The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-14
SENATOR MORGAN 5 Visit.
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all there is to he learned by personal |
inquiry and investigation.
President G.. l.. Wight of the Wilder
Steamship Company and {. Ii. Ripley /
were fellow passengers OF Senator /
Morgan and the congressman, and inn
parted great deal of information to
them. Mr.. Wight will take the Con-
gressmen up to Maui and Hawaii on
the Claudine this evening to give them
as much insight as possible into the
extent of the Island territory. the de-
velopment of its resources and the
character of its inhabitants. The par
ty will probably be absent from Homo
lulu for five days.
SKETCH OF SENATOR MORGAN.
Senator Morgan was born at Ath-
ems. Tenn. on June 20, 1924. He re-
ceived an academic education chiefly
i'm Alabama, to which state he migrat-
ed when but nine years old, and
where he has since resided.
He took up the study of law and he
was admitted to the bar in 1S45 and
practiced until his admission to the
United States senate. In 1860 he was
Il presidential elector for the state of
Alabama at large and cast his vote for
breckenridge and Lane. The following
years found him a delegate from Dat
Has county to the state convention
which passed the ordinance of seces-
sion.
Senator Morgan joined the Confed-
crate army in May of 1861, as a pri-
vate in Company /, Cahaba Rifles, and
when that company was assigned to
the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under
| Colonel Robert +. Rhodes, he was cleo
| ted major. and afterwards lieutenant
colonel of that regiment; was com
missioned i'm 1862 as colonel and rails
ed the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment;
was appointed brigadier general in
! 1868, and assigned to "A brigade in
Virginia but resigned to join his reg
! iment, whose colonel had been killed
in battle. Later in 1863 he was again
appointed brigadier general and was
assigned to an Alabama brigade that
included his regiment.
After the war Senator Morgan re-
sumed the practice of law at Salem,
Ala. He was chosen presidential
elector for his State at large in 1876,
and voted for Tilden and Hendricks.
He was elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat to succeed Geo.
Goldthwaite, Democrat. He took his
seat on March 5, 1877: was reelected
in 1882. in 1883 and again in 1894. His
term of service will expire on Marcn
3, 1901. at which time. should he live,
he will be n years of age.
HIS CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.
Senator Morgan has represented the
State of Alabama in the upper house
OF Congress for twenty years. While
not great orator the vigor and the
trenchant character of his speeches
have won him a name throughout the
country. And the firm attitude which
on many occasions he has taken on
questions of foreign policy, as mem
Der, and more especially as chairman
of the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations. has given him an interna
tional reputation. Senator Morgan i.
more particularly noted for his very
broad and even assertive Americanism
not in the narrow and local accepta
ton of the term, but in its widest ans
greatest sense. AS such, though &
Democrat, and southern Democrat
at that, he was thorn i'm the side %
Cleveland's administrations, especial
u
mined attitude toward Spain and hi,
almost passionate appeals in favor o
the intervention of the United State!
in behalf of the Cuban patriots, hav,
/ stirred the blood of all true Ameri
cans. Morgan has also been a parti
san of the annexation of Hawaii, ant
in every instance in which the Mon
roe doctrine has come up he has beer
n n1y 70 Of &c 10
by this Government. For that rea
son he has as many friends in the Re
publican ranks, as in those of his owl
' party, and perhaps even more. In fac
r. it was he who in 1898 in debating tn,
repeal of the Sherman law, gave tn,
designation of ''cuckoo' to Cleveland
. followers, which has stuck to then
ever since. His language on that oc
casion is well worth quoting, as i
' has become a part of history, and fur
nishes good example of the rough ell
q oquence of the man. He said:
:, THE trumpet had sounded, tn
forces were marshaled, the clock ha
struck at the White House, and tn
cuckoos here all put their heads on
of the boxes and responded to inforr
us of the time of day"
Mr.. Morgan's principal speeche
, have been on the force bill, the repea
of the Sherman law, the Nicaragu
T. canal bill, the Behring sea difficulty
: the debts of the Pacific railroads t
the Government, and more especial
!. on the Cuban question. on which hi
voice has been heard time and agai
=, in rare persistency.
\ In stature Senator Morgan is sma
~ and spare and is the possessor of kee
blue eyes and firm mouth.
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