Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-31
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FITTED BY MERCHANTS. Senators And Congressman
 At Boston. M. PASTEUR AT HIS WORK. The Deep Devotion Of His
 Disciples. AN OPPONENT OF HOME RULE. Chief Justice Daly Rests
 From Foil.
AN OPPONENT OF HOME RULE.
CONGREssMEN AT A BANQUET. The Merchants Club of Boston Enter.
 tain Many Visitors.


 The Merchants, Club of Boston Enter- tain Many Visitors.
 l BOSTON, Dec 30.-The Merchants club | banquetted the visiting congressional delega- tion at the Hotel Vendome at o'clock. The
 grand banquet hall was beautifully decorat-
 ed. Covers were laid for BOA gentlemen. On
 the left side of the president was 8 portrait the club. On the presidents right was a portrait of MT. Abbott Lawrence, loaned for
 the occasion by Mrs. Roach, daughter of MT.
 Lawrence. These portraits were draped
 with American flags and the walls were draped with festoons of bunting. The chan deliers were decorated with holly and holly
 berries. On the tables were sixteen large
 banks composed of Catharine, Bennett, Mar echal Mel and American Beauty roses, re- lieved with spikes of hyacinth, violets and maiden hair ferns. Between the banks were mounds of holly and the table cover was dressed with strings of pansies and ferns, while boutonnisre was placed beside each gentleman's plate. After the menu President Wood of the Mer- chants club addressed tho gathering and in- troduced Governor Robinson. who spoke for the State; Mayor Hugh O'Brien, who re- sponded for the city, and Collector Salton- stall the representative Of the admipistra- ton. Addresses were then made in the order given by Senators Edmunds, Evarts, Ali son, Frye, Hawes and Hoar, Congressmen Tucker, Butterworth of Ohio, Findlay of Maryland and Long, Collins, Ranney, Lover ing, Hayden, Allen, Ely and Rice of Massa- chusetts.
 Collector Saltonstall expressed the hope that the presidential succession bill might be speedily passed; that silver coinage might be suspended and a simple, fair, reasonable tar if affording all reasonable protection be es- tablished. Senator Addison strongly favor ed a national bankruptcy law and said that although his was a farming constituency, yet his people were. so far as the tar if is concerned, in favor of taking care of the Alerican Iaborer rather than the foreign laborer; also the manufacturing interests of our own country rather than the interests of foreign countries. He argued the silver question at length, rather inclining to the silver side. Congressman Findlay in an exceptionally eloquent speech said Balti- more stood with Boston in opposition to sil- yer coinage; in favor of a bankruptcy law, aid to education, ship canals, coast defenses, restored navy and the re-establishmen6 Of our merchant marine.
 Senator Evarts took no decided ground on any of the topics discussed, but dwelt upon the fact that great sections of the country held diametrically opposite views each one of them and said: "The question is how to bring out of geographical, historical sen tilnental differences if you please, thus hos tile and arrayed against one another, a con- current balance, patriotic judgment in which if no one has his own way to the full, yet receives some solution that is con sonant with the safety and honor and the prosperity of the whole United States. (Ao plause.) SenatoEEdmunds spoke at length of the necessity of national bankrupt law
 Tomorrow at 930 a. m the distinguished party will leave by the Boston and Maine railroad for trip to Lawrence and an in- spection of the great mills. They will re- turn to Boston at D. m