The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-03
WIND UP OF THE SENATE
THE JOHN BRIGHT RESOLUTION
GOES OVER.


Chosen President Pro Tenn.
WASHINGTON, April AFTER the pres
entation of two memorials, one in favor of
special privileges in regard to public office
for honorably discharged union soldiers,
and the other against the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors, the Vice President laid be-
fore the Senate to-day Mr.. Stewards reso-
luton expressing the profound sorrow of
the Senate at the death of John Bright.
Mr. Sherman suggested that the resolu-
tion had better be referred to the committee
on foreign affairs, as its adoption might es-
tablish precedent that would return to
| plague the Senate.
FRIEND IN TIME OF NEED.
Mr.. Hawley remarked that no such oc-
casion was likely to arise again. Ii 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, as it was not at
all likely that state Of things would again
| arise that would established between the
| United States and the citizens Of foreign
country the peculiar relations of respect of
one side and of tender grateful affec ion on
| the other, that exis ed i'll this country
toward the great English statesman who
| had just gone to his tomb.
LAFAYETTEs MEMORY.
With the possible exception of Gen. La
| fayette there was no other citizen Of for
eign country for whose memory the Amer
| lean people entertained so strong an at
! tachment This country had been engaged
| in a struggle for it's life; the republic, the
constitution, constitutional liberty, free
dom, not Of one race, but OF the com
| mon people of every race. had been In
| issue, and at stake, in the great struggle of
| twenty five years ago If there were any
people from whom the United States might
| have hoped for sympathy in that dreadful
contest, it was the English geople, from
| whom the American people had derived
their language their institution, their laws
and their principals of constitutional lib
erty.
SYMPATHY OF ENGLAND's LEADERS.
And vet, with scarcely an exception, the
! great statesmen of England, her mel of
| letters, her men of rank, the men who were
| leaders in her social life, NANTES ed unmis-
| tax bly, their sympathy with the south and
their exultation at the prospect that the
| great republic was approaching its end. 1t
was the voice and influence of John Bright
| which aroused the sentiment Of the common
people, of the laboring men of Great
| Britain, to the mistake which her leaders
were making, and produced a state of pub
| lie feeling which made En-
glish Intervention in behalf of the
south impossible. There were few
finer utterances in all literature
| few nobler aud more stimulating utter
ances in the elements of constitutional lib
erty than those magnificent sentences Of
| John Bright in which he pictured the
| future OF the United States and its relation
to the future hopes of humanity. 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.
TELLER ADVOCATES 1T.
Mr.. Teller also advocated the adoption of
| the resolution. If any man, he said, in the
| present generation, or in the preceding gen
Grafton, was entitled to such distincti IN, no
one would deny that John Bright was en-
titled to it. For more than sixty years that
! illustrious Englishman had stood as an ex-
| ponent of the highest and best that was
known to the f glish speaking people. He
| was humanitarian, with sym
pathies as broad and great as the
| whole world His sympathies wenl
out to the suffering and down -trodden Of
| all the world; and he stood to-day as the
central figure among the men who spend
| their llV9S III Jue u6IeDSe Ol REbdJ pTln-
ciples on which American institutions were
| founded He agreed with Mr.. Hoar that
| the adoption of the resolution would not be
| likely to prove a precedent to plague the
| United States Senate, because John Brights
were exceedingly rare. He trusted that
the resolution will be adopted without dis
| sent.
SHERMAN REITKRATEs.
Mr.. Sherman, while yielding to none in
| - for Mr. RrIcf Eua nF1n fn nn
example which the resolution would Sc +,
| but he would offer no obstacle to 1t 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 a resolution compli-
| mentary to member of the German Reich
| stag and having it returned disdalDfully
| by Prince Bismarck. He thought that the
pending resolution would establish bad
| precedent, under which the Senate might
| hereafter be asked to adopt resolutions of
| regret whenever foreign statesman or
revolutionist might die. He therefore re-
uewed Mr. Sherman's motion to refer the
resolution to the committee on foreign re-
! lations.
STEWARDS STAND.
| Mr.. Stewart opposed reference Of the
| resolution and favored its adoption He
eulogized the character of Mr. Bright as a
| leader among men not by the Inheritance
OF rank, but by the right Of great natural
endowments and high moral integrity, bis
public life for nearly half a century having
| been conspicuous in heroic efforts to remedy
| ancient abuses.
Mr.. Hawey said that the incident 10
| which Mr.. Reagan referred differed in all
respects from the case Of Mr.. Bright. In
| that case the person commended had been
engaged In a bitter controversy with the
German government and the House had
directed copy OF the resolution TO be sent
to that government In this case there was
no such proposition.
NOT IN POINT.
II was nothing to the Senate whether
ANYBODY thought Of John Bright as the
Senate did. But as matter Of fact, what
ever there was Of good in the British ma
ton (of all parties) had borne testimony to
Mr.. Bright's great WORTH. He was sorry to
see any difference Of opinion ss 10 the res
olution, although he was aware that that
difference did not attach TO the merits Of
great man.
Mr. Evarts remarked that the discussion
had nothing to do with the character Of Mr..
Bright, but only with the formality Of the
Senate's proceedings.
The question was taken on Mr.. Reagan's
motion TO refer the resolution 10 the COM
mi;tee on foreign relations, and 1t was so
referred.
MoRToN's FAREWELL.
The Vice President--As the present occu-
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