St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-19
footed HIS OWN HORN
A Dull Day in the American
Commons Enlivened by a
Personal Tilt.
Objectionable Matter in the
Record Raises the Ire of a
MugWump.
Massachusetts Statesmen in
a Wopdy Tangle Over
Headlines.
Senator Voorhees, Pays His
Respects to the Race OF
InformerS.

WASHINGTON. March 1o.-IIoc6eu-
ings in the house were somewhat enliv-
eued by Mr.. Williams, of Massachusetts,
who, rising to q question OF prIvl-
egp, moved to strike from the record
that portion of the speech delivered by
Mr.: Walker, of Massachusetts,, Tuesday
last, which had not been delivered by
him. He would not complain IN this
matter were not the published utter
ances of personal and insulting nat
ure. The speech which the gentleman
had printed made a gross attack on the
class of men who were denominated
"mugwumps'' on the New England
delegation.
There appeared a subheading inserted
by the gentleman himself, Hot shot for
mugwumps. Hoar and Williams shown
up. Williams report on silver coinage
riddled." [Laughter.] His (WilliamsO
inquiry was proper one, whether rules
permitted congressman to edit his
speeches in the record or have the re-
suits as he saw them in his own mind
blazoned to the world. 1t was the bust
ness of the committee OH printing to
see that such matter was not injected
by gentlemen who printed speeches
they never had uttered.
Mr.. Richardson. of Tennessee, chair
man of the committee Oh printing, SAID
that the committee had no authority
over the subject. Mr.. Walker said that
the headlines to which the gentleman
objected had been printed by mistake.
Mr.. Williams called attention to the
nh
objectionable and Offensive
in the extreme, words that were not ut
tered in the heat of debate. but were
printed without provocation-words ut
tered in printing and not in any other
fashion. The provision of printing in
the record was never intended to give
the power of personal insult. even II
proper under the rules, the exercise OF
that power was not gentlemanly and
not parliamentary.
Mr.. Williams, quoting from Mr..
Walkers speech. objected to that gem
tleman'S declaration that the mug
wumps in the United States had their
seats "by gross deception and moral
fraud" These were at best unmanly
words, but coming here under the color
of having been spoken, they were the
more serious. The gentleman from
Worcester had quoted from the sermon
on the mount. For rockfall and sky
piercing monument of blasphemy, COM
mend him to the words in which that
gentleman compares an attack upon
fellow member to the rebuke of the
savior of men to the scrlbeS and Pharl-
sees.
Mr.. Loud, of California you con-
slider an attack upon the mugWumpS as
a personal attack?
Williams-YeS, do. because [ have
been there. Continuing, Mr.. Williams
said that in 1884 he had done himself
the
Honor Of Breaking Away
from the Republican party. Democratic
applause. In that campaign one OF the
most difficult tasks the executive COM
mittee had was to curb and check the
ardOr and zeal OF the gentleman from
Massachusetts, (Mr. Walker) who now
made this attack upon his former asso-
ciates. Applause. In 1884 there had not
been a greater mugWump than the gen.
tleman from Worcester. And now he
hated the mugWumps worse than he did
the devil. Laughter.
He commended TO the gentleman the
sermon to which he had referred to in
his speech: "Woe unto you, scribeS and
Pharisees, hypocrites, for yea compass
sea and land to make one proSelyte, and
when he is made, We make him twO-f fold
more the child of hell than yourselves"
Loud and long continued laughterl
Nh Walker said that it was evident
to the house that the gentleman from
Massachusetts had arisen fol- the pur-
pose of exhibiting himself. The idea Of
reading the Bible to Democratic
house. TLaughter.l 1t was something
so fresh, so new, and so surprising that
the Democrats had cheered him to the
echo. Laughter. 1t had raised far
more enthusiasm than the gentleman
could inspire by any remarks OF his
own.
Spirit Writing.
The headlines to his speech Ito which
the gentleman had alluded) had not
been written in his manuscript, and he
was surprised when he saw them in the
record. He had not written them.
Mr.. Grain, of Texas-Who writes
your speeches? Laughter MIR. Rich
ardson, of Tennessee, inquired whether
the gentleman meant 10 say that after
his speech passed from his hands the
official reporter inserted the words, or
that they were inserted at the govern
ment printing Office. Continuing. Mr..
Walker said that he had had several
copies of his speeches made, and his
clerk had put the headlines to one of
them. BY an accident, which was liable
TO happen to any one, that copy had
been sent to the printing Office. In re-
Spouse to the gentleman from Texas,
he would say that the gentleman who
wrote his speech was Mr.. Walker, of
Worcester. Laughter. He argued
that the headlines be taken out. The
mittee on printing for investigation.
and the house took a recess, the even
ing session to be for the consideration
of private pension bills.