Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — A SENATE SCENE. [ARTICLE]

A SENATE SCENE.

Edmunds and Lamar at Swords’ Points. [Washington Special to Chicago Tribune.] A scene is reported to have taken plaee at a recent session of the Senate in executive session between Messrs. Edmunds and Lamar. The cause was the confirmation of Emory Speer to be District Attorney of Georgia. According to one account the debate had been rather tame until at last Senator Edmunds left the chair and began a speech that called in Senators from the cloak-rooms. He waved the bloody shirt as it has not been waved since the days of Grant. He was caustic and cutting in his remarks, and at last said something that was regarded as personal by Senator Lamar. Mr. Lamar got the floor and replied in kind, and when he finished Mr. Edmunds arose and delivered a reply, holding the Southern representatives and people responsible for what he termed a “terrible, unlawful, and iniquitous condition ot political persecution in the South.” Mr. Lamar retorted, ending by saying: “If it js the purpose of the Senator from Vermont to make himself personally offensive to every Senator from the South, he has succeeded, so far as I am concerned, to tbe extent that all personal relations between us must cease.”