Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-12

Congressman WOUdburn and Sunset Cox
lmbroiied in the House.
WASHINGTON, June 11th.-ln the House
to-day Woodburn of Nevada made bitter
personal attack upon Cox of New York.
taking for his text extracts from Cox's
tariff speech, in which he characterized
Nevada as "a rotten borough" !" end ridi-
culed Its Representative in the House.
The gentleman" he said, "called Ne
vada rotten borough, but he defied the
gentleman to name any instance of the
purchase OF the Legislature of that State.
He defied the gentleman to name q time in
her history when there had not been an
honest vote, honestly counted. Nevada
meyer nae to boast OF Connolly, aSweeny,
a Coruoza, Field nor an Ingersoll, and it
was to her credit that she had never pro-
duced a Cox. Laughter She needs no
canada on her border to shelter her thieves
and political scoundrels. Unlike the State
OF New York, the capacity of her ballot
boxes was limited by the number of votes
cast, and if the Blair bill became law his
constituents will not get cents where the
gentlemans constituents will get dollars.
III all the corruption fund that would be
expended to carry the Empire State for
cleveland was put into Virginia City it
would not cause any perceptible influence
OAl any OHe VI the lOur wards.
He had always heard that that gentle
man was the wit and humorist of the
House, but he was never convinced of II
until the gentleman delivered his sneech
on the tariff. He remembered that when
Ben Butler shoo-fied" the gentleman
into silence the people believed he would
forever cease to be the funny man in Con-
gress, but the gentleman had evidently be-
come jealous of Allen of Mississippi and
IN desperate effort to regain his shattered
reputation he had selected his Wood
burn's) name for humorous ANALYSIS. If
his name were the same as that of the gen
ueman from New York he would have the
good sense never to permit it to be the sub
lect OF criticism on the floor of the House.
lie mad read modern, and ancient, and sa-
cred, and profane history, and he had
failed to find the name of Cox ever asso-
ciated with decent or conspicuons acbiaye-
ment- The Almighty never destined to
Immortality any man bearing the name of
Cox
he then quoted Cox's remarks eulogistic
OF the Celts and derogatory to the Saxons.
and commented on the marvellous chance
which had come over the sentiments of the
gentleman since he wrote The Buckeve
Abroad" From this book he quoted to
show that in 1854 Mr.. Cox had held views
derogatory to the Celts, and had declared
that the Buckeye in Ohio was totally fiif-
ferent from the Buckeye when he placed
his cerpet-bag in Tammany Hall. The
gentleman was DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE.
Woodburn then went into an ANALYSIS of
Mr.. Cox's middle name of Sullivan. and
denied the gentleman's claim that he was
a descendant of General Sullivan, of reyo-
lutionary fame.
In conclusion, he replied to the charge in
regard 10 A. S. Hewitt having apologized
to the British Minister because the House
passed a resolution of inquiry as to the
trial OF American citizens bv British
Courts, but his time having expired he
stated thst he would take the floor to-mor.
row upon a question of privilege of ad-
dressing the House on the subject
SUNSET TOES THE SCRATCH
Cox said he had been advised by friends
on both sides of the House to pav no at
tenton to this nonsense. For many wears
this book, The Buckeye Abroad. had
been quoted against him on MANY sub.
Jects. Though a young man, he had in
that book vindicated. IS every voung
American should, the doctrine OF our Con-
stltutlon as to religious tOleration. He had
PAID visit to ireland, and had paid a
tribute to the people of that country The
SAAVuttA nave jDdtE IDiS attack
upon him during the debate on tbe tariff
The bullet had gone by, and the gentleman
old not know enough st the time to know
that he was shot He did not know it be-
cause he was an incarnate suppressionist.
That was the Irish for Il man who did not
tell the truth. [Laughter.l He admitted
the gentleman's assertion that he was
a better lawyer than he (Cox) was. He
had therefore referred to Blackstone and
found when a grand jury had heard the
evidence and had found the accusation
groundless, it formally entered on the back
of his bill, Ignored"
If the gentleman were indicted for intel
hgence, and for telling the whole truth,
and the jury kept to the old custom, il
would write on the back of his bill irno-
ramus." [LaughterI All be had to saw
to the gentleman, in conclusion, was, dig!
dig little mole dig under the ground
There's sunlight in the sky"