Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1910 — Senatorial Repartee. [ARTICLE]

Senatorial Repartee.

* Once in the senate chamber John J. Ingalls was directing some remarks to Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. The other senator from that state. Mr. Dawes, having come in while Mr. Ingalls was speaking, thought the words were meant for his ear, and so, interrupting, he asked Ingalls if he was directing the remarks at him. The Kansas senator turned slowly around, for Mr. Dawes sat behind him, and then, with delicious intonation, but an instant wit. he said, "1 was directing my remarks to the successor of Chari'* Sumner and not to the successor of Daniel Webster.” The repartee has become traditional, and the utterance was at once placed alongside of that reply of Conkling to Senator Thurman, which is also traditional in the senate chamber. Conkling was speaking, and Thur man had said, interrupting him, “Does the senator aim his remarks at me; he constantly turns to me?” when Mr. Conkling, with delicious gravity, bowing to Thurman, with whom he was very friendly, said: "When I turn to the senator I turn as the Mnssulman turns to Mecca; I turn as I would turn to the common law of England—the world’s moat copious fount of jurisorudenea.**