Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — RIDDLEBERGER AND INGALLS. [ARTICLE]

RIDDLEBERGER AND INGALLS.

President-protem Ingalls laid before the Senate on the 17th the resolution of Mr. Riddleberger, proposing reorganization of the Senate after January 1, and the author spoke in support of it. He said its object was to put some other than the Senator from Kansas in the chair, asserting that he had been the chief figure in the most disorderly scenes he could recollect of occurring on the Senate floor. He said a change was necessary in order that the faith of the Republican party pledged to a consideration of the British extradition treaty in open session might be kept. At the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Riddleberger asked leave to withdraw the resolution, of Tennessee, who moved to lay it on the; table, and called for the yeas and nays, j after paying a high tribute to Mi. In-| gall’s impartiality and ability. Finally the Senator from Virginia was permitted to withdraw his resolution, ana the incident closed. •