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Show si:m:(;ti:i). DAVIS AM BUTLLH.-A KCKNK. WtiMiitiKtnn, March .'iU. An cxlrn-onlinary cxlrn-onlinary scoiio was witnessed in tlio Somito chamber to-day, which, whilo it lasted, created a profound sensation, especially in tho Kiillcrics. Garrett Davis hudbeon spealiinK for some time upon Sherman's resolution instructing tho judiciary cominilteo to report the Ku Klux bill, and had worked hiiufelf up into a passion at what ho characterized character-ized as the unjust charges of disorders m ado upon tho South, when General Butler entered tho Senato chamber. At, this point Davis was facing his colleagues, and was apparently exhorting exhort-ing them. General liuder, seeing who was speaking, marched over in that direction and took a seat next to the Kentucky Senator. Then stretching his legs out ho wheeled his chair around, threw his head back, and looked at Davis with an expression of mingled insolence and contempt. The galleries, thinking it a piece of bravado, enjoyed it hugely. Davis, whose back was still turned, had reached that point in his rpeech where ho was claiming that tho stories of Southern outrages were crossly exaggerated. "They arc more, ' said he; "they are tho vile inventions in-ventions of unprincipled adventurers and heartless scoundrels, made to continue con-tinue their ill-gotten hold on political power. They are" and here turning round in tho warmth of his feelings ho beheld Butler almost at his very elbow, looking straight at him with a face immovable as stone. Davis instantly paused in his half-finished half-finished sentence, placed both handson his desk, and glared at Butler with the ferocity of a tiger. Butlor returned the Kentuckian's look unflinchingly, only growing a trifle paler. This tableau continued lor several minutes, noither changing his attitude a particle, while the galleries looked on in painful suspense, sus-pense, and the surrounding Senators held their breath and affected an unconcern un-concern which no ore felt. Finally Garrett drew himself up, thrust his clenched fist almost in Butler's But-ler's face, and said : ''Here, here is the man! This is the class of men who concoct stories of diabolical Southern outrages, and then ask for unlimited power to suppress them. Look at the scoundrel ! Heie he is !" And his excitement becoming too great for him, he sank back in his seat, whiie the President promptly suppressed sup-pressed some threatening demonstrations demonstra-tions which were attempted in the galleries. gal-leries. It being one of those things where interference was a very delicate matter, no one had attempted anything of the kind thus far, and all in the hall breathed more freely when Garrett dropped into his seat. Still Buder never moved, nor altered the expression of his face, although a thousand eyes were turned upon nim. Garrett was no sooner in his chair than he wheeled it round, and began to draw it up by short jerks in the direction of Butler, until the distance between them was almost imperceptible, impercepti-ble, when he burst out again with : ' Oh, you scoundrel ! You rascal !" with a few strong adjectives prefacing each of the above epithets. "Did ycu come here to insult me ?" Butler replied: "Go away from me. What do you suppose I care about you ? Go away." Garrett was just about to raise his arm to strike Butler, when Henry Wilson left his own seat, hurried over to the scene of threatened conflict, and, placing himself between the two men, stopped the disgraceful proceedings proceed-ings at once. Garrett, on being appealed ap-pealed to in a calm, considerate way, cooled down, and retired .into one of the Senate ante-rooms. Butler, however, stalked around the Senate for several minutes, laughing and talking to this one and that as though nothing whatever had occurred. occur-red. When Davis was asked later in the day why he had given way to his feelings feel-ings in such a conspicuous manner, he replied that it was very evident to h;m that Butler had taken his seat there for no other purpose than to insult in-sult him, and he would allow no man to do that. Butler, however, says thit he no more thought of Davis when he sat down than he did of the man in the moon, and never had the least notion of insulting him. The general verdict to-night seems to be that if Butler must have rows, he had better keep on his own side of the house. iV. Y. Sun. |