Show A LUNATIC I oll A tiar LIAR t air andrt any rt d or oc milene frix air hour washington U D C march 3 at the evening session of the senate M mr r palmer asked the senate to take up the bill placing william 11 II hugo on the retired list of the army as a first lieutenant stating stilting stil ting that it was probably the list last request he would make of the the senate ncik notwithstanding this appeal 1 mr fr quay antagonized b the bill by several times limes suggesting the absence ot of a quorum and by other dilatory tactics but tile the bill was ultimately passed the fact toon soon developed that mr quays opposition was not directed direct e d at mr palmer or his bill but that hat he was deliberately undertaking to block business because of the action of the house in azre agreeing eing to the senates price of on armor plate lie ile made ganv many sug sus gest ions loiis on the want of a quorum quork in a sid business proceeded very slowly mr hoar made the point of order that the matter of the intervention of other business had bad nothing to do with the case ile he said that tt it was never intended that one man should be able to prevent the other eighty nine from doing the business of the senate by such tactics as those to which the pennsylvania senator was resorting one man in liquor mr hoar aloar was proceeding to say ray might stop business when mr air quay jumped to his feet and excitedly exclaimed 1 I desire to say to the senator from massachusetts that if lie he intends to tilt mate that I 1 am he is a lunatic or liar and I 1 will vw not tolerate a suggestion of that sort from the senator from massachusetts chu or any one else I 1 am simply doing what I 1 am doing in the interest of my constituents mr air hoar disclaimed any intention of nit making aking any insinuation as aa to mr quays S sobriety ety mr air quay again spoke of fit his motive as being in the interest of the people of pennsylvania and of thousands of workingmen in that state a q ali w 11 as of 0 much capital ile he stated staled it to be 1 hi q recollection when the bill for the repeal of the che sherman Sli erman law was pending the silver senators hail had frequently made the point just as lie he had made lt it mr dubois declared that neither he nor any of 0 the silver senators had made the point of 0 no quorum when it was ev dent there was a quorum pr preb ebent |