Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-03

ssNsIOR VOORHEES, ROASTED.

SENATOR VOORHEES, ROASTED.
Tho Tali sycamore of the Wabash
| Frustrated by Cyclone From she
Pratries of Kansas.
| Washington special, LIST: To-day's
scenes in the senate will go into history
! as the most exciting and acrimonious
that have ever taken place in that au-
gust body. The combat OF words be-.
tween Senators ingalls, and Voorhees,
opened rather quietly, but at the end OF
four hours closed amid incidents OF the
moaS intense animation. Senator In,
gals, in replying to the speech deliver
cd last week by Senator Voorhees,, set a
trap for his adversary and succeeded in
catching him In the most perfect man
ner. In opening his remarks Mr.. In
gals referred to the part the senator
from Indiana took in the war, and
charged him with being e copperhead,
q butternut and an active participant IN
the knights of the golden CIRCLE and all
OF the infamies Of that organization. He
was just enough personal to make the
hoosier senator finch and squirm under
the lash, so that when ne rose to reply
/
ly lost his balance and opened up per-
sonel TRADE, which licensed Mr.. Ingalls,
TO do the exact thing he desired. Mr..
Voorhees,, in an abusive way, charged
Ingalls, with unfonnded and malicious
assertions. and declared that the truth
was not in him to the charge that he
was member of the knights OF the
golden circle, and had conspired to not
only assist the south in rebellion but to
PROSTATE the federal organization in the
| north. Mr.. Voorhees, repeated time and
again that he had gone before the peo-
! pie OF Indiana in elections, when these
| same things had been sherged against
hlra. and had every time come out vim
dIoated. He kept ringing the changes
on having voted pensions for soldiers
and With having been the soldiers
| friend.
| When Mr.. Ingalls, arose to reply to.
the passionate and hasty personal as
sault of Mr.. Voorhees,, it was observed
that the latter instantly became ex-i
tremely nervous. 1t dawned upon him
at that moment that he had made fatal
error and that his political doom was
about to be sealed, for he saw the aena-
tor from Kansas take from his desk a
large envelope, out OF which he drew
official documents, manuscripts and
records. These were all facts which Mr..
Ingalls, had held in reserve like cannon
loaded with broken glass, rusty nails
and slugs, and when he began his fusil-
lade it was pity to behold. He first
drew an autograph letter upon Voorhees,,
in which the latter in req
ommending friend for an appointments
to brigadier generalship in the con-
federate army, expressed his full sym
pathy with secession and the war of the
the sonth. Following this, Mr.
Ingalls, for three.quarters OF an hour
produced unanswerable proof OF Voor-
hees' connection with the knights of the
golden CIRCLE, the SONS OF liberty and the
leading traitors OF the north, and showed
! that In his law Office were stored rituals
OF che knights OF the golden circle, COR
respondenos with the leading officers oi
that Organization in the country, itt
conspirators IN Canada and the politica
night riders of the period
ii Voorhees, anger was unbounded. He
grew pale. his voice trembled, and ht
shouted across the chamber epithets and
snch words as "iIar," "false,'' chase,
"unfounded," till Senators Beck, Cook
rell, Butler and Others about him moved
up and begged him to desist. The scene
at this time exceeded description. The
overfiown galleries broke into uproarious
applause at intervals, when the chsil
i threatened to have ell arrested who die
not keep quiet, and then the immense
audience iapsed into quietude so per-
, feet that one could hear himself breathe
: q moment more and the audience wouic
! lose its presence Of mind and everything
> would be confusion again over some
! scoring remark from the Kansas senator
Finally the climax was capped by MIR
: Ingalls, when he retorted to an insolen,
, remark from Voorhees, by saying: "Dit
not the soldiers of Indiana threaten {,
hang you on train with the bell rop,
: between Terre Haute and Greeneastle! 7
Qnick as fash Voorhees, sprang tt
1 his feet and In che most dramatic hsan.
: ner rushed forward, pointing his finge
directly at Representative johnson, O
! Indiana, who sat Immediately behind
\ Senator Ingalls,, and exclaimed: 81
! hurl back in the teeth of the scourdrel
, villain and dirty dog who sits behind
? you the lies he nas put in your mouth
! Instead OF applause there were hisse;
4 from the gallaries which sweIled into 4
storm. Further, in trying TO explain
4 the evidence produced by Mr.. Ingslh
OF the connection of Voorhees, with thu
knights OF the golden circle and thu
/ plots IN Indiana to destroy che organiza
, tion, the latter said that they were th
! result OF political job put up on hIh
. by his enemies, at which explanatio,
q there we're jeefs and Kisses. Every ef
!. fort to explain by the senator from In
q diana was a miserable failure amounting
to nothing short OF an apology, whici
q made his colleagues kang their heads il
= shame.
u After the disgusting interruptions ha,
a progressed for some time, Senator In
!. gallF, turning to the senator from In
diana, exclaimed: "If this was the DO
, lice court the gentleman from Indian
q would be sentenced to the rock pile 70
"a being drunk and disorderly."
The remark created sensation ant
4 directed every eye towards the senate
4 ct which IL was made. The result &
= the scrutiny was not inclined to leave a
"a impression in the minds OF those presen
- complimentary to Mr.. Voorhees,. Their
20 were many who said that he was labor
- ing under something more than the es
q cltenaent OF the hour.
"a IT Senator Voorhees, has any aspira
A. tions to the presidential or vice presi
"a Dental nomination, or any ambition
~ further political honors he mayE as we
Is Danish them from his mind after th
: proceedings OF to-day. He made pit
~ able spectacle OF himself, while the seni
- tor from Kansas disclosed record {
= the senator from Indiana which nat,
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