Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
A SENATORIAL LIAR.
That is, in Effect, What a Southern
Member Calls Mr.. Chandler.
LIVELY LANGUAGE IN DEBATE.
Sherman Interferes to Protect the dignity
of the Body.
oNLI A PARTIAL APOLOGY SECURED.
fhs Committee on Privileges and Elections will Take
Action

In speaking on Senator Chsndler's reso-
luton censuring him, Cali, of Florida, said
that the charges of the New Hampshire
member were not true. Further than that,
the Senator knew that they were not true
when be made them. Sherman denounced
this language as the worst ever heard in the
Senate. A conditional apology was made.
WASHINGTON, February 25.-In the
Senate to-day the debate on the resolution
offered yesterday by Mr.. Chandler censur-
ing Mr.. Call for interpolating in the official
report of the proceedings of the Senate q
paragraph that had not been spoken and
that was unparliamentsry and personally
offensive, Mr.. Call gave notice to the Sena-
tor from New Hampshire, who had ar
raigned him by the resolution that he Mr..
CalD would arraign him (Mr. Chandler)
before the Senate, and would demand an in
vestigation by the committee for making an
accusation that was untrue.
The remarks of the Senator proved that
he knew that the accusation was not true.
He (Mr. Cal) would convict the Senator on
evidence of his own, that would convict him
before jury of respectable New Hampshire
Republicans that he did hear and know
that he (Mr. CalD had uttered 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 it
THE soUTHEREER ANGRY.
He gave notice to that Senator that he
(Mr. Call) would not submit tamely to the
inputation put upon him. He 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 opinion
throughout the country, for having heard
his (Mr. Call's) remarks, and having had
neither the courage nor the manhood to re-
sent them.
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 the
record would show what he had said, and he
hoped that the committee would examine it.
When the Senate of thu United States came
to such a condition that the charge of cow
ardiee could be applied to a Senator, and
that Senator could be charged with stat
ing thing falsely, it seemed to him that
the Senate was receding from the dignity
which had distinguished it from the founda-
tion moment.
He hoped that the Senator from Florida
would read over the report of what be had
said and not have published in the Record
language. which in any general assembly in
the world would be regarded as disorderly
and improper.
A CONDITIONAL APOLOGY.
Mr. Call-If have violated any rule Of the
Senate by any observations which have made
to-day OF formerly, i withdraw them, and L
apologize to the Senate.
Mr.. Chandler-It?
Mr.. CALL did not understand that was
violating any rule. If am not at liberty (when
q resoluti ii rejecting on me is offered here) to
state that t is not true, ard that can prove
that it is not true, and that The Senator (when
he made the charge) knew that it was not true,
then l do not understand the rules of the
Senate. But if, in the Judgment Of any Sen
atOr. il is improper TO use that language,
withdraw it, and apologize for it.
Mr.. ChandleT-I will not reply to the gentle
man from Florida this morning in unparlia-
menta-y language. 1 have stated, in the resolu-
tion which is now before the Senate and which
am willing to have referred to the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, what the conduct
of the Senator from Florida has been. 1 have
Fecited 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 l make was
that the Senator had inserted in his remarks
words which he had not uttered did not
complain, in the resolution, of the language
which he did utter as being unparliamentary.
DECISION ASKED.
When the question goes to the committee
with the resolution. l hope that the committee
will take occasion to inform the Senate and the
country whether or not the language by the
Senator was parliamentary and what language
may be used by Senators in relation to each
nther whether in attack in dpfanSa Tho
Senator used language about me which did
not hear He wrote language in the report ac-
cusing me of all crimes in the decalogne. And
he has now charged me with being coward for
not replying TO that which l did not hear and
that which he afterward wrote in the Record
report When the Senate has decided on this
stage what language it is parliamentary to use,
] will take occasion to defend myself from all
the imputations of the Senator from Florida
At o'clock the Blair educational bill |
was taken up as unfinished business" and !
Mr.. Coke addressed the Senate in opposi- |
tion to it. He opposed it, he said, because |
st clearly violated the Constitution, and be- |
cause, as a measure of policy, it was most |
unwise and mischievous Ithad constantly |
declined in public favor, until now the in |
dications gave good ground to hope for its |
defeat
Mr.. Stanford addressed the Senate in ad- |
Hocacy of the bill It seemed to him to pro- |
eeed upon the right principle. He assumed |
the eonstitutionality, and then the impor- |
tant fact to be considered was whether na- |
tional legislation was necessary. Illiteracy |
was conceded, and also the fact that some of |
fhe States had not been able to meet the |
question. Federal aid, therefore, became |
necessary.
AS A NERVE TONIC