The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-04


ana you have not; and after Alcibiades had
made his talk in pursuance of his argu-
nent, In which he undertook TO dignity
Socrates, as remembered it, they required
latter the party had agreed to drink, it be-
ing quite late in the evening and they had
finished their business in the way Of discus
SION that Socrates should drink two meas
ures for every other mans one, because he
was better able to stand it. And so, one
after another. they we're laid down on the
lounges, in tee Athenian style, all except
an old physician named AristOdemus, and
Plato makes MIN the hardest~headed fellow
except Socrates. He and Socrates stuck at
1t until the gray Of the morning, and then
socrates took his bath and went down to
the groves and talked academic knowledge
After citing this incident | said to this
divine: do you remember that Lord Ba-
con said that a man should get drunk at
least once month, and that Montague, the
French philosopher, indorsed the PROPOSE
ton! These exaltants that bring us up
above the common measure of the brute
wine and oil-elevate US and enable us to
seize great facts, Inspirations which once
possessed are ours forever. aud those who
never go beyond the mere beastly means of
animal support never live is high places of
life and never achieve them" The doctor
said to me: well, general you are right,
but cannot afford TO say So"
Mr.. WILSON'S REPLY.
Mr.. Wilson in reply said he was content
to have the bill passed in the form he had
offered it. He said II understand there
are two shops for the sale of whisky in the
capitol now, buG not at this end of il. /
think 1t IL is bad enough TO have liquor here
IN any form, whether it comes into the COM
mittee rooms or comes in the form suggested
by the senator from Oregon Mr. Nesmith),
w ha Ea IF hf, h,A
great capacity to throw themselves on the
outside of a quart Of whisky. We all know
MIR. President that in our day old bourbon
has about as much inspiration as gin had in
the days of Byron. | am content
for one that we should not have the mighty
inspiration of old bourbon or gin or wine
or any of those things that take mortals to
the skies. Let us be content to legislate as
plain, practical public business men, and
leave the inspiration to othersn
The bill passed with but two votes in the
negative-the Hon. Garrett Davis aud Gen.
McDougall.
SENATOR NEsMITH's WIT.
The mention by Mr.. Wilson of the sena-
tor from Oregon, Mr., Nesmth, will recall
to many of your readers an able and faith
full representative in the Senate and a man
of infinite humor, and one who, while his
hearers were convulsed with laughter
never smiled His wit was a distinguishing
trait in his character and many a time has
caused the august body of which he was
member to forget its dignity in shouts
of laughter. An instance l came across
in this depository of wit as well as
dizziness, the Congressional Globe, is
forgotten. The influx of negroes at
the close of the war into Washing
ton was really alarming. Their suffering
and the number of them precluded any in
\ 1,cr
passed res1lution aDpro priating S25, 900
for their relief, and while on its passage Mr..
SALISBURY offered an amendment appropri-
ating like sum for the destitute white
people of the district, and debate on it was
rather extended, aid amendments were
offered, and among them one authorizing
the employing by the district authorities
of able-bodied black or colored
people and appropriatlng $1,000 additional
for this purpose. Mr.. KIrkwood moved to
amend by striking out the words "blac K
or colored, and said: ~ do not see why a
white man should not have work as well as
a black man." The amendment was
accepted and several other amendments
were offered, when Senator Nesmith rose
and sa d: II move to amend the amend
ment by inse ting after the words able
bodied people, the words excluding mem
bers of congress-" The roars of Taught n
| which followed the reading Of this amend
ment may be imagined.
SENATOR KIRKWooD A WAsHINGTONIAN.
How few remember that Senator and
Gov. Samuel j. KIrkwood of Iowa was a
WashIngtonian. | remember him as one of
the kindest-hearted young men to us boys
when he was clerk in his brother Wallace
Kirkwoods drug store corner of Eleventh
street, where now the Star office rears its
| commodious bulldog. 1t was then little
yellow frame one~story house and, many a
| stick of licorice root has he given me ana
the other boys of that neighborhood. with
whom he was very popular. l met him
| while in the Senate and found him the same
! genial, kind hearted man l knew in my
| boyhood.
/ have depressed from what 1 intended
| to write upon, the changes in the Senate
| and House of Representatives. The change
| SO observable to us, whose memory of the
past weds us to the long ago, is in some
| pleasure-indeed, in great measure-at-
| tributed to the progress of the last decade
| or two.
HEAVY CRAFTSMANSHIP GONE BY.
The heavy style of craftsmanship has
| gone out of existe ce, while the dignity
| which supp rted it and formed 30 consp.cu~
GUS part of it is supplanted by what more
faithfully represents the tendencies of the
age. There is more light, there are less
| mber shades in official life at washington,
where elevation is not weighted by age.
| The present style Of craftsmanship as ex-
| hibited In the halls Of congress, more nota-
| bly, in the Senate, is the outgrowth
| of the advance of the country IL
ali its material wealth and mar
| velous prosperity, which have brought
with them all the evidences and ten
denotes of this age Of progress. The sunny
| side of life is turned to view, and unless
| grave matters come bsfore the Senate and
| the House of Representatives the sessions
are enlivened by repartes and jest, not un-
| becoming those sacred precincts. Those
| who now find seats among the rulers of the
| nation are at all times under the broad sun
| light of publicity and feel a responsibility
| which those who trod the halls of congress
in the past were in some measure relieved
from py the absence Of those whose refining
| influence is so potent If there are any of the
heavy drinkers left over from that age wnen
heavy drinking was the rule, they indulge
| in the sacred recssSes of their own
| rooms, and do not offend the proprietY OF
| the present, which, while it may be al
| affectation, issurely commendable. Allow
ance is to be made when we consider the
disadvantages under which the predecessors
| of our present rulers lived. The advance In
all the essentials of life in itself would ex'
plain and excuse what might now be re-
garded as fearful infringements OF the socia
order of the present day, but comparisons
fail in the material as in the persona!