Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-19
SENATE WEATHER
Vt Continues Windy With Nc
Signs Of Calm.
MORGAN TAKES A WHACK AT HILL

Supreme Court Opinions-He Also Has
Shy at John Sherman-Mils Prepared
to Stand by the President and Follow
sherman Rather Than Peffer-A Move
for a Conference.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-rhe senate had |
,other of its recess sessions and again |
took recess instead of adjourning. The |
object OF this is to save the time in the |
m rning in which general business may |
b brought up, so that the whole time OF
the senate may be given to the repeal bill, |
thus adding at least two more hours to |
the time for debate Morgan was on his
feet as soon as the senate was ready fol
business and resumed the discussion OF
question Of senatorial silence during roll
call. He imagined case in which two
senator's voted aye upon bill and one sen
stor voted no, while the rest Of the sena
tors remained in their seats silent, and he
asked whether that bill could be said to
have passed the senate. Those who had
sat by and had not voted might have
. meant to say by their silent negative votes
of that sort. They might have said: at
is true that we are here; it is true that we
do not answer to our names. But our
presence and silence indicate that we are
not here for the purpose of doing business
that you want to do. We have right TO
he here to see what kind of record you
are going to make
That supreme Court Decision.
Morgan then took up the decision of the
supreme court which was referred to as
being in favor of the right of a presiding
officer to count quorum. He said that
decision could not be twisted into sup
port Of that doctrine, except by the artful-
ness of an astute politician y fair minded
lawyer could not do il. The supreme
court, Morgau said, had never claimed the
power I o decide as to the constitutionality
or unconstitutiouality of the rules of either
house 1t could not do it. That was a
political question in which the supreme
court never concerned itself.
Gets to the Point He started For.
Then ne applied his argument to He'll
and said: at 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 po-
| litical necessities may require at any time.
But such men have no just conception of
| the rights and duties of the Representatives
of the people and the states. Men of that
| class may follow the supreme court around
| and be willing 20 take an oath ofallegiance
to its opinions one way to-day and to its
| opinions another way tomorrow.
Tangled Up some in His Facts.
In this connection Morgan referred TO
| the fact that after the decision Of the su-
preme court against legal tender govern
ment notes the court had been increased
| from seven to nine, ;he case had been
argued again and the first decision re-
versed, and implied that because Of the
| first decision the court had been increased
| so as TO obtain the second He was cor
rected on that point 10y Huar, who gave
| the facts in the cas- and asserted that the
| increase Of the court had been provided
for by congress, and two judges bradley
and Strong) nominated, before the first
legal tender decision had been made.
Returns to senator Hin.
Having come TO grief by this diversion
Morgan returned to the New York senator
who he said, had referred to his
Morgan s) devotion to another constitu-
ton than that of the United States. He
did not, he said, have much respect for
men who were constantly referring to the
war period of 1861. and who had not had
the pluck to shoulder n gun and so out
to fight His respect did not extend to
that class, as it did to men like Palmer,
Morrison, Sckles, Randall, who had taken
muskets in their hands and said I'VE will
try this question with you, on issue of
battle.
Not Ashamed of His War Record.
1t was only those who hired substitutes
and stayed at home and pleaded the baby
net, or something of that kind, who were
in the habit of getting up in the senate
and elsewhere and quoting the fact that be
(Morgan) had belonged to the secession
government of the south. He had be
longtd to it, and was not ashamed of the
fact Old John Knox, old John Wesley
and Martin Luther-men who had fought
for freedom of conscience-were the men
whom he revered in history-not those
petty politicians who figured and rose tc
the surface like bubbles upon stagnant
pond and exploded and left nothing be
hind them but mephitic odors. Laughter.
WANTS 1T TAKEN METAPHORlCALLY
And Gives the Democrats a Warning Based
on Classic Legend.
Proceeding Morgan spoke Of the sever,
treatment of Senator George some weeks
ago when he was forced to go on with hi.
speech, although in i'll bealth at the time
and recalled the classical legend Of Actsor
and his dogs; how after the dogs hat
caught and devoured the game they hat
turned upon their master aud consumed
him. He warned his Democratic col
leagues that that would be their fate il
the coalition which they had entered intt
to pass the bill. You are," said he, ad
dressing himself to those DEM mocrats
turning your dogs loose here-I do no
mean literally, but metaphorically-
[laughterl upon men who are represen
tative men in the highest sense of tn,
word and who want to do their duty t
their constituents and to the country.
"And after awhile, when your hound
have destroyed us they will turn upon
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