Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-02-27
Blackburn Pulls Chandeliers Ears.


A Washington telegram to the Richmond
State of Saturday, says that senators Black
burn and Chandler late Saturday afternoon
quarrelled at the Capitol, and finally had q
clinct, but no blows, it Is said, were struck.
The row occurred in the committee room
in the presence of Senators Cullom, Plat
and Faulkner, who, with the two belliger-
emit senators, are members of the Special
Committee on Indian Trader ships. Ac-
cording to the Posts account, published
next morning, the row originated and Gull
minated as follows: Mr.. Chandler submit
ted report which was exceedingly severe
on Secretary of the Interior Villas and ex-
Indian Commissioner Atkins in connection
with the appointment of post-traders. Mr..
Blackburn objected to it and demanded
that Senator Chandler should advise the
committee of the names of witnesses who
we're responsible for the statements contain
ed in the report. Mr.. Chandler declined to
give them. Mr.. Bac kburn intimated that
he would feel compelled to believe that the
statements contained in the report had
been the result of the New Hampabire
Senator's vivid Imagination, and were not
drawn from the testimony of any witnesses
as purported.
Mr.. Chandler, choking with rage, SHOOK
his finger at Mr.. Blackburn and said: 81
don't propose to be bulldosed by any such
slave driver as you"
| At this remark Senator Blackburn arose
from his seat, walked up to the end of the
table where Mr.. Chandler sat, and, shaking
his fist in Mr.. Chandler's face, said: "You
id little scouudrel, and liar. If you were
not such coward would fail you here;
and if you will get up from that seat I will
wear you out. You are coward and afraid
to rise.'
Mr.. Blackburn is almost twice as large as
the New Hampshire senator, but he threw
up his guard and said: "You dare not hit
me-" As he said this the Kentuckian
caught him by the right ear and jerked
him out of the chair. The latter was al
most powerless in Mr.. Blackburn's iron
grasp. The Kentuckian was too excited
to care what he did, and he gathered him.
self to throw Mr.. Chandler against the side
of the room. All this occurred before the
rest of the senators could appreciate what
was going On. But at this point Senator
Faulkner threw his arms around Dir.
Blackburn and prevented him from smash
ing the wall with his colleague on the com.
mittee
1t was half minute before Mr.. Black.
burn would release his hold, and when he
did, Senator Faulkner told him to leave the
room, which he did. Senator Chandler
was restrained from following following
him up and demanding satisfaction. The
committee stood adjourned without formal
motion, en- the general parliamentary
ground that fist fight operates as an ad-
Ijournnent in any deliberative body.
ONE OF LABOR AEFLICTIoNs.-TheC Gen.
trail Labor Union of New York had meet
ing few days ago and broke up in row,
J portion OF those present seeding in great
J indignation. Such squabbles do not
J strengthen organized labor, whose purposes
} are primarily honorable and elevating But
in the case of the Central Labor Union of
New York, body representative of lesser
bodies thus welded into one, we find great
and honest aims for the furtbering of la
boris interests, for its defence against un-
just encroacbments, made futile by the
petty spites of sqnsbbling leaders. who for
get the c4uss they have been chosen to sup.
port in their own personal jealouses and
selfish aspirations. How long is labor,
whenever it asserts it's real, honest strength,
and places itself in position in which it
can secure justice, to be made the prey of
those WHOM it trusted. and to see its best
hopes friiiered away by 3 few contentious
and selfseelSing agitatOrs? Surely the great
inherent, self-respectiug, self conscious
power of labor must rise against these dis
tut bers, WHO pervert, misrepresent and
bring unjustly into disrepute that organic
ed labor whose aims are praiseworthy and
whose best interests are promoted by fair
ness to all What workingmen in this
Country must be careful 10 do is to avoid at
all times he unfaithful and designing lead
ership of thnse who live, not by labor, but
on labor - Ri Amond State.
1NTIAlIDATING VOTERS. = Republican
South hatei in the North are pretty fellows
to be talking about any lack of free and
untrammslled suffrage in the South. Mr..
Powderly, 10 a lecture delivered before
large audience in Trenton, New Jersey, on
Wednesday night is reported in the Herald
to have ''said that be could prove that the
Pennsylvania railroad had marked ballots
for their employees, so that they should
vote as directed" What spectacle! A
great corporation compelling the toiling
men in its employ to vote against any re-
lief from their burdens of taxation merely
to please aud help the Republican party,
the champion IF corporate monopoly in
this country. Here's your "free ballot"
when freemen are inundated by fear of
| losing their places aud of being compelled
with their wives and children to meet
hunger and starvation and battle with these
terr0rs! inundated, why? In order to
make them choke down their convictions,
vote down their principles, buIden their
shoulders with heavier weights, In ohed
eucs to The command of a party that aids
and abets their oppressors, What mock
cry of free Government What crime to
| he committed in a land of ertvi-Rich-