Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-30

foreign states. There was not q word in the
English language, Mr.. Hoar said, more inap-
propriate to characterize the functions Of
a Senator of the United States than the word
ambassador. A Senator represented as COM
pletely and as thoroughly and owed obedience
as completely and as properly to the people Of
every other state of the Union as he
did to the people of his own state.
The notion that the legislature of
state could instruct a Senator as a
sovereign instructed his ambassador was e1-
ploded among the best constitutional authori-
ties. The legislature of Delaware had no more
right to instruct or order the Senator (Mr.
Gray, because it had appointed him. TO do any
thing which he did not think for the good OF the
whole people of the United States shan the
President of the United States had to order a
justice Of the Supreme Court to render or not
TO render a certain judgment because he had
appointed him.
THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION.
Mr.. Edmunds reminded Mr.. Hoar that the
view expressed by Mr.. Gray had been embodied
in the written constitution of the confederate
states.
Mr.: Hoar-That is true. But let us do justice
to that gallant, but misguided people.
Even then they preserved in the consti-
tuition OF the confederate states the
provision Of our constitution that the
confederate government should take order for
the election Of representatives. And they
tions Of voters l have no objection TO the
phrase sovereign state" / never could un-
derstand why IT was not properly applied to
an authority which had power over life and
death; over civil contracts; over marriage rela-
tions; over the conveyance and distribution of
estates. But the sovereignty of the state does
not exist anywhere in any relation that il has
to the Senate. The sovereignty of a state is an
integral, constituent indissoluble part of
another stronger and more august sovereignty
the sovereignty of the United States of Amer
lea.
AN APPEAL TO SOUTHERN SENATORS.
In conclusion. Mr.. Hoar addressed himself
directly to southern Senators and said: You
have tried everything else why not try justcei
You have exhausted every policy and failed.
This terrible question will not down. Your
people have listened too long to the evil coun-
sellors who led them into rebellion,
into war, into poverty, into crime. lie,
them listen now to the counsels of the creates,
orator of antiquity: Justice is Itself the great
standing policy of civil society. and any emf
nent departure from 1t, under any clrcum'
stances, lies under the suspicion of being nc
policy at ALL"
Nh. woLcoTT AGAINST THE BILL
Mr.. Wolcott made an animated speech agains,
the bill, attracting the closest attention from
its first sentence to its last. 1t was, he said, a
source of great regret to him to be called upon
to differ with any considerable number of his
party and to decline to take the path which
the older leaders pointed out.
1t was proper that the reasons which i'm.
pelled that difference be fairly stated. The
time which the bill engrossed was not oppor-
tune Nearly one-third of the session was
through and daylight was not visible. There
was before the Senate measures of vast i'm
portance that would fail. for another year al
least, unless they were now acted upon.
HOUSE.
After the chaplain had delivered briei
prayer, in which he invoked the Divine protec
tion over the land during the coming year, and
after the journal of the last days session had
been read and approved, the House adjourned
until Friday.