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held by the people who judicially examined
the case. Though this was the House OF
Representatives, there was no authority I'M
der the constitution fer any member to as
sail the character and reputation Of citi-
zen.
Mr.. Wilson w. Va. confirmed what the
gentleman from Indiana had said. Mr.
Campbell had had an interview with the
gentleman and himself He had then gone
away and made an absolutely false affidavit.
Afterwards, to bolster up that statement, he
made an affidavit, ten thousand copies Of
which we're scattered over his Mr.. WilsOn's)
district. In the public press and on every
stump he had felt it his is duty to denounce
Campbell as a perjurer, and to declare Mr..
that his affidavit was from top to bottom
lie.
There was an exciting scene in the House
of Representatives Saturday last. Two
years ago Mr.. Campbell, as representa-
tive of the glass manufacturing interest of
Pittsburg, appeared before the ways and
means committee of the House, which was
then engaged preparing what is known as
the Mills tariff bill. Mr.. Campbell was put
through course of questioning by Messrs.
Mills. of Texas, Wilson of West Virginia
and Bynum, of Indiana. After his return
home, the Pittsburg papers published an
interview with Mr. Campbell, in which he
made the statement that in a conversation
Messrs. Wilson and Bynum had declared
that SO a month was ample wages for
workingman. These gentlemen immediate
" denied the correctness of the Campbell
interview, declaring that they had neither
entertained or given utterance to such an
opinion. This elected an affidavit from
Campbell, with which he reiterated the Sl5
charge. In the debate on the tariff bill,
Thursday last, Mr.. Bynum referred to the
Campbell affidavit and denounced its author
as a periurer, and Mr. Wilson added that
in the public press and on every stump he
had felt it his duty to deuounce Mr.. Camp
bell as a perjurer, and to declare that his
affidavit was from top to bottom lie.
This was the situation of affairs on Sat
urday, when Mr.. Bayne, of Pennsylvania,
who is the leading high tariff Republican, in
speaking to a verbal amendment, sent to
the clerks desk and had read letter from
James Campbell of Pittsburg, denying the
statements rejecting on his character, made
a few days since by Mr.. Bynum, of Indiana
and Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia. In his
letter he strongly attacks those gentlemen
and uses vigorous language in denunciation
of them
After half an hour of gproar Mr.. Bynum
secured the floor amid comparative quiet,
and said "Snce the gentleman from
Pennsylvania constituted himself the sewer
through which this attack of Campbell
made its ways into the Record
Mr.. Cheadle Rep. Ind made the point
of order that the language was out of or
der.
The Chair thought that the world Sewer"
in this connection was hardly parliament
airy.
Mr. Bynum-'I withdraw it, then, and
say conduit pipe Since the gentleman
from Pennsylvania is the medium through
which the statement of Campbell found its
way into the Record, since the chair has
said that the way citizen who may feel
aggrieyed can get into the Record is by the
Endorsement of a member of the House,
have simply to say that did the other
day, knowing full well the meaning of the
words, and that | was responsible for them,
denounce Mr.. Campbell as a liar and per-
iurer. want to say now that accept and
am wi ling to believe that | have as great
confidence in the character of Mr.. Camp
bell as have in the character of the gen
tleman who makes this attack upon me-"
The storm lasted for hours, in the course
of which many severely sharp things were
said. but the outcome of which was the rude
passage OF "a resolution OF cenSure OF Mr..
Bynum. Mr.. Bynum appeared at the bar
OF the House aud Speaker Reed said
Mr. William d. Bynum: You are ar
raigned at the bar of the House for having
transgressed its rules by your remarks. For
this ofhense the House desires that you
should be ceusured at lis bar In the name
OF tho House, therefore, pronounce upon
you its censure. The sergeant-at-arms will
now release you
Mr. Bynum.-"Under such circumstances
/ accept the censure of the House as a dec
Grafton of honor" Democratic applause
Ia Congress on Monday.
Aft chairman had given sharp ad-