The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
BOUTELLE'S MISTAKE.
Wise, Of Virginia, kstaphOrically xOps the
House Floor With BOutelle, Of Maine
The Contest Between the President and Sen
ate COntinues-Senator Evarts and the
Silver Questios-Pen Pictures of
Indiana CoHgressmeB.
Special 60 the Sentinel

WASHINGTON, Jan. a2.-To-day was the
most eventful day of the present Congress.
1t viii live for years in the memory of those
who witnessed it. 1t will never be erased
from the records of the great tribunal. Page
after page has been written descriptive of
the memorable debates between Blaine, of
Maine, and Hill. of Georgia, and of the meas
ured strength of Benz. F. Butler and the sar-
castle John Young Brown. of kentucky.
These are all events which will live for
ages in the history of the American
Congress This time it was between son
from the snow-bound regions of New Eng
land and representative of famous family
at the South-Boutelle of Maine, and Wise
of Virginia. The question was upon the
Boutelle resolution of the Committee of Naval
Affairs calling upon the Secretary of the
Navy for information relative to the erasures
of certain memorials and removals of Union
soldiers at the Norfold Navy Yard. Herbert,
of Alabama, Chairman of the Committee,
made his report to the House and called for
the previous question. This sent cOnsterna-
ton 10 the hearts of the Republicans, which
was followed by two or three hours of fllibus-
tering resulting in a closed chamber and
arrest and brought TO the bar of the House.
Finally the motion of Mr.. Herbert prevailed,
and fifteen minutes were allowed on a side
for debate. Boutelle is one of the young
members from Maine, this being his second
term in Congress. He comes from the IA
nous BOutelle family, OF New England, and
is ranked in the House as one of the able
Republican members. His speech was full
of venom, saturated with gall and dipped
in the dripping gore from the bloody
shirt. The tarnished garment was fiaunted
higher than the tip end of the lightning-rod,
extending beyond the head of the Goddess of
Liberty crowning the dome of the Capitol.
The old war issues were revived. The old,
old story of the Federals and Confed-
crates was swung to the winds. 1t
was a speech after the fashions
of those delivered by Republican orators in
campaigns for the last twenty years. At
the close of Mr.. Boutelle's argument, Mr..
Herbert, chairman of the committee, an
nounced that Hon. George ID. Wise. of Vir-
ginia, would reply to the gentleman from
Maine. By this time every gallery was
crowded. IL seemed the entire Capital had
sent its feminine beauties to add to the in
spiration of the hour. When Mr.. Wise
arose the utmost silence prevailed. Though
somewhat excited, he bore himself with
dignity and compOsure that lent additional
interest TO the debate. Word for word
was uttered with the utmost precision
harder and harder were his blows, until he
had almost annihi.ated the statesman from
the Pine Tree State. Never before was any
gentleman so completely whipped and out
done as was Mr.. Boutelle. He had awakened
the wrong citizen. Mr.. Wise drew beauti-
ful parallel of Republican consistency by
citing the Republican side of the House to
the method of political bossism by that great
Republican leader, ext confederate Brigadier
General Malone, guerilla Mosby and General
Longstreet. Though brief, as it was, the
speech is tonight characterized by men of
both parties as the greatest of the kind ever
| delivered in the House of Representatives.
At the close the speaker was given an oya-
tion on the Democratic side. Hewitt
and men of his conservative type went al
most wild with excitement. Shaking hands
was not enough. Old men and young men
alike threw their arms about his neck. In
fifteen minutes this man who had sat in Con-
gress for three terms without ever saying
word, other than to conscientious cast of his
vote and labOring for the people, had made
himself ilustrious His name is Wise and
he is from Virginia. A nephew of the famed
Governor and a cousin OF the late candidate
for Governor of Virginia on the Republican
ticket Indiana and her great institution of
education can share. with Virginia the honOrs
of this young man, for at Bloomington, Ind.
he was educated and graduated from that in
stitution. lie represents the Richmond
District.