The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
A Parenthesis in Senator Dawes
Speech.
The National Academy of Sci
ence in Session.
POpuIarizing Abstruse Learn
ing.-Etc.. etc.

1
The Lenten season is now over, and
there win be a brief revival of social
gayety before Washington, enervated by
heat and malaria, becomes a deserted
village" the wealthy will soon betake
themselves to seaside and mountain re-
sort, while the wan government clerk
will find cheap boarding house a few
miles out of the city where breezes from
clover fields will in some degree coun-
teract the effect of the miasma that he
inhales during the day. Last week, in
an eloquent peroration, Senator Hoar
said, among other pretty things, that he
had seen the sun rise over Mont Blanc.
Senator Thurman, in replying, said that
he had never seen the sun rise over
| Mont Blanc, but that he had beheld the
insidious malaria steal up from the
swamps of the Potomac. Everybody in
Washington has seen and inhaled the in
sidious malaria that steals up from the
swamps of the Potomac. The only rea-
son for keeping the National Capital
here where i'll health in the form of
dyspepsia and all malariaI diseases pene-
trates everything, even legislation, is
that millions of dollars have been spent
to build a city amid swamps, and be-
cause there is too much jealousy among
the cities that would contend for the
Capital to make it possible for our leg
islature to agree on locality. But the
Capital must be moved; it will be mev-
ed sooner or later; there is every reason
sanitary, rhetorical and religious-for
its removal. Give US a Capital on a
hill, on seven hills, on a mountain, a
plateau, anywhere but in a basin on a
level with the sea, but far from the
healthful breezes of the sea, at the con-
ference of sluggish streams, that have
not sufficient current to carry off the
sewage of the city, or the pestilent
detritus of the large areas which they
drain.
Last week the roar of debate was
heard in the lower House, this week it
RACES in the Senate. Hoar, Blaine, Lo-
gan, Beck and Dawes, have all made
great efforts, and Voorhees,, Morgan
and others, have yet to be heard from.
Senator Beck concluded his speech yes
terday, and was followed by Mr.. Dawes,
who consumed an hour or more In
the midst of Senator Dawes speech
Senator Wade Hampton entered the
chamber for the first time. Senator
Butler, his colleague, announced his
presence and desired that he be sworn
in. He was conducted to the Presi-
dents desk and the oath was admins
tered by Senator Thurman, President
pro tenn.
Senator Withers, who has charge of
the military bill, said he hoped the Sen.
ate would be able to reach vote by the
middle of next week, and in order to
make that practical he suggested that
the daily sessions be conducted to
later hour than usual. Senator Morgan
has the floor to-day, and he may be re-
lied upon for one of the most notable |
speeches that this contest will produce. |
He will be followed by Senator Voor- |
hees, unless some Republican Senator
shall express desire to speak to-day. |
Y yesterday afternoon no notice had been
given from that side. The orators of
that side would rather follow Mr.. Voor-
bees than have him come after them.
Unless the discussion comes to a close
by next Wednesday or Thursday, it is
probable that continuous session will
be ordered.
M. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, will
speak to-day in favor of the repeal of
he test oath, and partial repeal of the
law.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, will sub
nit constitutional argument in favor
If the Democratic position
The sessions of the National Academy
If Sciences, now in progress at All
SOULS Church, attract large audiences
# intelligent ladies and gentlemen who
listen with appreciative interest to the
earned discussions of the members.
Until within the last few years all pure
y scientific lectures and essays were
the learned professor spoke
language that was not understood by
aymen. Tyudall and Huxley set the I
xample of popularizing science, and re- !
ucing to familiar language and ex- q
laining by familiar illustrations, those q
leas which had before been expressed q
My in abstruse technical phraseology. +
hoV sy,os AoE |
ne country. Astronomy speaks no y
onger ercathedTa; even the great Lock r
er has condescended to write a primer i
nd to speak and explain by chart from
ne rostrum. Dona has condensed his
onderous volume on mineralogy to a
lanuel for schools, and many other dis t
nguished specialists have followed in f
Eample. By those who thirst for scien- f
fin knowledge, the annual sessions of a
lie National Academy of Science are t:
opreciated and improved, for, although fl
me of the papers read are beyond Z
of those who have not i
ceived even a smatterIng, there is al il
avs something said or done that sug- b.
.sts rich, wonderful and unexplored !!
'mains; the desire fer pure scientific
lowledge is stimulated and the sue
eding generation, if not the present, th
Ii be benefited by the efforts that are pr
w made for popular diffusion of ma N
raj and physical science. GAS. to
A
Weldon IN. CO. Nescs: Gen. +. K. N
lIicoffer, who was killed in Kentucky q
ring the war, was born in Halifax e.