Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-26
STATESMEN.
Senator Call Makes Too Free
with The Record.
EXPANSIVE USE OF A PRIVILEGE.


with Words That Stand of Record
The Senate silver Bill Sat Upon in the
House Disorderiy Members Threat
ened with the Mace The National
Election Law.
WASHINGTON CITY, June 26-The MEM
bers of the United States senate were sur
prised yesterday morning on picking up
The Congressional Record to find on the
first page and the pages Immediately fol-
lowing, nearly twenty eight columns of a
speech supposed to have been delivered by
Senator Call before the senate on June 2,
on question of privilege lin reply to GER
tain charges against him contained in a
pamphlet by w. ID. Chipley sent to each
senator" The remarks actually delivered
on that occasion would have occupied less
than column of The Record. Call had
obtained from the senate, however, per-
mission to print some papers with his re-
marks, and the remarks had been with
held for revision that the papers referred
to might be Incorporated with them.
Made Some Novel Comparisons.
The most remarkable part of the addi
ton of the twenty-seven columns made by
Call to his original remarks was table in
which he made comparison of his work in
the senate during the Fiftieth congress
with that of other senators. Among the
charges made by Chipley in his pamphlet
| was one that Cali had introduced a great
| many bills in congress, very few.of which
| had become laws. In answer TO this charge,
| Call had printed in The Record state
ment of all the bills introduced by him,
with the fate of each, and then. in addi-
| ton to this, table showing the number
of bills introduced by each other member
of the senate, and the proportion which
| became laws.
Great on Headlines.
| Throughout Calls statement are striking
headlines presumably written by him
self) of which the following are samples:
| "Falsehoods of hired correspondents of
| land grant agents." senator Call shows
that he has been rightfully connected
with all public enterprises" "Mr. Chip
| ley as a railroad and land grant lobby
ist;" what shall be said of the writer of
the Chipley Wales pamphlet; "Degrad-
ing spectacle" Senator Calls services
have been for the public good"
| The Senators waxed wroth.
| The surprise of the senators at this
statement in the record was followed in
some cases by anger, and the matter was
discussed at great length before the meet
ing of the senate 1t was determined TO
cal! Call to account for what was regarded
by great many members of the senate as
an unwsrranted use of privilege which
is very freely accorded senator's Accord
fngly when Call took the floor to address
the senate on his Cuban resolution in ac-
cordance with a notice heretofore given,
Edmunds and Sherman both arose TO
move to close the doors. When the doors
had been closed the matter was taken up
and discussed rather freely, but the SEN
sation of the day took place after the
doors were reopened, when Ingalls, took
the floor and moved an inquiry by the
l elections committee.
Call Explains His Action.
Call said there was no ground for the
resolution; that he had asked leave of the
senate on the I'd of June last to print ex-
tracts from The Record in yindication of
his career in the senate, in response to a
pamphlet attacking him; and that was all
he had done to-day. The libel to which he
had been replying had contained state
ment of bills which he had introduced in
the senate, and which had not become law.
At his leisure he had prepared a state
ment in his own yindication and had sub
mitted it TO a member of the committee on
printing [Gormanl who had informed him
that there was no improperly whatever in
having it published.
| Ingalls, Makes a Grave Charge.
Ingalls-The senator from Florida has, in
my Judgment, not only grossly violated
and abused the privileges of the senate,
but he has deliberately falsifed the record
of what occurred on the day when the
| transaction took place.
Here Butler called Ingalls, to order and
the latter withdrew the words deliberately
fslsified" and substituted changed the
record" Call wanted ingalls, given leave
| TO 20 on, hut Butler said Call was not
| alone involved-the dignity of the senate
must be considered. Ingalls, then pro
ceeded, and said that Call had been given
leave to insert certain matter in The Rec
ord, "as an appendix" but had left out
that phrase entirely, so as to make it ap-
pear that he had leave to print this mass
of material which never was uttered. and
/ which he never obtained leave to insert
| The Comparisons Were Odious.
ingalls, then went on to say: "But i
| should not have complained if the senator
from. Florida had not seen fit, in his own
attemptC | vindication, to prepare what
| he calls a tabulated abstract which he
has inserted here, in which he compares
| the relative services of members of this
| body to his own, and in many cases to
their detriment. have no hesitation in
| saying that the table is incorrect in many
important particulars. He has taken the
| trouble to make history of my conduct
during the Fiftieth congress, showing that
| i had introduced forty-four bills, of which
one pension bill became law and two
others-omitting all reference to the fact
that throughout the whole of that con-
| gress l was the presiding officer of this
| body"
| The Florida Mans Retort.
| Ingalls, continued by insisting that Call
| had not done what he had obtained leave
to do, but had mutilated The Record and
set very pernicious precedent. Call re-
torted on ingalls, as follows, in the course
| of his reply: How small the man, how
bitter the malevolence, how mean the
| character that could find in such cir
| cumstance the Willingness to accuse an
other senator of classifying The Record, -
and closed with the words: 81 should de-
mand of him that he show the courage of
| a man and not the cowardice of SIAN
| derer"
| O'NealI and Cannon Have Spat.
| WARRINGTON CRY, June 26.-During
| the warm discussion in the house yester-
terday on the rules committees resolution
| to fix the limit of the debate on the ma
tional election law, O'Neall of Indiana in