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Show A hi:VU(ll!IAIi rtt'UMl A few daya ago mentlOu wai mrvdo In theau coluiuua of Hie hlitorlo Incident Inci-dent lu tho Home of Itupreseiitatlvea at WathlngPin wbari-lu James U. Illaluu nnd I,. Q. ('. Lamar engaged In ail oratorical atiuggle Uf icircely lets attractlveiieaa was that which some yeaia later took place In tho seuate, Mr. Imntr litvlu In the meantime been trauaferred tu tbat brauch ut Cougrens. A bill to pentlou all Mexican veteran, thote ol Iho laic Confederacy lucbidoJ, wai up fur con tlderatlon and wai oppotod by Senator Chandler on thu ground that Jclltnon Davit would thui rucelvo I'.i benefit! and ho was not prepared to go so far at that. Thla brought Lamar to lilt feet. ".Mr. I'retldenl," said he, with out stritchcd (Inter pointing ut his foe m.u, lilt tall form Humbling with emotion, but lilt volou bell-like In Its clearness nnd without qulvor In It, "when l'roinetheui lay bouul to the rock It wat not the klug of bouts who availed lilmielf ut hlad litres j. It waa not any otlitr of thu nobler bruloi of thu field or blrdt of the nlr. It was the vultuie, thu toavenger of the niilmal klngdim ghittonlng upon carrion, which preyed upou hla vllalt, know Ing that lu a defenielest man who could move neither baud nor loot ha had oneluto whose vitals hecoull dig Ills beak." The account says ha then sat down amid a stlllneit so profound that the ruttlo of u paper sou nod barihly. (Jhatidler was deadly pale. IJropa of pvnplratliu atood upon hla forehead nni ho clinched tbu arms of hla chair uutll tha strslnud wood creaked. It was expected that hu would reply. Twlcuhuhalf ruie, then aank back. Ho did uot reply. It woul 1 havo btcn too dinicult a talk bctldet turuly re. Butting lu failure. |
