Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-18
wan \ n TED !. | [: Fight | |
WAR over AGAIN .
Ruling by Speaker Cannon Pre-
vented Rep. HoIIingsWorth
Opening Wounds.
HOUSE JUST LAU GHED LOUD.
Buckeye Man Only Succeeded iii Get
ting q Lot Of Uncomplimcntary
Phrases in Record. y

Washington, May ia ruling by
Speaker Cannon today prevented per-
haps the leopening in the house Of old
wounds of the civil war. Mr.. Hollings-
worth OF Ohio sought to justify rs a
matter privilege his recent resolution
objeetins 70 the placing of the portrait
or y issan LAWS on the Yer service
to be presented TO the battlesnIr Mis-
stssipist because OF editorials in certain
southern newspapers hurting all sorts
OF #eptthets at him. The editorials Weie
|Ereatt
The speaker declared that as the ed-
torials did not attack mir. Hollings-
worth nsliis representative CAPACITY he
could not continue. fhe result OF Mr..
Hollingeworths attempt was to get into
the Congressional Record a number of
uncomidlmentary remarks about MIN
self and With lorhing to o lfset them. AS
the editorials We're ieacl the house was
sconVulsed With laughter
An ass of tneSt,rst magnitude per
haps one or Sher1nan.s buns who
robped defenseless men and women
Contemplate little Whelp;'@"a politicai
luninary;;1 "a pusilanimous pigmy
from Ohio
These We're some of the characterized
tions 5of Mr.. HoliingsWorth OF Ohio, IN
editorials which lie had read in the
house OF representatives today us the
basis or q question of privilege affect
ing his resolution recently offered pro-
testing against the portrait Of Jeffer-
son LAWS on the silver service to be 4
presented to the battleship Mississippi.
The editorials accused him or way
Ing the bloody shirt and appeared in
the Daily Ciarion Ledger OF jackson,
Miss, April 30; the Southern Sentinel,
Ripley. Miss. May s; the Shreveport
Caucasian. Shreveport, La, May 4. and
one other paper, not giving the name.
The reading of the editorials caused
a great commotion{and at times moved
the members to great laughter.
Finally Messrs. Bartlett of Georgia
and Fitzgerald of New York objected
to further numbering up the Record
and demanded that the speaker rule on
the question Of privilege
In an elaborate opinion Speaker Can
non held that MI. Hollingsworth had
not been attacked in his representative
capacity and he was not permitted to
proceed further.
Later Mr.. Hollingswortl sought
unanimous consent, first, to print a
speech onisthe subject. Or else to ao-
dress the house for 80 minutes.
Mr. Harrison OF New York objected,
whereupon Mr.. Hollingsworth wanted
the speaker to tell him why the OBJ
lection was made. Z i
The chair cannot tell said the
speaker suaYely, what moved the
gentleman to object, because he is not
| a mind-reader."
This sally convulsed the house With
\ laughter.
Interest In the proceedings was
| heightened by the fact that Mr.. HarI-
rison's ia Their, Burton Harrison. was
Secretary to Jefferson Davis during
L four yea r.ss of tho wa Il, N ri
Although its consideration was COM
pleted, the Philippine tariff bill was
not finally acted upon because OF the
4 absence of a quorum.
Should d resolution by Mr.. Burleson.
Texas, which was adopted 1be complied
with. the attorney general must furnish
1 to the house information regarding the
steps taken l1S him to annul the con-
| tract whereby the United States Steel
\ corporation absorbed the Tennessee
Coal & Iron company, nnless In so
doing the public interests would be ar
| facted.