The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-19
City Authorities Pushing New Bill for
Paving the Street-Car Tracks.
Measure for Municipal 0wnership-Tax Re-
forms Not to Be Carried 0ut-No
ippOrtiOnment Bill.
CULLoP RoAsTs DUNN.
Member from Knox Says Some Very Poir
Things In the House.

Things the
Partly out of the split over the patron
age bill, partly out of the Governors re-
fusal to appoint J. P. Dunn. at present ed
Iting the Sentinel. partly out OF the Jour-
nails scoop" on the appropriation bill. and
partly out OF the old Gray Cleveland fight
Of last spring has developed furious row
between the Democratic organ and the
Democratic leaders in the House. Messrs
Cullop and Hench, which, If not quite as
important as the split between the Gov
ernor and the majority, is fully as interest
ing and amusing TO q man up tree.
On Saturday, week ago, the Journal
made public the fact that Mr.. Dunn was
having not q little to do with the opposi-
ton to the patronage blll and explained
the reason In the fact that Governor Mat
thews had declined to appoint him tax
commissioner to succeed Mr.. Gwin. Up
to this time the Sentinel had been advo-
eating returning the appointing power to
the Governor, but now it had begun to ex-
press doubts The next day it came out
squarely in opposition to the Governor.
On the following Monday night the ways
and means committee made it's final draft
of the appropriation bill. and the next
morning the Journal published it, all but
one or two items. The Sentinel did not
get it. and rather suspected that the Jour-
nal had gotten 1t from either Cullop or
Hench, both of whom are on the ways and
means committee, and both of whom
are leaders on the Governors side of the
patronage fight These men were little
more surprised than ybOdy else when
the Journal published the bill. but that 10
Gneither here nor there. The next morning
the Sentinel contained a vicious roast. on
Cullop aud Hench, and no issue since has
been complete without more cutting and
mean abuse Of them than could possibly
emanate from Republican newspaper.
On Friday Mr.. Dunn printed an editorial
impugning Cullop's motives In various
items OF the appropriation bill. and yester-
day, in addition TO the usual lengthy abuse,
the paper contained little photographic
lnnuendo about statesmen and electric
hight. This caught Mr.. Cullop's eye before
The session yesterday and aroused his Ire. de
looked mp few back mum ers OF the or
gan and when he struck the editorial OF
Friday he was full of wrath. An honest
man doesn't like that sort of thing and.
though Cullop is about as mean partisan
Democrat on the stump as one oan find
District Attorney Chambers and other
prominent Republicans from his baliiwlck
testify to the fact that he Is honest and o
man of integrity.
DENoUNCING MR.. DUNN.
Shortly after the session opened be arose
TO q question of personal privilege and
called attention to the editorial in Fridays
Sentinel headed HE Shows HIS Han d.
IL want to denounce this" said be. 'as q
tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end,
the malicious vaporinRs of q man disap-
pointed in seeking office at the hands of
the Governor
Mr.. Alder here tried to call him
down DOW nO upon point OF or Tn
lop then read little way and commented
upon the matter. denouncing this state
ment and that as false. as an exhibition of
the spleen of disappointed applicant for
office He pointed out various illusions TO
parts of the appropriation bill and de-
clared that some of the raises in salary
commented on which he specified were not
in the bill as he drafted it, but adopted by
the committee afterward. Two years
ago." he cried, this same individual de-
nouDced the members of the Legislature as
apes because they would not agree with his
ideas of q fee and salary bill, and now
seeks to insult the agricultural element of
the State. whom he then called 'hayseedS,'
by attacking the man elected Governor as
their representative"
Again Mr.. Alder insisted upon his point of
order that Mr.. CuIlop should send the
article In question To the Speakers desk
and have IL read. Mr.. Lindemuth declared
this a frivolous point and the Speaker held
that Mr. CullOp was In order.
II desire TO show this House. Mr.. Speak.
CT" resumed Mr.. Cullop, that this article
emanates from an individual who, stung
by his failure TO get another office where he
may live at the public expense, turns to
sssassinate the characters of those W no hap
pen to be the friends of the Governor.
There is not a murderer in all this land 40
mean and contempt Die this man who
assasslnates character under the filmsy
guise of giving the public lnfor-
nation. Why if you should look in that
mans facey would either recognize
scoundrel or confess that almighty God
had perpetrated libel! Why this very
paper has advocated q reduction of public
expenditures. and now, because the appro-
priatiOn bill does this it Impugns my mo-
tives Another item In tins. 1t says | out
OF the Superintendent of Public lnstruc-
ton. want to say that the emoluments
of that office are ample. Again this thing
says cut the library fund for books 81, 900.
mittee knowsit. As first drafted the bill
gave $500 for this purpose and at the sug-
.gestion of the member from MarioL 1t was
cut by the committee to $1,000, instead of
$500. as il had been before the session OF
1891.
MEAN INSINUATIoNS.
Here is a nasty insinuation that q con-
tingent fee got the item of SIS, goo for VIM
cennes University in this bill. 1 have
lived in VIncennes for nearly forty years.
and this Is the first time my honesty was
ever impugned. There is the same refiec-
tion on a man who has been twice elected
Speaker OF this house. i assert again
that the author of this editorial
Is an Assassination of character,
man who cannot get an ap-
pointment at the hands of the Governor
and. because he cannot. Is around assas-
sinating the characters of men and writing
members of the Legislature down. de-
nounce the insinuation In reference To my
interest in the appropriation for the Vim
cennes University not only as falsehood.
but n black lie."
Fippen objected that the member from
Knox was discussing the appropriation bill.
and Farlow declared he had no right to in
fiict on the House a stump speech under
cover of personal privilege. The Spe aker
overruled them. and Mr. Cullop continued:
81 ask every member of the ways and
means committee TO bear witness TO all
that have said: and yet this individual Is
TO lmpugn the motives of a member of that
committee. One other thing: i see IN the
slme paper this morning an insinuation
tbout electric light. 1 am q stakeholder in
an electric-light company in q little city of
ten thousand people. but il Is not seeking
any contract with the State. and the man
who insinuates otherwise insinuates .
falsehood 90 black as hell itself. / am,
also. a stakeholder in an insurance compa-
ny. and the officers told me that the bill IN
troduced here would kill the com pany. but
/ am here a reDresant the naoDle not I'M