Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-20
LET SWINGING IN THE AIR Was the International Arbitra-
 ton Treaty AND SHERMAN M0URNS FIibustering Tactics for Several Hours Finally
 Succeeded IN GIVING THE BILL ITS QUlETUS Daniels, of Virginia, Makes Q Masterly Speech Imploring His Colleagues Not to Bind This Country Hand and
 Foot to John Bull.
IN GIVING THE BILL ITS QultTus

Washington, Feb. 19--The open ses- sion of the senate today lasted for only half an hour. Two conference reports on pension bills were agreed to. one giving $50 a month to the widow of Gen. Stone man, and the other $75 month to Gen. J. H. Stahl Senator Daniel (dem. Va.), was designated as the reader of Wash ington's farewell address next Monday an observance introduced by MT Hear some years ago when Senator Ingals, of Kansas, was president pro tenn, and he was, as such, designated as the reader.
 His splendid elocution has never been equalled on a like occasion since.
 Possibly the last of the "unreconstruct- ed rebels was pardoned today in the per son of Col. D. D. Simms, of Kentucky, the senate passing a bill to remove his political disabilities.
 At 12:3O o'clock the senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business (the arbitration treaty., and adjourned without action on the treaty.
 When the senate readjourned at o'clock tonight, after secret session or seven and one-half hours 1t was apparent to the most sanguine friends of the gen. eral treaty of arbitration with Great Britain that no vote could be secured at this session of the senate. The fact that the motion to postpone until March had been defeated by vote of 30 to 20, afford ed no satisfaction. On the contrary 1t emphasized the fact that those fighting the treaty intended there should be af- firm1tive action of no kind.
 The debate proceeded in regular order until 6 o'clock when senators, tired of the discussion and weary in body, left the chamber and proceeded to their homes. For two hours longer there was a, dreaTy succession of yea and na calls and calls of the senate for the purpose Of securing a quorum, which no sooner found to be present than it would disappear.
 Filibustering was indulged in with the o1d-time vigor, and when, after two hours of this sort of thing, the call of the senate failed to establish the presence of quo rum, a motion to adjourn prevailed, and the treaty was left hanging in the air.
 At the close of yesterdays session MT. Sherman gave notice that he should today ask the senate to sit 1t out. The contest began as soon as the doors were closed, with considerable energy on the part of the friends of the treaty but they soon wearied In their struggle with the inevitable. Messrs. Lodge and Frye spoke briefly, but with a great deal of spirit, urging that the vote be taken this afternoon MT. Lodge said there could be no doubt but that every senator had made up his mind how he should vote and any further delay would be waste of time and an exhibition of a desire to prevent action of any sort.
  effort to shell the bushes" and it was successful in driving into the open the enemies of the treaty He was at once confronted with retort from Senator Teller and Senator Stewart to the effect that no vote could be had. MT. Teller then took the floor and spoke for an hour against the treaty and against present action.
 In the course of his remarks MT. Tel Ter said that he was not prepared to say l. <.l.@ xa14 rofo for fhA rarlatf tft-n tion treaty. He favored the principle of arbitration, but the treaty had been bungled and badly drawn and he believed there should be ample time for its con sideration. The more the treaty was discussed the more prominent became the objections that had been made to it.
 Mr Daniels, of Virginia, made one of those speeches, finished in oratory and rhetoric, for which he is noted. He ad- dressed the senate for upwards of two hours and made powerful impression He was against the treaty and advanced some of the strongest arguments that have yet been heard. War was not bad thing. MT. Daniel said, when the na- ton that went to war had the right on It's side, and was upholding the honor and integrity of it's people The United States was the only country that Great Britain feared and if she could put us under bonds to keep the peace. Great Britain would go ahead with her policy Ol dBSiSSSiOB anu eits 5 dJihlNCtuCnl laugh at any protest that we might make or defy any position we might assume against the oppression of the peoples of the western hemisphere. The Amer ican people were people of peace; the policy of the country for hundred and twenty years had been one of peace. It had arbitrated it's differences time and again and was pledged to that principle, but when 1t went into a solemn compact for that purpose with Great Britain there should be an equality of terms. The United States had everything to lose by the treaty and Great Britain everything to gain. The congress of the United States had never declared war unless war was justifiable; the United States had never acquired any territory by war unless as the result of 6 war that was of defense or necessity for the perpedua- tion of the republic.
 q love the blood of the revolution" said Mir. Daniel, in one of his impassion- ed utterances. Tt is full of all that is great and noble in the history of this country.' MT. Daniel then proceeded to show that the lessons of the revolution ought not to be forgotten and that the peo- pie ofthe United States should be weary of any overtures made to them by her tra- ditional enemy, Great Britain, speaking though they do, the same tongue. Of all the powers. England was the one the United States should refuse to blindly follow It would be sorry day for this nation when it's hands were tied by an agreement that gave Great Britain all she asked and compelled US to keep quiet in the face of the policy that that na- tior will continue to follow regardless of any solemn pledge she may give.
 During the course of an analytical criti. cisrn of the provisions of the treaty, MT. Daniel said the members of the supreme court ought not to be designated as members of the arbitration tribunal. He favored the insertion of an amendment that left the membership of that court to the president by and with the advice and consent of the senate.
 The third and last set speech of the