The evening world., 1893-10-18
MORGAN STILL MAD.
He, Uses the Senate's Time to
Denounce Mr.. Hill.
Do'ph Motion to Correct The Journal
Finally Tabled.
Then Mr.. Teller Takes Up . Fresh
Line of Obstruction.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 1S.-The Senate
met at 10 this morning, the ordinary
tim of meeting having been advanced
an hour by the parlia mentary device
adopted last evening in taking a recess
instead Of adjourning.
A quarter Of an hour, however, was
spent in waiting for the arrival of the
~forty-third Senator in order to consti-
tute q quorum. There was no prayer
and no reading of yesterdays Journal
the Journal of Monday not being yet ap-
proved. and the pending question being
On Mr.. Dolph's motion to amend 1t by
making 1t show the presence OF Senators
Allen and Kyle on a roll call, they being
In the chamber and not answering.
Mr.. Morgan Dem., Ala.) reopened the
argument OF the question.
MORGAN IS IMAGINATIVE.
He imagined a case in which two
Senators voted yes upon a bill and one
Senator voted no; while the rest of the
Senators remained in their seats, silent;
and he asked whether that bill could be
said to have passed the senate.
Those who have sat by and not voted
might have meant to say, by their silent
negative votes, that they were unwilling
TO 90 business OF that sort. They might
1t is true that we do not answer to
Our nm But our presence and ST.
lence indicates that we are not here
IL, Rn,,, ' Seu p mans 10 Of DO DOVE W. have sas o a rasss
70 be here TO see what kind Of a.sr1o1Ad
!ol are going 70 make
81 the N SUPREME ua' Court sHSs Which WI che was 1''i rs,
fe:red to yesterday as being in favor of
the right OF the presiding officer to count
q anorum. He said h that decision,
that doctrine Except by the %artfulness
Of an astuts politician. A fair-minded
lawyer could not 90 it."
ssid.. had never claimed the power to
decide on the constitutionality or I'M
eonstitutionality Of the rule of either
political question in which the Supreme
SUPREME COURT NOT SPARED.
men nf1 to MIR MI. H Hill. and ae ePid: 1T its is a o1iy
those men who have easy consciences
who follow the Supreme Court. There
are SO very easy that they can bend
them to any purpose which their politi-
cal necessities may require at any time.
But such men have no just conception
tattve Of the people and the States.
Men Of that class may follow the Su-
preme Court around, and be willing TO
take an oath Of allegiance to its opinions
one way to-day, and to its opinions
another way tomorrow.
In this connection Mr.: Morgan referred
TO the fact hat after the decision of the
Supreme Court against legal-tender Gov
eminent notes the court had been in
creased from seven to nine. the case had
been argued again and the first decision
He was corrected on that point by Mr..
Hoar (Rep., Mass.). who gave the facts
IN the case; and asserted that the in,
crease OF the court had been provided
Tor by Congress-, and two Judges (Messrs.
Bradley and Strons) nominated before
the first legal-tender decision had been
COMING BACK TO HILL.
Mr.. Morgan then came back to the
Senator from New York, whom he
referred to as one who would fly back
ms forth Ike a viewers shuttle" He
than to say he would stand by the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court to-day, and
would stand by an opposite decision to-
The Senator from New York had re-
ferred to his (Mr. Morgan's) devotion to
another constitution than that of the
have much respect for men who We're
constantly referring to the war period
OF 1861 and who had not the pluck to
His respect did not extend to that
class. as ii did to men like Palmer, Nor
rison Sickles; Randall. who had taken
muskets in their hands and said: w
Will try this question with you on issue
H was not alarmed when he heard
S %ors Of those sG gfnsisnH En- Question IN his SoH MIR;
soldier who had fought him in the war
never did t. It was only those who
hired sY5stltqtes ana STAYED at home:
Of that kind, who We're in the habit of
getting up in the Senate ana elsewhere
n 9uoting, the fact that he CMr. Nor
WoT ASHAMED OF cEcEss1oN.
He had belonged to It., and was not
any men in the world entitled to the
consideration of the human family, they
were such men as old John Knox and
me Who had fought the battles OF
Christianity, who fought against the
might and majesty of the greatest com
bination Of political, civil and religious
of conscience. These were the men
whom he revered in h~istory-not those
petty I p0, .aTfaae Mso sSSpiss an n9On rose q
stagnant pond, and exploded and left
nothing behind them but mephitic doors
(Laughter) -,
treatment of Senator George some weeks
ago. when he was forced TO go on with
his speech, although In lIl-health at the
time; and recalled the classical legend
OF Actaeon and his dogs how. after
game, they had turned upon their mas
ter and consumed him. lie warned his
Democratic colleagues that that would
be their fate in the coalition which they
had entered into to pass the bill.
Mr.. Morgan spoke for two hours. He
explained that the effect of his PROPOSE
tion to repeal the whole OF the sherman
act would be TO bring into fun force
an Of the Bland act mat had rot been