Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-02
gA6REssI|NAL DIGNITY
UPHELD At ALL COSTS
Newspaper Man, Who Beat Up Law.
maker for Insulting Him,
Sternly Rcprimanded.
BANKER MEETS SIMILAR FATE:
sNotvS Senate and House Members
Each 1nccnscd With Other Because
OF Alleged Mutual Disregard of
I Usual Amenities.
ny y. FIRED EssARY.

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gress of the United states has way
9fsworking itself into 2 frenzy of IN.
mental balance in the face OF grave
4 issues 1t may declare wa upon Ger
many and sign The death warrant of
tens OF thousands of brave American
soldiers without n CULVER Of emotion.
F II may draw and quarter PRESIDENTS,
gibbet cabinets or even throw monkey
: wrenches into the machinery of an in
terhationai peace without losing it's
sense of equilibrium or even it's sense
Sof propor,ion. Eu, jus, let somebody
or offend the dignity Of either of these
august bodies, and the eruption which
ensues is volcanic. There is thunder
and lightning and fury and havoc. And
lit is UP 10 somebody t" beware.
~ Gave Statesman Licking.
1Not long ago u newspaper CORE,
kpondent. having been publicly insultcd
by the then Represcntativc Macon of
Arkansas. waltzed III upon the floor OF
the House after adjournment one after
noon and threshed the statesman. No
body separated the two combatants.
slalthouSh there Mere a hundred or more
-'Conogressmen looking on
n The fact is. mos; members had want
ed ito do the same thing 10 Macon,
hut had never seemed TO seize the OPP
portunitics But after it was all over,
fight had taken place. upon the moor
OF the House. /; would have been all
right IL ii had taken place in cor
ridor or on the Capitol plaza. but never,
never should ii have hcen enacted on
the floor.
This involved the dignity of Con.
The corhspohdent therefore. must be
dealt With. He must be punished. and
= soiSmn tribunal was created to try
MIN. After celebrating week the
culpfit was hailed before the bar Of
LII House. given stern reprimand
had hn.a ,A,,
and once more the country was saved.
Another rummcIing Case.
! On another occasion Washington
eanker who had been called a liar by
met the Congressman in a public square
one morning. and, backing the states
man up against tree. pummcicd him
until the assailant Was out of breath.
tken VIGOROUSLY departed Ordinarily.
people would naturally regard this rs
a personal matter between twu gem
OF two very elderly citizens fist fight
ing in public and would let il 20 AT
that. But not the House Of Ecrresem-
recalled the fact that Mr. Sims had
made his sighting remarks concern
ing AIR. Gloyer during speech in the
Whatever a Senator or Rcprosen-
tatite says on the Moor OF the House
Is priyilesed lie cannot be sued for
by any man or court for such utter
ances. The Constitution itself settles
that point All OF which meant that
the WashinStonian il assaulting Mr.
Sims had committed serious oifense
not primarily against the Congress-
man. but against tho House OF Rcp-
resenta;ives itself. Therefore, il could
not be overlooked.
The banker must he disciplined He
gust be made to respec, the dignity OF
- i,stftuiion Therefore he was
brought To trial was convicted by a
committee OF The House. and he. too
was marched To the bar, severely rem
rim2nded and warned never to do ii
again.
Hoth Houses Vow Incen>cd
Just now the House and senate are
incensed at each other y member
Saot the one said some CaustiC things
about a member Of tn, other, where
upon by a vote. the party Of the
a serond party declared the party OF .hc
first part TO be guilty Of an "untruth"
" Aid icrriblc uproar has resulted
4s The two great Legislative bodies
have looked dchantly n. each other
Z down the long corridor which connects
81 hsir respective chambers. Tncy have
4 caucused and cusscd, and rcsolutcd
i, TREY have suffered indigni;y at each
Others hands and have given grave
warning that diplomatic rclntions
might he broken a. any moment Then
kafter apparently dcadlockine, they
! COMPROMISED.
And Now the Casus Bcili.
Here Is now This mighty u!tugaiol