The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-04
READING THE MESSAGE.
THE REPUBLICANS GREET 1T
WITH DERISION.

No Precedent in Congressional History
for Their nl-Mannered Discourtesy-
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs Folsom and
Mrs. Carlisle in the Gallery-Wha
the Members Say.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Mrs. Cleveland
and Mrs. Folsom were the only persons who
heard the whole of the Presidents message
read to-day. They sat in the executive seat
in the reserved gallery of the House from
noon until the House adjourned at $50
o'clock. All eyes were upon them, looking
for some exhibition of feeling, but all that
they saw was two handsome women, taste
fully dressed and equally calm in the ap-
plause of the democrats and the derision of
the republicans. Mrs. Carlisle joined them
after the clerk had begun to read, and re-
NAMED with them until the reading closed.
ALL PAID STRICT ATTENTION.
They all paid strict attention to the some
what unintelligible reading clerk from the
first to the last, but no one else did. All the
senator's and all the representatives present
wanted to hear what the President had to
say about the tariff, about civil service re-
form and about the Sackville episode. The
-
progress of civil service reform for special
message, to accompany the forthcoming an-
nual report of the civil service cOmmisson,
so as to make more impression on the
country, did not crafty their Curiosity in
the message to-day. After they had satisfied
themselves that this was the case and had
applauded or laughed at the Presidents
vigorous and dignified review of the tariff
situation, and Of the Sackville episode, mos
of the senators and representatives turned
to other things.
NO PRECEDENT FOR THE DIscoURTEsY.
The course of the republicans, in laughing
and derisively applauding at the tariff and
the Sackville observations, has no good
precedent. They were simply carried away
by their enthusiasm, which broke out be-
fore the Hou Q met In all sorts of Jocular
taunts at their defeated opponents. When
the clerk read in the tariff section of the
message, 1T is the peoples cause, "
the democrats could not restrain them
selves, and burst into applause. There
upon the republicans let loose their
laughter and applause also. Again when
the message quoted President Jackson's
patriotic ecord the democrats applauded,
and the republicans Knocked.
sAcKvILLE RAISES A LAUGH.
The republicans thought the Sackville re-
marks very funny and laughed heartily
twice while the clerk was reading them
After that there was no demonstration
uutil the clerk ceased, when there was
applause on the democratic side.
Mr.. Randall was not able to remain to
hear the message read, but he left Mr..
Sowden in his place. MIR. Sowden went
over ON the republican side and sitting right
in front of Gen. Hovey, governor-elect of
Indiana, amused everybody by making
sarcastic remarks upon the message,
smiling constantly at his own
wit. He seemed especially tickled by the
Presidents observation that while more
impoi tant matters have had to wait, bills
have been passed ito lay the foundation
of an Appropriation for the erection of q
new public building"
RANDALL AND SowDEN,
Messrs. Randall and Sowden both said
substantially the same thing about the
message as a whole. Mr.. Sowden put it
more plcturesquely, saying: 1T is an inter
esting ante-mortem statement.
"Of the dead nothing but good" was Mr..
Randalrs comment. All the other com
ments with the unimportant execution of
that from democrats like Messrs. Bliss and
| Morrison, who were left at
home for not being tariff reform
ers. was on strict party lines.
The democrats said it was an able and
ulSnlIleu YdleuiCtoIJ ToIulnDHS Lnen Oh
| President VanBuren's last annual message,
and the republicans said that it was, as Mr.
| Reed put it, simply the second ringing of
the first bell, bell which the people had
| voted to take down.
THE CIVIL SERVICE ISSUE.
The republicans, of course, commented
on the absence of any reference to civil
| service form as though that indicates that
the President had changed his position on
that question. They spoke of his tariff re-
marks as scalding, and of his illusions to
Lord Sackville as amusing. They gener-
ally rese ted the structures on congress.
"Too much holier than those about it." said
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois. "It's pharisaical.
However, it's his last gasp and doesn't
matter"