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

lot of new states were admitted, aud
recruits thus obtained to furnish a majority
in favor OF the bill. In doing so the senator
from Massachusetts,. he said, had enabled
the senator from Rhode Island to mansuver
his tariff bill through the Senate,
aud now the senator from Rhode
Island was repaying that debt by trying
TO torce Through the Senate his resolution of
cloture-that foreign word Of bad reputa-
ton.
BORROWED FROM ENGLAND.
The senator from Massachusetts,, Mr..
Morgan said, had borro wed from the Brit
ish parliament his election bill and his clo-
ture rule, and desired to plant his root OF
bitterness in the southern soil, to the total
perversion of the traditions and practices of
American government for a round century.
Where. he asked, had there boen any at
tempt in the last November election to in
terfere with anybody! What crime had
been committed at the polls anywhere that
dayl There was not whimper of COM
plaint about that election. WhsTe was the
urgent need of the pending measured In
the face of such fact 1.-THE absence of
all complaint about the election in Novem-
berl, the assertion that there was any
necessity for the passage OF the elections
bill was bald falsehood. BY means Of the
cloture resolution Rhode Island said to
/ have heard enough from you.
And IL you are 226 times bigger
than I nm, il makes no difference. shall
sit in this body and choke you down."
Laughter That was a magnificent privi
lege for Rhode Island; but 1t only illus
trated the balance of sovereignties. and
presented, as against such bill, all
the arguments that showed, or tended
to show, even in the imagination of
the senator's, the grounds why, under the
constitution of the country, the bill snould
not be passed The republican senator's
charged the people of the south with using
the shotgun In elections. As an imputation
against communities that was not In the
slightest degree true. He did not deny that
there had been some aggressions, where
some drunken man, some purblind fool,
thought he would make himself little no.
torious. just as some senators made them
selves conspicuous and notorious in uttering
oalumnies against the south.
BRIBERY DENIED.
But the south had not used money in their
elections, although a lot of silver dollars
would do much in carrying an election
there because what was it that could not be
bought Of the Republican party in the
souths But they had not done it. No such
accusation had been brought against the
south. But how was it on the other
SIDE OF Cne unef w NnaL was tno mean
ing Of the millions of money con-
tributed annually in the north?
What was the meaning of those disgusting
expressions which had emanated from a
republiean-perhaps a senator-as to "fry-
ing the fat" out of manufacturers and as TO
''blocks of fve"l What was the meaning
of those enormous subscriptions of money
made by men and to men las trustees)
who stood at the very bead of the
church? What a wonderful development
Of modern piety, sanctity and purity What
use was to be made of that money! There
| could not be a question that it was corrupt
use. In che courss OF his argument against
the bill Mr.. Morgan recalled the fact that
when Mr.. Evarts was speaking his speech
he OR. MOrgan) asked him whether he
claimed that United States senators were
| officers of the government Mr..
Evarts had answered, "Yes, GER
tainly," and Mr., Morgan had said
| that the decisions of the supreme court
were against that position. He noticed that
| the report Of the speech in the Congress
| stonL Record omitted all reference to that
incident, and the reason was that II the
senators and representatives were officers of
the United States they were not officers of
the states. Right there, he said, came a
radical difference; right there was the point
| of division; right there was the usurpation
! OF the elections bill
Without concluding his speech Mr.. Nor
gan yielded the fioor and then on motion of
| Mr.. Aldrich. at 5:15 o'clock the Senate took
a recess until Monday at noon