The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-22

on his motion, which he would construe,
and which he believed the country would
construe, as a correction of great wrong
perpetrated in tho Senate yesterday.
Mr. Sherman hoped that the Vice Presi-
dent would decide the question as to whether
the journal was correct or not.
Mr. Harris said that the Vice President
had no right to decide such question. 1t
was for the Senate to decide it.
Mr.. Sherman-Not being here when this
occurred, ask the presiding officer to state
whether the chair announced the result OF
the vote. ask for my information.
MoRToN's ADMISSION.
The Vice Presidsnt-The chair, from his
own recollection and supported by the
Congressional Record, is Of the opinion
that while putting the question on the mo-
tion made by the senator from Rhode
Island he did not formally declare the vote
as carried, though he stated that the ayes
appeared to have it, and he will, therefore,
again submit the question to the Senate.
Mr.. Harris-That is the exact fact.
Mr.. Sherman--Then do not hesitate a
moment to vote to correct the journal.
The Vice President--The chair will state
in addition that after the matter was called
to his attention yesterday afternoon he re-
freshed his memory aud referred to the
Congressional Record this morning with
the resnlt announced.
A SYSTEM UNDER DISCUSSION.
The discussion drifted off to the custom of
the presiding officer keeping list OF sem
ators who desired to speak on a measure.
The custom was condemned by some SEN
ators and approved by others. In the
conrse or the discussion several democratic
senators (Messrs. Gibson, Morgan, Butler
and Harris) disclaimed any desire TO cast a
reflection upon the Vice President, Mr..
adA he haa fnh wi
feet caudor and courtesy, and / think that
the senators should vie with each other in
treating him the same way"
After the discussion had continued for an
hour and a half, MIR. Hale inquired what
had become of the motion to correct the
journal, and was told that the yeas and
nays had been ordered. He suggested, in
| view Of what had taken place on both sides,
and in view of the statement of the chair,
that the order for the yeas and nays be
withdrawn and the motion agreed TO by
unanimous consent.
MR.. GoRMAN OBJECTS.
Mr.. German could not consent TO that.
He thought it important, after the
memorandum presented by the Vice Presi-
| dent that there should be a record made,
and he therefore could not withdraw the
| call for the yeas and nays. Mr. German
| disclaimed any idea of rejecting on the
| clerk or secretary who prepared the journal.
He believed that the journal clerk has done
his full and entire duty and was
| bound to take note of the fact
that the Vice President announced
| that the resolution was before the Senate.
| What he had said this morning, was said,
| not for the purpose of rejecting on the
| clerk or on the Vice President, but he
thought that, taking the proceedings on Mr..
| Aldrichs motion IN connection with the
| ruling earlier in the day, which took him
| from the floor, there was trampling on the
| rights of the senators and destruction
of free speech in the Senate. 1t was q
] marked case. aud for those who were to
come after, and not for the purpose of re-
fiecting specially on the presiding officer or
clerks, the thought that the record should
be made clear aud complete aud perfect
and that the Senate should, by its vote, cor.
| rect an outrage which had occurred in the
previous days proceedings.
| MORGAN CHARGES CoLLUsIoN.
Mr.. Morgan stated the circumstances
under which he was ignored yesterday by
the Vice President, although, he said, he
had addressed the chair four or five times
and although the chair was looking him
full in the face as he did 80. It was not to
be disguised, he said, that for most of the
day, yesterday, there was an arrangement
that Mr.. Aldrich was to be recognized as
next in order to move to take up his resolu
tion-no matter who got the floor first, II
actual precedence
Mr.. Daniel said that Mr.. Sherman wa!
entirely mistaken if he regarded the actor
of any democratic senator as intending Il
imply any criticism on the clerks. So TAI
from criticism, they deserved appreciation
| AS to the presiding officer, no one charget
that he had acted otherwise thar
as he had conceived it *
be his duty. At the same time
the republican senators should recognize
the fact that the positions which the demo
cratic side had taken were correct in them
selves. There had been four errors in the
ruling yesterday, all Of them against th'
democratic side; but yet there was not tht
vaguest suspicion that the Vice President
had been actuated by the least improper mo
tive.
| APPROACHING A REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS
kMr. Eustis deemed it his duty to discuss brief
| ly the pending question, cognate questions
and the question involved in the elections
bill, because he believed that the Senate wa
approaching revolutionary crisis; becaust
he was admonished that freedom of debate
in the Senate might at any moment b,
arbitrarily suppressed. and because the
bill was intended to discipline the state
which he, in part, represented. He then
proceeded to criticize and condemn the
elections bill. He spoke of it as political
Polyphemus, intended to devoul
and destroy the liberty of the
people. 1t could not have originated
in the classic brain of the senator from
Massachusetts. There was such a thing
he said, as woman giving birth to 6
monster-a being that had no recogniza-
BILE human features. The thing
breathed, but il had never been
known that such an inhuman monster had
ever had an adaptive parent But the
senator from Massachusetts, had assumed al
the maternal obligations and responsibilitie
for the pending bill-that hideous, inhumar
monster. He had oaressed it, he had taker
it in his bosom, he had warmed it in hi
fond embrace. and he had freely given 1t i
adaptive mothers milk.
HoAR's DENIAL OF PAgTISANsHIP.
He read sentence or two from speecl
of Mr.. Hoar's, declaring that there was M
partisanship in the bill, and said that tn
senator from Massachusetts wanted tht
Senate and country to believe him. Tha
senator had complacently informed the
Senate that his feelings woulc
be cruelty lacerated and hi
conscience horribly shocked If am
one would for a moment harbor
suspicion that it was a partisan measure
and that he (Mr. Hoar) was actuated By
partisan motives. The best work evel
written on the subject of morality had beer
written by the most immoral man who haC
ever iived-Jean Jacques Rousseau; and so