New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-26
lIOrrfsQnss Record,

The following is from the Cincinnati
Times Of Wednesday:
Morrison, the new Democratic ''lea Ter
in Con gress. has not hitherto figured largely
in the proceedings OF Congress. Take for
instance, the first session of the last Con
gress. The index TO the Congressional
Record shows that he introduced Il dozen or
so OF bills almost entirely Of private
character, like the following:
House resolution No. 226l, compensat;ng
DR.. Is, Hahn for horse lost in battle.
House resolution No. 1878, for the relief
of Louisa Bodgley.
House resolution No 1907, tor .ha relief
OF John Hobson,
He also offered one Joint resolution pro-
posing az amendment to the constitution
ito fix the term OF the presidential Office al
six years, and 10 make the President ineli
giDle Tor more than six years in any term
of twelve years after the next presidential
election" he also presented half q dozen
petitions relating to some petty local or
personal matters in his district He made
no report from committee, and ~ speech
during the entire session, with the excep-
ton OF incidental remarks" on two occa-
slons, the trst tRec0ra, page 539S) as FOL
lows:
Mr.. Morrison--I ask leave 20 have passed
bill for the removal of the political dsa
biities of Marcellus T. Christian, of Lynch
burg, Virginia.
Mr.. Ransler-l object.
Mr., Morrison-I move that the rules be
suspended and the bill passed.
The Spealsr-That can not be done.
The second and last specimen of ''inci
dental remarks we quote from page ji30--
still harping on Marcellus Christian:
Mr.. Morrison-I move to include in that
bill also the name of Marcellus Christian.
The amendment was adopted.
This is the entire record of Mr.. Morrison
for one session, and the enfranchisement OF
Marcellus Christian (eiUher with or without
the the sum total os his legislative
achievements. Elsewhere we give the Her,
ads summing up of the record Of his frat
term.
This is what the Herald says:
II SO happens that the new chairman of
Ways and Means has already served four
years III Congress, and has been ranked
with the commonplace members. He first
came into the House in 1863 as Ii member of
the Thirty eighth Congress, at the sane time
with Mr.. Blaine. AS both of these gentle
men were new members, it is not discredit-
able to either that they were assigned to
low places on an unimportant committee.
1t so happened that they were pu. on the
same committee and near the tail end of it.
Mr.. Morrison, being from an adjoining
State, was probably known to Speaker
Colfax, while MIR. Blaine was not, for Nor.
rison stood as the sixth and Blaine az the
seventh on the Committee on Militia. Mr..
Blaine rose rapidly into high consideration
in that Congress, participating largely in
the debates and exercising decided intl1-
ence. But Mr.. Morrison was cipher.
During the first session he offered one or two
uninpOrtant resolutions, but took part in no
debate In the next session, while 3Ir.
Blaine con ;inued to rise in the estina-
ton OF the House by frequent displays of
ability, Mr.. Morrison never rose from his
sent to address the Chair but once, and
then on point which was frivolous and
ridiculous. On an occasion when many
members were called to account and fined
for absence Mr.. Morrison rose to a question
OF privilege, saying that he had offered the
amount of his fine to the Sergeant at. Arms
in bank notes, and that he had refused to
accept it because bank notes were not a
legal tender, This piece of small buffoonery
is Mr.. Morrison's only record during the
whole session of lS6i-5,