The citizen., 1902-02-28
BLOWS STRUCK IN HOUSE.
Delegates Straus and Pa inter
Have a Fight on the Floor
of the House. Hot Words
Among Members.

Anne Arundel Republican COM
binatiOn in the House of Dele
gates, was fierce encounter be
tween Isaac Loeb StrauS and +.
Lynn Painter on Friday last.
The entire day was one of general
confusion, hot words and excited
actions. The fight came after the
passage of sharp words between
StrauS. Painter and Dallam.
Mr.. StrauS offered an order re
quiring he Elections Committee
to report a bill of his own provid
ing amendments to the election
law. The Speaker made no at
tempt 10 Illustrate this design by
refusing recognition to either Mr..
StrauS or others acting with him.
but calmly put each motion in its
turn. The combination succeed
ed in having Mr.. Straus' order
adopted. Then he insisted upon
Mr. Painters immediate compli
ance with it as chairman of the
Elections Committee.
Nlr Painter rose to explain that
the bill was locked up with the
others in his possession and not
in the State House.
Mr.. StrauS interrupted him
with a motion for the previous
question.
\ motion was made from a Re
publican source to take a rece IS
for five minutes.
DR.. DerickSon. of Worcester,
moved to make the recess 10 min
uteS.
During the roll call the indig-
patton of MeSSrS. Painter and
Dallam burst forth in denumcia-
ton of Mr.. StrauS and he later
replied in the same vein.
According TO Mr.. Painter, this
was what happened:
Il was sitting on one of the re
porter's tables after adjournment
with my back TO the house. Mr..
StrauS came up and asked in a
ieerihg way: W here do YOU
keep your blllSr
Il said: 'Go away; you have
acted like a dog and | don't want
to talk to YOU"
Mr.. Painter said he could not
remember whether the word he
used was dog or cur. lie added:
"Mr. Straus replied: You are
a eur and worse than a cur Theu
| slapped him in the face with the
back Of my hand, when | told
him to 60 away. He struck at
me with his umbrella and | caught
the blow on my arm. This is ab
solutely all that happened"
Mr.. StrauS' version of the en-
counter is this:
Il approached Mr.. Painter and
asked him pleasantly where he
kept the bills given to the Elec-
tions Committee. He replied,
calling me dog, and struck me
before | had time to say a word.
| struck him with my umbrella
atterward. | most certainly did
not call him cur before he struck
me-
On Wednesday, Mr.. Straus
and Mr., Dallan indulged in war
of words, each giving his esti-
mate of the others, and it can
well be imagined, there was no
mincing matters. Later they were
induced to shake hands and each
congratulated the other upon his
speech.
MIR. CAMPBELL'S SPEECH.
Mr.. Peter j. Campbell, of Bal
timore, said: The gentleman from
the Second Legislative District
of Baltimore City, (Mr. Strauss, /,
said that he had been trying to
save the Democratic party for ten
years. That may or may pot be
true, but because in the caucus
the party refused to nominate the
gentleman for Speaker of the
House he is now trying to destroy
it. That is the reason for his ac-
tion. lie speaks of bosses and
bOssism to the Democratic party,
but | would say hat if some of his
constituents (memberS of the
Democratic party were to come
to Annapolis 10 view this his
toric chamber, with its magniti-
cent paintings of the planting
of the Cross at st. Mary's,' the
Burning of the Peggy Stewart,
or that beautiful picture of that
fair Queen after whom this State
was named, a greater spectacle
and object of curiosity would
meet their view in the person of
the gentleman from the Second
Legislative District, who pro
claims himself a Democrat, and
Yet is now the Republican boss
of the House.
IL say to him now, that had he
indicated in any manner what his
line of conduct would have been,
such as it is now, that instead of
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