The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-25
CALLS RAP AT CHANDLER
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATOR
CRYS FOR PROTECTION.

OhargeS Kept Out or the Congress
sional Record-A Claim That They
Were Not Spoken as They Appear
in Print.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-In the Seuats
this morning Mr.. Chandler, rising to ques-
ton of personal privilege, called attention
to the fact that the senator from Florida
MIR. CalD, IN debate last Thursday, had ut
tered words personally offensive to him,
which he had not then heard, and had fol-
lowed IN that breach of order by changing
and adding to the official report of his re-
marks a paragraph still more offensive.
He (Mr. Chandler) deemed it his duty, be-
fore replying to the assault made upon him,
to bring the senator's conduct before the
senate for such action as might be deemed
just and equitable for such transgressions.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION.
He therefore offered preamble and reso-
luton stating that the senator from Florida
had charged him In debate with personal
responsibility for the outraging of women,
the numbering Of children, and the de-
struction of the happiness Of households in
the south by men who were emissaries be-
hind him, and that the senator had, in
addition, inserted the following paragraph
which he had not spoken; "The blood of
death was in any way connected with pros
ecutionS in the United States courts, will
rest on his conscience. The shrieking ghosts
OF outraged and murdered women aud
children, the victims of the wild lusts aud
passions of a race who owe all tnat
they know of religion and civilization to the
southern white people, and not to the sena-
tor from New Hampshire, will disturb his
sleeping and his waking h ours Like Ban
quo's ghost it will not down, and the ocean
will not wash his bloodstained hands from
the guilt Of the rape and murder of these
tender white women and children"
The resolution condemns such action as a
breach of privilege, for which the senator
(Mr. CelD is censured, and orders the words
30 inserted and the paragraph 30 added to
be stricken from the report in the Congress
SioTtaL Record.
GALL DEFENDS HIS COURSE.
Mr.. Call defended his course in the mat
ter, asserting that he had in debate ex-
pressed substantially the same idea as was
expressed in the additional paragraph. He
had simply changed the phraseology, as he
has right to do, and therefore the state
ment made by the senator from New Hamp-
shire was not true 1t was the first time In
his eleven years. service in the Senate that
he heard it claimed that it was not
admissible for a senator to correct, to ex-
plain, to amplify language used by him, so
as to express more clearly the idea in
tended to be conveyed.
CHANDLER PERSISTS.
Mr.. Chandler repelled the intimati6n
that anything which he had stated was not
true. He desired to have the decision Of
the Senate on the question he presented
He only asked that the Senate should decide
whether such language might be used by
one senator in relation to another senator,
and whether the senator from Florida was
to be permitted with his pen, alone in his
room, to write out additional charges and
send them to the public printer to be pub
lished throughout the country as il they
had been actually spoken in the Senate. He
sent the original of tine Objectionable para
graph by page TO Mr.. Call, and asked
whether that was in his handwriting.
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE.
Mr.. Call said that this was an extraordi-
nary performance on the part of the senator
from New Hampshire, and he repeated his
assertion that he had, in debate, clearly and
distinctly charged that senator with respon-
sibllity for the death Of Saunders and for
other iniquities committed in the south
The report when it came to him was not, he
said, a full and accurate report of his re-
marks, and he was authorized TO correct
and TO transpose, and he had done no more
than that.
Mr.. Teller expressed the opinion that
there should be no tampering with tho
Record, except to correct grammatical mis-
takes; certainly nothing OF a denunciatory
character ought TO be added to the report.
WANTED IT LAID OVER.
Mr.. Harris suggested that the resolution
should be printed and go over till to-mor-
row, and the Senate could then determine
the proper disposition of it. His own idea
was that it should be referred to the com
mittee on rules.
Mr.. Hoar spoke of the necessity that the
Record should be one of Photographic cor
rectness, as therein lay the sole safety Of
every senator's reputation for his action In
the Senate.
Mr.. Vest ridiculed the idea Of ''the phto-
graphic correctness" of the Record. and
alluded to the fact that a few years ago the
same speech was published as having been
made by two different representatives, and
had been prepared by neither.
Mr.. Sherman thought that proper dis
position of the resolution would be refer
ence to the committee on privileges and
elections, and said that the established
customs of the Senate had been that moth
ing of a personal character which was not
uttered should be injected into report.
Finally on objection Of Mr.. Harris the
resolution wert over until tomorrow.
A communication from the Attorney
General, with the report Of Marshal Mizeil
as to the assassination of United States
Deputy Marshal Saunders Ia Florida, was
presented and referred to the committee Of
privileges and elections.
THE BLAIR BILL.
At 2 o'clock the Blair education bill came
up as unfinished business, aud Mr.. Faulkner
addressed the Senate in OPPOSITE on to
it. Three questions, he said, pre-
sented themselves at the threshold.
which would have to be answered
in the affirmative by those who supported
the bill These were: First, is the bill
sanctioned by the provisions of the federal
Second, are its provisions,
which affect the distribution of fund be-
tween the states and between the two races
in the states just and benefcial2 Third, Is |
1t the part of wisdom and practical states
for the national government to |
embark on this bouudless sea of unre-
strained and unlimited legislation? He took |
the negative Of these three propositions, and |
went on TO argue in support of his view Of |
the question.
Mr.. Coke obtained the floor.
DIR. Blair said he would furnish for rec |
ord certain tables in refutation of some Of |
the statements made by Mr.. Faulkner.
Mr. Platt said that he did not desire to |
insist that the discussion should go on to- |
day. He was willing that the senate should |
indulge the senator from Texas, so that he |
might make his speech tomorrow.
But the educational bill had held |
its place as unfinished business |
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