The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-31
An AGED HUMORIsT.


Messrs. GaIIinger and Bevcridge Lam
pOOned by Mr.. Pettus.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Proctor's speech
Mr. Pettus addressed the Senate on some
of the constitutional phases presented by
the Porto Rican bill II will attempt to
show" said Mr.. Pettus. how majority
of this Senate has quit the public road. the
road pointed out by the law of the land.
and also show what the result of it will be.
In discussing this question we will get
back to the very foundations. The great
error of those I'm the majority here is that
they are I'm violation of all our notions of
Justice and common sense. They take their
departure i'm the sense that the United
States is a sovereign i'm the sense that
some European states are sovereigns IL is
not so and can never be. We are gov
erned i'm our relations with these territories
by the law of nations so far as they are
applicable. The idea is that when terri
tory is coded to a nation that nation cannot
necessarily exercise the powers of its
former owners. IL must exercise sway i'm
accordance with its own limitations. When
we took these islands we took them with
power over them as was possible IN the
conditions of the United States
From this time forward Mr. Pettuss
speech was personal in its application He
first took Mr.. Gallinger to task IL was
very much entertained by the senator from
New Hampshire on yesterday he said
when he informed us that he was not
lawyer, and he proved it TO us. not only
by asserting IL, but by his argument Law
years know that when you come to read
decision of a judge you must take all he
says on subject: that it will not do to
take sentence here and another there: but
that Is exactly what the senator did i'm
quoting Justice Bradley in the Mormon
Church case"
ALLEGED BIBLICAL JOKE.
He then went on to relate an anecdote
illustrative of his point in which a preacher
of the old times-when the senator was a
boy-had figured in Alabama. 1.-The min
ister.' he said, was as learned in the
Bible as my friend from New Hampshire
is in the law. [Laughter.l He said:
Brethren, my text to-day will be the fol-
lowing: Seven sons did Micah bear unto
Enon." Now, L expect. brethren the
preacher went on, If you would look at
the commentaries you would find various
meanings to this text: but. taking COM
mon sense view of it. / will say this
expect that Enon was sick and the doctor
told his seven sons, great, strong fellows,
that IL 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, 1t is writ, "Sev-
en- sons did milk bear unto Enon.''
hot Dftay .olr dad paft
amid an outburst of hearty laughter. had
as accurate a conception of the Scriptures
as some of our senator's have of the law
of the land.
the speech of Senator Beverage and said
I'VE had a wonderful defamation yester-
day from our great Orator-wonderful Ii
was marvellous in all its parts. II was so
marvellous that 1 dare say that such a
thing has never before been heard I'm the
Senate. When you get a genuine orator he
is absolutely absolved from all rules OF
logic or common sense. [Laughterl When
IL is necessary in the fervor of oratorical
fourishes to prove any proposition. true
or false. rules of common sense and the
decent observance of what is due to Others
must not stand In the way of maintaining
my reputation as an orator. LII VIII not
| do If Ii is necessary / must break down
| the ideas of observance of what the
senator from Vermont has characterized as
| the best policy. If 1t Is necessary ] must
| my memory for flights of fancy as Ovid
| Bolus did. When an orator speaks he has
| right. i'm the fervor of his oratory, here
| in the United States Senate, i'm reference
| TO the Republicans and Democrats and
| Populists and any other men who may
| choose to take seat here, to speak OF
| them as enemies 10 the government. he
| has a right to speak of them as opponents
of the government. The government i'm his
mind Is me and my wife. my son John and
| his wife. us four and no more Laughter
| AMAZED AT BEvERIDGE.
"Mr. President, l was amazed at tina
| speech. / once before heard one that went
| off in that direction. l tell you, the senior
| or junior senator from Iowa. do not know
| which, and the senior or junior senator
from Maine, | do not know which, viii
| have to take some action in reference t.
that orator There is no doubt about 1t IL
the world. II.aughter.l There will have t.
/ be some caucus on the matter. Laugh
| teri l tell YOU Mr.. President. these foul
| wise men from Maine and Iowa could no
/ devote their time. If they want TO serve
| their party well. better than 10 take some
consideration of the orators in this cham
| Der. tLaughter.1
/ Mr. President the Master once had I,
| select a man TO lead the children of Israe
| out of Egypt and through the wilderness
/ to Caanan. He did not select an orator
/ Laughter No; he selected one of thes,
men from Iowa Maine. and his name
| was Moses. And he was stubborn man
4 too. ILaughter.1 But Moses told his Mas
ter to his face that he could not do IL be
| cause he could not speak to the people
| And what was the reply? There is Aaron
| he speaks we'll And they took Aarol
| along-not i'm command. that was not al
| lowed-but they took him along as a kin,
| of deputy. And when Moses, on his Mas
| ters order. went up into the mountain 70
the tablets the orator left in charge had ;
| golden calf framed Ilaughterl. and he pu
| all the people down to worshiping tn
golden calf. [Laughter.l More people wor
ship the golden calf now than did in thos
| days But while Aaron and his people wer
all down worshiping the golden calf tn
man OF God appeared. and he pulled OH
| his sword and demanded TO know who Wa
on the Lords side, and the orator jumpe'
UP from his knees. drew his sword and go
| on Moses's side and went TO killing the Is
| raelites along with Moses.
"All these orators will do the sam
| thing [laughterl- The last one of them
| We saw an instance of IL yesterday after
| noon.