The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-02-26

OisIut qutStlOu dS 10 Wu6Iner MT. Call QlQ or
did not doctor the report of his recent speech
the Florida Senator seems to be lame. His
desire to get some fiery reading matter for
his constituents in The shot gun regions
seems to have led him too far.
TO CENSURE Mr.. CALL.
Some Very Plain Talk In the Upper
House Of Congress.
WASHINGTON, February 25.-In the SEN
ate today the bill to authorize the purchase
of gold and siyer bullion and the issue of
treasury notes in payment therefor was re-
ported from the committee and placed on the
calendar. The resolution offered yesterday
by Mr.. Chandler censuring Mr.. Call for in
terrolating in the official report of the pro-
ceedings of the Senate paragraph which
had not been spoken, that was unparlia-
mentary and personally offensive was taken
up and Mr.. Sherman moved its reference to
the committee on privileges and elections.
Mr.. Call stated as matter of personal
privilege that the Washington Post contain
ed an article this morning with the head
lines reading:
CALLS BITTER REMARKS.
HE SLIPPED THE PARAGRAPH INTO THE
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
That, Mr.. Call said, was falsehood and
conveyed false impression. He had slipped
into the Congressional Record nothing not
in substance uttered on the floor of the Sen
ate. That paragraph with the exception of a
few words, was literally uttered on the
floor. He gave notice to the Senator from
New Hampshire, who had arraigned him by
the resolution that he Mr.. Call would ar
raign him Mr.. ChandlerI before the Senate
and demanded an investigation by com
mittee for making an untrue accusation.
The remarks Of the Senator proved that he
knew the accusation was not true. He [Mr.
Call would convict the Senator on evil
dence OF his own, that would convict him be-
fore a jury OF respectable New Hampshire
Republicans, that he did hear and know
that he Mr.. Call uttered on the floor of the
Senate substantially the whole of the charge
contained In the paragraph and, with very
few exceptions, every word contained in it.
He gave notice to that Senator that he
would not submit tamely to the imputation
put on him. He would not ask censure by
the Senate of the Senator from New Hamp-
shire but would leave him to just Judgment
of public opinion throughout the country,
for, having heard his Mr.. McCall's remarks,
he had neither the courage nor the manhood
to resent them.
Mr.. Sherman declared that the rules of the
Senate had just been violated by the Senator
from Florida in as gross manner as he had
ever witnessed. He had not chosen to in
terrupt the Senator but the record would
mittee would examine it. When the Senate
Of the United states had come to such con-
dition that charge of cowardice could be
applied to Senator. that Senator could be
charged with stating thing falsely, it
seemed to him the Senate was receding from
fhn ifxrx bnd cfin vrrtc cln
the foundation of the government. He
hoped the Senator from Florida would read
over the report of what he had said and not
have published in the record language
which in any general assembly in the world
would be regarded as disorderly and i'm
Mr.. Call-"If 1 have violated any rule of
the Senate, by any observations made today
or formerly, withdraw them and apologize
to the Senate"
Mr. Chandler-"If."
Mr.. Call-"I did not understand that l
was violating any rule If am not at lib
erty, when resolution rejecting on me is
offered here, to state it is not true and l can
prove it not true and the Senator, when he
made the charge, knew it was not true, then
do not understand the rules of the Senate,
but if, in the judgment of any Senator, it is
improper TO use that language, withdraw it
and apologize for it."
Mr.. Chandler-"I will not reply to the gen.
tleman from Florida in unparliamentary Ian
guage. l have stated in the resolution now
before the Senate. which am willing to
have referred to the committee on privileges
and elections, what the conduct of the Sena-
tor from Florida has been. 1 have recited
the words he used and the alterations he
made in an official report. The facts are
stated in the preamble. Those facts are true.
The complaint l made was that the Sena-
tor had inserted in his remarks words he
had not uttered. did not COM
plain in the resolution of the language
he did utter as being unparliamentary.
When that question goes to the committee
with the resolution, l hope the committee
will take occasion to inform the Senator
and the country whether the Language. used
by the Senator was parliamentary and what
language may be used by Senators, in rela-
tion to each other, in attack, or defence.
Mr.. Hawley-"I suppose the matter should
go promptly to the committee on privileges
and elections. 1t is hardly proper t., contin-
ue the discussion Of it, but the remarks made
a few minutes ago by the Senator from Flor
ida, tempt me to say that however much he
may repr0ach the Senator from New Hamp-
shire, for not having responded to his bitter
and personal onslaught l. with most of the
Senators on this side, would have protested
in language as indignant
Mr.. Sherman's motion to refer the resolu-
tion to the committee on privileges and elec-
ti0ns was agreed to, and 1t was ordered that
the proceedings of the Senate on the day in
question shall not be stereotyped until fur
ther orders.
At O'Clock the Blair educational bill was
taken up as unfinished business, and Mr..
Coke addressed the Senate in opposition.
He opposed 1t, he said, because it clearly
violated the constitution and because, as a
measure of policy, it was most unwise and
mischieyous. 1t had constantly declined in
public favor, until now the indications
gave good ground to hope for its defeat. He
declared if the bill should become law and
should be accepted by three fourths, or even
highest possible affirmation, and having the
moral force and effect of an amendment to
the constitution, that the constitution, as it
now stood, conferred upon Congress power
and jurisdiction to take charge of and con-
troll not only education and schools in the
states, but all other subjects which, like
these, had always heretofore been exclusive
ly within state Jurisdiction and cognizance.
There had been no subject more fully rec0g-
nized as within the exclusive jurisdiction Of
the states than their common schools. II
that subject was to be taken charge Of hd,IM ana
temporarily or permanently BY
The national government, there was no
subject of state jurisdiction which would not
be brought under the power OF Congress.
1t would be the longest start toward central
lied paternalism yet taken In American MS.
tory. The passing of the bill would be q
slanderous imputation on every state, and
would be the first and irreyocable step in the
transfer of the jurisdiction of the common
schools from the states to the national gov
ernment. He who would urge upon Con-
gress measure fraught with such cOnse-
quences, involving such radical departure
from all traditions and policy of the govern
ment, should at least be able to show some
great and overmastering necessity for a
change. but none such had been shown: Mr.:
the South were being enlarged every day,
and the ability of the people TO maintain
scaools was constantly and rapidly increas-
ing Ii the southern people were allowed
TO proceed In the matter in their own way,
tney would, In few years, have as good a
in any agricultural section of the country,
Senator Stanford advocated the bill