The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-12
MoNTANA's sRNAroRsHIP.
Senators Evarts and George Make the
Speeches of the Day.

WASHINGTON, April 11-After the morn
ing routine business in the Senate to-day
consideration of the Montana election case
was resumed, and as no senator sought the
floor the yeas and nays were ordered on the
first resolution, and the vote was about
being taken when Mr.. Evarts rose aud sug-
gested that If no senator on the eAother side
desired to speak he would make the closing
argument in support OF the committee's re-
port.
Mr.. Morgan said that be did not care to
address the Senate, but after hearing the
very able end distinguished lawyer from
New York he might feel himself required
to say something, either in approval or dis
approval, and SO he did not wish to be
understood as being embraced within any
agreement that the senator from New York
should now close the debate in the case.
TWO PROPOSITIONS.
Mr.. Evarts said that there was always
the understood right of any senator to
make any remarks before vote was taken.
Mr.. Evarts said that the proposition on the
democratic side was that the Senate was to
be canvassing board higher than the terri
torial canvassing board, while the PROPOSE
tion on the republican side was that the
Senate had no such power of revision. The
latter, he said, was the prop 3sition of the
constitution, OF the safety of the Senate,
and of the equality of the states.
Mr.. Gray replied to some of Mr.. Evarts'
points. and then Mr. George took the floor.
He said that the arguments in the case were
now concluded, and that the point had been
reached when 'sthis honorable courtn was
required TO render judgment.
REASONS FOR HIS VOTE.
As a member of that court he de-
tn fo+n he Af-
vote that he would give. In re-
gard to precinct No. "a. in Silver Bow
comfy, he asserted that under the law all
the votes cast there were legal votes, and
that the county board of canvassers who
threw out those votes had committed an act
of usurpation, and he asked whether
any member of this honorable court
was willing to get up and say that that act
was authorized by law. He said he would
pause for reply. [After pausel There
is not one member of this court" be said,
"who, in the face of the American people,
will get up and say on his responsibility
that that can yassing board had right to
do what it did. This was the first STOP in
the iniquity. Without that step no other
part of the iniquity could have been trans
acted.n
THE TERRITORIAL BOARD.
Coming to the territorial canvassing
board at Helena, Mr.. George said he did
not know the correct pronunciation Of the
name, but that from the conduct of the
canvasslng board he supposed the correct
pronunciation was Helena. The board,
he said, these three beautiful specime of
political rascality, had FASTENED to be infa-
NOUS" and would 90 down to history as
having furnished an instance not of CON
cealed fraud. but of successful villainy,
holding out the fruits Of its crime and boast
ing of it.
$50 SIT TO AFINIsH.
Mr.. Hoar gave notice that on Monday he
would ask the Senate to remain in session un-
til the Montana case was disposed of. He
would not call it up tomorrow, as there
might be an implied understanding that
Saturdays sessions were to te devoted to
the calendar