Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-10-18
VERY PLAIN WORDS.
Congressman BOutelle's Speech on the
Election Repeal Bill.

Congressman BOutelle's Speech on the
Election Repeal Bill.
During discussion of the bill to re.
peal the Federal election bill he said:
Every Democratic speech, said he,
"has demonstrated that this is to be q
blow at the fundamental principles un-
derlying this Government. l thought
the new generation would join hands
with US in building up common coun,
try. For ten days the sheeted ghosts of
the confederacy have fitted about these
halls and gibbered of defeated con.
spiracy. The Vice President of the
United States has been accused for un-
due sympathy with your struggle to
capsize the Government, yet you do not
complain. Not a union soldier sits
about the cabinet table. Republican
applause.
Boutelle then went on to take up the
records of the Democratic chairman of
the Senate committees beginning with
the president pro tenn. Harris show
ing that, almost without exception,
they had served in the confederate
army. He reviewed the committees in
the House from the. speaker down to the
committee on pensions, showing how
they stood where denominated by ex-
confederates. Wilson, he said, had sue
ceeded Springer from the loyal States,
as chairman Of the ways and means
committee, and Holman had been de
posed by triumphant Democracy with
a confederate. II declare here, now,
on my own responsibility, as a repre-
sentative, that no more mischievous
doctrines, no more deadly blow at our
institutions, at the essence of the ma
tionality of our country can be dealt by
the denial of the right of this imperial
Government to cross the borders of a
sovereign State" [Republican sp-
plause. IF such doctrines are to pre-
vail then the cause for which and
two million Of my northern country
men fought when the rebellion was
put down, was not victorious. Re-
newed applause.
II want you to understand, ~ he con-
tinued. that when you rely on the
dough faces of Massachusetts, and the
ballot box suffers of Tammany hall,
you ire leaning on a broken reed, -
Applause.
Boutelle (of Maine after delivering a
glowing apostrophe to New England, in
which he made some sarcastic allusions
to DIR. Everett, of Massachusetts,, was
about to read an extract from Jas. Rus.
sci Lowell, which he said described the
dough faces of 1851 and enabled him to
throw upon the screen of the house a
photograph of the dough face of 1898.
The House was listening eagerly.
Suddenly Mr.. Springer took exception
against applying the epithet dough
face" to member of the House.
ut is an epithet," returned Boutelle
definitely, (which can be applied with
equal force as well as to the gentleman
from Massachusetts, as to the gentleman
from Illinois.
The House held its breath. Springer
face grew white with rage.
do understand you that you ap
piled that epithet to me" he shouted
"You understand it as well as you
are capable of understanding any
thing" retorted Boutelle.
II want you to know, sir" replied
Mr.. Springer, striding toward his adver
sary with fire in his eye, that you dart
not apply such an epithet to me-"
"Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from
Illinois can't be impertinent to me un
der the guise of a point of order" re
turned Mr.. Boutelle, "but I withdraw
the epithet," he continued, moving hi
arms magnanimously in Mr.. Springer
direction, 'in order that may 60 on
with my speech. I deny however, tina,
it was unparliamentary. The attempt
to make it so is as silly as was the at
tempt in the last Congress to take ex
ception to the word ''mugwamp."