Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-24
TALMAeE
Makes His Reply to the Attack On Him
BY the New Jersey Legislature.
Specizl 70 Ghe Register. 2

Iquote the following elegant extract from
the report of your session as printed on the
morning of March q, 1884, which report
! find after full investigation, is accurate:
Mr.. Harrigan then walked to the Speak
er'sdesk and said: This matter ought to
be settled
"The Speaker-Tve stood this long
enough. This is the second time those
Essex men have defed me, and am d-d
if I'll stand it.
Here, Mr.. Fish came up and the Speaker
continued to him: I don't want to say any
thing to you, or hear anything, and I'm
id If / will. If I'd been Sergeant at
Arms I'd have you put out of the House
"'No you wouldn't, unless you carried
me- said Mr.. Fish.
"'Then, I'd have carried you'll
Mr.. Burgess next spoke to the speaker,
when the latter said: by -, if you want
to talk to me, talk on the floor Of the
House.
Last Tuesday and nearly year after
this report you ay into q rage at something
am alleged to have said in regard to the
behavior of some of your members on that
occasion.
Let me first except the honorable mem
bers of sFnur Legislature. These gentlemen,
who are worthy Of their important positions
and who will once for all understand that
do not mean them. Next, let me express
my utter contempt for the members who on
the first occasion in March, 1884, and who
on the second occasion last Tuesday made
such an assinine exhibition of themselves.
To what depth has the New Jersey Legis-
lature fallen2 Shades of Samuel l.. South
ard and William L. Dayton, and Theodore
Frelinghuysen, 'the three mighties" of the
past, rebuke them! The language used by
some of your members in March, 1884,
would disgracea mule-driver on the tow path
of your Raritsn canal. You have no right,
BY vulgar behavior to depreciate State
which many of US are proud to call the
place of our nativity and in whose legisla.
lures have been many whom we have loved
and honored, among them my own father.
As to your charge that I seek notoriety in
attacking you, that is absurd. No one
for such purpose would assail such insult
cient men as those who went into that
legislative wrangle and INDUCED in such
scurriEty. Inever saw their names before
and probably will never see them again, un-
less | find them some morning in the
calender of the Police Court. Surely if |
wanted reputation for skillful hunting |
would not 90 to shooting muskrats.
As the resolutions against me offered in
your body are said to have been withdrawn,
I suggest the following resolutions as
substitute to be passed by you Immediately:
Resolved, That the members of the New
Jersey Legislature who put themselves into
everls sting disgrace by the indecent and
profane behavior on the 10th of March,
1884, be requested to resign if they still be-
long to this body, or if, refusing to do so,
that their constituents be requested to take
away these political accidents who have
crawled into official position.
Resolved, That the swearing blanks be
filled up in the report of the session OF
March, 1884, and that the precious docu-
ment be hung up. over the Speakers chair
as a warning to all Legislatures Of the pos
sible depths of degradation into which men,
bers may fall.
Resolved, That we deplore the idocy Of
our associates in extuming this legislative
scandal wAich had been buried eleven
months and advertising it to all the world
that the members responsible for this be a
committee to fumigate our hall and sprinkle
themselves with carbolic acid as q disin,
fectant.
After you have passed the above reIolu-
ions, please send me copy, as l shall see
that each one Of you gets copy OF this let
ter and thus it will be an exchange OF our-
tesies.
The only merciful explanation of the be-
havior of March, 1884, is that the members
may have been over stimulated by crooked
whisky, commonly called New Jersey light
ming" and they knew not what they were
doing. Or has your body 80 degenerated
| that profanity is no more noticed and your
moral olfactories have been so toughened
that YOU do not observe the malodor Of
March, 1884? Or have those members
banded together to falsify about that which
IS a monumental shame for my beloved
New Jersey? The fact that they the next
day expunged by unanimous vote the whole
affair from their records did not expunge it
| from the memory of the people.
As these, my acrimonious antagonists
threaten me with lawsuit and arraignment
before the bar of their House, will say that
am at home, No. South Oxford street,
Brooklyn, every evening, when in the city,
al I o'clock, and will be ready to receive any
document they wish to serve upon me; or
| if they want me to appear before the bar Of
their House, although am not under their
jurisdiction and would not answer to formal
summons or polite invitation (R. s. Y. p,
I would come in pure missionary spirit and
teach them lesson in common decency
which they are woefuny in need OF learn
ing. :,
Mathematical problem; If the report OF
an old sermon, the contents OF which l have
forgotten, throws the New Jersey Legisla
ture into such CONSERVATION and paroxysm,
how many thousand feet into the air would
they be blown by new sermon on legisla-
tive out ages2 I. DEWIrr TALNAGE.
THE B. & o. is the only direct route from
the West to Washington, and only line
running limited trains without extras, and
upon which the Inauguration tickets, at
the greatly reduced rates.are good for
passage.