The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-15
EXPLANATION
 BY SULLIVAN Talks of Charge Made By
 ". R. Hearst. G2EETED WITH APPLAUSE Was Technically Guilty of
 ManSlanghter. Massachusetts Representative Tells of Episode Brought Up Monday
 In House by the New
 York Editor.
GREETED WITH APPLAUSE

Washington. Feb. 14,-The second chapter of the episode between MT. Sul- livan (Mass. ), and Mir Hearst (N. Y.) occurred in the House today when Mir. Sullivan again took the floor on a ques- ton of personal privilege and related the circumstances leading up to the in- dictment and conviction of his father and himself for manslaughter. In de- cided contrast with the remarks of yes- terday when the two men heaped upon each other eplthets and charges of serious nature, Mir. Sullivan's state ment today was devoid of any furth.. attack on MT. Hearst.
 The balance of the day was devoted to consideration of the naval appropri- ation bill, MT. Littlefield speaking at length regarding the necessity for keep ing appropriations within the limits of the revenue.
 Mir. Sullivan admitted it to be true that on November 24, 1885, his father. Eugene J. Sullivan, and himself were convicted of manslaughter in the Su- perior Court of Middlesox County, Mass.
 Mir. Sullivan explained that while his father was conducting a licensed hotel he was attacked by a drunken man.
 "The case arose in this manner" said Mfr. Sullivan. My father was the sole proprietor of a licensed hotel known as the Central House in Cambridge, Mass. An intoxicated man. who was not a guest and had not entered the hotel that day, came to the main door and my father seeing him shut the door against him Thereupon the man went around to the back door and broke q window. My father went out upon the street. took the man by the collar and
 l.. |. Q he had done. The man responded by striking him. and a fight ensued. It is fact, and one that has never been denied, that no weapons of any kind were used by either side. came upon the scene at a time when my father was being overpowered by this man and took the part of my father fin the
 struggle.
 Only Technically Guilty.
 "The jury found that the man was
 knocked down by a blow from my fathers fist and struck his head against the curbstone and became unconscious.
 There was testimony in the trial of the case that he never recovered con- seriousness and died some two days af- ter the assault. At the conclusion of the trial my father was sentenced to three years in the House of Correction. The District Attorney of his own mo- ton stated to the court that he would ask no sentence against me. as I was then but boy IT years old, in my first year at the Boston Law School, and without any moral guilt In the matter at all; that I was arrested solely be- cause I was present and was party concerned in the assault and was only technically guilty. Accordingly the court placed my case on file. I was not fined one cent nor imprisoned one minute. After eighteen months of my fathers term had been served the Gov ernor's Council of Massachusetts par
 doned him and their action was due to the fact that two witnesses who did not appear at the trial came before
 the Governors Council and testified. one that he had gone with the deceased the next day to a hotel in Boston where he obtained liquor, and that the de- ceased came back with him that night fin intoxicated. The other witness testi-
 fled that during the night the deceased got up in his house and while proceed ing toward the yard which adjoin ed
 the premises fell down a flight of stairs was then picked up unconscious. brought to his bed, and remained there without reRainin9 consciousness until he died '" MT. Sullivan declared that the most that could ever be alleged against him WAS IndI ne was tGCHHiCdllV BullIy or the offense charged the District At- torney having admitted that he was not even generally guilty.
 would Do It Again. 'T am constrained to say. however" |"
 said Mir. Sullivan. that if my father
 was now alive and he were to be at- tackled in my presence I would come | again to his defense"
 All the facts, he said, were fully published in all the newspapers in the city of Boston at the time. and were
 before his constituents when he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1900 and 1901, and to the Congress of the United States in 1909 and 1904. and
 1t was not" he said in conclusion. until twenty years after tho alleged oftense that any individual was found
 who felt 1t was necessary or proper to allude to the circumstances of the case"
 MT. Sullivan received loud applause
 from both sides of the chamber when he declared he walked out of court 8 1 free man and had not been imprisoned a day nor fined a cent. The applause broke out afresh when he declared that under similar circumstances. if his father were alive. he would go to his defense He took his seat amid re-
 uewed applause. several members go- ing to his seat and shaking his hand.
 Mr. Heart was not on the floor when
 Mir. Sullivan spoke but came in soon
 afterward.
 After Mir. shober( N. Y.) also rising
 to a question of privilege, had ex- pressed the proud feeling of those who l have advocated the principles advan ej ] bv Mir. Heart. MT. Hemenway Und.) ) reported the sundry civil appropriati on | bill and immediately thereafter the
 naval appropriation bill was taken up with an understanding that eight 1 hours shall be devoted to general de- | hate and that the House shall convene
 at II a. m. while the bIll is under 1 consideration.
 | MT. Foss (Ill.) Chairman of the Com l nittee on Naval Affairs, explained the ! bill. saying that the amount carried by | it. 31OO,O70.079 was moderate when ta- | ken in connection with all the infor- nation which the Committee had be- ] fore it.
 IittIeReld Cautious.
 | Anticipating a defloincy at the end 1 of the next fiscal year of from SSO, ,000,- 1 OoO t,, sn0 OON GOO iF all anprODria floV,