The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-25
A SCENE IN TIE SENATE,

SAEs ShhAui1i Asissb ~ ~ HuesLlOn OF tFtS1.
lcsc-Nusolutions Contlcn,ning Senator
Call-Fnuikncr on tho Blair Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2i.-Mr. Chandler,
rising to o question OF personal privilege
in the Senate this morning, called atten.
ton to the fact that tho Senator from
Florida (Mr. Call) in the debate last
Thursday had uttered words personally
offensive to him (Which he had not then
heard) and had followed up that breach
Of order by changing and adding to the
official report OF his remarks paragraph
still more offensive. Hc (Mr. Chandler)
deemed it his duty, before 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
suitable for such n transgression. lie
therefore offered q preamble and resolu.
ton, stating that the Senator from Flori-
da had charged him, in debate, with
personal responsibility for the outraging
Of women and the numbering of children
and the destruction Of the happiness OF
households in the South by men who
were the emissaries behind him; and
that the Senator had lin addition) in.
serted the following paragraph which he
had not spoken:
"The blood of Saunders iii the evil
dence shall show his death was in any
way connected with the prosecutions in
the United States Courls) will rest on his
conscience. The shrieking ghosts OF out.
ragged and murdered women aud child.
ren, the victims of the wild lusts and
passions Of race who owe all TINT they
know OF religion and civilization to the
Southern white people and not to the
Senator from New Hampshire, will dis.
.urb his sleeping and waking hours
Like Banquo's ghost, it will not down
and the ocean will not wash his blood.
stained hands from the guilt OF the rape
and the murder OF these tender white
women and children" ''.'=zs
The resolution condemns such action
rs a breach Of privilege, for which the
Senator Mr.. Call) is censured, and
orders the words SO inserted and tho
paragraph so added to be stricken from,
the report in the Congressional Record
MR. CALLS EXPLANATION.
Mr.. Call defended his course in the
matter by asserting that he had in de.
bate expressed substantially tho same
idea as was expressed in the additional
paragraph. He had simply changed the
phraseology, as he had the right to do
so, and therefore the statement made BY
tho Senator from New Hamshire was not
true. 1t was the first time in his eleven
years service in the Senate that ho had
heard it claimed that it was not ad.
missable for n Senator to correct, to ex-
plain, to amplify the language used by
him so as to express more clearly the
idea intended to be conveyed.
Mr.. Chandler repelled the intimation
that anything which he had stated was
not true. He desired 10 have tho opin-
ion OF the Senate on the question pre-
scented. Heasked no protection for him
self. Hc only asked that the Senate
should be used by one Senator in rela-
ton to another Senator and whether the
Senator from Florida was TO be permit
ted 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 actual.
ly spoken in the Senate chamber. He
sent the original OF the Objectionable
paragraphs by a page to Dir. Call and
asked II that was In his writing. MIR.
Call said that this was an extraordinary
performance on the part Of the Senator
from New Hampshire and he repeated
his assertion tnat ho had in debate
clearly and distinctly charged that Sena.
tor with responsibility for tho death ol
Saunders, and for the other iniQuitiei
committed in tho South. The report
when it game to him, was not be said,
a full and accurate report OF his remarks
and he was authorized by the Commit.
on Practice OF the Senate, to correct and
to tranepose; and he had done no more
than that. 5 ! ~, u ~
After q short debate, on objection o
Mr.. Harris, the resolution went oyel
until tomorrow. 3
5S ME-. FAULcSER's SPEECH.
At 2 o'clock the Blair educational bill
came up as unfinished business, and Mr.
Faulkner addressed the Senate in oppo
Fsition to it, 3js
He said that the earnest and persist
ent advocacy OF the bill by the Senate
from New Hampshire (inspired by mo
tives pure and above criticism) support
ed by Senators on the Democratic Bid
Of the chamber whose judgment AM
counsel had had great weight inauencin
public sentiment in favor OF it, made ]
eminently proper that those who ditle
with them shonld, with perfect candor