The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-13
DRAMATIC INCIDENT =
 OCCURS IN THE HOUSE
INTENSE FEELING DURING III.
 PARCHMENT DISCUSSION.

Mir. Lamar, of Florida, Denies He Gave Any Interview Tending to Incite the 1 Assassination of Judge Swayne--Mr.
 LittIeaeId Tries to Fasten Violent Ex- precision on Him--swayne's Court De-
 clared to be Rocking in Banl1rupt- cies, Scandals and Suicides. | Washington, Jan. 12-The house of representatives devoted its entire ses- sion to-day to discussion of the irn-- peachment charges against Judge ! Charles Swayne, of the northern dis trict of Florida. A dramatic incident | occurred when MT. Littlefield, of Maine, called on MT. Lamar, of Florida, who filed the charges against the judge, to admit or repudiate an alleged interview which the former claimed tended to in cite the people to commit an act of vio- lence against Judge Swayne. Mir. La mar admitted giving an interview, but emphatically denied any suggestion from him that could be construed into advising assassination or murder. He said that, although Judge Swayne was known to be the most lawless man in Florida, he had remained secure from bodily harm. MT. Palmer evoked loud applause when he declared his intention to intro duce bill to give every man punished for contempt the right to appeal to some higher court. ,l
 MT. Palmer reviewed the contempt cases of Belden and Davis, saying that Judge Swayne claimed that the punish ment of the two men was moderate. "I hope" he added, God will be good to the men that Judge Swayne imposes a severe sentence upon" .s 54@. Referring to the real estate transac- ton of Judge Swayne in Pensacola, Mir. Palmer said that no other judge on earth would have done such thing. Judge Swayne's court, he said, was reeking with bankruptcies, scandals and suicides, and he did not believe the judge had friend in his district.
 MT. Palmer vetemently declared that the statements that other judges than Swayne had charged $10 a day for ex- penses were islander on the judiciary of the United States. There is not" he said, "a syllable of testimony in this record or anywhere on earth that any judge ever did this thing but Judge Swayne." To refuse to support the i'm .l peachment charges, Mir. Palmer ex- claimed. would make the members of the house the laughing stock of the Il United States. II
 Turning his attention to MT. Lamar, who filed the original charges. Mir. Lit tlefield called on him to admit or deny an alleged interview, published first in lFlorida, which MT. Littlefie1d said did | violence to MT. Lamar's reputation as a gentleman and as an honorable member of the house. MT. Littlefield quoted ifrom the interview, in which Mir. Lamar is alleged to have said that the people lof Florida had stood Judge Swayne just about as long as they could, and that he was going to tell congress that if some action was not taken to relieve the people of Florida, Judge Swayne's life would be in danger.
 Mir. Lamar said that any language Iimputing to him the statement that Judge Swayne's life was in danger was absolutely incorrect; but he had said that he looked upon Judge Swayne "as utterly corrupt and utterly tyrannical, and the most lawless man in the state of Florida" 8
 MT. Lamar declared that he stated in the interview that if nothing appealed to Judge Swayne, neither law nor hu- manity in his own iawless career, then he would point out to him the fact that his arbitrary and tyrannical action might result in some ill-ordered brain, or some revengeful brain that suffered at his hands, infiicting violence upon him.. .%.r,.~
 The most intense interest was ex- hiDited in this phase of the debate, and members leaned forward to catch every word. l MT. Littlefield said it grieved him profoundly that member of the house had preached ''incitement to assassina- tion and murder" .;..
 q deny any suggestion of violence to Judge Swayne.' exclaimed Mir. Lamar, who further said that "the fact that he has remained in my state so long se- cure in his lawless career is evidence of that"
 Do you think" interjected MT. Rob- inson, of Arkansas, addressing Mir. Lit tlefield, after the statement by the gentleman from Florida, that he justi- fled assassination" @r.
 T protest here and now" exclaimed Mir. Littlefield, that no language put into public print and read by the common people, and which urges as- sassination or indictment to murder, is trivial in it's character"
 MT. Lamar was promptly on his feet, and declared that, while he did not think that MT. Littlefield intentionally charged him with melting murder, MT. Littlefield certainly had almost blindly misrepresented what really was said. If, said MT. Lamar, any one used his language in the interview to impute that, he suggested violence to Judge Swayne he would denounce it is a ma licious falsehood.