The Washington times., 1911-02-10
NO ATTEMPT TO
INTIM|DATE MACON
Chairman Parker Finds No
Evidence of
Any.
COLLOQUY TO BE
PART OF RECORD
Newspaper Men Testify to Their
Connection With the
Controversy.


to intimidate Representative Macon, as
charged by him. the House Committee
on judiciary concluded it's hearings this
afternoon relative 70 the encounter be-
tween Mr.. Macon and Walter J. Fahy,
on the floor of the House, late last Sat-
urday.
1t was also testified to at today's
hearing that Mr.. Fahy did not go upon
the floor to assault Mr.. Macon. but that
he lost control of himself when the
Arkansan reiterated. after adjournment,
the things he had said about Mr.. Fahy
upon the floor.
Il think the members of the COM
mittee are well agreed that the corre-
spondents did not 70 Nv Mr.. Fahy TO
the floor for the purpose of intimidatins
Mr.. Macon" interposed Representative
Clayton of Alabama. after successive
witnesses had testified to their motives
as peacemakers only.
Colloquy Goes in.
Chairman Parker inserted in the rec
ord a written apology from Mr.. Fahy
sent to the House, in which Fahy
admitted that he had technically viO-
lated the House rules in attempting to
call a memebr of the House to account
in the chamber itself
Mr.. Parker also announced his inten-
tion to insert in the record the COL
loquy between Representative Stanley
of Kentucky and Representative Macon,
in which some sharp things were said
and which caused Mr.. Fahy in his, story
of the proceedings to term the debate
"a denuHciatlon' of the Arkansas menu
Der. This was the portion of tho de-
bate stricken out of the record upon
agreement between the two members,
although Mr.. Macon declined until the
trouble was over to expunge his sub
Sequent remarks concerning Fahy.
Among the witnesses heard today, all
OF whom denied the existence of any
conspiracy ito intimidate Mr.. Macon"
were: Bert Kennedy, an employe of
the House: Stlas Merrill. one of the
doorkeepers; Charles Mann, superin-
tendent of the press gallery. and the
following newspaper correspondents:
Irving Norwood, of the Washington
Star; E. r. Sartwell and Perry Arnold,
of the United Press; George L. Ed
munds, of the New York Herald; John
L. Monk, of the New York Sun. and
Theodore TilIer, of The Washington
Times.
Did you hear the newspaper men
make any agreement to go down upon
the floor with Fahy?" asked Chairman
Parker of Mr.. Mann.
Mr.. Mann declared that Mr.. Fahy was
on the floor several minutes before the
other correspondents took their coats
and hats from the gallery and descend
ed to the House floor. He added that he
heard no threats or talk of intimida-
ton.
Point of Resentment.
Mr. Fahy himself told the committee
thai he most resented the fact that a
portion of the record had been cut out,
whereas that speech excoriating him
Fahy-as a liar and contemplate ass.
an atom and other things was, accord
ing to Mr.. MacOns intentions, to re- /
main in the record.
81 went upon the floor for the sole
purpose of obtaining an agreement that .
the whole matter would remain in or
else that it all would go out said MIR.
Fahy. Then when Mr.. Macon declared .
that he would stand by his remarks and .
called me liar again 1 attempted TO
hit him. 1 would have whipped him II .
l could have gotten to him." added
Faky.
You mean you would have tried to
whip him, suggested MIR. Sterling of
illinois.
No, I would have whipped him." de-
clared Fahy.
Mr.. Fahy admitted, however, that
temper temporarily got the better of
him and that he would not have at
tempted personal assault upon a mem
Der on the floor after mature reflection
How did you learn that the Stanley
and Macon colloquy had been ex-
punged?'' asked Chairman Parker.
Il first learned it through Mr.. Tiiler.
debate. and later from Mr.. Stanley him
self Mr.. Stanley told me that he could
not consent after the agreement with
Macon to put the matter back into the
had acted as intermediary in the en-
deaVor to have stricken from the rec
ord also Macon's remarks about me, I
walked up to enter a personal protest
against Whist l considered unfair treat
ment, and then the trouble began"
Consider It "Denunciation."
Mr.. Norwood, one of the correspon-
dents told the committee that the cor
respondents did consider Stanley's
speech a denunciation of Mr.. Macon.
and that after the encounter was over
Mr. Macon in light of the unanimous
verdict of the correspondents assem-
bled, had agreed to withhold his re-
marks about Fahy.
Members of the committee ouizzed
Mr.. Tiller as to Fahy's actions and
when he learned that the STAN
ley-Macon colloquy had gone out OF
the record
Mr.. Fahy was excited and pale at
the time" said Mr.. Tiller, and declared
such treatment to be unfair but he did
not Announce any intention to make an
assault upon the member"
II. A. lgo. a cartoonist, and Mr.. Sart-
well, and Mr.. Tiller testified, Macon ad-
Vanced toward Fahy, using such words
as dog. cur, and liar
Under the terms of the resolution the
committee must report the results OF
its investigation back to the House by
February Is.
Representative Tawney and L. White
Busby, the latter clerk to the Speaker,
were also heard briefly today Mr..
Busby corroborated Mr.. Fahy's state
ment that he offered to apologize TO
the House Monday morning, and Mr.
Tawney confirmed the testimony OF
IEahy and others that Representative
Norris had attempted to get Mr.. Macon
10 withdraw his remarks. Mr.. TaWncy
said that he had suggested that IL Mr..
Macon contemplated such thing the
should be made pubIicly
upon the floor of the House. John ].
assistant official reporter
Identified the original manuscript ofI
-he Macon-Stanley colloGuy, which has
Jeen expupged, and they will be putI
n the record of the hearing.