The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-11
ANOTHER DAY0F DEBATE
Everybody In tho Senate Taking 4 Turn
at the nontana Case.
Call. Gray, Hoar and Teller the Prin-
clpai Speakers Ysstsrday-Re-
publicans Determined to
Consunfmate the Crime.
Special 10 the Standard.

WASHINGTON. April 10.-The democrats
of the senate are getting their second
wind on the senatorial case. They have
about made up their minds that they will
get speech out Of every man who can
talk and they will certainly keep that up
so that Sanders and Power will not be
seated this week. The talking to-day was
not SO breezy or interesting ms II was yes
tertlay. There was q general curiosity to
see II Power answered the description OF
that economical patriot given by Turpie,
but Power did not exhibit himself. San
ders was on hand, confident and comfort
able as he has been allalong. The repub-
licans had concluded over night that they
would not allow any other business to
again break i'm upon the Montana case
until il is decided. II has already been
learned that there is to he an election in
Butte on Tuesday. The result OF that
election will be watched for by the repub-
| licans with great concern. IL II is carried
by the democrats II will spoil still further
| the report of the republican senators, but
| Il will not change the verdict. The seats
| will be given to Sanders and Power what
ever happens.
Butte may as well make up its mind
| that Il cannot have federal building out
of this congress. The committee has de-
cided that Mont ana can have but one
building, and as the Helena bill has been
reported, II is probable that the one for
Butte will be abandoned until the second
session.
BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 1O.-The Montana
election case was again taken up. Call
addressed the senate in opposition to the
| report of the majority of the committee,
declaring the republican claimants, San
tlers and Power, entitled upon the merits
| of the case to seats In the senate from
Montana.
At the conclusion of Calls speech Hoar
spoke in support of the majority report.
Gray replied to Hoar and then Teller adj
dressed the senate. He regarded the
question not from a partisan point of
view, but question of law on the proper
| determination Of which de-
pends the orderly behavior Of
the senate in the future. The
question was whether Montana should be
allowed to select her own representatives.
The plain logic OF the arguments on the
democratic side of the chamber was that
the right to make the selection was re-
served to the senate. From that he dis
scented. Such doctrine would lead to
chaos and confusion. "What." he asked,
"would have been the condition of the
senate il il had attempted To say for many
years past whether the legislature of n
state in electing senators did or did not
express the will OF the people? good
many senators OH his side of the chamber.
including himself, thought that certain
states had not been represented i'm the
senate according to the will OF the people.
He was not insensible to the great wrong
inflicted OH the people of those states.
But he had not been able to
find anywhere under the constitution
. | authority for the senate to determine a
| question the state had determined for
itself. He did not know what the theor,
of the majority i'm the Montana case was.
III their report was to be taken. il was
that Clark and Magnnis were legal repre-
sentatives from that state. but IL their
arguments were good for anything at all,
IL was that nobody had been sent TO the
senate from that state. He tMr. Teller
held that the only thing to be determined
! was, whether the state of Montana had
, spoken through its legislature, and IL II
had, there was no authority i'm the senate
What lac asked was for controversy i'm the
case. II was whether or not the five
men who had sat in the Iron Hall
legislature were entitled TO seats
{ in that body. II it was no
, | rightful house, and the joint assembly
that elected the republican claimants was
the rightful and only joint assembly i'm til,
state of Montana. But the senate hat
2 said in the Turpie case that the Legislature
| of Indiana had to decide for itself VIII,
1 were entitled TO seats i'm that body, nj
though there might have been the crosses
outrage. The committee in admitting mel
: to seats in the senate held in that case the!
had no right for interference. Righting tina
I wrong was not entrusted to the senate o
+, the United States but to the people OF In.
. diana. There was no legal distinction
\ between the cases. III the senate shoul,
ever proceed To make itself the investi
S gator of elections all over the countr.
| there would be an end of its usefunes
> and he submitted to the senators on tn
/, other side that, situated rs many of then
were, they could not afford TO insist tina
: such power should he exercised by tin
senate. Whether the returning board o
n Montana exercised its authority properl.
h or not was a question for the Legislature
of Montana"
: Turpic held that in the Indiana case tn
legislature itself passed judicially upo
: the contested seats. whereas the legisla
=, ture OF Montana had not passed judicial
y on the contested seats from Silver Boz
q county. IL il had done so there woul
would have been no dispute i'm the case
?, Sherman said he found all the fact
sufficiently stated In the minority repoI
to control his judgment. He read thre
A paragraphs from the minority report an
said il was apparent therefrom that as
,- the five representatives from Silver Boz
county, neither set had certificates n,
y cortling to form. The senate OF Montan
was a tie and in the house there were
republican members and = democrati
members about whose rights to seat
there was no question. There was, ther'
fore, a republican majority on n joir
n ballot, or IL the contest over Silver Bo
county had come to be decided by Ill
lican side by which the republican col
testants could have been seated. Thes
simple facts, he thought. contained a
the elements of a just decision ia Il
matter and showed the republican clain
ants for seats in the senate had inajori
on a Joint ballot aud had majority
the house without any reference TO q
members from Silver Bow county.
Edmunds and Eusiis had brief pc