Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-18
WASHINGTONISMS
EULoGT DAY IN TIE U. S. SENATE.
Complimentary Testimonials to the Worth
of the Late Senator NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
Mexican Observation-Disclosures Prepa,-
ing for Rioters.
Senate.

ing for Rioters.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Bills were intro
duced and referred as follows: By Senate
Howe, to punish forcible obstruction t
Interstate commerce by railways. Referre,
to the committee on judiciary.
By Senator Ferry, providing for the class
ifcation of Mail matter and rates of postag
thereon. Referred to committee on post
offices.
Senator Hamlin called up the Joint resolu
ton appointing President Noah Porter O
Yale College member of the board O
regents of the Smithsonian Institute, vic
Jas. B. Dana, resigned. Agreed to.
Senator Wadleigh said the family of th
late Senator Morton found among his paper
his views as a member of the special com
mittee in regard to the Chinese immigration
and the Senate having given the late Sen
ator Morton leave to present his views il
writing. When the majority report was
submitted OH the 9th of February, 1877, he
Wadleigh, now presented such views anc
moved that they be printed. So ordered.
After the morning business had been dis
posed of Senator Macdonald submitted
resolutions of respect to the memory of the
late Senator Morton, and made suitable re-
marks upon the life and character of the
deceased.
Nowhere, he said, would his loss be felt SO
severely as among his friends and followers
in his native State. He spoke of the warmth
and strength of the effectiveness of the dead
Senator. II he had faults let them be buried
with him. Let his friends and associates re-
member and cherish only those kindly feel
ings and sentiments which his high and
better qualities inspired.
Senator Thurman spoke of the late Sena-
tor as the man, not as the politician, holding
that in any sphere of life he would have
been remarkable man. He was not
scholar, but his speeches were distinguished
for earnestness. In social intercourse he
was universally courteous and a1niable.
Senator Conkling said he rose only to add
his tribute of respect and admiration for the
services and genius of the remarkable man
whose death was mourned to-day. AS par
ty leader he was too great for any state or
any party to readily supply his place. AS a
vlgilant representative he had no superior in
either honse of Congress. Crippled by bodi-
ly infirmity, his mind never faltered or
tagged. No labor discouraged him, no con-
tingency appalled, him, no disadvantage dis
mayed him, no defeat disheartened him.
Those who encountered him in debate would
never forget his ability, his courage, and
above all, his indomitable heart He would
go down to the far hereafter, not as one who
embellished his name by a scholastic and
studied use of words, but rather as one who,
day by day, in the journey of life met real
tiles of affairs and grappled them with a
grasp resolute and quick. He needed no ep-
itaph but his name, and though brass might
corrode and marble mould, men would still
Oliver P. Morton as leading and
manful defender of the republic i'll the re-
public's mostdire and heroic age.
Senator Morgan said upon an occasion like
this, when nation was paying its respect to
a dead Senator, it was not fitting that the
section which he represented should be 81
lent. Alabama laid upon the tomb of the
late Senator, a bough of her evergreen mag
nolia, crowned with white emblems of peace,
and with it extended to Indiana her heartfelt
He then spoke of the prominent
traits of Morton's character, and said though
his nature was intensely combative, his ear
was ever ready to listen to the bugles of
truce. lie was no conspirator. His nature
was above that mean level. He was an open
bold and defiant antagonist. His opponents
always knew where to find him. He lived
during the most corrupt era Of our history,
and had every opportunity to grow rich by
stealth, but he escaped every suspicion of
dishonesty. He was an honest man.
Senator Bruce alluded to the attachment
the colored people had for the dead Senator,
and said, perhaps, no public man, except
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner, was
better known to the colored people, and was
more loved and revered.
Senators Edmunds, Burnside, Booth, An
thony, Wadleigh aud Paddock having spoken,
Senator Voorhees, concluded the eulogies.
He said Senator Morton and himself became
personal as well as political friends in early
life, and although in after years their politi-
cal opinions were as widely separated as the
poles, their personal friendship remained I'M
broken. lie spoke Of the life of the late SEN
ator as one worthy of imitation, having be-
came great man by his own efforts. If he
could not be President himself he did much
to put others in that Office and to dictate
their policies.
The Senate then, as further mark of re-
spect to the memory of deceased, adjourned.
House of Representatives..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Bills were intro
duced and referred as follows;
By Mr.. Davis of California. to restrict
Chinese immigration.
BY Mr.. Knapp, extending the operations
of the light house board over the Illinois
river.
BY Mr.. ELAN, for the better organization
of the United States District Court of Loui-
siana; also to authorize the construction of
railroad bridges near Shreveport and Qua
cbita.
Mr.. Peddie asked leave to offer a resolution
reciting the insincerity of savings institu-
tons, and the diminished confidence in them,
and authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to appoint postmasters in towns of 5000
population and upwards agents for the sale
OF U. 5. bonds, in denominations of $40 or
less.
Mr.. Hood remarked that that subject was
already before the committee of ways and
means.
MIR. Waddell said it was also before the
Postofiice committee, and he moved that the
resolution be referred to that committee.
Mr.. Wood objected to offering Of the reso-
luton.
Hewitt reported bill granting pensions
to the surviving officers, soldiers and sailors.
or their widows, of the Mexican. Greek.
Florida and Black Hawk wars. Ordered
printed.
Watson introduced bill to extend the
provisions of the laws relating to soldiers
and sailors of the war of 1873. Referred.
Inc House then took up the business of
the morning n hour, it being the bill reported
py Fry to make persons charged with
q crimes p and offences competent witnesses in
=. .: courts. Amendments were adopted ex-
,eno1ng the act to Territorial Courts, Courts
Marllal ana Courts of Inquiry, aud by in
sertlng the words, "and his failure to make
s s! request shall not create any presump-
words: -ss'e
In the trial of all indictments ;nfor,oo