The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-14

Mr.. Norwood L intend this as the sub
sauce sauce OF what you said as reported in the
hseofq, 70 go to my constituents
Mr. Henderson, OF Iowa: If you intend to
guote lhat as an original speech made by
M r. mere ,an IS not g word of truth in it.
Inc Chairman: Does the gentleman from
Georgia (Mr. Norwood) weld TO The gentle-
man from Iowa?
Nj NJ, Norwood: I can not yield further.
Put, gentlemen. to sum up: AS | am
az TINS moment spanking with unusual DEL
iicacy Tor me, as would not have YOU mis-
r rI' ,5,I my feelings as the tendency of
feel in the kindest and sincerest spirit i'm
S a9y f. as you can see by
nave not got hating heart. | declare
unto you that notwithstanding you waved
me bloody shirt in my face; notwithstand-
ing you boast you viii rule this govern
ment outside of the constitution: uotwith-
standing L don't believe your reason for
opposing the Increase of widows pensions;
hhooLIwl ms you have no right TO be
neIe, ana commit great crimes 10 get here;
Notwithstanding you stuff ballot boxes and
NM negroes and don't read the cOnstitu-
tloh, sun declare unto you Confederates
that respect you, and ever shan respect
YOU and l would rather dance an Irish jig
on burning Goals in hell with you forever
NAN NAN TO-, 10 be eternally in Heaven with
Mr. Henderson, of Iowa: That is pretty
stltf; but | stick TO ii.
a Speech without Equal.
Mr.. Norwood: Mr. Chairman. the compli-
ment paid by the gentleman from Iowa 70
mat baliot-box stuffing and shotgun brig
aue mas no equal in Its sentiment of deVo-
tion. In history or fiction there has never
been but one instance which approached
II, and that was when Dame Quickly was
| harTating 10 Pistol and Bardolph the cir
cumstances of the death of Sir John Fall
stan Qaughter(, when Bardolph in the
enthusiasm of his roguish soul, cried out,
would were with him, wheresome'er
ne is, whether in heaven or In hell 3"
NaughteT)
Speaking for myself only, while I return
my proroundest acknowledgements to the
gentleman from Iowa for the offer of his
society, If l should be so unfortunate as
10 take the wrong road and join him down
below Qaughter), and while | do not doubt
that he VIII not be much worse than the
average of the naturalized citizens of that
country so populouS with involuntary I'M
MIGRANTS, yet | here now. enter my solemn
| and vigorous protest against accepting his
delicate companionship Qaughte0, for [
am persuaded, Notwithstanding his pecu-
far delicacy in approaching a subject and
his tendency to fraternal feeling, that no
engagement, however pressing il might be
upon those who would be going through
the. very rapid evolutions supposed to be
| incident TO that tOrrid cline, could pre-
vent the gentleman from arresting the
column and mounting upon a red-hot
stump and insisting that we should listen
TO him declaim that stale piece of pOliti-
cal lore. That would be a punishment
greater than | could beari daughter and
applause9 | would be in favor of inaugu-
rating another REBELLION (renewed laugh
teri, even with the certain foreknoWledge
that the gentleman in ten minutes would
| he found lighting first for the devil and
| then for me. Haughter.)
The gentleman has caused in me the
profoundest ratitude by the announce
ment that he fought for the South during
the late unpleaSantness between the Unit
| ed and the Confederate states. When that
overwhelming outburst of plethoric phil-
anthropy and continental patriotism spurt-
ed from MS pierced and iacerated bosom
as he approached the gentleman from
South Carolina the other day, as a
revival preacher leaves his pulpit and ap-
proaches a hardened sinner Qaughterl [
confess that / took an extra grip on my
lachrymal ducts, which / discovered were
about to leak. Great laughter)
1 wondered if such patriotism is heredi-
tary, and, if 1t were. began to think of
that gentlemans children. When Horne
Tooke was on trial for treason, and the
Attorney General began to declaim about
his personal virtues and about his desire
to leave his good name as q rich legacy
to his children, Horne Tooke was seen
to be in tears, and when his counsel asked
him the cause, he SAID ne had just been
| thinking of what a very small legacy these
unfortunate children would receive.
| Uaughter)
change it with yours, my friend from
Georgia. (Cries of "Ohl" on the Demo-
cratic side.) My legacy. to my children I
can afford to leave side by side with
yours.
Mr. Norwood: You will have your time
to speak when I get through.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa: l throw that
in to help along affairs.
Would Have Turned an Old Confed
Mr. Norwood: 1 thought also how many
valuable lives could have been saved if
in the beginning of the war the gentleman
had approached the Confederate lines with
his peculiar delicacy, and decorated him
self with one of his sweetest smiles; for
every Confederate soldier would have in
continentiy fled. Laughter) And when
they might have recovered their senses, If
they ever could, sufficiently to consider
what it was they had seen, the mystery
would have remained unsolved, like an
other mystery recorded in an old song:
Some said 1t was the red moon,
And some said nay;
Some said il was the devil,
And they all ran away.
Great laughter and applause.)
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa: | never met
them but they did run away before l got
through with them. APPLAUSE on Repub-
lican side and laughter and applause on
Democratic side)
other day-and have / not the right to call
him friend when he fought for me?-de-
clared he had said nothing for the purpose
of ruffling the feelings of anybody, and
Il was certain nobody could say anything
that would ruffle his.
But / was speaking of the gentlemans
lion here few days ago, and l imagined
if Ben Lomond could be separated from
the Grampian range and transported over
the sea- as the gentleman was, and were
set down somewhere in the middle of this
country, we will say about the state of
Iowa how natural it would be for Ben
EDMOND to want TO lie down and spread
himself all over the United States and the
territories thereof, with a sublime disre-
gard of the extreme attenuation of his
form. Iaughter)
But, Mr.. Chairman, we cannot receive
Rem Lomond. Scotland cannot bestow
upon us her Bruce or her Wallace, for
thew made glorious history and their
names are emba.med in the leaves that
record the history they made. But she
has bestowed upon us one of her choicest
thistles and, though its flowers have fall
en-, its thorns are still strong and vigor-
Gus. He with his patriotism can cover
the whole of the United States and small
majority of the Third congressional dis
trict of Iowa and very considerable part
of himself (Laughter) His love has
never been equaled since the time of Robin
Roughhead, who declared If he could have
his own way there would be no widows,
for he would marry them all. and there
would be no orphans for he would father
them all (Great laughter and applause)
The literature of Scotland has furnished
us with an example that is prototype,