Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-19
Bad Blood Between Massa-
chusetts Statesmen
Mr.. Williams Airs His Griey.
ance Before the House.
Walker Accused of Printing Scare
Heads in the Record.
Tho Vote on the Confirmation of Judge
Woods - Congressman McKenna
Resigns from the House.
Washington Notes.

Associated Press Dispatches
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-"Hot shot
for the Mugwumps," "Hoar and Will
liams shown np," "Williams's report
on silver coinage riddled." These were
some of the words that Williams OF
Massachusetts, objected to in the house
today and asked to have stricken from
the record, as part of the speech of
Walker of Massachusetts,, which had
not been delivered by that gentleman
in the house. Williams characterized
the language as ungentlemanly, un-
manly, supplementary and offensive
in the extreme. He considered the at
tack upon the Mugwumps a per-
sonal attack, for he had been one. In
the campaign OF 1884, his colleague ad
been one of the great Mugwumps of the
day, but now he hated the Mugwumps
worse than the devil. After the gentle
man from Massachusetts had said he
would print the remainder of his re-
marks, there appeared unloading in
serted by himself containing the words
quoted above. He (Williams) wanted
to know whether the rules permitted
congressman to edit his speeches in the
Record, or have the results, as he saw
them in his own mind, blazoned to the
world. It was the business of the COM
mittee on printing to see that such mat
ter was not injected by gentlemen who
had printed speeches they never ut
tered.
Walker said the headlines to which
the gentleman objected had been print
ed by mistake.
Richardson, of the committee on
printing, said it was not in the power of
the committee to prevent gentlemen
from making head lines and captions to
various phrases of speeches.
Williams, quoting further from Walk
er's speech, objected to the declaration
that the Mugwumps in the United
States congress held their seats 'by
gross deception and moral frauds"
These were at best unmanly words, but
coming here under color of having been
spoken, they were more serious.
Loud of California interrupted Will
Jams to ask if the letter considered an
attack on Mugwumps a personal attack.
Williams-Yes | do, because l have
been one.
Continuing, Williams said in 1854 he
had done himself the honor of breaking
away from the Republican party. Dem
ocratic applause.]
In that campaign one OF the most
difficult tasks the executive committee
had was to curb the ardor and zeal OF
Walker, who now made this attack
upon his former associates. He COM
mended to Walker the Sermon on the
Mount. to which Walker had referred
in his speech: "Woe unto you, Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye com.
pass the sea and the land to make one
proselyte; and when he is made, ye
make him twofold more the child of
hell than yourselves" [Great Laugh
ter.l
Walker said it was evident that Mr..
Williams had arisen for the purpose OF
exhibiting himself. The idea of r. aiding
the Bible to Democratic house
ILaughter.l And the gentleman had to
read it: he couldn't repeat it. The
headlines to the speech to which the
gentleman alluded were not written in
his manuscript, and he was surprised
when he saw them in the Record. His
clerk had put the headlines on one copy
of his speech. By an accident which is
liable to happen to anyone, that copy
had been sent to the printing Office.
Walker urged that the headlines be
taken out.
The matter was referred to the COM
mittee on printing for investigation, and
the house then took recess until even
ing.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the senate, today, memorials in
favor of unlimited coinage of silver
were presented by Wolcott, from silver
leagues and silver clubs of Colorado,
and one against it by Cockrell from citi-
zens of Missouri.
Dawes gave notice that he would call
up the Indian appropriation bill, Mon
day.
Casey, from the committee on agri-
culture reported bill to establish a
uniform standard OF measure for W Wheat,
corn, oats, barley and rye. Calendar.
The following bills were made special
orders for next week: Making an ap-
preparation for the improvement of the
Columbia river; for the construction of
a boat railway at the Dalles, Cello falls
and the Ten Mile rapids in the Colum-
bia river, and the improvement of the
Three Mile rapids. The private calen-
dar was then taken up.
At 2 p. m. the senate went into exec
ntive session.
William d. Gilbert of Oregon was
confirmed as United States Judge for the
ninth judicial circuit.
After brief executive session the
senate adjourned until Monday.
THE WOODS CONFIRMATION.
The senate in executive session today
decided that the testimony taken by
the judiciary committee in the course OF
the investigation of the charges against
Judge Woods of Indiana should be
made public, as we'll as the vote by
which the nomination was confirmed.
The vote was:
Yeas-Allen, Allison, Chandler, Davis,
Dawes, Dixon, Dolph. Gallinger, Hale,
Hansborough, Hawley, Higgins, His
cock, Hoar, Mcmillan, Manderson, Nit
chell. Paddock, Proctor, Sanders, Saw
yer, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stock
bridge-25.
.Nays-Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blod-
gett, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel,
Faulkner, George, Gibson, Harris, Jones
lArk.), Kyle, Morgan, Palmer, Pasco,
PETER, Pugh, Ransom, Turpie, Villas,
Voorhees,, Waltham-24.
The pairs were: Aldrich and Hill,
Cameron and Butler, Carey and Irby,
Nooay opd Vact Cullom and Grav Du-