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Show FUNSTON IS HISSED. 'The Eansan Had Been Classed as a Tippler by a Woman and He Indulged in language Not Polite. Washington, D. C, April 8. In the house yesterday Mr. Funston of Kansas rising to a question of privilege, sent to the clerk s desk and had read an article published in the New York Voice, which, for ten minute?, kept the house in a whirlwind of laughter and merriment. The article, which is headed, "A Few of the Congressional Tipplers," goes on to mention the names of a dozen or more senators sen-ators and an equal number of representatives representa-tives who at the senate and house restaurants restaur-ants had been seen indulging in intoxicating lliquors. His ( Mr. Funston's) name was one of those mentioned, and he believed the article ar-ticle was intended to affect the primaries in his district. Laughter. After many good-natured remarks by different dif-ferent representatives, Mr. Funston, in unmeasured un-measured terms, and in language more forcible for-cible than polite, denounced the correspondent correspond-ent of the Voice, and called upon decent correspondents cor-respondents to kick him out of town. Mr. Lewis of Mississippi suggested that the correspondent was a woman. Mr. Funston It makes no difference whether she is a lady or a street-walker. I am standing here in my own defense. Hisses in ttie gallery. Mr. Wheeler of Alabama made the point of order that the gentleman should not use such language on the floor of the houe. Mr. Funston said he informed that the jiorrespondent was not a woman. He had een told the name of the man who wrote - article. Mr. Funston then took his seat Snid hisses. i Mr. Wheeler of Alabama, rising to a question ques-tion of privilege, offered a resolution declaring declar-ing that it was due to the good name of the house of representatives that the remarks made by Mr. Funston relative to a woman, should be expunged from the liei ord. Mr. Burrows asked the gentleman to withhold with-hold his resolution. He was assured by the gentleman from Kansas that anything that could be criticised would be eliminated from lh Ftconl. Mr. Wheeler said that with that assurance le would allow the resolution to lie upon the ;abie. |