The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-25
AMUSING ooLLoaul IN THE SENATE
Mr.. WOlcott Names - Bully Who Was
Brave and Tells an Incident of
Hazing in College.
From the New York sun.

From the New York Sun.
Washington, Feb. Elm the debate in
the Senate on Tuesday on the question
Of hazing colloquy took place so anus
ing and SO characteristic that it ought
not to be buried in the heavy pages of
the Congressional Record. The Hon.
Porter James McCumber, a modest, boy
ish-loolSing, mild-mannered senator from
North Dakota, was adding his mite to
Pointer hazers that would cling to them
throughout their lives, and in doing so
incidentally dicussed the question of what
constitutes a bully and a brave man. No
one could be both, Mr.. McCumber
thought, and he said:
ut seems to me that bravery is to be
determined by the Individual who is will
ing to meet death when 1t is certain, or
one who knows that he will be worsted
in battle and yet Will not finch from
the fray. That is my idea of a brave
man."
Then up jumped the earnest, impulsive
and eloquent Mr.. Wolcott of Colorado,
who in his breezy way and with all the
eagerness of a boy to make his point,
said:
"Mr. President, I suggest to the Sem
ator from North Dakota that If he would
like the most illustrious example in histo-
ry of bully who was brave | would cite
him the autobiography of Beuvenuto Gel
lini, who was the most distinguished bully
of history and the bravest man that ever
lived"
In perfect innocence and good faith Mr..
McCumber who had stood leaning on
his desk and gazing admirlngy and in
tently at the Senator from Colorado, said
half regretfully:
"Mr. President, I am not acquainted
with the person of whom the Senator
speaks. I, however. would want to have
all the facts and circumstances surround
ing the case to give justification to the
Senator's remarks"
As soon as the laughter occasioned by
the North Dakota Senator's frank admis-
sion had quleted down so that he could
make himself heard Mr.. Tillman OF South
Carolina in his characteristic rough-and-
tumble, pitchfork fashion, shouted across
the chamber
"Mr President, will the Senator from
North Dakota allow me to ask the Sena-
tor from Colorado to put on record this
man? / did not catch his name, and
do not think any body else did. We want
Inc lTuLu OIL HtsLpIg preserved
There was much more laughter, which
was not lessened by Mr.. Wolcott's state
ment that he was not surprised that Mr.
Ti!lman had never heard Of Benvenuto
Cellini, and he offered to give him a full
account of the famous Italian after ad-
journment. And presumably he did.
Later in the same debate. Mr.. Wolcott
told an incident of hazing in college, and
1t is the understanding Of his colleagues
that he was one of the hazers referred
to. His story was this:
II remember once in my freshman days
when one Of my class friends was caught
by the sophomores and had his hair cut
off. on one side Of his face. 1t was in
tended to be gentle, but Il was pretty
hard and bloody, because he fought.
remember that a night or two afterward
the members of the freshmen class found
one of the perpetrators and took him to
the most remote cemetery that could be
found and tied him to the most lonely
monument IN Il IN the depth OF winter
and returned and Informed his classmates
where he could be found The man hazel
reached good condition and position IN life
ana of the men VINO did the hazing. some
ala well In after life and some went from
bad 10 worse. and even landed IN the
Senate OF the United states"