Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-03
VOORHEES, AROUSED.
RADICAL PUBLICATION PRONOUNCED
GROSSLY LiBEllOUS.
4 Few Feeling Remarks from the Tall
Sycamore OF the Wabash, and "Con-
nrmation Strong" &c.
(By telegraph to the Dispasch.l

tBy telegraph to the Dispatch.l
WARRINGTON. February Ain the Senate
to-day Mr.. Voorhees,. rising to question
of personal privilege, sent to the Clerks
desk and had read Washington dis
patch to the Philadelphia Press, with the
heading. The Senate Wasting Time in
Obedience TO Senatorial Courtesy-Mr.
Voorhees, Fails to Sustain His Charges-His
Scheme to Defeat Judge Woods's Nomina-
tion Not Supported by the Republicans He
Had Counted Upon." The dispatch went On
to state that the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee had wasted another session out
OK senatorial courtesy to Senator voor-
bees; that the attempt OF Senator Noor-
hees to form coalition with the Repubh-
cans was a fat failure; that some of the
Republicans, like Quay. Cameron. and hlg-
gins, were opposed to the nomination OF
George 81. Dallas. of Pennsylvania, and
that Mr.. Voorhees, had proposed that II
these disgruntled Republicans would in-
duce enough of their party TO aid the Dem
ocrats III defeating Judge Woods's nomina-.
ton, the Democrats would reclprocate and
aid in defeating Dallas" The dispatch
ends with the statement that that plan
would not work, aud that 1t was now rea-
sonably certain that all the nominations
would be confirmed next Monday without
a dissenting vote among the Republicans.
FEELING REMARKS.
Mr.. Voorhees, remarked that as TO the
subject of senatorial courtesy" he had
nothing to say. and nothing need be SAID.
The senatorial courtesy sneered at by
blackguards and scoundrelly people out
side was simply the observance OF the de-
cencies of life which obtained among gen.
tlemen. Some of 1t had been extend
ed to him by the judiciary Committee,
for which he made his profound &c
Acknowledgements, but the delay was
not more than week or ten days
at the outside. He had nothing TO say
about the case of Judge Woods. 1t was
still under Investigation, and witnesses
had vet TO be examined. 1t passed his un-
derstanding how " this man " (the cores
pondent) knew what the decision OF the
committee would be. His principal object,
however, IN having the article readrelated
TO the last paragraph. where the statement
was made explicitly and unqualihedly tnat
he had made proposition 10 certain sena-
tors that, for their assistance in the defeat
of Judge Woods's confirmation, ne
would favor movement on the
Democratic side of the chamber TO de
feat Judge Dallas of Philadel-
phia. A grosser lie than that 1t would be
hardly possible for his satanic majesty to
conceive. Such wish, or thought, or
suggestion had never entered his mind or
emanated from his lips. On the contrary,
bad as he thought the appointment OF
Judge Woods was, improper and unit as
he conceived and knew that Judge to be
for a judicial position, he would feel HIM
self dishonOred and disgraced beyond re-
demption If he recelved-let alone made
q suggestion TO defeat an honest and CON-
petent an like Judge Dallas for the sake
of getting clear of the appointment OF
man like Woods.
THE PUBLICATION OUTRAGEOUS.
Mr. Voorhees, called the attention of the
Committee on Rules to the publication as
one of the most outrageous acts. lie
would offer no resolution on the sub
ject because it was personal TO hlmselt
but it created question IN every mind
how long and how far the Senate would
tolerate such business. They had seen
men put in prison yesterday Tor ii6elling
member of the Senate, and If the same
rules were put in operation against a man
who could pen thing of that kind and
publish il in such widely y-clrculated pa
per as the Philadelphia Press it would be
better for public morality and better for
the decency and honor of the country.
He simply wanted to brand that miserable
cOncOctlOn OF DISHONEST nehIt huu brain
as he had done.
Mr.. Cameron said that so far as his
name was connected with the subject the
statement was lie from beginning to end.
Senator Voorhees, had never spoken to
him on the subject of the confirmation OF
Judge Woods or Judge Dallas.
CONFIRMATION PROM QUAY.
Mr.. Quay confirmed the statement of his
colleague as to the absolute falsehood Of
the charges made in the dispatch. 1t was
utterly false and without foundation. He
had never heard such a suggestion from
the Senator from Indiana; and the fact
was that ne Quay had always been in fa-
yor of the confirmation of Judge Dallas.
Mr. Higgins declared for his part that
there was no truth in the dispatch and no
justification for its publication.
bIr. Wilson. O member of the Judiciary
COMMITTEES, stated that that committee in
the treatment of the Woods case had not
departed from its usual conservative
course, and would not depart from it. The
case would be treated as it should be and a
report would be made in due time without
any previous disclosure of what it was to
be. Any reflection on the committee as 10
its divulging any secret In the case was
wholly without foundation.
Nothing being said or done on the sub
ject the Senate passed to the consideration
of the calendar.