The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08

next month | can't be inaugurated until
next March. Congress doesn't meet until
| December OF next year. A bill has to be
prepared and passed, for you know con
gress has To legali2e the issue OF this
money. That may take month Then
| the bill will be sent to the white house
for my signature, and when have signed
1t then we can begin to issue the money.
suppose, summing up his case, it will
I take eighteen months altogether before
my policy can be carried out"
GU say you'll have to be elected first
and lnaugurated said the barefooted
MissOurian, then congress will have to
! pass the bill and you'll have TO sign it,
| and all this will take eighteen months2'
| Yes said the general.
" i can't wait that long said the lone
Missourian, ana turned his back on
| Weaver"
The group thought this pretty good
story to point moral TO adorn tale.
1T is very aproDos of my friend
| Quigg's case remarked one. you know
he was elected to congress from one of
the strougholds of 1amma y and a
general thing, the political atmosphere OF
| a Iammany stronghold is not very healthy
Tor repu Dllcan who happens to repre-
sent it. a good deal has been said about
Quigg's righteousness on the floor. 1t
has occurred to me that Quigg is in the
same fix as the Missourian that Lacey has
been telling about. He can't wait. he
has TO do all his talking while his grip is
on the occlput of Opportunity. You know
the saying about Opportunity being bald
In front. SO there is Quigg"
Some one in the party drew out S. sill
yer Ger ,iticate. Before anybody could
pursue the discussion on the subject of
Quigg the man with the 81 silver note d.
verified the current of debate TO gram
NAUTICAL proposition.
This dill, began the man who had
flashed the evidence of his wealth upon
the symposium, this bill has upon its
face this legend This certifies that
there have been deposited in the treas
ury of the United States $5. Now it's
evident 10 any weIl-balanced mind that
this is gross violation Of the rules of
grammar
Doesn't the law require the deposit of
silver dollars to the amount for which
note is issued,' inquired QuIgg, II
thought everybody knew that"
Were not talking about law but gram
mar, said the first speaker breaking
Mr.. Quigg OF short. The proper way
TO express this would be There has
been deposited, and not have been de-
posted. "
This precipitated a sharp debate in
which every authority from Murray to
Coobett was invoked. Shaw insisted that
1t was an elliptical sentence. in which the
nominative was silent. Filled out, the
sen ence should read: There has been
deposited a sum which makes an aggre-
gate of five silver dollars"
Tie ma. GRITTY, however, held the ex,
pressed nominative OF five silver dollars
to be good enough Tor them. II possessed
an intrinsic value and was legal tender
anywhere in the United States and con-
vertible into gold on demand There was
no going back on such a nominative. II
spoke for itself.
Money talks and such an argument
beats nne-spun theories of grammar
seven days in the week. The man with
the 80 note thrust it back into his pocket,
Shaw was advised TO brush up his know
ledge of finance before he attempted to
discuss problems OF grammar in their re-
latiOn 10 che silver question, and then
the debate drifted into another channel
The word status" Is pronoun. ed
"stawtus' by Mr.. heed and ''staytus" by
DR.. ~ erett. BY 30 per cent of the House
members it is pronounced status fat
The question turned upon the point
whether "stawtus, 80 status" or stay
tus' is right. DR. Everett delyed down
through the Norman-t rench into Latin
and Dobbed up serenely from the depths
OF his genealogical plunge with a verdict,
elucidated by a learned disquisition, in
favor Of "staytus," which received also
Mir Shaw's approval.