New-York tribune., 1885-02-21
MIR. TALMAGE HITS BACK.

SCORING THE NEW-JERSEY LEGISLATURE.
HIS CONTEMPT FOR MEMBERS WHO MAKE AN
JASMINE EXHIBITION OF THEMSELVES"
Mr. Talmage has written the following letter
to the New-Jersey legislature
To the Legislature ofue State OF Ner-Jersey'
Jouotc the following elegant extract from the report
of your session printed the morning OF March ~
1884 which report find after full investigation Is ac
curate
Mr Harrigan then walked to the Speakers desk and
said " This matter ought TO be settled r,, .,
The Speaker" Pve stood this long enough. This Is
the second time those Essex have dehed me and
Here Mr. Fish came up and the Speaker continued to
him don't want to say anything to you or hear any
thing, and Pm Id II will. II ia been sersesnta''
"No Won wouldn't unless you carried me-" said Mr..
Fish: r,,,o, ,.rr,oa rou,Y
Mr. Burgess spoke the Speaker when the latter
said; "By = If you want to talk to me talk Oh 'ho
floor of the House"
Last Tuesday and nearly year after this report you
fly into rage at something alleged TO have SAID In
regard behavior of Of your members on tha
occasion. Let first except the honorable members oi
your Legislature the gentlemen who are worthy o ther
important position and who viii once for all understand
that do not mean them Next let express my utter
contempt for the members the first occasion In
March 1884 and who the second occasion last Tues
day. such asnine exhibition OF themselves 10
what depth has tho NewJersey Legislature faiIch
Shades of Samuel L. Southland and William L. Dayton
Theodore
the past rebuke them! The language used by some
of your members In March, 1881, would dis
grace mule driver tho towpath OF
your Raritan canal You have no neht
by your vulgar behavior to deprecate State which
many OF us proud to call the place OF our nativity
and IN whose Legislatures have been many whom we
have loved and honored among them my own father AS
to your charge thatI seek notorety in attacking
that is absurd No one for such purpose would assa
such insignificant those who went into that Leg
isatve wrangle and INDUCED IN such scurrty never
saw their before and probably will never see
them again. unless find them some morning In the cal
endar of the Police Court Surely il wanted reputa-
skful hunting would not so to shooting musk
rats.
As the resolutions against me- offered in your body
are said TO have been withdrawn suggest the following
resolutions substitute to be passed by you immedi
ately:
Pesolred That the members of the New-Jersey Legs-
lature who put themselves into everlasting disgrace by
the indecent and profane behavior on tho 26th OF March
body or II refusing to do so their constituents be
requested TO take away these political aooueh'S VINO
have crawled intO official position. -,
Resoired That the swearing blanks he filed up in the
report of the session of March. lesl, ana that tlc
precious document be hung up over the speakers chh
as warning TO all LEGISLATURES OF the possible dep'hS Oh
degradation into which members may fall.
in exhuIOing this legislative scandal which nad peel
buried eleven months and advertising II 10 all the world
and that the members responsible for this e committee
10 fuBigate our hall and sprinkle themselves Win car
boic acid as disinfectant
After you the above resolutions please send
me copy shall that each one Of you gets copy
OF this letter and husit will be exchange OF courteses
The only merciful explanation OF the behavior OF
March, 1Sei is that the members may have been over
stimulated by crooked whiskey. commonly called New
Jersey lightning" aud they knew not what they were
doing Or has your body degencrated that profanity
IS no more noticed and yonr moral oliactore- have
been touchenef that do not observe the maoi"r
OF March, ss4 have those members banded together
10 falsfy about that which IS monumental shame for
Iny beloved NcwJcr,ry The fact that thcy the next
day cxpuugcd by unanimous vote the whole affair I.pin
their records, did not eXpungc 1t from the memory oi Tie
people. .-. ,,.,. 800
with suit and arraitument before the bar oi th'r
lousc Will that am at home, Nonih pNl"l"s'.'
Brnohlyn every evening. WHEN IN the CITY al Sef'"
o'clock and viii hc ready to receive any C1cunth. t"ty
wish to serve me, u they amt me 10 appear ut't'
the bar OF their House although am not under lhtt
Jurisdiction and would not answer L. f0ruu SUMMONS on
T0ite Invitation tt :. V. p would come ~ pure
missionary suirt aud teach them lesson III common
deccncy which they are wOfully In need ot learning
Mathematical problem: II The report ~ an "ld scr
mon The contents of which have forgotten throws
New Jersey Legislature into such CONSERVATION ana par
oxysm how many thousand feet INTO the air Wonlh lhcy
be blown by q sermon on lcGl-iatlNc pulia
l. DEWITT IALMAGE.