The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-08
SESSION OF THE SENATE.
The Montana Contest Given Prefer
ence over the Chinese Fight.


WASHINGTON, April In the Senate
this morning the House amendment to the
joint resolution for the removal of the
naval magazine from Ellis Island, n. Y,
was concurred in.
Mr.. Evarts presented the resolution of the
New York Chamber of Commerce protest
ing against the pending bill for census
enumeration of the Chinese as absurd, bar
barous, unchristian and cowardly. A
memorial on the same subject from the
American Missionary Association was pre-
sented by MIR. Dawes.
MIR. Hoar moved to proceed with the
Montana contested election case
Mr.. Hale asked him to give preference to
the Chinese enumeration bill, which it was
important to have disposed of as soon as
possible.
Mr.. Hoar intimated that the Chinese
census bill could not be disposed of imme-
diately, as Mr.. Evarts desired to speak
upon it.
Mr.. Hale asked Mr.. Evarts whether he
desired to debate it at any length.
Mr. Evarts said that he did.
Mr.. Hale then gave notice that he would
move to take up the Chinese enumeration
bill as soon as the Montana election case
has been disposed Of.
VANCE ARGUES FOR THE MINORITY.
The Montana election case was then
taken up and Mr. Vance, a member of the
committee on privileges and elections, made
an argument IN support of the minority
report, declaring Messrs. Clark and Magin-
mis-, the democratic claimants, entitled to
the seats. In the course of his speech he
told the story of parson who was once
schooling country pumpkin to fit him TO
be the godfather at christening. The par
son asked him what was the outward and
visible sign of baptism. The pumpkin,
after scratching his head for
while, answered with an
air of triumph, 'Why. the baby, to be
sure" and so, said Mr.. Vance. the outward
and visible sign of the backsliding of the
Republican party win BE- the Montana
twins-not baby, but a couple of them.
[Laughter.l He also illustrated Mr.. Hoar's
position tnat while none of the objections
to counting the votes of precinct "a in Silver
Bow county was sufficient of itself
TO justify the rejection of the votes,
all of them together did constitute
sufficient grounds for doing sol by an anec-
dote OF an old justice of the peace before
whom case was tried in which eleven dis
| tinct pleas in the bar were entered. The
justice took them up one by one, and de-
| cided as to each of them that 1t was not
worth one cent, but that, taking the malto-
gether, they made a good case for the de-
fendant.
BEATS THE RECORD.
He (Mr. vance, had never heard title to
| a seat in the Senate based on such slender,
technical and trifiug grounds. He had
| never known the public will of communi-
ty to be thwarted and trampled under
foot on such tlimsy pretexts. He
| knew, he said, that fiat
had gone forth. He knew that the repub-
lican claimants were to be seated, but in
| wise regulation of the moral world there
was compensation for all things. The re-
| publican senators would be slcker over the
thing before they were done with it than
| he was. He had heard of an old
| fellow who went out to Ohio to
| speculate in hogs. He bought big drove
of them and shipped them to New York.
| When he got to New York he found that
they were cheaper there thln they were in
Ohio, so he shipped them back and sold
them in Ohio. Some friends said TO him
Jim, you made bad speculation. y
YES" said he. ~ lost good deal of
money, but | had the company of the hogs
both ways"
WON'T BE LONESOME ANY MORE.
So he (Mr. Vance) thanked God that in
all future denunciations of the south for
suppression of the colored votes the southern
! senator's would have the company Of the
hOEo liduSuVoi j. anu at1 GudO buSJ NOulQ
| have to do was to inquire of the republican
| senators on their altitudinous cerulean
| flights of oratory for the purity of the
ballot, "Who stole precinct No. 81 of Silver
Bow county, Montanam
Mr.. Edmunds inquired whether the ia
persons who had voted at precinct 81 were
| legal voters.
Mr.. Vance asserted that they were. They
were aliens who had declared their inten-
| finn ,tff. 81
under the territorial laws, entitled to vote.
| Mr.. Spooner, who is also member of the
committee on privileges and elections, made
an argument IN favor of the majority
report that Messrs. Saunders and Power,
tne republican claimants, are entitled upon
the merits of the case to be admitted to
seats in the Senate from the state of Mon
tana. Mr.. Spooner. without flashing his
argument, yielded for motion to proceed to
executive business.
After the executive session the Senate ad-
| journed