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Show 00 STAFFORD THREATENS TO PUNISH. CLARK. WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 Representative Represen-tative Stafford of Wisconsin, presiding presid-ing over the house in committee of tho ( whole, threatened Representative Clark of Frftcjda with summary pun- ! Ishnient at the hands of the sergeant- I at-arms today. j Mr Clark contending for the right J to make an lnjulry, told the chair It had authority to call the scrgeant-at- 1 arms. This defiance Mr, Stafford characterized char-acterized as "Improper language" to- 1 ward himself. ! The mntter ended with Chairman Stafford Ignoring Mr. Clark and the latter saying he did not care to submit sub-mit parliamentary inquiries "to a chairman who will mako such rullhss." |