The Bemidji Daily Pioneer

SPEAKER RULES
AGAINST OHIOAN
Hollingsworth Not Allowed to Answer Attacks.
SOUTHERN PRESS BITTER
Number of Editorials Read Accusing Member of Congress of "Waving the Bloody Shirt" and Containing Numerous Uncomplimentary Characterizations-Cannon Decides Affair Not a Question of Privilege.
Washington, May 18.-"An ass of the first magnitude:" "perhaps one of Sherman's bums, who robbed defenseless men and women;" "contemptible little whelp;" "a political nonentity from Ohio;" "a pale faced luminary;" a pusillanimous pigmy from Ohio."
These were some of the characterizations of Mr. Hollingsworth of Ohio in editorials which he had read in the house of representatives as the basis of a question of privilege affecting his resolution recently offered protesting against the portrait of Jefferson Davis on the silver service to be presented to the battleship Mississippi. These editorials accused him of "waving the bloody shirt" and appeared in the Daily Clarion Ledger of Jackson, Miss., April 30: the Southern Sentinel, Ripley. Miss., May 6: the Shreveport Caucasian, Shreveport, La., May 4, and one other paper, name not given.
The reading of the editorials caused a commotion and at times moved the members to great laughter.
Speaker Called on to Decide.
Finally Messrs. Bartlett of Georgia and Fitzgerald of New York objected to further "lumbering up the records" and demanded that the speaker rule on the question of privilege.
In an elaborate opinion Speaker Cannon held that Mr. Hollingsworth had not been attacked in his representative capacity and he was not permitted to proceed further.
Later Mr. Hollingsworth Sought unanimous consent first to print a speech on the subject or else to address the house for thirty minutes.
Mr. Harrison of New York objected, whereupon Mr. Hollingsworth wanted to tell him why the objection was made.
"The chair cannot tell," said the speaker suavely, "what moved the gentleman to object, because he is not a mind reader." This sally convulsed the house with laughter.
Interest in the proceedings was heightened by the fact that Mr. Harrison's father. Burton Harrison, was secretary to Jefferson Davis during four years of the war.