The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-22
CHANDELIERS STORY.
His Version of the Quarrel With
Senator Blackburn.
SWITZERLAND ASSERTS HERSELF
She VIII Not Divide Her Authority With Ger
many-The Kentuckian Says the Chand-
Ter Card is IncOrrect-Etc.

Especial to THE HRRALD-Examiner Dispatch J
CONCORD, N. H., June2L Senator Chand-
Ter yesterday issued to the Republicans
ofNew Hampshire, over his own signature
the following statement regarding his
quarrel with Senator Blackburn February
last - Sulloway, during characteristic
speech at the caucus saw fit to refer TO an
affair between Blackburn and myselI,
which happened in the room of the com
mittee on Indian traders of the United
States Senate on the 22d of February. so
long rs misrepresentation concerning this
affair only served as material for assaults
upon me by Democratic newspapers have
not c.-Jl to notice them, but since they
have been produced in the Republican leg
islatiye caucus which nominated me as Sen
ator, take occasion to dispose OF them, as
the Republicans present nave never given
to the press any statement OF what actually
took place. The committee was IN session,
no Derson being present except the i've
members and the clerks. AS chairman l
was reading a draft of a report. Senator
Faulkner remarked that he thought that L
undertook in a certain paragraph to assert
something which it had been mutually
agreed should not be claimed. sad dld
not tllnk 50 anu LLldb 1 NOuiu lSHo DAAS
clause again. Blackburn Yehemently inter-
Vened and said / was certainly violating
itbe understanding and that it would so ap-
near if | would read the paragraph again,
and read il exactly as l did before. | asked
him what reason he had for intlmatng
that l would falsely read the paragraph
He replied that he thought so because 1t
would be like my whole action in the case,
and that he considered me capable OF doing
anything to serve a partisan purpose Ihen
ensued an angry cOllOquy which L cannot
undertake to produce with accuracy. |
said | resented the imputations. He replied
defiantly. At this same point ne made a
charge against my official integrity, and l
made the most bitter imputatiOns against
him. l do not remember the order OF
sequence. Then he made some threat OF
personal violence Il do not recall his words
and started around Senator Faulkner, who
was beside him toward the end of the table
where l sat with Cullom at my right. said
he did not dare do what he had threatened.
As he came around towards me, Faulkner
interposed and CullOm arose and moved
towards and placed his hands on Black
burn. who at once stopped and shortly re
sumed his seat. Faulkner asked me to go
on reading the report. l said that before
doing so it must be decided whether buSl-
ness was to be again interrupted III the
same way. Blackburn, after some talk,
said he would not say one word more dur
ing the session of the committee and that
he would apologize to CullOm, Platt and
FHfmer, but not TO me. The reading OF
the report by me then proceeded.
THE whole affair occupied hardly more
than minute All accounts which repre-
sent Blackburn as pulling my ear or drag
ging me from my chair or hauling me I'M
resisting about the room, or represent me
as begging the protection of the committee,
or as in any way deprecating Blackburn S
wrath, are untrue"