Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1889 — AWFUL RIDDLEBERGER. [ARTICLE]

AWFUL RIDDLEBERGER.

Senator Riddleberger finished his eareer in the Sepate in a manner befitting his drunken and disgraceful conduct. He had to be arrested by the Sergeant-at-arms and taken off the floor of the Senate. Filled up with whisky, he moved, about 9 o’clock, Sunday "night, th,go into executive session, with the object in view of securing the confirmation of the renomination of Commissioner Webb? The motion was voted dowh. He immediately renewed it, and the presiding officer [lngalls], ,declared the motion out of order. Riddleberger still insisting, Mr. Ingalls told ( him that he would’not again recognize Riddleberger except on the motion of some other Senator and a majority vote. Not yet satisfied, Riddleberger kept talking, and Ingalls told him if'he did not keep quiet he would have him •arrested. This warning had the effect of taking Riddleberger, out of the chamber, and when fee returned, a few minutes later, be stated that be had telegraphed the Governor of Virginia his resignation,’ as no other Senator had ever been treated as he had. Mr. Ingalls motioned: the Sergeant-at-arms to arrest Riddleberger,but when the officer •came up td him, he rfaid: “Not, that; T will sit down.” The Sergeant-at-Arms desisted, but Riddleberger did not stay quiet. Hardly a minute afterward he again became noisy, and Mr. Ingalls again ordered the Seargent-at-Arms to arrest Riddleberger, which was done, with the aid of an assistant. The two officers hustled the kicking Senator into the cloak-room.