The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-13
GROWING SARCASTIC.

/ Quoting a remark of Mr. Blair's, thatthe
| President might at least have sent his veto
message in gentlenlanly language, MT.
| Butler exclaimed: God save the marx!
What terrible calamity 1t would be 70
this country il the standard OF gentleman
| had to be establ shed by the senator from
( New HAMPSHIRE. 1t would undermine and
destroy every rule on the subject recog-
nized among civilized people. As 70 Mr..
Buffers having criticised the senate with
too much freedom, he asked the senator
from New Hampshire if he remembered
how many pension bill per minute had been
passed at the secretary's desk.
HOW THEY ARE RUSHED.
He reminded the senate that on one occa-
sion 141 bills had been passed in one hour
and ten minutes, or at the rate OF more
than two bills per minute, and yet the sena-
tor had said that he Mr. Butler had been
too free in critlcisltg the action OF the
senate. He spoke Of Mr.. Blair's arraigning
him as an attempt TO create diversion Ike
demagogue by appealing TO the soldier
vote If the country In what he Dir But
ler had said he had cast no personal rehec-
ton on the gentlemen who composed the
committees Of the senate, and had not said
one word N disparageme1t of any member
of the committee on pensions. But II he
had any doubt Of the virtues, wisdom and
PROPHECY tI LIlE IIDF lhlDil III LllS tJlINb4Lu-
ton which conferred the veto power on the
President, the conduct Of congress would
have removed that doubt.
BLAIR's REPLY.
Mr.. Blair asserted that the senator from
South Carolina could not escape the predic-
ament n which he had placed himself by
insulting him Mr.. Blair for accepting his
own confession. But ne denied that sena-
tors assertion so far as he (Mr.
Blair and other senator's were con-
cerned He did not quite
understand what the senator meant by in
sinuating that the senator from New Hamp-
shire was demagogue. The senator from
New Hampshire was not traitor and in
debted for his life 10 the mercy Of his coun-
try.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
II he mir. Blair had offered a measure
which had not met with the approval Of the
senator from South Carolina, he had only
to say that If the measure which he sup
posed the senator had in his mind the edu-
cationaI bill had been the law Of the land
a quarter Of a century ago, there would
have been free freemen and a free ballot in
his own southern part Of the country as
well as in the north, and the institutions of
America would not not have been threat
ened by destruction by successful rebellion
which planted itself now under the forms
Of government and boosted that it was
doing its work under the old flag. Refer
ring to an allusion by Mr.. Butler to his
(Mr. Blair's) courage, he remarked that
while he claimed no excess of courage, and
never expected TO be called upon TO exhibit
even the ordinary courage of senator or
civilian. he would not shrink from any test
probably which the senator from South
Carolina might seek to subject him to.
This closed the discussion.
NOTHING DONE AT NIGHT.
The house met this evening to consider
certain private pension bills to which OBJ
lection had been made at various Friday
evening sessions, and final vote of which
bad been postponed until tonight. There
were thirteen such measures upon the cal
endar, but opposition was developed to the
first one, granting a pension to jesse H.
Strickland, and after a call Of the house
and two Indifferent roll calls, the house,
without accomplishing anything, at 1918
O'Clock al burned