 2l7. Taylor had
carried every county except Monroe,
T"Good for Monroe" exclaimed
Mr.. Davidson, of Florida, amid
laughter and applause on the Democratic
side. Taylor declared that Warner would
not have carried Monroe except on the hy-
pothesis that he had voted TOR Randall for
Speaker. He raised a laugh at the ex-
pense of Speaker Carlysle by reading from
a Democratic paper published in Ohio in
which that gentleman is referred to as hav-
ing been free trader throughout the speak.
ership fight.
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 Taylors speech to which
objection is taken. They reflect upon
Warner as Chairman of the Committee on
Pensions, Bounty and Back Pay, on the
committee itself and denounce the action
of the House upon the Mexican pension
bill. They also make allusion to the &C
ton of the Senate Committee on Pensions.
Mr.. Browne, of Indiana, made a point
that the speech of Taylor did not violate
the privileges of the House.
The Speaker thoughtit not his duty to decide
that question. If a member rose and al
legged a certain thing had been done in vio'
lation of the rules it was the duty of the
| Speaker to submit the question to the
House.
Warner then proceeded to argue that the
facts alleged in Taylor's speech were not
true and controyerted the statement that
the Committee on Pensions, Bounty and
Back Pay last session reported only one
bill for the relief of soldiers,and that an OBJ
| iectionable one, and he quoted from the re-
ports of that Committee to show that O
large number of bills had been reported to
tie 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 lhe objected most
| strenuously was one charging the committee
with stealth and cowardice "Did the gen
tleman claim" he said, that was parlis
mentary language His committee was
not willing it should 60 unchanged TO be
quoted against the committee.
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
| 10 the subject in controversy, he read from
tables prepared by the public printer, show
ing that Warner had himself on several oc
casions taken advantage of the privilege Of
leave to print in order to show it. was q
habit of members to avail themselves of this
permission. One of these tables disclosec
the interesting fact that during the Forty
| fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seyenth and the
first session of the Forty-eighth Congress, ,56S
speeches were printed, which were
Never Delivered on the Floor,
while 1883 speeches delivered were with
held for revision and substantially altered
he also read letter calling attention to the
fact that the "Salt in Politics" speech o.
Cox, of New York, was not delivered in the
House but was reprint of Fourth Of July
address to Tammany Hall. Laughter.
Rogers. of Arkansas, said the remarkable
spestacle was presented Of a com
mittee of the House, consisting o.
Democrats and Republicans, unanimously
requesting their chairman to present Ger
tain charges against a gentleman from Ohio
| (Taylor) and asking that objectionable fea
lures in a speech of that gentleman be ex
plunged from the record. The gentleman
seemed totally unsensible of the attitude il
which he was placed, and instead of under
taking to establish the falsity Of the
charges or apologizing to the House 10
! An Honorable and Manly Way
he went into discussion of Ohio politics
and brought in certain records of the Public
Printer, who might well devote his time tC
the public service instead Of answering III
| uuiries of partisan character. Rogers
then went on to defend the Committee on
Pensions Bounty and Back Pay from the
charge of neglecting the interests Of the
soldier.
MIR. Hammond said it was perfectly i'm.
material how the election in Ohio had
been conducted or haw it ended. The sole
question was whether by the paragraphs
complained of the gentleman from Ohio
had committed q breach of the rules of the
House. He thought the gentlemans re
marks to-day were an 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 the action of Taylor in printing such
speech was unprecedented. He did not
wish to 90 into q discussion of the Ohio
election, but would say that never had a
campaign been carried on anywhere where
Methods So Corrupt,
forbidden and abhorrent were resorted to as
were resorted to BY his colleague, his con
federates 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 l can plainly see to be unparliamen'
tary, but l say this, that / do not think
campaign was ever carried on any
where in which methods more cor
rupt, forbidden and abhorrent we're resorted
10, to achieve political ends than were re
sorted to in the Seventeenth district of Ohio
during the last camspign on the part of the
Republican party. tApplauss on the Dem
ocratic side.
Warner was permitted to proceed in or
der and proceeded with vindication Of th'
committee. OF which he is chairman. H