The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-06-09
Congress.

bearded the hypocrltlcal radical
party in its den On Thursday in the
Senate on the Fisheries treaty. Mr..
Morgan asked leave to alter the pre-
amble and series of resolutions on
the subject of the pending fisheries
treaty, and Mr.. Vance moved to
refer them TO the committee on
foreign relations. The pre-
amble reoites that the report of the
committee on foreign relations on
the treaty raises question whether
the President had authority to ne.
getiate such treaty or to appoint
plenipotentiaries without previous
consent of the Senate, and the reso-
lutions to declare that the treaty
has been duly negotiated and is
lawful and valid.
Mr.. Morgan insisted that be had
a right to speak on the motion to
refer, and in spite of the objection
of Mr.. Sherman and the ruling of
the chair that he (Morgan) was out
of order. Morgan proceed d, an
nouncing that he intended to make
this morning the speech which he
made in executive session; if the
Senate would give leave to have it
printed he would do so without de-
livering it in the Senate.
The presiding officer, while ruling
Morgan out of order. said that he
had no means of enforcing his
ruling, that was for the Senate, not
the chair.
Mr.. Morgan, with apparent indif
ference to the ruling, proceeded
with the reading of printed slips of
his speech in secret session. One
of the sentences of his speech was
"The Senate may make war neces-
sary, as | am very much afraid we
are doing here to day. Ii an aliu-
sion to the Republican Senators,
Morgan said that The only prepara~
ton which they wee making
was an attempt to enlist the SYM
pathies of the disaffected subjects of
Her Majesty. Their action, be said,
was doubtless with a view of excite
ing antagonism of Irish voters to
the President because of his alleged
subserviency to British influences.
That charge ranked with injustice.
Congress Che said) had given to the
President the power which all pres
idents had posed since 1850 10 wage
a paper war on British commerce,
and had then stood by 10 see
whether the Preside t would push
that paper war into the category of
real war. If he had done SO the
country would have cried out for
his impeachment, but having failed
to do so, he was charged in the re-
port of the majority of the commits
tee on foreign relations with usurpa-
ton and with abuse OF constitutional
power, because he had sought to
find peaceable way to get the
rights claimed by the United States,
and the threat had been made by
the committee offrture dealing with
the President held in reserve for the
time being.
Mr.. Morgan finished reading at
1:5O and the resolutions went over
without action.
The House resumed the consider
alton of the tariff bill. Pending
consideration politics got the upper
hand. and several kilograms and
bulletins were read as part of the
speeches. Mr.. Cox read the am
nouncement of Thurman's nomina~
tion, and a scene Of wild confusion
followed. Nearly every able bodied
Democrat was on his feet shouting
and cheering, and bandannas which
had not been SO prominent this
morning mysteriously appeared in
every hand. One enthusiast tied
one to the stick of an umbrella and
waved it vigorously. An enterprise.
ing reporter dexterously dropped
one of the flaming symbols on each
wing of the handsome golden eagle
perched above the speakers head.
while the reading clerk, Neil Brown
and Outhwait, Of Ohio, displayed
upon the desk a large picture of
Thurman surmounted by an aggreso
sive rooster.
Mr.. Biggs, of California, added to
the excitement by calling out in a
voice broken with emotion, "I have
worked thirty years in California to
see Thurman nominated. Thank
God he is now on the second place"
Finally, by Mr.. Mills efforts, the
House was brought back to consid-.
Grafton of the pending amendments
Dingley's amendment of yesterday
was frs. amended and then rejected
entirely. Several other amendments
were offered and rejected. The con-
uded consideration OF the proviso
attache to the lumber sections, and
after the clerk had lead the next
article on the free list, salt in bags,
sacks, barrels or other packages, or
10 bulk, when imported from any
country which does not charge an
import duty upon salt exported
t'om the United States" the
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