The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-08
BACK AND FORTH.



Special to the Standard.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Senator Vance
made strong and witty speech to-day for
Clark and Maginnis in the Montana sena-
torial case. Spooner, for the republican
side, thrcshed over the straw that Hoar
had already left. The case will probably
hold the attention Of the senate again to-
morrow and until the end of the week.
The republicans might as well 60 ON and
perpetrate the robbery they have planned.
They are wasting time talking.
Senator Pettigrew to-day introduced a
bill OF interest To Montana. II pro-
poses that there shall be added to
the Missouri river commission n
member each for Montana and South
Dakota and Montana, and that about n
quarter of q million OF money he expended
in the Improvement Of the Missouri To
Fort Benton and for survey above Fort
Benton.
II il learned from a treasury source that
the department has no expectation that
there will he any silver legislation ut this
session of congress. II the two houses
can he kept playing with the measures
now under consideration it will be con-
sidercd lucky escape from the free coin
age that was feared when congress met.
by Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Evarts present
ed the resolutions of the New York cham
ber of commerce, protesting against the
pending bill for the census enumeration
of Oh nese as as absurd, barbarous, un-
christian and cowardly, and a memorial
on the same subject from the American
Missionary association was presented by
Davis.
Platt presented n memorial for the adj
mission of New Mexico without commit
ting himself To the views set forth i'm IT,
Hoar moved to proceed with the Mon
tana contested election case.
The Montana election case was then
taken up and Vance, n member of the
committee ON elections, made an argu-
ment of the minority report, declaring
Clark and Maglnnis, the democratic
claimants, entitled to seats.
He lvance) never heard title TO a seat
i'm the senate based on such slender,
technical, trifiing grounds. He had never
known the public will of n community
thwarted and trampled under foot on
with such fiimsy pretexts. He knew the
fiat had gone forth. He knew the rcpub-
lican claimants were 10 be seated. Repub'
lican senators would be sickcr over this
thing before they were done with IL than
he was. He had heard of an old fellow
who went out To Ohio 10 speculate In hogs
He bought big drove and shipped
them TO New York. When he got to New
York he found hogs cheaper there than IL
Ohio. So he shipped them back and sold
| them in Ohio. Some friend said To him
'Jim, you made a bad speculation
"Yes," said he. II lost a good deal %
money, but had the company OF the hog
| ha shan nlx,1 90
that in all future denunciations OF thesoutl
| for suppression of colored votes southern
senators would have the company of thu
hogs. Laughter.
Spooner ,also "A member of the com
mittee on privileges and clectionsl mad'
| am argument in favor of the majority re-
/ port that Sanders and Power ,rcpublicai
claimantsD are entitled upon the merits o
the case To he seated. He would pass, IN
| said, from the jokes of the senator from
| North Carolina lVanceD and advert TO tin
very able and ingenious argument OF TIN
senator from Delaware Grey. All tn
| senators were agreed that the question
was one of high privilege, of grave impor
and much delicacy. Ii affected not onl
the right of Montana To he represented Il
| the senate by men of her choice, but IL al
fected the integrity of the senate itseli
Ii should therefore, be considered witt
judicial calmness and delibcration
| tuuCn dS " fiiSht io'h ltfh'.s
bias and prejudice. He knew il was no
necessary to assure the senate IL had becl
in that spirit that the majority of the CON
| mittee ON privileges and elections com
menced and continued consideration a
the case Of Senator Cox. OF course onl
to he elected by the state legislature, an
In order to seat n man in the senate ID
must have been chosen by the legislatur
organized within the meaning of the cor
stitution, but il was not necessary, I'm hl
opinion to go beyond what Nigh
he called prima facie evidence
and that prima facie evidence was foun
i'm this case, In the certificate of th
board of canvassers, consisting of th
chief justice, the governor and the secrt
tary OF the territory. In the course OF hi
argument Spooner alluded To the charR
made by Gray against the president Ia
undue haste in issuing the proclamatio
for the admission Of Montana, and he d'
Tended the president in that matter. Til
presidents whole life, hc said. was a
ample rcfutation of any such ntimatioI
Spooncr yielded for the executive sessio
and the senate soon adjourned.