New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-29
GENERAL sPINNEES REMINIscENcES
SOME HAPPENINGS IN THE THIRTY FOURTH CON.
oREss.

From letter to surviving members quoted in Tho Gin.
cinnatl Commercial Gazette.
the 5ns1 O Psss snd and
on tho special committee investigate tho assault madt
BY Brooks Of South Carolina on senator sumner ne
near the close of the first session OF tho xXxlVth
Congress- on tho disagreement Of tho two houses on
know, had put clause that bill, orbiddlns the
Of the army against tho settlers in Kansas To this
posed OF 1oomhs Douglas and Seward, Of tho Senate
aud Campbell, Spinner and Orr, Of the House 1t sat
tho Sunday preceding the Monday on which Congress
adjourned, and finally in tho evening, agreed to dis
agree consequently Congress adjourned without max
ing any appropriation for tho army.
During the discussion, Mr. Toombs talked Of litts
else but the secession Of Georgia from the Union
joined in with him, and to out.blaG him and tak'
the wind out Of his SAL too pretended to fago gv So
York were both out of tho Union, New Yorx youia
declare Georgia conquer IT, and set It's slayea
free. At tho conclusion Of tho meeting Mr: Tooma
had vino brought into tho room, and whlo tho mem
beers Of the committee stood With glasses IN esna,
upon the dissolution of the Union now let Us agree
upon the line between the south ana NORTH o v,,i
20 sar %heS Ss ,SSsc 70 we win aI the
line Just where we damn please to INK IT,"
OF that committee am now At the age Of eighty.
s5 H v sos I. ss w my
ment SO, too OF the other committee. With the ex-
copton Of the Hon John Blpgham OF vm no snIn
odd members of these hroe committees. with the ex-
ception of Governor Seward, was the Oldest man;
tho National Congress s done in the rooms OF tho men
bers and in the committee rooms Occasionally aslas
shows that Would be more appropriate in circus with
a menagere annex, than In Q legislative COMMITTEES
room
took place in two other committee rooms Of tho COM
nIttses on which served In the nst session OK 'ne
OF s sysss' and H' II Il:
Mr. Oliver a good, Kind Hearted and very fair:
hsdinage as border rufaan.' One day when ! aa.
dressed him by that name be answered, That's
boy is corn to mo to name him Border Runisn.''
Well, he left, and Colonel Savage, Of TENNESSEE,
and was easily offended He had served with dlstnc.
ton in the war with Mexico, In the regular army AZ
ne sn 9 was s not 20 co
alterations, both walking the Moor in high state
ernor Washburn the chairman Of tho committee, told
me that after one of these violent scenes, when az
ST 4. and as Of
there many Democrats like Spinner in tho NORTH.
Governor washbarn answered that he thought t 's,.
stephens, make the prediction, this Union will NOS
last five years loneer.'
Colonel Savage told me. when he came to washing.
ton ss a member Of the XXXvIth Congress, speaking
Of our disputes four years before that tho fact OF
his being always armed prevented him from attacking
me in the committeeman OF former Congress.
seems he was too chivaric to kill an unarmed man
In tho committee that investigated the brooks as
sault upon Senator Sumner. there violent alter
cations. rccocct Howell Cobb OF Georgia, pacing
the room to and fro In excited manner, nahng
an insulting remark Alexander g. ". Pennington,
OF Jersey. sitting at the head Of the table,
writing down tho testimony Of witness He deib-
cratey laid down his pen. turned upon Cobb and IN
an angry tone said: Cobb, did You utend that
remark for NOR
aNo, no. certainly not, answered Mr.. Cobb
Then. said Pennington, BY God, sir, don't you 70
peat H." -
Cobb having disclaimed any personal application
of his remarks to Pennington, thought the latters
remark tho former being very insulting. and ex-
pectcd scene but none came and for the time there
was quiet In the committee room. Pennington was
six feet two and well proportional ] then formed
a decided opinion OF tho personal courage. and the
want of It, Of two OF the members of that committee.
have written, they down here In Dixie land,
q q heap moro than intended to write.