The news and herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1876-1881, 1877-01-31
S. c.. WEDNESDAY, MORNING, JANUARY 81 1877.

SHIRT nad, II possible, larger au-
dience than Senator Edmunds on
Saturday, everybody knowing in ads
vance that he was to speak. The
favored ones admitted to the floor
of tho Senate were also more nu-
morous. There was fighting Bob
Ingersoll, lolling back on n sofa,
with legs crossed and with the gen
eral "jakey" air SO noticeable in tho
brilliant stump orator of the West.
AS though to accord with the enter
nal ftnoss of things the great can
didate for the Presidency at Cincin
natl, for: whom Ingersoll made the
greatest speech of his life, sat down
on the front row Of the Senator's
benches waiting for hall in the
morning hours business to permit
Of tho veteran Senator Hamlin's
rising and saying, "Before the Sen
ate proceeds, I desire to have my
honorable colleague tako the usual
oath of Office" and tho heavy form
Of Blaine, of Maine, moves sharply
across the Senate floor, and as he
kisses the Book he becomes
formally Senator of the United
States-certninly to listen attentive
ly to and probably to take part in
the discussion of a question which
Will give another man the place he
so mnch coveted. He goes back to
his sent, where handsome bouquet
is and listens attontivcly.
William M. Evarts' tall, gannt
figure also comes in tho privileged
door and he slips across to a quot
corner to listen to debate which
will result in the seating Of Presi~
dent, and as he does SO recalls the
timo whom he was the leading advo~
cate in that very room, be-
fore that very Senate, to defend a
President from the attempt to I'M
seat him. General. Sherman, too,
comes in, armed clp-a-pie with his
military cloak aid peaked hat, to
hear Morton speak. He is destined
to hear his own Senator brother
made the laughing stock of listen
ing Senate by the biting sarcasm of
Edmunds and Garfield, the leader
of the Republicans of the other
House, comes over and sits behind
Morton to set whatever may be said
against the bill by its most powerful
opponent, in order that he may use
it in his own speech tomorrow,
when the debate begins in the
House. British Minister Thornton
is also there, to SEQ how we do
things in Republic.
MoRToN's MANNER.
Morton moves his chair out into
the aisle and sits still rs he speaks.
His voice is low at first and be COM
plains of sickness, but rs he warns
to the subject his voice is raised
high and loud and his gestures show
the man of warm feeling. His very
beginning partakos of the nature Of
threat-a goad to the weaker
Senators. He says "the shadow of
the intimidation which operated SO
successfully in Mississippi has en-
tered this very chamber" He in
sisted that Rutherford B. Hayes had
been elected, and he "must be inau-
guratcd, unless bill is passed
which will count him ont" He saw
tho "crow" before him staring him
in the face, and he gulpcd it down
with the sauce that "fcw men can
claim to be entirely consistent. I
have not been so myself"
THE VERDICT OF THE JURY.
Senator Morton also ran across n
snag which compelled an advocacy
Of States right to prevent anybody
from going behind certificates of the
electors. He kept his brooches
from being torn in getting over the
fence by saying he was not the advo
cate of State sovereignty. though he
was of States rights. He laid the most
stress on the jurisdictional section
OF the bill, calling it it's vital part.
The kernel Of the nut lay in whether
the State seal could be gone behind,
and he declared that this bill re-
quircs the tribunal to go behind the
returns. .'... .'.
And then the Senator broke alb
ruptly off, pleading sickness. Ho
snt, however, through the whole
session, and even endeavored to lend
his aid to his neighbor Sherman
when that Senator had been battered
down into his seat by Edmunds in
the rather warm debate which en-
sued Morton's speech is regarded
on all sides as amost absolute fizzle.
not because of his sickness, but from
lack of argument and want of the
lmpetuosity with which he usually
bulldozes the Senate. This speech
received great attention, but failed
to convince. '"'"..i't
...u SIMON CAMERON SPEAKS. -
Then Frelinghuysen, Sherman,
Bayard and Thurman successively
ventilated their views. r'l
Then the Senate saw an othor
sight, one which had not boon wit
messed for years. Senator Simon
Cameron rose to speak. He plump.
ed out in q most unexpected way