The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-29

| The room was in chaos.
Somebody rose to a point of order.
Your name21 asked the President.
ALLAN Benny, came the reply
state your point.
upon an appeal from the ruling Of the
chair, all parliamentary usage says the
Secretary must state the appeal The
| President has no right to do It
mo chairman or anyone else is greater
than the body itself, remarked some
one.
Rap! Rap! Rap! went the gavel
1--WE cannot resolve ourselves into
mob, roared the President.
Mr. Allan Benny eventually moved that
the report of the minority of the Nomi-
mating Committee be substituted for the
majority.
Upon the decision of the chair deny
ing my motions that the minority report
be substituted for the majority report, I
appeal from the decision of the chair,
shouted Mr.. Benny
Mr.. Benny's right to vote at all was
questioned
Mr.. George Tay rose to the occasion
by SAYING there could be no such thing
as minority report. The association
could not appeal away the Constitution.
This plan of trying to deceive and sub
stitute minority report was disgracefui.
Somebody else did not think IT right TO
doubt the veracity Of the two ladies dis
senting, Miss Jaauett and Miss Gilmore,
BY accepting the first report as unani-
nous.
Mr.. Benny said he heard them say no
when the question was put in the COM
mittee.
The motion was put and reput. Yeas
were roared, nays were yelled. SO It went
on until the nominees began to resign.
Something must be done and there was
no one to do it, Then came that last re-
sort. the motion to adjourn. It was hard
to tell whether it carried or not After
an hour and half the convention was
3usf where it began, so the recommends
tions for revising Senate bill No .1s7 were
called for and read by the Treasurer,
Mr. Harris.
EvENIN SESSION.
AT the evening session the Hon. Henry
Watterson. of Louisvillel, Kentucky,
delivered before a vast assemblage OIL
people a lecture on the life of Abraham
Lincoln. Mr. Watterson told them ne met
Lincoln at Springfield, and witnessed ms
defeats and victories an dhis debates with
Stephen Douglass, whom he afterWard
learned to love as a man who was greatly
misunderstood He spoke of Lincoln our
ing the time of the Rebellion and the
brave, courage and good Judgment ne
used when he was at the head of this
country. He told of his supreme power
over his cabinet.
Mr.. Watterson continuing, said THE
shoe buckle and ruffled shirt worked
spell peculiarly their own. There were
gentlemen in those days and they made
their influence felt on the life and hab-
IFS of the people. It was not until Af-
r,ean slavery got into politics that Con-
gress became a bear garden. These
courtly gentlemen of the first fifty years
of the Republic were succeeded by a
race of party leaders much less decor
ous.'
Mr.. Watterson reviewed briefly the
carly fights and debates on the slavery
question. and getting down to the time
when the inevitable and unsuppressible
conflict between freedom and slavery, be-
tween free labor and slave labor began,
said
.There came one day into the Northern
camp the oldest figure ever seen IN the
politics of the nation. The sentence OF
his which first attracted attention was
nregnant with prophesy. He said: A
house divided against itself cannot stand
believe that this Government cannot
permanently endure, divided as It now IS
On the question of slavery. Either slavery
must be abolished or the Union must be
dissolved, and I do not think that the
Union will be dissolved.
After dwelling at length upon the tragic
death of Lincoln he closed by saying:-
.sWhat was the popularity which gave
This man such power? 1t was conscious
strength. He was the genius of common
sense-comnnon sense in action and in
thought. He was a common man expand
ed TO giant proportions. He was awkward
perhaps. and ungainly, but back of those
heavy brows of his was the mind of a
prose poet-such mortal prose poetry as
was recited at Gettysburg. He was in
snired as Shakespeare, Mozart and Burns
was inspired, as Martin Luther was in
spired Truly he was inspired Of God. :
MORNING SESSION.
The morning session of the Teachers
Association opened at nine O. clock, with
solo by Miss Mary Currie, after which
paper was read from the Commission of
Codification, stating that a year ago
committee was appointed to investigate
TO provide a substitute for Bill 1877.
IN short to make school law for the
best interests Of the State and to make 1t
a leading educational State. This bill was
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