The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-25
ITS cossrIruTroNALrrY ATTACKED.


reconciled his argument with the act of
congress providing for the manner in which
United States senators are elected. he re-
piled that In regard to the cleo
ton of senator's there was
no federal Interference words of
approval from the democratic senators),
and that congress had confined itself lin
that act exclusively within the provisions
Of the constitution. 1t bad fixed the time
and manner of election, but had left it to
the state legislatures to provide how the
election should be conducted. It had placed
no federal officials over state legislatures
no marshals and no supervisors.
Mr.. Spooner sought to ask question as
TO the decision of the supreme court, but
Mr.. Stewart SAID that be would come to
that, and show that that very decision was
an illustration of the iniquity Of such kind
Of legislation, but he did not propose TO
stop now,
HoAR ALSO ANXIOUS TO TALK.
Mr.. Hoar also desired to ask a question,
but Mr.. Stewart declined to yield for that
purpose, saying that he knew how very an
noying it was for men with preconceiyed
notions to hear them exploded. II he (Mr.
Stewart had told the people that an at
tempt to delay the passage of the
bill was as criminal as secession, he
should not like to have the attention OF
the country called to the fact that the bill
was an attempt to subvert the liberties of
the people. The operation of the election
law in New York city having occupied Mr..
Stewards attention to some extent, Mr..
Daniel read from recent communications
from the treasury department to show that
Mr.. Davenport had rendered accounts for
fees in relation to the election OF members
Of the assembly.
WHAT IT WAS oFFERED FOR
Mr.. Aldrich asked Mr.. Daniel whether
that was offered in exploitation of the con-
stitutional argument made by the senator
from Nevada.
Mr.. Stewart-It is easy to see what It is
offered for. It Is offered to show how you
interfere with local elecdons. democratic
applausel
The Anglo-Saxon, he went on to say, had
moved forward in every country; and,
wherever he had planted a colony, he had
established home rule and had dared to
maintain it. The effort to stihs home rule
in Ireland would be a failure, because the
British people would not agree to the en-
slavement OF any part of the people of
that empire. The proposed rule, he
said, could not be adopted without violation
Of all the rules, and without taking from
the floor some senator entitled to it. Thoss
who opposed such proceeding stood by the
precedents of America for 100 years, and
by the precedents of Great Britain for 500
years, and those precedents had never been
violated except in one single instance
when they were violated TO suppress the
home rule struggle in Ireland.
II the rules of the Senate were violated
and the proposed rule passed, that would
not be the end OF the discussion. The people
would be alarmed. They would rise up, and
the senator's would hear louder voice than
they heard in the last election.
mot louder Than ws hear now, DIR. Hoar
suggested IN q sarcastic tone.
81 am glad. was Mr.. Stewards retort,
that I am able to speak so that the senator
hear. supposed that he
was entirely deaf to reason.
Laughter. supposed that his anxiety to
trample on the rights of the people was so
intense that. ha could hear nothing but
policemen's clubs and the clank of CHAINS to
be used at the elections
ALDRICH TRIES TO SECURE A LIMIT.
At the close of Mr.. Stewards speech Mr..
Sanders took the floor, but yielded to Mr..
Aldrich. who asked unanimous consent,
first. to limit the debate to half an hour,
then to limit the length Of speeches to one
hour each, and then to have vote taken on
Monday next; but to each Of these re-
quests, as made, objection was made on
the democratic side. Then Mr.. Aldrich
asked whether the senator from Nevada and
the senators on the other side were prepared
to fix any time for taking a vote. He was
told by MIR. Faulkner that several senators
desired to speak, and that IL would be i'm
possible until they had all spoken to fix any
time for taking vote.
Mr.. Sanders proceeded with his speech In
favor of the proposed rule and Of the cleo
tions bill
Mr.. Sanders reminded the democratic
senators that there was a difference be-
tween freedom of debate and unlimited de-
bate. He declared that the elections bill was
a bill of peace. 1t might be beaten, but that
would be simply postponing the
question. If it was beaten, then congress
would adjourn on March next, leaving q
deep and grievous wrong ranking in the
country, and with consciousness that an
injustice was being perpetrated in the light
of day. He would not say how long
that condition of affairs might continue,
but inasmuch as the citizens would be
divided into classes and a portion Of them
allowed to be denied participation in the
conduct of the government, the gulf
who are admitted to citizenship
and those who are denied that
boon, and there would be built up, within
the limits of commonwealth, proletariat
and set of pariahs. Referring to the
newspaper position in regard to the cleo
tions bill, Mr.. Sanders said that no newspa-
per had been appointed as q tribunal to ex-
press the popular will. Their opinions
were as
Variable as the shade
BY the light, quivering aspen made.
He did not know how better t. charac-
teriZe the condition of public sentiment
which they produced than to call it cons
dition Of moral clamminess. The people
themselves had. however, expressed with no
uncertain sound lin the national platforms
of the Republican parity their purpose and
desire that amendments 20 the constitution
shall stand as a bulwark and shield against
all forms of oppression, no matter how
humble the individual oppressed might be.
MORGAN on THE ISSUE.
Mr.. Morgan next addressed the Senate.
The question before it was, he said, in its
narrowest point of view, whether the SEN
ate would change the rules under which 1t
had operated for q century, for the purpose
of enabling g ma ajority of the Senate, which
did not represent a majority of the people
of the United States, TO pass bill that did
not, 1t appeared, receive the approval of
any political party in the United States.
He referred in highly complimentary man-
ner to Mr.. Evarts aud to the speech
made by him on the biIl, in which
he said that the debate had not been pro-
tracted. MIR. Morgan said that il had not
been protracte1 beyond the interest which
the country felk in IL He knaw that tha de-