The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-24
MR.. CALL MISNAMED
THE FLORIDA SENATOR SHOULD
HAVE BEEN CHRIsTENED sGALL."
Rare Example of ..Cheek' by States
man Who Evidently Believes a Pub
lie Trust Is 'Private Snap"


Florida, to-day clinched his claim to the
reputation he has established for absolute
assininity by offering and speaking in de-
Tense of the most absurd resolution offered
in the Senate this session. The resolution
follows:
Resolved That the Sergeant-at farms be
and is hereby directed to have the Senate
prepare for the mails public. documents,
subject to disposal by Senators on their re-
other suitable place in the CAPITOL or at
the Maltby Building for that purpose"
No soneor had the senior Senator from
Florida begun speaking than it was evil
dent that there was bitterness In his speech
and enmity behind his words. He selected
| as his target the Sergeant-at-arms, Col
Richard j. Bright, of Indiana, one of the
best-known and best-liked men connected
with the Senate in any capacity. He ar
ragned Colonel Bright for having about
him lot of employees who had no employ
ment and who were carried on the rolls
simply to afford places for political ap-
pointees. There was no reason, he said,
why these men should not be employed and
there was still less reason why they should
not be used to the advantage of the mem
bers of the Senate. He then made a
fesson that must be pleasing to his con-
stituents in Florida. He confessed that he
has the accumulation of sixteen years is
sues of public documents in his committee
room ard in the document room of the Sen
ate, and wanted the Senate to pay the fold
ing-room clerks for getting these documents
in shape for him so that he distribute
them to his constituents.
The colossal character of this undertaking
does not seem to have entered into his cal
cuations at ALL and he asked of the Senate
that this work be done for him at govern
- Ia
ance with which he asks for the appoint
ment of junketing committee OF which he
wants the Craftsmanship. For sixteen years.
according to his own confession, he has
been detrauding his constituents in Florida
by Withholding these documents for they
are intended Tor the people of the country
and not for any one Senator. The valuable
publications Of the Agricultural Depart
of the government that would have been of
inestimabie value TO the people of Florida
have been hidden away in the document
room of the Senate or in his own commit
| tee room, or what is UNANIMOUSLY worse, dis
posed of by himself or his clerk in this
| city to the many dealers who are always
| on the lookout for these publications.
Wherever they went the people of FLORIDA
| did not get them, and he now grows anxious
| as he realizes the strength he must add to
his canvass of two years hence, and
| tries to secure from the government the
service he should have demanded of the
| clerk the Senate gives him at IS a day for
is paid by the government to do just such
| work for Mr.. Call and if he has spent his
which the government paid, an in
| vesugation should develop in this
direction nor and not in the direction
| was part of Mr.. Calls duty as Senator
| from Florida to see that those documents
got to his people, and if they have widowed
| all these years in the document room at
the Capitol it will form another gun In the
| Calls senatorial reelection hopes
Such an absurd resolution could not pass
unnoticed. The Hawaiian discussion went
fha in1G hain rtyhf1 a ~
went into consideration of the assinine re-
| quest Of the Senator from Florida He had
urged its adoption with all seriousness, and
| the Senate, with all seriousness so far as
| many were concerned, took up the discus
| sion. Mr.. Cockrell replied to Mr.. Call to
| the effect that the resolution was a refiec-
| ton on Colonel Bright, and designed to Sc
| cure for Mr.. Call favor not given to other
| Senators, all the other members of the
Senate sent out their documents as received
| and had no Accommodations OF years to fret
| them. 1t was a scheme to help the Sen
| ator from Florida in the coming elections
| in his State, he said, and angrily denounced
| the resolution as unworthy consideration
| in the Senate
| Then Senator Call lost his head again,
| and began abusing the other members of
| the Senate by railing against what he
| called their tyranny in that they would
| permit nothing without their permission. 1t
/ was one of his usual speeches. calculated
| to make any of his fellowFloridans blush
| for their State. 1t was the childish whine
! of boy denied "a plaything and was as il
| logical as woman's excuse.
i
| developed an interesting fact. During the
! fight made by Mr.. Call to prevent the con-
| frmation of Mr. George Wilson, nominated
| to be collector of internal revenue for the
/ State of Florida. Call and Chandler were
| warm friends and held daily consultations
| They engineered the fight on Wilson to-
| gether, and it considered the most re-
| markable incident of the year, for there
had been day, and not SO far distant,
| when the two were deadly enemies and
| hardly day passed that the Florida Sem
| ator did not finch beneath the scathing
| sarcasm of the Senator from New Hamp-
! shire. Now, however. the two Senator'S
| have renewed the feud and are again bitter
enemies Consequently when they got to-
| relations now existing between them began
| to look for sport and got 1t. Chambers
| speech was a marvel of yelled sarcasm; in
| fact was too finely drawn, for many in
| the galleries were utterly unaware of the
| was literally fiayng alive his clumsy an
| tagonist from the everglades Can any
member in this body he said at one point
| send to his constituents the public docu-
| ments to which thew are edtitled and al
| sixteen years, why the working force of
| the Senat should not be turned over to
him until he has has finally final disposed Of these
| stream of sarcasm until he had the entire
| floor and press gallery roaring at the dis
| comfture of the Florida statesman and
| then moved the adoption of the resolution
Senator voorhees, then took the part Of
that he had been in the senate as long as
| Senator Call and had never vet had to ask
| the government to direct it's force of clerks
| to do this work for him. This. of course
| brought out the Orange State Senator
/ whose little round bald spot by this time
| glowed like an incandescent lamp with the
| Indignation he felt at his treatment by the
| other Senators. He resented the irnputa-
] ton made by Senator Voorhees, that he
| could not adequately attend to his own
| business Senator Voorhees, replied
| sharply, expressing his astonIshment that
| such scene should have occurred In the
| Senate. as by this time all who had taken
| part in the discussion. with the exception
/ of the imperturbable Chandler, had grown
| heated and angry and sharp words were
! flying thickly. Senator George then came
| ito the defense of his Florida crony, and
/ after speaking for the resolution asked for
| a vote. The absurd resolution was voted
| down with only the votes of Call, Chand-
! Ter (who mocklngly added his ballot to the
| few cast and George, of Missouri, who
| always votes with Call because Call al
| ways votes with him, concerning which
reciprocal relations there is story, The
defeat of the resolution developed the fact
| that there quorum. The resolution
! was finally referred to the committee on
| rules, where it will die and the incident
| was closed. l.. G.
| Failure at Louisville.
| LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jan. g. = Kimbel
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