The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-12
MR.. CALLS HARSH WORDS.
The Resolution Amending the Rec
ord Discussed In the Senate.

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ord Discussed In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 11.--In the Senate
today, the resolution for the exclusion from
the record of sentences interpolated by Mr..
Call. in the report of his remarks in the dis
cussion with Mr.. Chandler some weeks ago.
was taken up.
Mr.. George opposed the resolution as being
without precedent. While it did not ex-
pressly contain censure, it was certainly ca
pable of that Interpretation. He had looked
over the report of Mr.. Calls remarks, and
every allegation, distinctly and unequivocal-
ly, contained in the clause the committee
recommended expunged from the record.
Mr.. Hoar said he acquitted the Senator
from Florida of any design to escape GEN.
sure or responsibility by the change of Ian
guage, because the language the Senator did
actually use, repelled any such idea: In his
Judgment, there was substantial difference
between the words uttered and the words
printed.
luton was that certain language published
in the record had never been uttered in the
chamber. That was the entire complaint
made by the Senator from New Hampshire,
and was the only question within the juris-
diction of the committee on privileges and
should be reported censuring the Senator
from Florida. No censure was reported, but
the order implied censure, and had no other
meaning. II ask said Mr.. Eustis, what
Is it Justification of the records? Is it that
he violated the custom of the Senate? On
this question the committee INDUCES in abso-
Lutte ard serene silence. There is not a sin
gle exaggeratiOn in what was inserted in the
record, as compared with what was uttered
mr., tho Tho lapouaoa ic M ~
but the accusation is the same; the idea is
the same; the arraignment is the same"
Mr.. Edmunds illustrated the question by
an allusion to the election in Louisiana of
the legislature, to which the Senate was in
debted for the pleasure of Mr.. Eustis's pres
ence. He Mr.. EdmundsJ might say on the
floor of the Senate that he believed the Sem
ater misrepresented the State of Louisiana,
and if there had been an honest vote and an
honest count in that state, the Senate should
not have had that pleasure.
Mr.. Eustis-"D0 you make that state
ment?"
Mr.. Edmunds-"I make it because 1 be-
lieve it; because IL is true, as / believe now;
but ii make that statement in the Senate,
and II tomorrow there appears in the record
an additional statement that this was accom-
plished in some way by the action of the
Senator himself, and that with bloody hands
and wicked intentions he managed, by fraud
and violence, to construct legislature of
Louisiana would say it was very proper. for
me, behind his back, to have 1t inserted in
the Record"
A point of order was made by Mr. Daniel.
who asked that Mr. Edmunds's words be
taken down.
The presiding officer, Mr.. ingalls,, asked
Mr.. Daniel to state the words to which he
took exception, so the official reporter might
know exactly the sentence to be written
down.
from Vermont to impute distinctly to the
Senator from Louisiana the defence of muir
der, and to that language he took excep-
tions.
Mr.. Edmunds, in low tone to Mr.. Cullom
He is making a strong point ON our
Mr.. Daniel, addressing Mr.. Edmunds-"I
do not make 1t, sir, on your side, or on my
side." III
The presiding oficer-"The Senator from
Virginia Will address the chair"
Mr.. Daniels--'.The Senator from Vermont
did not address the chair"
sentence was written out by the official
reporter and read by the clerk. Mr.. Daniel
said those were not the words excepted to.
The presiding officer intimated to Mr.. Ed
munds that he now had opportunity of af-
frming or denying that the words as read
were as used by him.
Mr.. Edmunds-"I stand absolutely
mute"
Mr. Daniel and the reporter retired to find
out the Objectionable sentence After few
minutes, Mr.. Daniel said that as it was diff
fcult to find the sentence, he would not press
the matter.
his ailusiOn to the Louisiana election and
point Of the argument to which he applied it.
Coming back to the main question, he said
he Thought the Senator from Florida had SO
far trangressed the right of correction and
even of embroidery, that be ought to stand
mn like a man and take whatever was i'm
Piled In the resolution, saying that sort of
thing should not be done any more.