St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-26
CALL is CHEEKY.
The Senator From Florida Pads
the Congressional Record.

WASHINGTON. June 25.-The men,
bers of the United States senate were
surprised this morning ON picking up
the Congressional Record, to find Oh the.
first page and the pages, nearly twenty
eight columns of a speech supposed to
have been delivered by Senator Call be-
fore the senate on June 2, on question
of privilege sin reply to certain charges
against him contained in a pamphlet.by
w. ID. ChipleS, sent to each senator"
The remarks actually delivered by Mr..
Call Oh that occasion would have >occu-
pied less than column of the Record.
Mr. Call had obtained from the senate,
however, permission to print some
papers with his remarks, and
these remarks had been withheld
for revision That the paper
referred to might be Incorporated with
them. The most remarkable part of
the addition of the twenty-seyen col.
umns made by Mr.. Call to his original
remarks was table in which he made
comparison of his work in the senate
during the Fiftieth congress with that
of other senators. Among the charges
made by Mr.. Chipley in mis- pamphlet
was one that Mr.. Call had introduced
great many bills in congress, very few
of which had become laws. In answer
to this charge, Mr.. Call had printed in
the Record statement of all the bills
introduced by him, with the fate OF
each, and then, in addition to this, a
table showing the number of bills in
troduced by each other member of the
senate, and the proportion which be-
came laws, to which is appended foot
note to the effect that 1.-The bills intro
duced by Senator Call which became
laws bear a fair comparison with
those introduced by any other
senator" Through Mr.. Calls state
ment are striking head lines
presumably written by HIMSELF, Of
which the following are samples:
"Falsehoods of hired correspondents of
land grant agents." Senator Call shows
that he has been rightfully connected
with all public enterprises" "Mr. CHIP
ley as a railroad and land grant lobby
ist;" 'sWhat shall be said of the writer
of the Chipley-Wales pamphlet" 'De
grading spectaele;" Senator CARS
services have been for the peoples
good.' The surprise of the senators at
this statement in the Record was fol-
lowed in some eases by anger, and the
matter was discussed at great length
before the meeting of the senate. 1t
was determined to call Mir. Call to ac-
count for what was regarded by a great
man, members of the senate as an I'M
warranted use of the privilege which is
very freely accorded senators. Ac-
cordingly, when Mr.. Gail took
the floor to address tie senate
on his Cuban resolution, in ac-
cordance with a notice heretofore
given, MI. Edmunds and Mr.. Sherman
both arose to move to close the doors.
When the doors had been closed the
matter was taken up and discussed
rather freely. One of the ingenious
paragraphs in the Record. which was
commented Oh, was the following" 1.-The
next charge of Mr.. Chipley, is that | am
ignorant, stupid, incompetent, and do
not know how TO write bill; that |
have introduced 457 bills in the senate
and passed practically none OF them,
and that Fam generally of no use or
value. This statement is entirely un-
true" The original manuscript of
Mr.. Call's remarks with the interpnla-
lions was brought from the government
printing Office, and when it was re-
ceived. the doors we're opened that Mr..
ingalls, might continue in public the
criticism of Mr.. Calls action which
had occupied the attention of the
senate behind closed doors. Mr.. Call's
Cuban resolution was not disposed OF
in the secret session.