Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-08
ROCK ISLAND. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892.
LlBELED FUNSTON.
he Kansas MemberDenounces
a Voice Allegation.
CHARGED WITH TAKIrG A SMILE

Ihe Statesman from the Cyclone District
Wakes Wroth at the Correspondent
and Calls Him Bad Names-some Law
makers Who Owned Up-Passage of the
Free Wool Biil-Raum Gives the Enloe
Committee the Result of Lineweaver's
Labors - Lurid Pictures of a Sunday
Worlds Fair.
WASHINGTON, April S-After the free
wool bill! had been passed by the house
yesterday, Funston of Kansas rose to a
question of personal privilege and sent to
the clerks desk an article from The
Voice of April l, Prohibition newspaper
published in New York, containing the
pames Of several senators and representa-
tlves who had been seen i'll the senate and
house restaurants drinking Intoxicating
liquors. Tue reading of the article and
the names of The guilty parties created
considerable amusement on the floor
Funston said that the publication, so far
as he was concerned, was utterly without
foundation. He denounced the article as
malicious lie, as to himself personally
He also produced and had read a note
from the proprietor of the house restau-
rant, MIR. L. j. Murrey, stating that Funs-
ton had not, to his knowledge, ever taken
an Intoxicating drink in the house.
Cummings Took Tea" With Edmunds
Cummings said that he had no memory
OF the circumstances mentioned in the
article. Laughterl He had been intro
duced to the decoction called cold tean by
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont. TRenew-
ed laughterl DUNCAN of Ohio suggested
that 900 copies of the article be printed
for circulation in Funston's district. Scott
OF Illinois said that, as to himself, the
article was a malicious, unmitigated lie.
Fellows of New York pleaded guilty-as
did Fitch Of New York. McMillin denied
the Impeachment. The article created
much excitement, and the house made
more Importance of it than it vas entitled
to, but Funston was determined to be
vindicated
The Kansas Man Uses Epithets.
Burrows moved to exclude the article
from the Record. This motion Funston
opposed, and after several attempts to fill
buster the motion was agreed to-l53 to Is.
Funston then, second time, rose to a
question Of privilege, and said that he
would not have opposed the motion had he
been allowed few moments for an ex-
PLANTATION. The motion OF Burrows now
left him suspended in the air. He desired
to know whether members had no rights
which correspondents were bound to re-
spect. The party who wrote this article
was low-down, dirty skunk, McMillin
objected to such language, and said that
the Record could not be made a sewer
through which the member from Kansas
could carry his vituperation Of others.
The Gallery Kisses Its Disspproval.
Funston said that he had been "chucked
into the sewer" and it was in his own de-
fense thas he spoke. He would make his
own speech without aid from the gentle
man from Tennessee. He had always
been treated with respect by newspaper
men, and, as class, they were honorable
men. 1t was due TO the corps of corre-
spondents that this particular correspond
ent be exposed. Lewis of Mississippi asked
Funston if he did not know that the au-
thor of the article was a lady. Funston
replied that it made no difference to him
whether the person was lady or a street.
walker. Kisses in the galleries. The
correspondent, however, was not lady.
He knew his name and he ought to be
kicked out of the press gallery. [Contan-
ued hissing.l The matter was then
dropped.