Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-03
THE SENATE.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT 10 TIRE noN.
JOHN BRIGHT
Seminationa aud Ordinations wash
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cal privileges 10 fFGafu 10 puhic ounce Tor
honorahly.dischqrged Union soldiers and
the other against the traffic in intoxicating
iionors, the Wee. President laid before the
senate SIR S.cwAri's resolution expressing
tAe profound sorrow OF the Senate at the
dcsfh Of John Bright.
Nr. sherman suggested that the resolu.
ton had better be referred 10 the Committee
az Foreien Affairs, IS SIS adoption might cs-
fahlisL precedent that would return 20
plague ND. Senate.
Mr.. HaViev remarked that no such occs.
sion was 3kcly 10 arise again. II the United
states had ever bad TREND IN tine Of need
shs' friend was John Bright
Mr. Hosf thought that IN this puticul8r
case lbe senate Nss sale, ~ It was not al an
lkof, inst the state OF things would again
arise ihsi would establish between the
United states aud ciilzen Of foreign
country ihe peculiar relations OF respect on
one SIDE sud Of tender and grateful adcc-
tion on The other inst existed IA this country
toward The great English statesmen who had
)ust gone to his tomb. Win The possible
exception OF lafayette there was no other
ciii1en Of a ioseign county Tor whose
memory thc American peop'e entertained so
strong 40 attachment. This country had been
engaged IN struggle for iis NE; toe re-
puuIic. Constitution. constitutional liberty,
mon people Of every rsce had been 10 issue
aud al stake 90 the great struggle % twenty
fyeyesrs ago. II there was any people from
whom the United states might have hoped
for sympathy iu ihs; dreadfu' contest u was
the English PEOPLE. from whom the AWefi-
Csn people ted derived tnslr language, their
Institutions. their iaws. aud tNrii principles
OF constitutional liberty. And yet, with
scarcely an exception, the great statesmen OF
England. her men ~ letters, her men Of
rank. men who were leaders in her social
lie, manifested Enthusiastically their sympa-
Thy with the rebellion, and their cNul,atiou
al the prospect that The great republic was
approaching TO- end. u wa, the voice ana
influence OF John BRIGHT which aroused
the sentiment of The common people. OF he
lsb0riug men ~ Great Britain, 90 TIE mistake
which her leaders were making, and pro-
durod a state 81 public feeling which made
English Intervention ia behalf OF the rebel
zoo impossible. There were few finer utter
cuces ia QUO literature; few nobler and more
siimnianf uucranccs iu the cl0quencc OF con-
sti'uuonll lhfriY ihtu those magnificent
sentence Of John Bright In which be PIC
tHfed toe future 81 the United states and lts
relations Go the future hopes OF humanity.
Tie hoped th't The motion 20 refer would be
Withdrawn aud That The resolution would be
adopted.
hr. Teller also advocated the adoption Of
The resolution. II auv man. he said. M the
present generation or M tho preceding gene
rlfl0n WIS entitled 10 such di.rnct,0D, no
one would deny that John Bright was en-
uucg 10 H. Tor more ihaD sixty years that
i'l~iriOu- Engiis3M3n had stood aS the cN-
E3rrut a. The hiehcs' and best tina, was
tr wn 10 the En2iish-speSkiug peope. lie
v. decentralization. with sYmpath!Cs rs
"a ff... va f...1. ID
smpsihics went out ~ TIE suffering and
Cowu-ttodden o. ali the world, ard he stood
today ~ the central figure among the IFeu
who spend their live. In defenre ~ the great
principles on which American Institutions
wcrc founded. lie agreed with Mr. HoN
that tue adoption # the resolution would
not likely 90 prove precedent 10 plague
me United states senate, because Jchn
Brig Dts were exceedingly rare. He trusted
taat The resolution would Ice adopted without
dissent.
MI sherman, white yielding t. none IN
respect Tor Mr. Bright, wa opposed ~ The
example which the resolution would set, bat
BE- would oher D. obstacle 10 il and would
withdraw tho motion 10 refer.
Mr. Reagan rolcrTed 81 the false step taken
10y the House OF Nrlr. rntuvos some wears
$40 IN passing resolution complimentary
Cos member Of the German Rticurtt~, ana
having % returned dialainiu }, hy Bismarck.
Vo Mouytf that Tie DcnJipg resolution
,,euid establish bad precedent. under
which the senate might hereafter he 9>Ecd
z, ADOPT resolutions OF regret whenever
s,r.i., ,,af..y.sn or rcvol1fioni,t might die.
ua t.or.fare r,n.w.a l,r. sherman, mo.
lion t,rcfer t7o ,r.olution To- thc Committee
ON F.reiyu Eelstiou>.
Sir. stewart ornosri the reference Oi the
resolution AVID favored ms adoption. lie
eulogiled the character Of Nj. Bright "a
leedqr anon, mon: not by inheritance "
rsnt. luf bg the iI-hf ~ ~rpat natural en-
dpnmu.s ana n.l mo,al Integrity. his
public uf. fO. u,Ir.y bali century haV NJ
been cons, .cuons IN hr.oic Efforts 90 remedy
ancient a'u,c>.
MI U1vlce slii thlt the incident 10 which
Nr. REAGAN referred differed IN ali RESPECTS
% Tue case ai a'r. ErehL IN that case the
person commended had hceu engaged in
bitter controversy with the German Govern
mem and ine House detected copy Of the
resolution 60 be s,nt ihtt Government. In
TINS case there vas no ,uch proposition. II
was nothing 90 thc senate whether anybody
thought ol John Nrignt Is the senate did.
but 40 70 matter o. fact. whatever there was
81 GOOD iu th. British nation (of aH partiesl
had horne t,stinon, 10 Mg. Rrichrs great
worth. tie WAS forr, 10 sac any difference
Of opinion as TO tLr resolution, although hc
was awere ttai that adherence dld no, attach
T. the merit. * tl, great man.
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