Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-18
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Oct. IS, 1898.
SENATE.

The Senate met at ten o'clock this
morning. the pending question being on
the motion to amend the journal by
making it show the presence of Sena-
tors Allen and Kyle on roll call, they
being in the chamber and not answer
ing.
Mr.. Morgan. democrat, of Alabama,
re-opened the argument ofthe question.
He lookup the decision Of the 5 pren e
Court which was referred to yesterday
as being in favor of the right OF pre-
siding officer TO count quorum. He
said that the decision could moi be twis' :
Ell into support of that doctrine, "eA-
cept by the artfulness of an astute poll
tician. A fair-minded lawyer could
not do it." Then he applied his argu-
ment to Mr.. Hill and said: 1T Is only
those men who have easy conscienceS
who follow the Supreme Court. There
are men in the world whose consciences
are so very easy that they can bend
them to any purpose which their poll
teal necessities may require at any
time. But such men have no just con-
ception of the rights and duties of the
representatives OF the people and the
States. Men of that class may follow
the Supreme Court sround and be Will
ing to take an oath of allegiance
to its opinions one way to-day, and
to its opinions anotherway tomorrow. :"
Mr.. Morgan referred to Senator Hill
as one who would fly back and forth
like weaver's shuttle He did not
know that man could do more I'M
dignifed or q more unmanly thing
than to say ne would stand by the de-
cision of the Supreme Court to-
day, and would stand by an OPP
posite decision tomorrow. The Sen
ator from New York, had referred to
his OR. Morgan's) devotion to another
constitution than that Of the United
States. He did not Che saiG have
much respect for men who were con-
stantly referring to the war period of
1861 and who had not had the pluck to
shoulder gun and 60 Quito fight. His
respect did not extend to that class, as
it did to men like Palmer, Morrison,
Sickles, and Randall, who had taken
muskets in their hands and said "We
will try this question with you. on is
sue of battle He was not alarmed
when he heard one of those gentleman
question his (Mr. Morgan's) attitude in
1861. An honest soldier who had
fought him on the war never did it. 1t
was only those who hired substitutes
and stayed at home, and pleaded the
baby act. or something of that kind,
who were in the habit of getting up in
the Senate and elsewhere and quoting
the fact that he Orr. Morgan had be-
longed to the secession government OF
the South. He had belonged to it and
was not ashamed ofthe fact.
The men whom he revered in history
were those who fought for freedom of
conscience, not those petty politicians
who figured and rose to the surface like
bubbles upon q stagnant pond, and ex-
ploded and left nothing behind them
but mephitic odors. Uaugher.)
Then Mr.. Morgan spoke of the i'll
treatment OF Senator George some
weeks ago when he was forced to 90
on with his speech. although in i'll
health at the time; and recalled the
classical legend of Actgon and his dogs
how, after the dogs had caught and de-
vourcd the game, they had turned upon
their master and consumed him. He
warned his democratic colleagues that
that would be their fate in the coali-
ton which they had entered into to
pass the bill.
"You are," said he. addressing him
self to those delegates, turning your
dogs loose here II do not mean liter
ally, but Observation-Disclosures,
upon men who are representative men
in the highest sense of the word and
who want to do their duty to their
constituents and to the country; and,
after a while, when your hounds have
destroyed us, they will turn upon you
and rend you to pieces. They will
have no more use for you than a boy
has for last years birds nest after they
have done manipulating you and carry
ing you along in their little political
machine"
Mr.. Morgan declared his conviction
that there was coalition. One proof
of it was that his democratic brethren
(who were minority on the silver ques-
tion) would not go into caucus. 1t was
the first time that he had ever heard of
"cose communion" set up in the DEM
ocratic party. Another proof of it was
the friendly intercourse aid assocla-
ton between some democrats and the
leading republicans. He repeated his
intention to move a substitute repeal
ing the whole Gnstead of partl of the