The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-06
WHAT MIR. HONEY DIDSAY
THE ExPURGlTED AND REAR
RANGED MANUSCRIPT.
How Mr.. Browns Addendum Of the Col
oners speech Compares With the Real
Speech ~ Delivered at Newport.

speech OF Representative S. r..
Honey;
That ID the heading of the supplement,
appendix, corollary postscript or what
ever 1t may be called that Mr.. Arthur
Brown has presen ted to the supreme
court with his brief on the Newport
QUESTION as to the legality OF the house.
The unfortunate thing about this ad-
dendum Of Mr.. Honey Is that it Is not
called the speech of Mr.. Honey, because
tbe lord chief justices OF England or OF
the justices OF the supreme court at
Washington IL they should read the orig
inal speech that 10 was the masterpiece
OF the doughty colonel from Newport.
But the appreciative public doubtless
will be grieved at the failure of Mr..
Brown TO give the speech In Its entirety be-
Gauss IL will doubtless be we'll known that
the expurgations are rich in the display
or mental agility for which Mr.. Honey
has acquired such worldwide fame. At
the expense OF some labor and time The
News will present TO It's readers some
OF those paragraphs which were omit
ted.
The Supreme Court.
The addendum submitted by Mr..
Brown as speech of MIR. Honey" con
tdlus bDiS pdTRTdpu TeRdrulu0 Inc
supreme court: ~ have the greatest
respect for the opinion OF the supreme
court OF NV state wnsn 1t Is given as
decision after full examination OF all the
authorities which bear upon the question
as issued"
What AFR. Honey did say regarding
the courts opinior In reply to Governor
nographic reports. was AS follows; " No
member of the bar Of Rhode Island has
greater respect for the opinion Of our su-
preme court when rendered .in an adver.
sary case as n Judgment Of the court. But
shall humbly take the liberty of examin-
lawyers sitting. II you please. apparent
ly as judges, but tch0se opinion Is
entitled to no more iCeight on that occa-
sion than IL they were five good lawyers.
as they are"
There is some difference between the
alleged remark aud the Que as uttered,
and II will be gratifying to the supreme
court to be complimented SO fulsomely as
Mr.. Honey does in his last phrase by
conceding that its memb bers are ''gcod
lawyers"
What Mr. Honey Wants to Know.
Mr.. Honey also pays his respects to
Gov. Brown, and intimates in the origi
nal that the supreme court should
have refused to answer his questions
regarding the blank ballot. The speech"
IS not 80 explicit on this question as the
peech was. lie said at Newport That
the court should shave refused 10 COM
ply with request Of the govern
or to give an opinion upon
out his province to ask OF them"
Il shall hope that when the constitution
OF Rhode Island Is remodeled by con-
vention one OF the first clauses which will
be eliminated from it is the clause which
permits the governor of Rhode Island
upon a purely, political question
mand of the judges OF the supreme court
what their opinion Is on that ques ion,"
and ''if the judg OF our supreme coJrr
had declined to answer this question. i
believe the opinion OF the people of
Rhode Island would have sustained the
supreme court In such refusal"
Such were Colonel Holey's worls
SLoken on the floor of the house on
Tuesday. On Wednesday he had his
colleagues prepared a resolution asking
the governor TO ask the supreme cours to
decide as to the question of
the legality OF the seating OF Smith
aud the unseating of Hoxsic. That
Is after den uncing the action
OF the governor in unmeasured
terms, he asks the governor that
very thing for which he had denounced
him. Further, he asked the governor to
ask the courts decision on matters
whichhe had said the court should
refuse to render any decision whatever.
Lastly falling to induce the governor 10
ask those questions he himself through
the house OF representatives proceeds To
ask questions Of the court which he prac-
ticaliy condemned the court for answer
ing once-Mr. Honey's questions now
peuding involve the legality Of the ac-
tion Of the house in making up its roll.
Mr.. Honey Is a courteous politician. He
Is shrewd, but the gyrations of the
weather vane are infnitismial compared
with his ability to say one tniuH and
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