The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1905-02-16
UPROAR IN THU HOUSE
w. r. Hearst and Mr.. Sullivan In
dulge in Personalities.
OTHER MEMBERS INDIGNANT
tir. Sullivan Hesped TRADE Of Denun-
citation On New Yorker While the
Latter, BY Implication, Charged Sui
Iivan With ComnlicitY In Murder.


Latter, BY Implication, Charged Sui
Ivan With Completely In Murder.
Washington. Feb. 14.-Not in recent
fears has the house witnessed such a
spectacle as II did. with Mr.. Sullivan.
" Massachusetts, and w. r. Hearst.
of New York. as the central figures.
Both INDUCED in personalities Of the
gravest character, and so stirred the
house as to arouse among certain
members a feeling Of the greatest In
dignation. Mr.. Sullivan heaped upon
Mr.. Hearst a TRADE of denunciation.
while the latter by implication charged
Mr.. Sullivan with completely in a
murder.
The affair crew out Of the recent
discussion of the freight rate question
in the house, when Mr.. Sullivan In
Quired OF Mr. Lamar. of Florida, who
was favoring the Hearst bill. why Mr..
Hearst did not defend his own bill.
this being followed by criticism Of
Mr.. Sullivan in the New York Ameri-
can and Journal
Mr.. Sullivan said: THE writer raises
the query whether my ignorance OF
pending measures was due to cOngeni-
tai incapacity or Indifference 70 the
peoples rights COngenital incapacity
IS a serious charge, yet obviously one
which a person accused would not care
to discuss. If the charge is true, he Is
not guilty but unfortunate. But con-
genital incapacity TO understand Is a
term that covers a wide range OF men
tai and moral deficiency. 1t covers the
case Of the moral degenerate, the I'M
clean. unproductive shiftleSs members
of society, and It includes the man
from New York who, totally bereft OF
the sense Of propriety, raises his pro
flaming eyes toward the splendid temple
Of the peoples highest gift-the presi-
dency OF the United States-blissfully
unconscious Of the wOeful contrast be-
tween the qualifications requisite for
that high office and his own contempt
ible and moral equipment"
Mr.. Sullivan referred to Mr.. Hearst
as the unknown man or political nov
ice whose only recommendation is his
inherited wealth
The scheme Of political assassina-
ton, he said, had been mapped out
evidently with the idea of destroying
the respectable elements Of the Demo-
cratic party. He commended Mr.. VIII
liams. the minority leader, for refus-
ing to endorse the Hearst rate bill,
also "a refusal Of that leader to stoOp
TO a controversy with a contemplate
opponent"
Mr.. Hearst arose to reply at once as
Mr.. Sullivan took his seat. He had to
walt some minutes for order. His re-
ply was brief He declared that he had
no desire to criticise Mr.. Sullivan, be-
cause If he had he would not have
done II IN so puerile a manner. He
then sprang a sensation which threw
the house in an uproar He charged
that John A. Sullivan was one Of two
brothers who had kept a saloon In
bObIOu Nutlt q was
and that the two Sullivans were in
dicted for manslaughter.
Il would like to ask the gentleman
from Massachusetts," calmly inquired
Mr.. Hearst, what he knows about
that incident?"
Several appeals were made to Speak
er Cannon to cause the two men to
desist in their abuse of each other.
Speaker Cannon, however, allowed
them to proceed Mr.. Sullivan entire
ly concluded, but in the case of Mr..
Hearst the speaker on reconsideration,
noting the temper Of the house. decided
that an accusation of homicide against
a fellow-member was not parliament
tary, because it~was calculated to pro-
woke disorder and disturbance. Al
most Immediately thereafter MrHearst
took his seat, hurting defiance and de-
claring that it would be his pride to
continue his hostility to individuals
such as he charged Mr. Sullivan to be-