Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-13

70 the amusement of the House. then told
q little anecdote whicn he said Illustrated
his point better than any other. He told
of the finding of body in New York and
the coming to that city of two young men.
who from the published descriptions or
the corpse believed 1t was the Fema ms OF
their father. They went TO the undertak-
er's establishment, and they were about to
claim the body as that of their parent
when the mouth of the corpse opened ana
q set of false teeth fell out. And the young
men knowing that their father had no
false teeth went away, leaving the pooy
on the undertakers hands.
'And then" said Mr.. Williams, the un-
dertaker made a few heated remarks 10
the body saying: If you had only kept
your blamed mouth shut you would had
fine bang-up funeral But now l am
mighty sure that you have got to go 10
potters field. "
I,aughter and applause from both sides
THAT little anecdote." Mr.. Williams said,
illustrated better than any other that
could be told the position of Mr.. Lamar
The gentleman from Florida might have
gone south and told his constituents that
he had been promoted, but instead Of that
he talked"
In view of the fact that Mr.. Lamar will
be a candidate for the senatorship from
Florida the Inference drawn by the MI
nority leader was plain to the House.
Mr. Williams, in concluding, remarked
with great emphasis that personal sores
were not interesting to the public at large.
unless they were contagious, and that the
sores of injured vanity were never con-
tagious.
Il tried to save the gentleman from Flori-
da from himself" said Mr. Williams, put
l was unable to do so. / am sorry for tnat
He comes from grand old family; ne Is
q nephew of a great jurlst ana Shou,o
have liked to have saved him from hifnseii
But l was unable to do so, and this is What
the gentleman has brought upon himself
He has not done himself any good: ne mas
not done me any good; ne mas nor Gone s .r,e
democratic party any good; he has not zone
the House of Representatives any goou' ne
has done no one any good
MI. Lamar's Rejoinder.
when Mr. Williams had closed Mr., La
mar obtained unanimous consent to pro-
cesd for fifteen minutes In reply. Mr. Will
,ams seated himself directly In front OF
Mr. Lamar, with an unlighted cigar In his
mouth and listened intently, though with
rather an amused expression at the attack
upon which Mr. Lamar launched. MI La
mars remarks were so personal that MI.
Williams appealed to the chair, saying that
he made the interruption In order TO pre-
vent the possibility of something unseeHiy
occurring on the floor of the House.
The chair sustained Mr.. Williams POINT
of order and brought Mr.. Lamar to order.
Mr. Lamar referred to Mr.. Williams an
scdote az a vulgar witticism and insisted
that in putting him Off the committee on
interstate and foreign commerce Mr.. WIZ
liams had taken on him spiteful and IN
glorious revenge
Mr.. Shackleford Takes Hand.
Mr. Shackelford, who was also omitted
from the committee with Mr.. Lamar. then
took the floor. He said that In 1896 the de-
mocracy of the nation had defed the min
ions of plutocracy and had inscribed upon
its banners a demand for railwaF-rate leg
islation.
In 1890. and again in 1904, the democracy
had again shouted defiance to the mtnlons
of wealth. and insisted upon legislation
against the corporations and the trusts.
Mr. Shackelford insisted that his duty
was first to the sovereign people OF his SOW
ereign congressional district, and that ne
pIaced that duty far above any allegiance
,rhinh he owed TO q party caucus.