St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-20
CONGRESS.
An Eloquent Speech BY Mr..
breckenridge i'm the House,

bTCChCuffuSC III tIle E1OuSc.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-In the senate
| to-day several petitions in favor of postal
telegraph were presented.
A resolution was reported for the
compilation of revenue and appropri-
alton bills passed by congress from the
first to the forty-ninth. Mr.. Hale re-
ported from the appropriations commit
tee the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill.
On motion of Mr.. Cameron, it was de-
cided that when the senate adjOurns to-
day it will be until Monday. On mo-
tiOn of Mr.. Sherman the senate at l2:45
went into secret session.
After going into secret session the
senate took up the consideration of the
treaty with the Netherlands, and con-
siderable time was given 10 a discussion
as to the amount of defalcations which
should be fixed upon to warrant the de-
mand OF criminals eXtraditiOn.
THE HOUSE.
In the morning hour the house re-
Sumed in committee of the whole the
consideration of the joint resolution ac-
cepting the invitation TO the United
States to participate in the Melbourne
exposition.
After long debate the invitation was
finally accepted.
The Wilkins banking bill was again
taken up to-day, and after half an hours
hllbuStering, the matter went over until
tomorrow.
Mir. Foran, of Ohio, from the commit
tee on appropriations, reported the in
valid pensions appropriation bill, and it
was referred to the committee of the
whole.
On motion of Mr.. Randall the follow
ing resolution was passed:
Resolved, That this house has received
with great satisfaction the portraits of the
Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, speaker of the
Sixth Congress: Hon. Joseph Y. Varnum,
speaker of the Tenth and Eleventh con-
crosses, and Hon. Nathaniel p. Banks
speaker of the Thirty fourth congress, pre-
sented by the commonwealth of Massachu-
setts. and will cause them to be placed and
preserved among those of the other distin-
guished men who in times past have presided
over the house of representatives.
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, in
rising to second the resolution, said that
it might not be altogether improper
that the person selected for this duty
should be representative of the state
of Kentucky. While he did not propose
to say one wOrdin honor of that beloved
state, whose people knew he loved her
with passionate idOlatry, it was not un-
becoming to say that in her history
there was no more glorious page than
that on which was written the names
and the deeds OF her sons who had filled
the speakers chair, and he to-day took
advantage of the absence of one Of her
sons to say that in impartiality and in
tellectuality that son who now filled it
never had superior. lApplause.l He
| contrasted in eloquent language the
condition Of the country to-day with
that of the country on the day when
Sedgwick was born-142 years ago If
| any one standing by the side of
| his humble cradle in New England
on that May day could have looked
| down the corridor of time and beheld
the radiant effulgence of this glorious
period. and with prophetic pen and po-
| etic power could have described it, he
would have been held an insane dream
| er of wild and impossible dreams. If
| in the whole English-spcaking people
| if we could measure the feebleneSs of
that race of which we are part OH that
| spring day those years ago, and see how
| to-day the uplifted cross carried i'll the
hands of those who speak this marvel
Gus tongue has been planted in every
| part of the globe-we would realize
something of the duty which is commit
ted by the very fact of inheritance to
| OuI uanuS ana inc glory or the trlumphS
that await our children in the future.
Speaking of the impress which Massa-
chusetts has made upon the history of
our country. he said that from 1855 to
1875 she had led America, and led her
with skill and an eloquence, with a
power and force, which had never
been surpassed in the leadership of a
great republic. (Applause.) He paid
tribute to Mr.. Randall, whose name, he
said, honored the list Of speakers zap
| plause), and in conclusion he said: Il
| am glad | did not live when Washing
ton lived. am glad lived not when
| Warren fell at Bunker Hill. ! ain glad
lived at later day, that thereby be-
came the inheritor of all the accumu-
lated glory, all the sacrifices that men
have made; and, as project myself in
to the future, do not accept the olive
branch that my friend has held ont to
me. but, waving it aside. / take with
outstretched hands his outstretched
hand, aud challenge Massachusetts, to
higher rivalry, for nobler purposes, in
that glorious future which pray God
to give those we love" (Applause.)
| The resolution was then adopted and
the house adjourned.