Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-25
HOT WORDS In THE SENATE.
Mr.. Sherman Says They Are
Unparliamentary.
THE SILVER BILL REPORTED TODAY
THE SENATE.

within the custom district of Hartford. Conn,
the towns of Long Meadow, Agawam, Spring
field and West Springfield, Mass, in which
Springfield shall be port of delivery.
TO ISSUE NOTES FOR BULLION.
Also one to authorize the purchase of gold
and silver bullion and the issue OF Treasury
notes in payment therefor.
Mr.. Beck said that the report from the
hnance committee was not unanimous; that he
was opposed to it.
There were also reported and placed on the
calendar two bills for public buildings in South
Dakota-one at Deadwood, S200,000, and the
other at Sioux Falls, S250,000.
MIR. CHANDLER's RESOLUTION OF cENsURE.
The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Chan
dler censuring Mr.. Cali for interpolating in the
official report of the proceedings of the Senate a
paragraph that had not been spoken and that
was unparlamentary and personally offensive
was taken up, and Mr.. Sherman moved Its ref
erence to the committee on privileges and
elections.
MR.. CALL MAKES A SPEECH.
Mr.. Call stated, as a matter of personal privi-
lege, that the Washington Post contained an
article this morning with head lines, Calls
bitter remarks. He slipped a paragraph into
the Congressional Record That (Alr. Call said)
was fGlsehood. 1t conveyed false impression
lie had slipped into the Congressional Record
lHtt ldu not DCel, III substance,
tered on the floor OF the Senate That para
graph. with the exception OF a few words, had
been literally uttered on the fioor
lie gave notice to the Senator from New
Hampshire, who had arraigned him by the reso-
luton, that he (Mr. Cali would arraigu him
! (Mr. Chandler) before the Senate and
would demand an investigation by the
committee for making accusation that was
untrue. The remarks of the Senator proved
that he knew that the accusation was
mt H.. Nh LIN
the Senator on evidence of his own
(that would convict him before a jury of
respectable New Hampshire republicaus) that
he did hear and know that he (Alr. CalD had ut
tered on the floor of the Senate substantially
the whole of the charge contained In the
paragraph and with a very few exceptions)
every word contained in 1T. He gave notice
to that Senator tnat he CIR. CalD would not
submit tanGly 10 the ilnputatIon put upon him.
lie would not ask the censUre by the Senate of
the Senator from New Hampshire, but he would
leave him to the just Judgment OF public opin-
ION throughout the country for having heard
his Mr.. Call s. remarks and having had neither
the courage nor the manhood to resent them.
MR.. SHERMAN CRITICIsEs MIR. CALL.
Mr.. Sherman declared that the rules of the
Senate had Just been violated by the Senator
from Florida in as gross a manner
as he had ever witnessed. He had not
chosen to interrupt the Senator but
tho WOuiu snow what the
Senator had said; he hoped that the COM
mlttee would examine it. When the Senate OF
inc united States came to such a condition that
the word coward could be applied to a SEN
ator and that Senator could be charged with
stating a thing falsely IL seemed to him that
the Senate was recedng from the diynity
which had distinguished it from the foundation
OF the government.
He hoped that the Senator from Florida
would read over the report of what he had
SAID and not have published in the Record
language which III any general assembly in the
world would be regarded as disorderiy and i'm
proper.
CONDITIONAL APOLOGY
Mr.. Call-If have violated any rule of the
Senate by any observations which have made
today or formerly 1 Withdraw them, and l
apologize to the Senate.
Mr.. Chandler-If?
MIR. Call did not understand that was
violating any rule. II am not at liberty (when
aresoiutlon rejecting Oh me is offered Aeye)
to state that it is not true
and that can prove that il
is not true and that the Senator when he made
the charge knew that it was not true then I'd
not understand the rules of the Senate, but if.
III the judgment of any Senator it is iInpron.r
10 use that language withdraw it and apollo
gize for it.
Mr.. Chandler-I will not reply to the gentle
man from Florida this morning in unparlia
L nave stated, IN the
luton which Is now before the Senate
ana which l am willing to have re-
1erred to the committee or privileges and eIec-
tons, what the conduct of the Senator from
Florida has been. have recited the words
which he used and the alterations which he
made in the official report The facts are stated
IN the preamble. The facts are true
The complaint which I made was that
VIC ooh"'oI niu inserted In his
remarks words which he had not uttered. |
nNlnIJA
in',c., Iiu no. o1Hpllln IN the resolution OF the
language which he did utter as being unparlia
mentary. When that question goes to
the committee with the resolution
nope thaC the committee will
take occasion to inform the Senate and the
country whether or not the language used by
the Senator parliamentary, and what
language may be used by Senators in relation
10 each other, whether in attack or in defense
The Senator used language about me which
did not hear. He wrote language in the renort
accusing me OF all the crimes i'll the decalogue
ana he has now, this morning, charged me with
being coward for not replying to that which
dld not hear, and to that which he afterward
wrote IN the Record report. When the Senate
mas decided on this stage what language il is
parliamentary to use will take occasion to de-
fend myself from all the imputations of the
Senator from Florida.
MT. HAwLEY's PROTEST.
MIR. Hawley-I suppose that the matter
should go promptly to the committee on privi-
leges and elections, and that it is hardly proper
to continue the discussion of it. But the re-
marks made few minutes ago by the Senator
from Florida tempt me to say that however
much he may reproach the Senator from New
hampshire for not having responded to his Bit
ter and personal onslaught l with most of
the Senators on this side would
have protested in language as indignant as if
1t was directed against them against that gross
violation of parliamentary law which he saws
he committed the other day, and which l say
he did not.
Mr. Harris contended that the resolution
should be referred not to the committee on
privileges and elections, but to the committee
on rules.
The question was taken on Mr. Sherman's
motion to refer the resolution to the committee
on privileges and elections, and the motion was
agreed to. 1t was also ordered that the pro-
ceedIngs of the Senate on the day in question
| shall not be stereotyped until further orders.
BILLS PASSED.
The Senate then proceeded to business on the
calendar, and the following bills (among
others) were passed. Granting a pension of
Sl00 a month to the widow of
Maj. Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick; an
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