Evening journal., 1890-09-01
ST. PAUL ON THE Lead ORE TARIFF.

nlLbetS were Appoluttu III ofoAJ pSAoVA
district to work the meeting up.
ST. PAUL ON THE LEAD ORE TARIFF.
senator Gray Quotes the Bible and Star Is
General J. oarch.
The Philadelphia Records Washington
correspondent says
Graceful George Gray, Of Delaware
did IL most felicitously the other dav in
the Senate during the lead ore discussion.
| The Republican Senators had been weep.
ing and wailing about the poor silver
miners and lead miners of the West, who
ware to be ruined by the Mexican cheap
labor-all except Plumb, who said that
was all nonsense. Then Gray arose to
his full handsome height, and said, in
effect, that similar cry Of danger had
met every attempt at proa ress. Even the
Gospel had encountered it. Sending TO
the clerks desk for the little brown New
| Testament on which oaths are admins
tered he opened it reYerently and turned
deftly to She nineteenth chapter of the
Acts. and read in the story Of st. Pauls
visit TO Ephesus, from verse "a, For q
certain man named Demetrius, silver
smith, which made silver shrines for Di-
ana. brought no small gain unto the
craftsmen, whom he called together
with the workmen Of like occupation, and
said Sirs, We that know by this craft
we have our wealth Moreover ye see and
hear that not alone at Ephesus but al
most throughout all Asia this Paul hath
persuaded and turned away much people,
saying that they be no gods which are
made with hands So that not only this
our craft is in danger to be set at naught,
bur also that the temple Of the great
goddess Diana should be despised and
her magnihcence should be destroyed
whom all Asia and the world wor-
shipeth.
Demetrius, Protectionist.
Skipping tothe thirty.second verse he
read Some therefore tried one thing
and some another for the assembly was
confused and the more part knew not
wherefore they were come together
and then read the thirty-fourth verse
"But when they knew that be was Q
Jew, all with one voice about the space
Of two hours cried out Great is Dians
of the Ephesians 1t was not difficult tc
apply the text to the strugg-
ling, confused and perplexsd Re
publicans, having nothing in common
but the fear for their craft" and the
cry for their goddess, but Gray did il
admirably.
While he was preaching his little ser
mon Stewart of Nevada, the white
haired, white-beardei old sinner who
had been the last of the Republicans L
speak before Gray, left the others. whS
we're sitting spellbound and open
mouthed between amusement and amaze
ment, and walked out. bowed HIS heaC
and erept across TO the Democratic sidi
! aud up to Grays desk, where the littl,
Testament was lying He asked Graz
with his eyes whether he could borrow
il. Gray told him with his eyes that b.
could, and, without more seriously inter
rupting the discourse, he tiptOed back &
his own seat, trying as be wen
TO find the passage Gray hal
read from. Now Gray. had not an
nouncad the chapter and verse Of hi
: text. so Stewart had nothing but tn
story and his vague recolleetions of tn
the book 10 60 upon. Needless to say h
e did not find it, though he searched wit
care. BE looked in the front part. b
looked in the back part, ne looked in tn
n ! middle Of the book, handling 10 al tn
while like a very. very young infant, an
with q most puzzled and bsfled express
4
b and more and more earnest until he Ia
5 diverted the attention of the entii
4 Senate from Gray and from everYthin
g else
4 A Search Of the Scriptures.
r Senators began to gather around hin
Wade Hampton, who like many otht
gentlemen statesmen, is devout churcl
man, came over from the Democrat
y side to help him. George Frisbie Hoi
II put on his spectaeles aud Joseph r. Hay
= ley his eyeglasses to Join ia me scared
y while Farmer Plumb and Yigilante San,
= ers looked curiously on and asked Stew
art to let them see it when he &,
through. Finally Hampton and 10.
a. | together found the place, and Stewar
r breathing great sigh Of relief, read Il
NJ Whole passage 10 himself with the air
"a the lawyer in court whs read the deci
m ion which his Learned brother" hs
av quoted from in the hope that he may fiji
Al. some dynamite in the portions !
h did not read Much to his ev
dent disappointment Stewart -four
nothing IA the omitted DO
is. tions that could upset what CIR
mt had read, aud he turned the Testame
en- over to Sanders in great dissatisfacti
m as be rose TO reply to Gray Bat Ho
N. saved him from utter modification
" reminding him Just as he opened /
he mouth that Paul had written to Timoth
N But II any provide not for his own, a
specially for those of his own house,
hath denied the faith and Is worse ia
an inhdel' which somehow seemed
ID Stewards excited mind a suffice
tly answer to hari inaceurately at Or,
is Gray smiled good -na;uredly. feeling Il
ST he had the best of Il, and only retort'
a.. But no one on this side neglected
py provide for his own household, WI
IN was the way Stewart had quoted It.
lb- Grsy's clever move had no other e
The effect it gave that Testament lar
circulation on the Republican side Of
Senate than il had had for some time.
al oyster Season Opens.
lay The oyster season opens to-day an
ian large number of Wilmington pung
~. started out this moraing TO capture