Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-04


TO hear.
Mr.. Riddleberger was ruled out Of
order and yielded under protest.
After Mr.. Plumb had resumed his
remarks Mr.. Riddlcberger again rose
and renewed his point of order. The
President OF the Senate was not OBJ
serving rules, Mr.. Riddleberger said.
The Senator from Kansas Plumb was
trying to defeat the bill, and was al
lowed TO make another speech when
division had been called for. The re-
sponsibilty was between the Senator
from Kansas and the President OF the
Senate. He (Riddleberger) had heard
il said that whatever he said in the
Senate was generally " sat upon" He
did not care for that, however, since he
knew he was right. II am struggling
for the passage Of this BILL" he said,
" and am going to continue that strug-
gle under the rules Of the Senate, and
YOU can't take from that desk the book
that ought to control you and find
within it rule that ju3tifies your ruling
a while ago."
The President pro tempore began to
reply, but was interrupted by Mr..
Riddleberger.
The Chair again said: 1.-THE Senator
from Virginia will please not interrup;
the Chair. The Senator did not call
for a division or for the yeas and nays,
but when the Senator from Kansas
Plumb was advancing in the argument
on the bill the Senator from Virginia
(Riddleberger) then rose and demandeda
division. 1t was then too late. The
Chair says kindly but firmly to the
Senator from Virginia that he has
not sought to discriminate against
him in the slightest degree. The Sem
ator is mistaken in that 4; on the con-
trary, the Chair has often done the re-
verse, and appeals to the Senator from
Virginia to withdraw the imputation
that the Chair has ever Disseminated
against him or sought to deprive him Of
bis right. The point Of order is over
ruled"
Mr.. Riddleberger "If the Chair
will permit me, / do not mean to say
that the Chair has Disseminated against
me. meant to say that the Chair it.
self did not comprehend the rule.
rRoars Of laughter That is exactly
what meant to say
After further remarks the yeas and
nays were ordered on the Dolph amend
ment, on which a riUd-roce vote had
been taken, and pending the c,ll the
Senate went into executive session.
When the doors were reopened the
Senate adjourned.
Hou,e Of Representatives
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President on the
Chinese troubles, which was read by
The Clerk. Referred to the Committee
on Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Breckenridge, from the Commit
tee on Ways and Means, reported the
bill extending the provisions of the act
for the immediate transportation of du-
table goods to the ports Of Omaha,
Key West. and Tampa. Placed on the
House calendar.
Mr. Hatch, OF Missouri, from the
I Committee on Agriculture, reported
the bill to establish agricultural eX-
pertinent stations in connection with
/ the colleges established in the several
States. Referred to the Committee OF
the Whole.
The House consumed the morning
hour in Committee of the Whole in the
consideration of the bill authorizing the
appointment of a commission to carry
on the tests Of iron, steel, and other
structural materials.
Pending action the committee rose,
and tie House again went into con-
mittee on the pension appropriation bill.
Mr.. ButterwOrth resumed his speech
begun Yesterday, and continued in the
same vein as Yesterday general
range Of political subjects without
! much reference TO the bill under discus
/ sion.
Mr.. Norwood, Of Georgia, made a
satiIical and ironical speech in reply to
that delivered by Mr.. Henderson, OF
Iowa, some days since, ridiculing that
gentleman profession Of friendship for
the South, but expressing his admira-
ton for the manner in which he had
acclaimed the old story, which was
as well known to the country
as The Boy Stood on the Burning
Deck " or " Mary had Little Lamb. "
/ Laughter The gentleman had made
his speech while Mon men and eX'
Confederates had been marching abreast
without a single struggle TO do justice
to the survivors Of the Union army
Then the gentlemen had stepped for
ward. arrested the column. and smiling
upon the ConfederateS as gently a,
Brutus had smiled upon Caesar wher
he had invited him to take a rest al the
foot of Pompey's Column, had pro
ceeded to address them in persuasive
strain, ending the speech with the decla
ration that he would rather spend an eter
nifty in hell with them than an eternity
in heaven with a northern COpperhead
Speaking for himself, while he returned
his profoundest acknowledgements to thu
gentleman from Iowa for the offer o
his society, if he should be so unfortu
nate as to get on the wrong road ano
Join the gentleman down below. yet h'
entered his most solemn and vigorous
protest against accepting his delicate
companionship, for he was persuaded
that no engagement, however pressing
would prevent the gentleman from ar
resting the column, mounting red
hot stump, and insisting that it should
listen to him. proclaim thu
same old piece of political lore,
The conclusion at which he Norwood
had arrived upon hearing the gentle
mans speech was that that gentleman
was afflicted with the disease, common
to public men, known as - cor popUl
on the diaphragm" When this dis
case became acute it was called cerebr,
elephantiasis, and this was what aiiiict
ed the gentleman. If the Congressman
from the Third congressional district o
Iowa would require David b. Hender