The Portland daily press., 1893-10-10

1 saddle-Other Washington News.
Washington, October 9.-Today's s
| chapter in the debate in the House on
| the Federal election laws was more inter
esting than the discussion has been here
| tofo9e. Mr.. Fitch, Democratic member
| from New York, made savage attack on
Mr.. Davenport and said that when the
latter presented to the leaders of the
Republican party in Congress plan by
which he proposed to reduce, or perhaps
wipe out, the Democratic majority i'll
the city and state of New York, and to
bring out in the South Republican vote
W hi ch should carry many Democratic
states into the Republican party, his
proposal was hailed with delight and the
scheme was framed into legislation. For
twenty years, the Republican party,
when it had power at Albany, inflicted
| every injury which could be conceived
upon the Democratic metropolis. The
| result was that thousands OF men OF in
| telligence, influential in the Repub blican
| party, resented these attacks and Joined
| the Democracy in its fight for home rule
| and fair play for their own town. Mr..
Fitch submitted that the question of the
consuitutionality of these laws was not
before the House. He hoped to vote in
this Congress to repeal many laws about
the constitutionality of which there was
no question.
Mr.. Tucker, in referring to some allu-
sions made to him by Mr.. Boutelle,
congratulated the country that these
| laws must go, some from one cause and
some from another.
Mr.. Boutelle, Rep, Of Maine, opposed
| the bill. He said he had been amazed
at the freedom with which gentlemen
had arisen here and breathed forth the
dogma of state rights. Statements had
been made which gentlemen would not
have dared to give utterance to a few
years ago A stranger in the galleries
might have thought that he saw the
shivering ghost:of The Confederacy fitting
up and down the aisles and in and out
the doors and gibbering the shibboleths
of the defeated conspiracy. Mr.. Boutelle
then criticized the Democratic party
for putting ex-Confederates in charge of
important offices of the government, in
the executive, judicial and legislative
branches. He quoted from the Congress
ional directory to show that nearly every
| important committee Of the House was
presided over by gentleman who, in his
autobiography, took pride in giving his
| record in the Confederate army. Was it
not pitiful, he said, sarcastically, in
view of these facts, to see how the sons
of the Confederacy had been ostracized
and prescribed. He then went on TO
ridicule DIR. Everett of Massachusetts,, and
said that James Russell Lowell, in de-
scribing the doughface of 1860, enabled
him to describe the doughface of 1888.
He was about to read some verses from
Lowell, when he was interrupted by Mr..
Springer, who called him to order for un-
parliamentary language.
Mr. a a
up to the standard of the gentleman from
Illinois.
Mr.. Springer retorted that he wanted
the gentleman on this floor to use parlia-
mentary language
Mr. Boutelle replied that if the gentle
man wanted him to amend his remarks
he would do SO by including the dough-
faces of Massachusetts and Illinois.
DO understand you to apply that
word to me:n queried Mr.. Springer,
rather sayagely.
.:"I don't know what the gentleman
understands and nobody else ever did,"
was Mr.. Boutelle's retort.
Mr.. Springer-"I called the gentleman
to order for language that was not par
liamentary.n
...Mr. Boutelle-" The gentleman cannot be
impertinentt to me by calling me to Or
der. | Withdraw the word doughface.
Mr.. Boutelle said, however, that he
the record Of the gentleman from Illinois,
for that gentleman to interrupt him.
Mr.. Springer said that he had never
used unparliamentary language, and the
language of the gentleman had been un-
parliamentary.
Mr.. Boutelle denied that it was unpar-
liamentary. The same silly attempt, he
said, had been made in the last Congress
to rule out as supplementary the word
"Mugwump," but the House had de-
clined to decide; but as he wished to con-
clude, he withdrew the word dough
face" He then quoted several verses of
Lowell in an impressive manner and took
his seat amid Republican applause.
Mr.. Everett inquired whether Lowell
had written those lines in describing the
politician of 1860.
Mr.. Boutelle left it to the gentleman to
apply the lines to himself if he saw
proper.
Mr.. Everett merely wished to state that
these lines had been written during the
Mexican war. daughter and applause
Mr.. Boutelle replied that he was aware
of that fact (Incredulous laughter on
the Democratic side
The House then adjourned.
VOORHEES, MAKES A SPEECH,