Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-19
The Outrage on the Hon. Wilkinson
Call.

One of the most pathetic personal
explanations on record occupied the
attention of the United States Senate
on Friday. Owing to the extent to
which popular interest has been con-
centrated upon the strikes and the riots,
Senator Calls grievance and his vindi-
cation from an odious charge are mat
ters not yet known to all.
The Washington correspondent of a
Florida newspaper wrote or telegraph
ed to that state on June 81 the follow
ing allegations concerning Senator
Calls shoes, stockings, and legs during
the recent tariff debate:
His costume az present is very stun
ming and costly, among the articles of
apparel he seems to delight in being a
pair of glaring yellow shoes. These
he wore in the Senate to-day. He
came creaking into the chamber about
noon. seated himself calmly at his desk.
and with easy Lonchalance removed
his shoes, and elevated his unsightly
feet to the the desk in
ront of him.
This action caused a shiver of dis
gust to run through the entire assem-
blage and through the galleries. 1t
was an act OF vulgarity unprecedented
in any body of gentlemen, and was a
direct insult to the state that sent him
to the Senate.
presently Senator Call swung round
in his chair and elevated his feet to the
desk in the rear of his OVID. This desk
was occupied at the time by the books
and papers of Senator Kyle of South
Dakota, who was delivering speech
upon the income tax. Mr.. Kyle no.
ticed the ungentlenanly and coarse
action on the part Of Senator Call, and
left his own desk and
walked to the centre aisle, where he
continued. A number of the Senators
in Calls vicinity also moved away.
several of them going over to the other
side of the chamber to avoid the un-
pleasant notoriety of the Senator from
Florida.
Yellow and blue make a trying COM
bination. although some aesthetics
manage to produce satisfactory results
by using them in juxtaposition. Sen
ator Call. however, resents with proper
spirit the imputation cast by this hired
scribbler upon his shoes, his socks, and
legs. He arose IN the Senate Friday
morning, and, waving aside Senator
Carey of Wyoming, who wanted to get
in few words in favor of the bill to
authorize the entry of land for reser-
voir purposes, proceeded to arraign
and expose his infamous defamer in
this crushing fashion:
..Mr. President, it has become the
custom for newspaper col respondents
to falsify the records and to SANDER
the character of the members of this
body, and We permit the press associa-
tions to libel falsely and UNANIMOUSLY
the men who constitute this body.
They have no hesitation in imputing
indecency. indecoruuI, dishonesty, and
corruption to its individual members.
skCu W tllC COuH-
try, without moral qualities. the mere
semblauce of men. without recognition
anywhere, are permitted to enter into
the galleries here and through the as
sociated press of the country to dis
seminate from one end to the other
their Infamous, cowardly, libellous.
and false attacks upon the members of
this hody II has bacome a GREAT evil
The interests of the republic. the inter-
ests of religion, of decency, of man
hood, and of character demand that
this should be stopped, and that the
criminals who are guilty of it should
be consigned to the dens of infamy
and punishment where such men pro-
perly belong.
..Mr. President. / wish to bring to
the notice of the Senate libellous