St. Paul daily globe., 1893-10-19
ANOTHER WINDY DAY.
Senator's Consume Seven
Hours in General Talk.
WILL A VOTE EVER Be TAKEN 2
Morgan and Teller Attack the
President.
KiLL FLIES ANOTHER HOT SHOT.
ELills Would Rather Follow
Sherman Than PETER.
}ILL FLIES ANOTHER HOT SHOT:
DANIELS WAKTSA CAUCUS HELD.

DANIELS WANTS A CAUCUS HELD.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1S.-The senate
resumed lis session at 10 o'clock this
morning, at the expiration of the recess
taken yesterday evening. Mr.. Morgan
Dem, Ala.) took the floor on the motion
of Mr.. Dolph to amend the journal so as
to show the presence of Mr.. Allen when
the roll was called at 6:30 O'Clock Mon
day evening, that senator having failed
to answer when his name was called.
Mr.. Morgan said that while the decision
cited yesterday by Mr.. Hill from the
144th United States Supreme Court Re-
ports might be twisted and perverted
into a support of mis- (Mr. HIPS posi-
ton, as judicial decision il could not
be placed in that category except by
the artfulneSS of an aStute politician.
a fair-minded lawyer could not do it.
The supreme court merely decided that
the house of representatives under the
constitution had the right to make their
OWN rules for aScertaIning and record
ing the fact that quorum was present.
There were men in the world whose
cOnscienceS were so easy that they
could follow the supreme court in all its
decisions. who could bend their coz
sciences to any purpose that political
necessity required at any time, but
such men had no Just conception of
the rights and rights of the representa-
tives of the people and of the states.
Such persons were ready on any occa-
sion, when it served their purpose and
promoted their political prosperity or
their desire, to deprive minority OF all
Its rights and all its powers i'll order
that their wills may have supreme sway
IN THE COUNTRY.
1t might suit men of tuat class to fol-
low the supreme court around and be
willing to take an oath OF allegiance to
the opinions of the supreme court today
and change the oath tomorrow, when
the decision of the court changed. That,
Mir. Morgan said, did not suit him, and
he referred to the decision of that court
that no paper money issued by the gov
srnment or national bank could be
legal tender, which was not agreeable
to great many persons in the United
States. ThereupOn, he said, congress,
with great liberality, increased the
court from seven to nine, for what pur-
pose it was not for him to say, but the
people of the United States, or a great
many of them, believed it was done in
order to get men upon the bench who
would reverse that decision and decide
that paper money obligations issued by
the government were legal tender.
III. Hoar (Rep., Mass said the nOmi-
nations of two new judges were sent
TO the senate before the legal tender de-
cIsiOn was announced.
Mr. Morgan replied that he might be
wrong in his historical facts, but he did
no think he was.
Mir. Hoar said he knew the facts as be
stated were correct, if he knew any
thing in this world. Although the
statement repeated now by Morgan
gained currency, it was without the
slightest foundation.
Nr. Morgan GiscIaimed that he had
lntimated that the two Judges were ap-
pointed for that purpose, but so the
people believed.
Referring to Mr.. HIPS reference to
his (Morgan'sl connection to the Con-
federacy, Mr.. Morgan said that the
eleven states that went out of the
Union did so not to dissent to the con-
BtitutiOn, but to preserve it. He had
more respect for those who had the
pluck to shoulder a gun and go to the
front than for those who continually
referred to that period, but remained
at home. He was not alarmed when
he heard one of those gentlemen refer
to his attitude in 1861. No honest sol
dier who fought him in the war ever
did. 1t was only those who hired sub
BtituteS. and, pleading the baby act,
remained at home, who were in the
habit of rising i'll the senate and out
and referring to the fact that he (Nr.
Morgan) had participated in the seces-
sion of the South. He was not ashamed
of the fact.
MR.. MORGAN
characterized the statement of Mr. Hill
that Allen &. Thurman, who was the
occupant of the chair in the senate. had
counted quorum, "aS one of those half
truths told by the senator from New
York, which convey more of misiufor-
nation than it does OF fact | have
taken the pains to inquire how many
senators have condeScended to look at
the question in its material aspects, as
it appeared upon the statute books, and
! have found that very few have even
read the statutes that are to be affected
by the proposed act. But the trumpet
was sounded. the forces were marshaled.
the clock has struck at the White
house and the cuckoOs here put their
heads out of the box and responded,
and informed us CT the time of day.
They did not know what they were
talking about, and did not take pains TO
find uut'
Mr.. Morgan, referring to the action of
the secretary Of the treasury, said he
did not believe congress could confer
the discretion upon that officer to coin
or not to coin at his Will. The secretary
in this respect had but partially exc
cuted a mandatory law. Mr. Morgan
argued that the Sherman act should be
repealed out and out.
Mr.. Platt inquired whether the SEN
Rtor from Alabama believed that the
law as it now existed gave the secretary
OF the treasury the right to coin the
seignorage.
Mir, Morgan believed the secretary
had the right to coin every bit Oft. To-
day there was clear trampling out of
the mandate Of the law.
In the course of his Suepnh Mr. Nor