The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-04-06
Aged Albanian Makes a Great
bit In Senate Speech.
b BURLESQUE ON BEVERIDGE
The Entertainment Was Highly
Amusing and Congratulations
Were Freely Dispensed.


'sensation Of the day Friday at the cap
itol was the speech Of Senator Pettus,
of Alabama, in which he poured upon
the head Of the youthful Republican
orator, Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, the
walls of his wit and synicism. It was
an entirely new role for the senator
from Alabama to assume, and to say
that he made hit is to give mild ex-
preston to the very evident facts.
: In the course of general speech on
the Philippines General Pettus deliv-
cred dissertation upon the qualities
of orators in general, and the young
orator tBeveridge) who addressed the
senate Thursday IN particular, which
was the funniest thing the senate has
known in many years.
FIR ON this time forward Mr.. Pettus'
speech was personal in its applica-
cation. He first took Mr.. Gallinger
to task.
"'I was very much entertained by
the senator from New Hampshire on
yesterday" he said, "when he in
formed us that he was not a lawyer
and he proved it to us, not only by
asserting it, but by his argument.
Lawyers know that when you come to
seead decision of a Judge you must
take all he says on a subject; that it
will not do to take sentence here
and another there, but that is exactly
what the senator did in quoting Justice
Bradley on the Mormon church case. "
The senator then went on to relate
an anecdOte illustrative of his point, in
which preacher of the olden time
when the senator was boy--had fig
ured in Alabama.
! "The minister" he said, twas as
2 learned in the Bible as my friend from
fNew Hampshire in the law. Laugh
: .ter). He said Brethren, my text
today will be the following: Seven
sons did Micah bear unto Enon. Now
/ expect, brethren, the preacher went
on, if you would look at the common
taries you would find various mean
ings to this text, but taking common
sense view of it, 1 will say this:
: I expect that Enon was sick and
z the doctor told his seven sons, great,
strong fellows, that it was absolutely
necessary that he should have milk for
his nutriment; and thereupon the
seven sons went out to look up the
cows. The COWS had not come up the
night before, and so the sons could
not find them; but they came across a
bear and they MIXED her and carried
the milk to Enon, and so, brethren, it
is writ Seven SONS did Micah bear
unto Enon.'
"rhat preacher" concluded Mr..
Pettus, amid an outburst of hearty
laughter, has as accurate a concep-
ton of the scriptures as some of our
senators have of the law of the land, :"
Mr. Pettus then turned his atten-
ton to the speech of Senator Bev-
eridge and said:
'Mr. President, the Master once
had to select a man to lead the chill
= dren of Israel out of Egypt and
through the wilderness of Canaan.
He did not select an orator. No, he
selected one Of these men from Iowa
or Maine, aud his name was Moses,
And he was a stubborn man, too.
daughter.
"But Moses told his Master to his
face that he could not do it because
he could not speak to the people. AND
what was the reply? There is Aaron
He speaks we'll. And they took Aaron
y along, not in command--that was moi
allowed; but they took him along as q
kind of deputy. And when Moses OF
his Masters order went up into tht
mountain for the tables, the orator
left in charge had golden calf framed
(laughter) and he put all the peopl,
down to worshipping the golden calf
daughter
:. ''More people worship the golden
? calf now than did in those days. But
while Aaron and his people we're al
down worshiping the golden calf tbs
man Of God appeared and he pulled
out his sword and demanded to know
who was on the Lords side, and the
orator jumped up from his knees,
drew his sword and got on Moses
side and went to killing the Israelite'
along with Moses.
''All these orators will do the same
thing (laughter), the last one Of them
We saw an instance Of it yesterday af
ternoOn.
At the conclusion Of MIR. Pettus
speech senators crowded about him t.