The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-20
OFFICIAL RECORD OF.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS STORY OF WlCkEHSH
 MONOELL FIGHT.

In The mai arriving yesterday a copy oI tho CouLr,ssi. nal Record Was received which contains the ac- count of the iracas between Delegate Wick,rSham and Kopr, sentative Mon dell, If Wyoming. That par of f which pertains to the encounter follows:
 Mr. Week. -I should like 10 ask the gentleman from Alaska if it is not true that i'll these cases the people who have invested their money and developed these lands cannot Aat final re,eip.s.
 Mir Nickcr>ham.-No. sir, that is not true have a letter here which l will read.
 Department of the Interior.
 Washington, Jan. 21, 1911. Hon. James W.skcrsham,
 House If Representatives
 Sir-ln resp Hsc 10 .our inquiry of the 10th ms aut. your are inform ed that reports from United States land offices in Alaska show that they have received pay""nts unuer 1l> coal Locations upon which uC final certificates have been issued. but 5hese reports do no. in IiCate the number of local Is under which payments have been teu4srel hua not received. The locations mention ed by You aS Cunningham and Whorl cases are not included in the 11S mentioned above.
 N.ry Respectfully.
 k. A. BALLlNGER
 Secretary. But tho final receipt is issued in every case. and that is equivalent, under the decision of the Supreme Court. to a patent fir the title.
 Mr MondcH tfr m his seat. He is liar; rhaf is all.
 Mir Wickorsham.-Nou are a liar. if you say thar. that is all
 IMenacing actions took place be tween MT Wickersham and Mr. Mondelll
 The Speaker pro tempore - The Sergean. at Arms will preserve or der.
 IThe Sergeant al Arms bearing the mace appearad.l
 Mr Wichersham.-Mr Speaker, | want th- Record to show that I apol- ogizo to the house. was called a liar
 The Speaker pro remrorc.-The house will be in order All gen tlemen will be seated.
 MT TaWncv.-I move that tho words occurring in the colloquy He- tween rhe gentleman fru.l Alaska and the gentleman fr.r Wyoming be reported from :un dcsl, to the house, for ;hr i.to"r [. ion Ci tho house.
 The Speaker r9 tempore.-What is the gonrlcman's motion?
 Mir Tawncy.-Tha' the words he taken down and reported from the desk to the honse.
 MT Abouf taking the words down. I do no' know that any of the reporters heard the words
 The Speaker pro tempore.-The gentleman from Minnesota moves that the words he reported from the desk to the house.
 The motion was agreed to.
 The Speaker pro temnoro.-The words will he reported from the desk by the official reporter.
 The official reporter read as fol- lows.
 Mir Wickersham (afrer reading the letter from the secretary of the interior continuedl. The final re- ceipt is issued in every case, and that is equivalent under the de cision of he Supreme Court of the United States 10 a patent for the title
 "Mr. Mondell.-He is liar; that is all
 MT. Wichorsham.-Ycu are a liar. if you say that; that is all"
 MT. Tawney.- MT Speaker the language used by both gentlemen is in violation of the rules of the house, and l think they ought to be re- quired to aDolosize to the house.
 MT. Wickersham-Mr Speaker. I do desire on my part to apologize 10 the house; I lost my temper. (Ap- plauseD
 Mir. Keifer.-If the chair will allow me, I think the apology must go a little further than that connected with the words: it should go to the unseemlv incident that followed
 MT. Wickersham.-Mr Speaker I want my epOloey 10 be just as broad as any gentleman in the house de sires il to be. Applause)
 MT. Mondell. - Mir Sneaker. I de sire 10 say that I made no such statement in debate as was read from the sneakers desk. Listening to the reading of the statement bv the gentleman from Alaska. which I did not hear very clearly. I turned to the gentleman from South Dakota in answer to a suggestion from him as to whether that were true or that was different from the statement that was in the record. and said, if recol'ect rightly, Then he must be a liar"
 l greatly regret, gentlemen, that anything I have said here has caus-