St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-26
SENATORIAL SPATS.
The Enmities and Friendships
Which Exist in Our House
Of Lords.
John Sherman Carried a Pts
toll, AMI Brown Wanted
to Fight Toombs.
One Of Senator Ingalls, At
trays During the Great
Kansas Troubles.
A Story Of the Bravery OF
Sanders--How Sawyer
Loves Payne.

Special CORRESPONDENCE of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The trouble
between Senators Call and Plumb will
probably make them enemies for life,
and another feud will be added to the
many which now exist in the United
States senate. A dozen odd senators do
not speak to each other already, and the
bitter political 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 a
bad man, vain man, weak man and
man of boOrlsh manners and con-
temptible methods. Had these words
been uttered before the war the result
would probably have been duel, but
as it is the two men Will sit in the SEN
ate, sneer 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
correspondence which Hampton had
with Sherman while he was secretary
of the treasury. Chandler wants moth
ing 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-Of the senator from New
Chandlnp hot n
ear was pulled, but he acknowledges
that he received threats and other indg-
mites. 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
bulidozed by any negro driver from
Kentucky"
Senator Ingalls, Quarrels.
Senator ingalls, is mixed up in half
dozen feuds. The Democratic senators
as mass hate him worse than the devil
hates holy water. and there are num-
Der of Democratic senators with whom
he can never be on friendly terms. One
of these is Joe Brown, of Georgia,
whom the Kansas senator held up to
ridicule about six years ago as the sena-
tor from Alaska. Brown had said that
he would not make the senate the scene
of a coarse personal quarrel, and that
in his conflicts with brave men he had
never been accused of cowardlce.
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
fiery speech, accusing Brown of chang
ing the record of the senate, calling
him ''sanctimOniOus hypocrit who was
forever washing his hands with invis-
ible soap in imperceptibIe 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 sniv-
cling political pecksnitf who had be-
longed to every political party in his
lifetime, and to none which he did not
betray." 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 he saw fit to take them,
and that he did no shrihk behind the
privileges of the chamber.
Joe Browns Duel.
It was supposed that nothing less
than duel could come from these re-
marks. After day or two, however,
the matter Quieted down and nothing
more has been heard of the trouble.
The two senators will, however, never
be friends, though both of them hold
each other in decided respect. The
fact that they did not fight cannot be
considered an imputatiOn upon the
bravery of either, for both have shown
themselves to be ready to fight in the
days of the past, and had either sent a
challenge there is no doubt that the
other would have accepted it. Sem
ator Joe Brown once came within
an ace of fighting a duel with
Bob TOombs. ToUmbs and he had a
quarrel as to the reconstruction meas
ures.and the story is that both expected
to light. TOOmbS made no preparation
for the duel. Joe Brown went about
his arrangements in the same practical
business way for which he is so noted,
and which has made him a success as a
fOrtune-makeT and a great statesman.
He drew up his will, put his estate in
order and clipped all the trees of his
orchard in practicing with mis- pistol.
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 hypocritical old deacon.
saying: "What can do with him? If
challenge him he will dodge behind the
door of the Baptist church. And he then
referred to the statement of Ben Hill in
reply to Alexander Ii. Stephens, where
in Hill refused to fight. saying to Steph-
ems: "Sir, l have family to support
and God to serve, bnt you have
neither"
This remark of Toombs was reported
to Brown, and Brown went to his
church and got 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 challenge he might
make. 1t was while Toombs was wait
ing to make the challenge that he prac-
ticed 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 cour-
age in Kansas during and before the
war. He was sitting one day eating his
dinner in o el in AtchiSon. 1t was
at the time that ingalls, had first come
to Kansas, and he had already made
two or three of his pyrOtechnic oratOri-
cal displays. As he sat there drunken
ruffian entered the room with pistol
in his hands. He saw ingalls,, and said
See here, young man, they say you're
BANKED good speaker. Now | want
you to get up and make me speech or
j will shoot - out of you"
He then pointed his revolver at In
gals. ingalls, looked him in the eve
and the revolver in the mouth, and re-
piled that he did not intend to make a
speech to any drunkard. The man con-
tinued 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 himself
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 it down
beside his plate and went on with his
eating. The man went out IN the
street, got INTO shooting affray and
was killed that afternoon.
Senator Sherman's Duel.
Senator Sherman came very near
having n duaI of iuct ohout +I,a bar;,