The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
SENATORIAL TIFFS.
Wise Men Who Never Speak as
They Pass By.
THE Observation-Disclosures FEUD
Senators Who are Ready For Duels-The
Fighters OF the Senate-Mitchell
and Morgan Trouble.


correspondence of THE HERALD. The
trouble between Senators Call and Plumb
will probably make them enemies for life
and another feud will be added to the mary
which now exist in the United States Sen
ate. A dozen old Senators do not speak tt
each other already, and the bitter politica
speeches of the past week are by no means
calming the troubled waters. The stings
of debate last long after the sessions are
over, and there are personal remarks made
every session which rankle in the souls OF
the Senators at whom they are directed
Call will not forget that Plumb called him
coward, and Plumb will never forgive
Call for saying that he was bad man, a
vain man, weak man ard a man of boor-
ish manners and contemplate methods
Had these words been uttered before the
war the result would probably have been a
duel, but as it is the two men will sit in the
Senate, sheer at each others speeches, and
pass by one another without speaking.
John Sherman and Wade Hampton have
not spoken to each other for years. and the
trouble arose in reply to some correspond
ence which Hampton had with Sherman
While he was secretary of the treasury
Chandler wants nothing to do with Joe
Blackburn since that stormy trouble arose
In the session of the committee on Indian
traders, and the Senator from Kentucky
attempted to pull the ear off the Senator
from New Hampshire. Chandler denies
that his ear was pulled, but he acknowl-
edges that he received threats and other
lndlgnltles. He will never forget them.
and Blackburn will long remember the
offensive remark of Mr.. Chandler in which
he said that he would not be bulldozed by
any negro driver from Kentucky
SENATOR INGALLS, oUARRELs.
Senator ingalls, is mixed up in half a.
dozen feuds. The Democratic Senators as
mass hate him worse than the devil hates
holy water, and there are number of the
Democratic Senators with whom he can
never be on friendly terms. One of these
is Joe Brown, of Georgia. whom the Kan
sas Senator held up to ridicule about six
years ago under the title of the Senator
from Alaska. Brown had said that he
would not make the Senate the scene of a
coarse personal quarrel, and that in his con-
flcts with brave men he had never been ac-
cused of cowardice. He referred to ingalls,,
attenuated form, and intimated that no one
was much afraid of the Kansas Senator
In reply to this, Senator Ingalls, made
hery speech, accusing Brown of changing
the record of the Senate calling him "a
sanctlmonlous hypocrite who was forever
washing his hands with invisible soan in
lmperceptible water" Under this title. the
Senator from Alaska, he characterized
Brown as the''Uriah Heep of the Senate. as
the Joseph Surface Of American politics.
as a snlvelllng political Pecksniff who had
belonged to every political party in his life
time, and TO none which he did not be
tray" At the close of his speech. he said
he was willing to have the Senator from
Georgia take his remarks in any sense in
which ne saw fit to take them, and that he
did not shrink behind the privileges of the
chamber.
JOE BROWNS DUEL.
1t was supposed that nothing less than
duel could come from these remark
Alter day or two, however, the matt,
quieted down, and nothing more has hee,
heard of the trouble. The two Senator,
will. however. never be friends, though
both of them hold each other in decided re
spect The fact that they did not fight can
not be considered an imputation on the
bravery Of either, for both have shown
themselves to be ready to fight in the DAYS
OF the past and had either sent challenge
there is no doubt that the other would have
accepted it. Senator Joe Brown once
came within an ace of fighting a duel with
Bob Toombs. Toombs and he had ouarrel
as TO reconstrucUpn measures, and the
story is that both expected to fight. |
Toonlbs made no preparation for the duel
ice Brown went about his arrangements in
the same practical business way for which
he is so noted and which has made him
success as a fortune maker and great
statesman. He drew up his will. put his
estate in order and clipped all the trees of
his orchard in practicing with his pistol 1
think it was in this affair that Brown
called Toombs an INSCRIPTIONS liar and
that Toombs in talking to one OF his friends
about it, characterized Brown as a hypo
critical old deacon, saying:
s'What can [ do with him. If l challenge
him he will dodge behind the door of the
Baptist church;'' and he then referred to
the statesment of Ben Hill in reply to
Alexander H. Stephens, wherein Hill re
fused to fight, saying to Stephens: Sir
have family to support and a God to
serve, but you have NEITHER
This remark of Toombs was reported to
Brown, and Brown went to his church and
got a certificate stating that he had left it
He sent the certificate to Toombs and told
him that he would be glad to accommodate
him, and that he would accept any chal-
lenge he might make. 1t was while Toombs
was waiting to make the challenge that he
practiced with his pistol. Toombs knew
that he was good shot, and he saved his
life by not saying anything more about it.
SENATOR INGALLS, BRAVERY.
As to Senator Ingalls, bravery, there are
numerous stories told of his courage in
Kansas during and before the war. He
was sitting one day eating his dinner in a
hotel in Atchison. 1t was at the time that
ingalls, had first come to Kansas, and he
had already made two or three of his pyro-
technic oratorical displays. AS he sat
there a drunken ruffian entered the room
with pistol in his hand. He saw Ingalls,.
and said:
''See here, young man, they say you are
a blanked good speaker. Now, l want you
TO getup and make me a speech, or I'll
shoot - - out of you"
He then pointed his revolver at Ingalls,
ingalls, looked him in the eye and the re
volver in the mouth and replied that ne did
not intend to make speech for any drunk
ard The man continued to swear and
flourish his cooked revolver. He jumped
up and down as he did so, and by accident
his boot struck his pistol and he shot him
self in the leg. His boot was soon full of
blood. This sobered him, and he left the
dining room. ingalls, went up stairs,
brought down his pistol laid il down be-
side his plate and went on with his eating
The man went out into the streeu,got into
shooting affray and was killed that after
noon.
SENATOR sHERMAN's DUEL.
Senator Sherman came very near having
s. duel at just about the beginning of the
war He was insulted by member of the
House, and he picked up box of waters
and threw it in the mans face. Every one
supposed that the insult would be shoot
ing ARRAY. and Sherman carried a pistol
sat one time" Senator Sherman tells |
me- "a boary-headed ruffian came in and |
denounced him in the rudest and most |