The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-19
DEVOTED 10 dIUCWUMPS
Two Of Them, Both From Massachu-
setts, Occupy the Day in
Congress.
One Objects to tho Way tho Others
Undelivered Speech Was
Edited.
The Latter Explains That His Zea,ou.
Clerk Was Guilty of the Onenss-
Bible Quoted.

WARRINGTON, Maroh 1S.-"Hot shot for
muRwumps; Hoar and Williams shown M:
Williams' report ON silver coinage riddled .
These were aome Of the words that Viii
liams Mass objected to in tho house to-
day, ana asked TO have them stricken from
the record a. part Of the speech Of Walker
x Mass.) which had not been delivered by
that gentleman in the house. Williams
cnaracterized the language as ungsnts-
manly. unmnnly, unparliamentary and Of
1enslvs IN the extreme. He considered the
attack upon mugwumps a personal attack
for he had been one. In the camp.ion Of
1854 his colleague had been one of the
Rreat mugwumps Of the day. but now he
nased mngwumps worse than the devil.
A1ter the gentleman from Massachusetts
nad said he would print the remainder of
ms remarks, there appeared sub
deadlnR inserted by himself, con-
tanning the words quoted above.
He (Williams) wanted to know whether the
rules permitted congressman to edit his
speeches IN the record, or have results as he
saw them in his own mind blazoned to the
world. 1t was the business of the commit
zee on printing to see that such matter was
not injected Nv gentlemen who printed
speeches they never utterod. Walker said
tne headlines to which the gentleman OBJ
Jeoted had been printed by mistake.
Richardson, of the committee on printing,
said it was not in the power of the commit
tee TO prevent gentlemen from making
headlines and captions to various phrases
OF speeches. Williams, quoting further
from Walkers speech. objected to the dec-
laration that the muRwumps in the United
States conRresS held their seats "by gross
deception and moral fraud.' These were
at best unmanly words, but, coming here
under the cover OF having been spoken,
they were serious.
Loud (Col. interrupted Williams to ask
if the latter considered the attack upon
a personal attack.
I, Wllllians-"'Yss, l do. because I have
been one''
Continuing. Williams said that in 1884
he had done himself the honor of breaking
away from the republican party. Demo-
cratic applaase In that campaign one of
the most difficult tasks the executive
committee bad was to curb tho ardor ana
2eai of NalIer, WHO now made this attack
upon y m.1 mis- former associates He commended
to Walker the Sermon on the Mount, to
which , Walker had referred i'll his speech:
Woe unto you, scrihes and pharisses
bypocrites, for ye compass sea and land to
make one proselyte, amt when hs is made
70 make him two fold more the child Of
hell than yourselves'' Great lauphtsrl,
Walker said it was evident that MIR. Will |
!iams had arisen for the purpose of exhibit
ing himself. The idea of reading the Bible
to democratic house! [LaugAter. And |
the gentleman had to read-he couldn't re-
peat it! The headlines to the speech to
which he alluded were not written in his
and he was surprised when he
saw them in the record. His clerk had put
.hs headlines on one copy of the speech. |
By an accident which was liable to happen
70 any one, that copy had been sent to the
printing office. Walker urged that the
inally referred to the committee on print
ng for investigation.