The age-herald., 1900-03-31
.PETTUS KEPT THE
 SENATE ROARING
The Aged Alabamian Made Funniest Speech Heard
 in the Senate for Many Years.

absolved from all rules of logic or common sense. CLaughter). When it is necessary iii the fervor of oratorical flourish to pre- serve any proposition, true or false, rules of common sense and the decent ob- servance of what is due to others must not stand in the way of maintaining my reputation as an orator. 1t will not do. IT 1t is necessary 1 must break down the ideas of an observance of what the sena- tor from Vermont has characterized as the best policy. If 1t Is necessary must draw on my imagination for facts and on my memory for flight of fancy as Ovid Bolus did. When an orator speaks he has right in the fervor of his oratory here in the United States senate, in reference to the republicans and democrats and populists and other men who may choose to take seat here to speak of them as opponents of the government The government in hs mind is me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more Gaugh- ter).
 'Mr. President, I was amazed at that speech. once before heard one that went off in that direction. l tell you, the senior or junior senator from Iowa don't know who, and the junior and senior senator from Maine, 1 don't know which, will have to take some action in reference to that orator. There's no doubt about it in the world. Qaughter) There will have to be some caucus on the matter. QLaughter). l tell you, MT. President these four wise men from Maine and Iowa could net de- vote their time if they want to serve their party Well, better than to take some con- slderation of the orators in this chamber. QaughteT).
 Selection of a Master
 MT, President, the Master once had to select a man to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt and through the wilderness of Canaan. He did not select an orator (Laughter) No, he selected one of these men from Iowa or Maine, and his name was Moses. And he was a stubborn man. too. Uaughter) But Moses told his Mas ter to His face that he could not do 1t be- cause he could not speak to the people And what was the reply? There is Aaron He speaks we'll And they took Aaron along-not in command; that was not al- lowed-but they took him along as a kind of deputy. And when Moses on his Mas ters order, went up into the mountain for the tables, the orator left in charge had a golden calf framed Qaughter), and he put all thee people down to worshipping the golden calf. Oaushter) More people wor- ship the golden calf now than they did in those days But while Aaron and his peo- pie were all down worshpping the golden calf the man of God appeared and he pull ed 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 1sraelites along with Moses.
 All these orators will do the same thing 0aughter)-the last one of them. We saw an instance of it yesterday afternoon"
 At the conclusion of MT. Pettus' speech consideration of the amendments was re- sumed
 The pending amendment was that of Mr. Morgan providing that the United States in exchanging the Porto Rican coins for United States money should pay 100 cents instead of sixty cents for each of the Porto Rican pesos. After some discussion the amendment was defeated-12 to 33.
 The committee amendment as to the ex- change of money was then adopted.
 Mir. Pettus offered as substitute for section 12 a provision declaring that ''the constitution and laws of the United States shall have the same force and effect in Porto Rico as in other territories of the United States"
 MT. Allen, of Nebraska discussed the constitutional questions involved in the pending bill. He maintained that no man who is familiar with the constitution could honestly contend that 1t did not extend of ~--~-~~~~----~---~-~---