The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-26
CALL TAKES WATER.
HE STARTS IN BRAVE As ALI.
ON but TAMI:S DOWN.

ON but TAMES DOWN.
The SENATE scores Him For HI,
Novel Methods in Debate-Th'
House Back to Routine Work Oi
the Oklahoma Bill.
WAsHINGToN. February 25.-SENATE
The resolution offered yesterday b,
Mr., Chandler ccnsuring Mr.. Call for in
tcrpolating in the official report of tn
proceedings of the senate q paragraph
that had not been spoken, and that wa
nnparliaincntary and personally often
sivc, was taken up. Mr.. Sherman movct
its reference to the committee on privi
lcgcs and elections.
sonal privilege, that the Washington
with headlines, Calls bitter remarks
lie slipped a paragraph into the Con
gressional Record" That, Mr.. Cal
said. was a falsehood. 1t conveyed {
false impression. He had slipped into
the Congressional Record nothing tina,
had not been. in the substance, uttered
on the floor of the senate. That para
graph. with the exception of q few
words, had been literally uttered OH til.
floor, He gave notice to the senator
from New Hampshire who had ar
raigned him by n resolution that he
Call, would arraign him, Chandler, be
fore the senate and would demand in,
vcstigation by II committee for making
an accusation that was untrue.
The remarks Of the senator proved
that he knew that the accusation was
not true. He. Call, would convict the
senator OH evidence OF his own that
would convict him before jury of re.
spectacle New Hampshire republicans
that he did hear and know that he,
Call. had uttered on the floor OF the sen.
ate substantially the whole of the charge
contained in the paragraph, and, with a
very few exceptions. every word con.
tanned in it. lie gave notice to that SEN
ator that lie. Call, would not submit
tamcly to the imputation put upon him.
lie would not ask the Ccns,irc by the
senate of the senator from New Hamp-
shire, but he would leave him to the Just
Judgment Of public opinion throughout
the country for having heard his, Calls,
remarks and having had neither the
courage nor the manhood to resent
them.
MIR. Sherman declared that the rules of
the senate had Just been violated by the
senator from Florida in as gross a man
ncr as he had ever witnessed. lie had
not chosen to interrupt the senator, hut
the Record would show what he had
said. and he hoped the committee would
examine il. When the senate of the
I
that the word coward" could be applied
to n senator, and that senator could be
with stating n thing falsely, it
seemed to him that the senate was re-
ccding from the dignity which had dis
il from the foundation of the
lie hoped that the senator
from Florida would read over the report
Of what he had said and not have pub
lishcd in the Record the language which
in any general assembly in the world
would be regarded MS disordcrly and inn
proper.
Mr. Call-lf have violated any rule Of
the senate by any observations which |
have made to-day, or formerly, with
draw them, and apologize to the senate.
Mr.. Chandlcr-li-
Mr.. CALL did not understand that
was violating any rule. Ii am not at
liberty when a resolution rejecting on me
is offered to state that il is not true, and
that the senator, when l,s made the
charge, knew that il was not true, then
do not understand the rules Of the scn-
ate. But il in the Judgment Of any scna-
tor il is improper to use that language,
withdraw il and apologize for it.
Mr.. Chandler-l will not reply to the
gentleman from Florida this morning in
unparliamcntary language. lhavc stated,
IN a resolution which is now before the
senate, and which am willing to have
referred to the committee on privileges
aud elections. what the conduct of the
senator from Florida has been. ! have
rccitcd the words which he used, and the
which lie made in the official
report. The iacts are stated in the pre-
,mblc. The facts are true. The COM
plant which made was that the scna-
tor had inscr,ed in his remarks words
which he had not uttered. did not
which he did utter rs being unparlia-
When that question goes to
llc committee with the resolution hope
That the committee VIII take OCCASION 10
MORN the senate ana the country
or not TUG language used py tue
senator was parliamentary, ana what
language may be used ny senators IN re-
Iation to each other whether IN attack
or III defence. Inc senator used language
about me when l ana not near lic
wrote language IN inc report accusing
me of all the crimes IN the dccaloguc, and
nc mas now, TINS morning. chatgea me
with being coward for not replying to
That winch did not hear ana to that
winch he afterwards wrote III tue record
report: When the senate mas decided on
what language Is parliamentary TO use,
! Will take occasion TO defend myself
rom aII inputntiohs OF the senator from
Florida.
Mr' Hawley--l suppose thnt tle mat
ter should go promptly TO the committee