The age-herald., 1898-06-22
THE PUBLISHING
 HOUSE SCANDAL


 They say that John T. Morgan is near 1 ing the end of his row; that he does not live in Alabama, etc. Here are few sen- tences from the Alabama senator, spoken 1 in the senate June 13 1898, in reply to Sem ator' Chandler of New Hampshire, Hoar 1 and Lodge, of Massachusetts They have | quite lively ring and seem to Imply that | the old man stands about where he did l some forty years ago. when it comes to the job of tongue-lashing. Lodge, Hoar, 1 Chandler and company want the s2sS,0OO l congress voted to the Methodist Book Com cern refunded, because the church or its agents paid $1O0OO0 to professional claim I agent, E.. B. Stahlman, to work congress
 up to the payment. Morgan said he had years ago, assisted by ex-Governor Henry 1 s. Foote, attoney for the claimant The | senator spoke the other day follows:
 '"rhat report has stood here and borne the brunt of argument in this house and | in the otter, and no person has ever been able to upset it. l had the advantage of 1 the great abilities of Governor foote i1 preparing that report. l am satisfied that | if you will HOW pass resolution through 1 this body and refer the matter to the com mittee on the judiciary, that committee | will report that the claim was honestly due | from the government of the United States | under the law, not as a donation or beneY-- olence or anything of the kind. 1t was | a corporation chartered by the laws of | Tennessee, and no plea of benevoence was | put up in the report or anywhere else 1n 1 justification of the allowance to be made. Nothing of that kind was contended for. l It was put on the ground of solid, strict l legal right. If the senate of the United States in its | vote has affirmed that legal right, then what becomes of the proposition that the senate will have the money paid back out | of the pockets of senators who advocated l it. for that is the -intimation, or out of the 1 book concern, for it is intimated again l that it was pure beneyolence to them, and that inasmuch as they have been dis appointed or have been scandalized by~their agents, therefore it becomes the duty Of l this great church to renounce the whole affair and turn the money back into the treasury of the United States?
 Well, MT. President, if the doctrine of renunciation for conscience sake is estab- | lished in this country, we will have to go very far back, and very deep, too to get justice done. What will we do with the | Credit Mobiler? What will we do with the | De Golyer contracts? What will we do | with the sugar trust lobby that has been ! paid for here, and that we have sustained l by our votes from time to time? What 1 will these conscientious senators say about 1 the refunding of claims and moneys that 1 they SOleu lOI run liIHS lo lhiO III tiO | face of public scandal and denunciation?
 
 "We are ready for the expose that you can make upon the southern people, | whether in the church or out of it, and when we come to compare notes with you gentlemen of the north about what has been | leached out of this government by men | who have received your countenance and support even in the office of president of the United States, I think we will come ar perb1nS a little than the scales balance in our favor. defy you to make your examinations. Here | you want to put it upon the ground. Go back and look into history and let it be done. We are ready.
 "Why, sir the women of the south, if the 1 United States wants this money put back | into the treasury, will subscribe it out of | their purses and put it back What will 1 you do when you get it here? Will you | give it to some of the concerns you have already stall-fed until you can not man. age them? will you turn to the sugar 1 trust that you are always assisting? Will | you turn it back into the Credit Mobilier? Will you go out and correct the frauds that have been practiced, and are now being | conducted, upon the Union and Central l Pacific railroads? What will you do with 1 the money when you get it back? Have I you got some pet fraud or thief you want | to give it to? If you have, we will vote 1 it back to you, if you make the motion. l "No sir this money would burn the peck | cts of the people of the United States when | it got back there upon these grounds. These people in the south have been dealt with
 by their book agent in way that mortifesl | them to death. These agents ought to be | dealt with, and doubtless will be dealt with | not merely in their church relations but in | their social relations. They will be ex- communicated from decent society in the l south, professional and nonprofessional. | There is but one judgment that the south l ever pronounces upon men who engage in l falsehoods, prevarications, and lies like | these mn are accused of telling and seem | to be only too guilty of. There is no for | bearance in the south toward such people; there is no toleration of such conduct; and this will that that is sn,