The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-21
LIKE THE MEN OF CLIENT
FEW SENATORS TOO FREE WITH
THE LIONS TAIL.

Danger That They Will Claim That
hoy Stepped on it by Mistake If the
Big Brute Should Awake-The Vote
on the Treaty Booked for To-Day.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-The senate at
! 40 o'clock this morning went into open
executive session on the fisheries treaty,
and MIR. Morga resumed his argument in
favor OF ratification. After Mr.. Morgan
had spoken over two hours he yielded the
floor lin accordance with the agreement of
Friday LAST SO that the opponents Of the
treaty might present their views up to
O'Clock, the last two hours up to o'clock to
be reserved for its friends.
After a brief speech by Mr.. Hoar, Mr..
EvartS took the floor and discussed each of
the articles briefly, to give his definition of
their meaning q d to crlticlse them unfavor-
ably.
AN EXTENSION OF TIME.
AT O'Clock the presiding officer (Mr
HarrlS) called attention to the agreement
under which the last two hours (up to i
o'ciocK) were to be given to the friends Of
the treaty, but as Mr.. Eyarts had not com
pleted hi argument, it was agreed that he
should continue it, and that as much time
as he should occupy after o'clock would
be allowed to the other side tomorrow, IN
addition to the two closing hours.
Mr.. Evarts then resumed his argument
against the treaty, and closed by saying
that if the treaty were rejected las it would
be) its rejection would be an opening to
quiet and repose. The people of Canada
were governed by an addition to their own
interests In common with the rest of the
world, and American relations to them
we're vastly more important to them than
the relations of Canada were to the United
States.
LIKE THE MEN OF GHENT.
Mr.. Gray said he feared there were some
senators figuring largely in the debate who
were like the men of Ghent in the old song,
who had trod on the tail of the lion of Elan
derS when asleep, and wnen the lion grOwed
at the gates of Gnent, they Bonded low
when they saw him awake, and said
they had trod on bis tail by
mistake" The administration and
party while maintaining Alright the position
of the United States toward Great Britain
andfall the world, did not propose to put
this country in an attitude where it would
be obliged to retract or apologize, or say
that it had trod on the lions tail by mis-
take.
NOT AFRAID OF WAR.
Those who favored the treaty did not fear
war, but they did fear the relations of the
United States with Great Britain might
lapse into II condition not in which she
would declare war against the United States
but in which the United States
would be compelled, by just regard for its
own honor and the national reputation, to
consider the question of war with her.
Mr.. Morgan proceeded to close the discus
sion. The senator from New York, he
sad, had shown in his argument to-day the
stress into which he had been driven by the
debate, and had called out points on which
to make final stand after being roured
horse, foot and dragons on the points in
the case. He had selected some articles of
the treaty, and had committed himself to
positions which would do no great credit 10
a mere novice in diplomacy and legal
knowledge.
Mr.. Morgan spoke till o'clock and will
have half an hour tomorrow in order to
conclude his argument.
The senate then adjourned.