Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-12

WASHINGTON, April lin the Senate
to-day the consideration of the Montana
election case was resumed, and, as nc Sen
ator sought the floor, the yeas and nays
were ordered in the first resolution, and the
vote was about being taken when Mr..
Evarts rose and suggested that if no Senator
on the other side desired to speak he would
proceed to make the closing argument In
support of the committees report.
Mr.. Morgan said that he did not care to
address the Senate, but after hearing the
very able and 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.
TALKING ALWAYS IN ORDER.
Mr.. Evarts said that there was always
understood the right of any Senator to make
any remarks before the vote was taken. 1t
had been wisely said by the Senator from
Ohio (M1. Sherman) that the matter lay in
q nutshell, but it sometimes took time to
find out whether the nut contained the meat
or only the worm. Therefore an effort on
the one side and on the other to arrive at
the true proposition, which was to affect and
turn the vote of the Senate, could not be
dispensed with.
He then proceeded to state, in detail, the
facts and circumstances of the Montana
election, and to discuss the powers of the
Territorial Canyassing Board, on which he
said there were no limitations imposed by
the statute in words. By that he meant that
its powers were unlimited within the sense
that belonged to the phrase to which it was
applied, and to the subject to which it was
applied.
THE IDEAS OF EvARTs.
After a long dissertation on duties and
doings OF the county canvassers, and of the
Territorial canvassers, in the course of
which he criticised the Governor of the
State for placing janitor at the door Of the
Court House assembly, to admit only such
persons as were entitled TO go in (thus max
ing him for the occasion the judge
of who were and who were not
elected as representatives,, Mr.. Evarts
said that the proposition on the
Democratic side was that the Senate was to
be a canvassing board higher than the Ter
ritorial canvassing board, while the propo-
sition on the Republican side was that the
Senate had no such power of revision.
The latter, he said, was the proposition of
the Constitution, of the safety of the Senate
and of the equality of the States. Having
sat around baize table in the committee
room with four eminent lawyers on the
Democratic side, and heard the whole mat
ter discussed there as question of law, he
had not expected to hear such arguments as
he had heard in the Senate chamber from
Senators on the other side, but he had
learned that it was quite different thing to
speak in a committee room and to speak
where the voice resounded beyond the walls.
1t was another case of Counsellor Puff, with
his two voices.
TO VOTE ON MONDAY.
Mr.. Gray replied to the point made by
Mr.. Evarts. He defended the Governor OF
Montana from the criticism made upon him
on account of his instructions given to the
janitor OF the Court House Assembly, and
asserted that the only direction given to the
janitor by the Governor was a letter of in
structions that he should admit everyone
who claimed to be member of the House of
Representatives.
After further debate Mr.. Hoar gave no.
tice that on Monday he should ask the
Senate to remain in session until the Mon
tana case was disposed OF. He would not
call it up tomorrow, as there might be an
implied understanding that Saturdays ses-
sions were tn he devoted to the calendar