Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-02
Respect to the Memory of John Bright.
THE LIST OF NOMINATIONS.
Contest in Executive Session.
The Senate.

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fore him.
After the presentation of two memorials, one
in favor of special privileges in regard to pub
lie Office for honorably discharged Union SOL
diers and tho other against traffic in intoxicat-
ing liquors, the vice-President laid before the
Senate Mr.. Stewards resolution expressing the
profound sorrow OF the Senate at
THE DEATH OF JOHN BRIGHT.
Mr.. Sherman suggested that the resolution
had better be referred to the committee on
foreign relations, its adoption might estab-
lish a precedent that would return to plague
the Senate.
Mr. Hawley remarked that no such occasion
was likely to arise again. If the United States
had ever had friend in time of need that
friend was John Bright.
Mr. Hoar thought that, in this particular
case the Senate was safe, it was not at all
likely that state of things would again arise
that would establish between the United
States and the citizen of foreign country the
peculiar relations of respect on one side and of
tender, grateful affection on the other that eX
listed in this country toward the great English
statesman who had just gone to his tomb.
WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF LAFAYETTE
there was no other citizen..of foreign country
for whose memory the American people enter
tanned so strong an attachment This country
republic, the Constitution, the constitutional
liberty, freedom, not of one race but of the
common people of every race, had been in is
sue and at stake in the great struggle of twenty
five years ago. If there was any people from
whom the United States might have hoped for
sympathy in that dreadful contest it was the
English people, from whom the American peo-
pie had derived their language, their institu-
tiOns, their laws and their princi-
pies of constitutional liberty. And
the great statesmen of England. her men of
letters, her men of rank, the men who were
leaders in her social life, manifested unmistaka-
bly, their sympathy with the rebellion and their
exuitation at the prospect that the great re-
public was approaching its end. 1t was the
aroused the sentiment of the common people,
OF the laboring men of Great Britain,
| to the mistake which her leaders were maxi
iHssand produced. Q, state Of public feeling
which made English interventioR IN behalf of
the rebellion impossible. There were few finer
utterances in all literature, few nobler and
stimulant utterances in the eloquence of con-
stitutiOnal liberty than those magnificent sem
fences of John Bright, in which he pictured
THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES
and its relations to the future hopes of human
ity.
The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Hoar thought)
might not fear that the precedent to be
established by the resolution would return
to trouble either of them during the period of
their public service. He hoped that the
motion to refer would be withdrawn, and that
the resolution would be adopted.
MR.. TELLER IN FAVOR OF THE RES oLUTIoN.
Mr.. Teller also advocated the adoption of the
resolution. If any man Che said) in the present
generation, or in the preceding generation, was
entitled to such distinction, no one would deny
that John Bright was entitled to it. For more
than sixty years that illustrious Engishman
had stood on the exponent of the highest and
best that was known to the English h-speaking
people. He was humanitarian, with sympa-
thies as broad and great the whole
world. His sympathies went out to
the suffering and down-trodden of all the
world, and he stood to-day as the central
hgure among men who spend their lives in
American institutions are founded. He
agreed with Mr.. Hoar that the
adoption of the resolution would not be likely
to prove precedent to plague the United
States Senate, because John Brights were ex-
ceedingly rare. He trusted that the resolution
would be adopted without dissent.
MR.. SHERMAN wITHDRAws HIS MOTION.
Mr.. Sherman, while yielding to none in res
pect to Mr.. Bright. was opposed to the example
which the resolution would set, but he would
offer no obstacle to it and would withdraw the
motion to refer.
Mr.. Reagan referred to the false step taken
by the House of Representatives some years
ago in passing resolution complimentary to
a member of the German reichstag,
and having it returned disdainfully by
Prince Bismarck. He thought that the
pending resolution would establish a
bad precedent, under which the Senate might
hereafter be asked to adopt resolutions of
regret whenever foreign statesman
or revolutionist might die. He. there
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refer the resolution to the committee on
foreign relations.
MR.. STEWART OPPOSED THE REFERENCE
of the resolution and favored its adoption. He
eulogized the character of Mr.. Bright as leader
among men.
After further debate the resolution was re-
ferred to the committee on foreign relations, to
the astonishment of many people, who had no
doubt Of its adoption.
vIcE-PREsIDENT MoRToN's FAREWELL.
The vice-President delivered neat little fare
well address, and upon motion of Mr. Edmunds
MR.. INGALLS, WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEN
to serve during the absence of the Vice-Presi-
dent. Mr.. Morton vacated the chair that this
might be done before adjournment.
The question has been under discussion
whether not a President pro tenn. must be
reelected every time the Vice-President is alb
sent or whether he may be chosen once for the
whole term as a sort Of third Vice-President
Without raising this question the fact that
Mr.. ingalls, is presiding at the hour
of adjournment leaves him the President
pro tenn. during the entire recess, and should
the Vice-President for any reason
be absent when the Senate again convenes Mr.
Ingalls, will be the presiding officer without re-
election.
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The Senate went into executive session about
twenty minutes before o'clock, and again took
up the controversy over the confirmation of the
DELEGATES TO THE CONGRESS OF AMERICAN
REPUBLICS
to be held in Washington. At yesterdays ex-
ecutive session the democrats generally and
some of the republicans, conspicuously Senator
Frye, opposed the confirmation Whether this
opposition is earnest enough to threaten the re-
lection of any of the delegates is uncertain and
must be developed to-day.
Two Senators went to Mr. Blaine last evening
to see il any revision of the list could be made,
and they were informed that it was too late for
that as they had all accepted
The general impression seems to be that the
entire list will be confirmed.
THE NOMINATIONS TO-DAY.
Assistant Commissioner Of Patents
Naval Promotions.
The President to-day sent the following nom-