The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-16

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 A. B. Ferguson is one of the two con gressmen who represent the new state of New Mexico in the national house of representatives.
 q object to such remark about member of this committed" said A. M Stevenson of Denver.
 "Oh. believe Colonel Lyon person ally is an excellent gentleman" said Mcdowell, Out politically he is the rottenest man that ever presided over a state committee"
 q object to that remark" interrupt ed Francis J. Heney Mir, Mcdowell doesn't know anything about the rest of the members of this committee.
 At the close of the argument the committee seated the two Roosevelt delegates. The motion was made by A. NJ. Stevenson, a Taft man. and the vote was unanimous
 Out of the total of thirty delegates from Texas contested by Taft or Roosevelt the committee gave Taft twenty six, Roosevelt four. Colonel Cecil A. Lyon denounced the 
 "Tll be back here four years from now he declared. You men who repudiated me here today have, most of you, been repudiated by ye"T avn | states"
 "Liar," Says Hcney.
 A motion was tabled on the sug- I gestion of a Taft member. shutting off speech Francis ]. Heney had started. Mir Heney accused Chair man Rosewater of recognizing no one l but rmachine made, hand picked crook"
 The chair recognizes the gentle man" retorted Rosewater. Colonel Lyon declared that if the committee persisted in the way it was going. there would be a repetition of that historic incident, the Commune.
 The charge of Liar" following MT. lKennedy's declaration that MT Heney had made his money by lying to the people" brought about the sensational episode. MT. Heney objected to any limitation of time on the hearing of the Washington contest cases and fol- lowed his statement with declaration about stealing delegates"
 Misses gretted him from various parts of the committee room, and in the interchange of remarks that fol lowed Committeeman Kennedy de clared:
 Well, didn't make my money by lying to the people,
 What did you say?" asked Heney.
 By lying to the people, Kennedy shouted
 You lie" Heney shouted.
 You lie" Kennedy retorted.
 The North Dakotan arose from his seat in the middle of the committee room and started rapidly toward Heney who was standing by his chair in the front row. Members of the committee jumped to their feet and crowded forward from all parts of the room, some rushing in between fieuey ami the Ct ss.i:.e; ;sosssss.ii::e; Kennedy The latter, as he approached Heney, cried out:
 money; I can prove where you did it. in the city of St. Paul"
 You lie. Heney shouted back.
 By this time members of the com mittee had grasped both men and were pulling them in opposite directions. Sergeant at arms Stone grasped MT. Heney by the arm and turned him around and others led MT. Kennedy back to his seat.
 | The episode was the culmination of day in which Mir Heney had been 1 several times in altercation with mem ] hers of the committee Tn an easy running fire of comment when com mitteemen had taken exception to his sharp remarks and had greeted him with laughter he referred to them as coyotes"
 The trouble over the Washington cases was the first in which MT. Heney had been greeted with misses by others on the committee. His seat in that body was on the proxy of Thomas Thorson of South Dakota.
 Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash ingto and former senator Dick of Ohio were at the opposing counsel tables with the rival delegations from the state of Washington and an effort was being made to reach an agree ment on the time to be consumed in the argument of the cases when the altercation arose.
 Virginia Goes to Taft.
 A consolidation of all the Virginia cases, next called, involving 20 votes was announced by former Senator Dick
 The issue presented by VIII. Brown a negro Roosevelt attorney was one of exclusion of negro voters. He declar-
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