Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-20
WAXED ELOQUENT.
Mcconnell Springs a Surprise
on the Senate.
A GEM OF ORNAMENTAL ORATORY,

Making n Dry Subject Interesting by n
Little Flight on the Spread EasIe-A
silver Man who Wants No Free Coin
age-Decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission-Reed and Springer
Exchange Compliments-New Depart
ure in House Sessions-OficiaI Notes.
WASHINGTON CITY. Feb. 20.-Rather
late but he got there. This remark applies
TO Senator Mcconnell, who blossomed out
into an orator yesterday. Heretofore his
remarks had been of the most practical
character, and no one supposed that the
divine gift OF oratorial brilliance was one
he could call from the gray matter of his
brain, or that he could sling ornamental
United States in style that would
"humpr the tall Sycamore of the Wabash
to equal in his palmiest days. But he
could all the time. He Just didn't want
TO. He had been DESTROYS of speak ng in
favor of the bill which authorizes the
government TO take possession of the
Pacific railway, aud he is one of the left
and his seat will know him no more after
March 4 Ii he was to speak it must be
soon. SO he spoke, and the senators
pricked up their ears and listened.
\ Big job on His Hands
Mr. PRESIDENT: Standing here in This
chamber, i'll and around which so many mem
orles cluster: standing in the presence Of the
senator's of this great government-men who
Tor veal or Woe control the destinies of this
nation-a stranger representative, from an in
FAINT state; standing not only in your presence
but III the presence of 6N,T0,000 weary d ltient
and forbearing people, am deeply impressed
WIN the magnitude OF the task l assume For
more than half century the voice of PATRIOTS
whose names a grateful country will ever hold
IN reverentlal remembrance, were raised in
inns chamber IN notes of warming while link
AFTER INK was being forged to the chain which
hhauy held IN bondage four millions of people.
Slavery and Senatorial Courtesv.
Deprecatng hands and voices were IA ised in
Humomtlon TO silence the temerity of those
GodIlke humalitaTians lest senatorial courtesy
SHOULD De violated lest the property rights OF
some individual should be disturbed Year
aIter year, session after session, senators SAT
IN TINS chamber and allowed the slimy cobra
OF slavery to extend its fatal coils over one
state after another of this fair republic until
niteen OF the Sisterhood made the very name
OF freedom and liberty in these United States
ilized globe ~
some Remarks About Poer Men.
Proceeding, he referred to the statement
made on the senate floor that the fran
chlses for the Union and Central Pacific
roads were given to poor men, and sale
Judging by the bill which is now before con.
sress asking an extension of time in which to
pay their just debt to the government thew
are poor yet. Mr.. President, if you should CON
Guide to take trip to San Francisco. as taka
the liberty to advise you to do after congress
adJourns IN March, you will arrive at the Oak.
land pier early in the morning, and ste ming
aboard the powerful ferryboat you will soon be
out III the harbor where the morning breeze
VIII bear to your delighted nostrils the fra
GRANGE OF orange blossoms from the orchards
Ill the south.
just "Pipe or Mob Hill.
As you stand IN rapture and in awe, admir-
lng the beautiful panorama which is passine, he.
tore YOU your gaze will be attracted to the orr
entail maguiicence and splendor of the eff ect of
the rising sun upon the abodes of humble but
Virtu0us poverty on Mob Hill. 1t will repav
you, MIR. President, later in the day to take q
closer look at those modest residences There
you will see the effect of careful inyestn ant Of
government funds: you will admire the beau
tlful granite brought from the banks and braes
OF bonnie Scotland, the lovely marble fron the
quarries of Italy
y Desirable Sort of Poverty
You will return to your hotel Mr.. Pres
ldent, much impressed with the majesty 90
poverty, and perhaps may wish that Won. too
were poor. Go visit the shores of the Pac fic or
the watering places of the Atlantic; ipuuire
VINO are the owners of the more than regal
palaces you see there, and you will be TOLD thew
belong to some one of the poor fellows who are
partners with the United States povern raDt
in the Unica and Central Pacific roads 1rb;1o
every wave that whispers to its fellows or
Laughing, hlngs its spray high I'D on the rocky
chHs VIII seem To murmur of the forbea -anca
and gulhbillty of the American peoDle "