The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-18
RULING OF SPEAKER
SAVES SOME TROUBLE

WASHINGTON, May ia ruling
by Speaker Cannon today prevented
perhaps the reopening in the house OF
old wounds of the civil war. Mr., Hol-
hngsworth Of Ohio sought to JUSTIFY
as matter OF privilege his recent reso
luton objecting to the placing of the
portrait OF Jefferson Davis on the silver
service to be presented to the battle
ship Mississippi because of editorials IN
certain southern newspapers hurting al
sorts of epithets at him. The editorials
were read.
The speaker declared that as the ed
itorials did not attack Mr.. Holilngs'
worth in his representative capacity he
could not continue. The result of Mr.,
Hollingsworth s attempt was to get into
the Congressional Record number or
uncomplimentary remarks about himself
and with nothing TO offset them. AS
,he editorials were read the house was
convulsed with laughter.
Although its consideration was com
pleted the Philippine tariff bill was
not finally acted upon because OF the
absence of a quorum,
Should a resolution by Mr.. Burleson,
Texas, which was adopted be complied
with, the attorney general must furnish
to the house information regarding the
steps taken by him to anpul the con,
tract whereby the United States Steel
corporation absorbed the Tennessee Coal
& Iron company. unless in so doing the
public interests would be affected.
Some Emphatic Language.
"An ass of the first magnitude"
"perhaps one of Sherman s buns who
robbed defenseless men and women;
contemplate little whelp; "a po-
itical ponentity from Ohio; pale 1uons
from, 0hlo ~
These were some of the characteTl-
cations of Mr. Hollingsworth of Ohio, in
editorials which he had read IN the
house of representatives today as the
basis of question of privilege affecting
his resolution recently offered protest
ing against the portrayal of Jefferson
Davis on the silver service TO be pre-
sented to tho battleship Mississippi
The editorials accused him of waving
the bloody Shirt and appeared in the
Daily Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Miss,
April so; the Southern Sentinel, Ripley
Miss, Nav 8; the Shreveport Caucasian.
Shreveport, La, May 4. and one other
paper, not giving the name.
The reading OF the editorials caused
n great commotion and at times moved
the members TO great laughter.
Finally Messrs. Bartlett OF Georgia
and Fitzgerald of New York objected
TO further ''lumbering up the record,
and demanded that the speaker rule on
the question OF privilege.
In an elaborate opinion Speaker Can
non held that Mr.. Hollingsworth had
not been attacked in his representative
capacity and he was not permitted to
proceed further.
Later Mr.. Hollingsworth sought
unanimous consent. first, to print a
speech on the subject, or else to ad-'
dress the house for thirty minutes.
Mr.. Harrison of New York objected,
whereupon Mr. Hollingsworth wanted
the speaker 10 tell him why the OBJ
lection was made.
"The chair cannot tell" said the
speaker suavely, "what moved the
gentleman to object, because he is not
mind reader
This sally convulsed the house with
laughter.
Interest in the proceedings was
heightened by the fact that Mr.. Har-
rison's father, Burton Harrison. was
secretary TO Jefferson Davis during four
years of the war