The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-16
MONTANA THEIR THEME.
SENATORS MORGAN AND VANCE
MAKE STRONG POINTS.

as q SLrdW OF OeclslVe significance.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Sherman offered resolu.
tion, which was agreed to, directing the
Secretary of the Interior to communicate
to the Senate the report of Jesse Spaulding,
government director of Pacific railways
as to the general management of such rail-
ways what purported to be the report here
called for was published in Chicago yester-
day morning. The report had not then
reached the interior department)
Mr.. Hawley gave notice he would try to
call up the Chicago worlds fair bill next
Friday.
The Montana election case was taken up
and Mr.. Morgan addressed the Senate. Re
gardlng himself as occupying with his
brother senators) the attitude of Judge he
felt constrained to discard as far as possible
the predictions which naturally belonged
to man who had been in the Senate as
long as he had been and who had
been arrayed politically against the
senator's oa the other side of the
chamber. He criticised and denied the
correctness of one of the leading statements
IN the majority report to the effect that in
the organization of the Iron Hall House of
Representatives (the republican branch) the
auditor, 'who is required by the constitu-
tion to preside" called the House to order.
That statement, he said, was the column of
support for the whole theory for the seating
of the republican claimants, and he chal-
lenged Mr.. Hoar to point to the clause in
the constitution which warranted it.
HoAR's REPLY.
Mr.. Hoar cited the constitutional provis-
ion that territorial officers should
continue in office and discharge
all their functions until their successors
we're chosen, and then he cited the law of
the territory making it the duty OF the
auditor to preside at the opening of the
House until the speaker was elected.
Mr.. Morgan argued that these facts did
not Justify the statement in the majority
report, because in the absence of the auditor
the oldest member of the House was to call
it to order. Suppose, he said, as In the case
IN question, the auditor was not present
in the hall of the House of Representatives,
as well-known in Helena as in the SEN
ate chamber in Washington, but thought
proper to go elsewhere, to the Iron Hall, to
organize political cabal-a junta-a caucus
was it not the duty then of the Oldest
member present to call the House to order9
1t was, therefore not correct to say, as the
majority report did say, that the auditor
sis required by the constitution to preside
at the organization OF the House,
THE RECENT ELECTIONS.
After long argument on this point, Mr..
Morgan referred to the recent democratic
successes in Helena and Butte as response
to the attempted fraud in seating the repub-
lican claimants as senator's, and as proof
that the great heart of the people was true
to honesty and manhood and fair dealing
If these elections, he said, had gone the
other way there would have been no trouble
in referring the case back to the people.
Now he supposed that if the state of Mon
tana were coming asking for admission
as state with all that filth clinging to
her skirts" she would be kicked from the
threshold, and he insisted that no man had
right to claim a seat in the Senate as
senator from the state of Montana unless he
could do so on the certificate of the govern
or Of that state. The certificates had to be
signed by the governor and counter
signed by the secretary of state.
LACK OF THE REPUBLICANS.
The republican claimants had not such
certificates. The democratic claimants had
certificates signed by the governor, but un-
fortunately not countersigned by the Sec
retary of state. He referred TO the lack of
interest in the debate manifested by the
republican side of the chamber, where he
said there had not been an average Of over
three senator's during the ten days
debate, and suggested that it arose
be Jared by the argument
He appealed to the republican side of the
chamber to let the case be settled on prin-
ciples of law and on ascertaiDed facts. 1t
would not be very long, he said, until
little cloud in Montana which seemed ''no
bigger than mans hand" would sweep
like a cyclone and tear the Republican
party all to fragments.
PADDED AND STUFFED.
Mr.. Daniel argued against the majority
report as "a padded and stuffed record,
made up of make weights which do not be-
long to the question"
Mr.. Vance, to whom Mr.. Daniel yielded,
saying that the moral impression from the
action of the majority Of the committee
had already been produced in Montana, as
was proved by telegram received from
that state at 2 o'clock this morning, which
he proceeded to read amid laughter on the
democratic side as follows:
Hurrah for the honest citizens who vindicate
the right!
Hurrah for law and liberty, the people won the
fghtl
The republican corruptionists went weeping to
their fate,
For the voters placed the ban upon the men who
stole the statel
The mourners speak in whispers, there's Grape
upon the door;
Inc ". ". r. was killed py SLeallng precinct
thirty-fou
HoAR CLAIMS A VICTORY.
Mr.. Hoar said that as he understood the
facts the democratic majority in Butte,
which year ago was 800, had been re-
duced to about 250, and that at precinct
thirty-four there was not single voter
left. All these apparent voters had gone
like last years snow banks. He left his
friend from North Carolina his comic al
manac.
Mr.. Vance-The gentleman from Massa-
chusetts derives as much comfort out Of
small material as any senator on this Aoor.
My information is entirely different. The
city of Butte gave republican majority
last year, and there has been great turn
over" in consequence of subsequent pro-
ceedings."
Mr.. Hoar-If the senator had been in bed
at 2 o'clock last night his ideas would have
been clearer this morning. [Laughter.]
DANIEL RESUMES his CRITICISM.
Mr.. Daniel went on to criticise the ma
jority report. He spoke of the act of the
returning board of Silver Bow county Gn
excluding the votes at precinct thirty-four)
and of the act of the territorial returning
board as open and notorious development
of the conspiracy permeating all the office
holders of Montana in order TO get control
of the political power by fraudulent practice,
sharp device and unjust methods.
The whole machinery of the administration
of the law in their territory had been, he
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