Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-29
WAsHINaTON.
ystsrdas's Heavy War Of Words
In Congress.
4 HEsETuDlNous CRANK.
WI; IS Expected Of the Davis Demo-
cratic Marching Club Of
Piedmont.
TIE coNeREssioNL SUMMARY
spssiai.o as Registsr.


WasHIkGrOs, D. c.. January 2S.-The
scene which occurred in the House yester-
day afternoon in which Mr. White, of Ken
suetrrS sssxhib; ed hfnsaAlf an nrnmiacnoustS
ter of J. G. Carlisle as presiding officer.
White is a Republican, and in spite of that
fact, he is crank. He might even be held
to deserve the application Of the adjective
"Hebetudinous" were it not for the fact
that Cowles, of the Cleveland Leader, is
held to have a monopoly of hebetudinosity.
A member ofs Legislative body who cannot
command one vote from his own party, in
his own defiance, and who takes up the time
Of that body for two hours with bitter at
tack on the presiding officer, deserves
no consideration from the officer
and ought to be summarily
suuelched. But on this occasion the crank
succeeded in having his own way. He re-
peated his resolution of the previous day, in
the course of his remarks'and so secured its
publication in the Record. Throughout
the whole controversy Carlisle was in the
right. A bill or joint resolution is never
printed in the proceedings Of the House and
there would have been no room for
controversy on the subject if the Clerk had
read Whites resolution But surely the
fact that he chose to read it himself could
entitle the resolution to no
Extraordinary Consideration.
The Speaker was therefore justified in run.
ming his pen through that part OF the re,
porter's work which covered the resolution.
But it was great weakness on his part to
allow the House to waste two hours of
valuable time on Mr.. White. Nobody i'm
agines for a moment that the thing could
have occurred with Sam Randall in
The Speakers Chair.
The personal affray which took place in
the cloak room yesterday between Cobb, Of
Indiana, and John Finerty, Of Chicago, is
being widely commented on. It appears
that these two gentlemen got into warm
discussion Of the dynamite question, and
that Cobb made a remark which Finerty
interpreted as canoniung personal rehec
ton. Now, Finerty is an Iristhman all the
way through, genial, hearty, good natured
but at the same time impulsive and ener
getic. He seized Cobb by the throat and
demanded retrachon, which was refused
and but for the interference Of the Sergeant
alarms fight would have ensued, which
would have beaten the Sullivan Ryan pu
pilistic encounter all hollow. Both the
| TnnaHosemon are over sia foot tail azv Ivtu
weigh oyer 200 pounds. Fortunately the
claret was not spilled. A local papel
prints the intelligence that at ont
tune a personal meeting wa
about to be arranged for, bu
as Finerty's denial accompanies the asser
ton it is probable that the latter story wa
a journalistic invention. 1t bears on it
face the brand of manufactured article
Irishmen are usually ready with their facts
but they leave the fighting OF idiotic duel
to Northern dudes and
Southern Fire-Eaters.
The talk about a possible call to tn
Cabinet for Dorsheimer, of New York
seems to be based upon no solid ground
The bitterest enemies of Grover Clevelan
hardly would believe it possible for him +
make 80 serious a plunder. Dorshelmer |
above the world in which he lives
almost as far above it as Pei
ry Belmont. Dorsheimer is
intensely unpopular as any Democrat il
the Lower House He has been less acce'
sible TO his constituents than any othe
member, Democrat or Republican. d
does not even answer letters sent to him b
his most influential constituents and as
man of is no earthly value in the House.
Washingtonians understand that tn
Davis Democratic Marching Club, OF Plet
mont, W. Va, will be led in the inaugural
procession by two men, each of whom
seven feet tall. 1t will not do for the Piet
ton J. A.