Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — HOLLINGSWORTH SILENCED [ARTICLE]

HOLLINGSWORTH SILENCED

Cannon Keeps Anti Jeff Davis Romarks Out of Record. Washington, May 18.—A ruling by Speaker Cannon prevented the reopening in the house of old wounds of the civil war. Representative Hollingsworth of Ohio sought to justify his recent resolution objecting to the placing of the portrait of Jefferson Davis on the silver service to be presented to the battleship Mississippi because of editorials hurling all sorts of epithets at him. The speaker declared that as the editorials did not attack Hollingsworth in his representative capacity he could not continue. As the editorials were read the house was convulsed with laughter. Although its consideration was completed, the Philippine tariff bill was not finally acted upon.