The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

nay mother says ii is so; ana what my
mother says is so is so, even If it amt
So"
Mr. Deliver Of Iowa was explaining
II at the United States was now on the
gold standard. when ne was interrupted
by Democrat who asked: IF we are
now on the gold standard, what is the
/ necessity OF this bill?"
Well" replied Dolliver, "the necessity
for this bin arises from the fact that,not-
withstanding we are on the gold standard
and nave been for more than two genera
tons, there are some of the boys on your
side that have not heard of it yet"
| by the time their turn had come to
| speak. number of Republicans had been
embarras ed by Democrats who read their
former speeches in favor of free silver to
them, and Mr.. Dolliver announced. II do
not want anybody to draw a quotation on
me-"
Mr.. Cox, however broke in and asked
him about speech he had made in favor
of the Sherman act
Dolliver admitted the speech, and Cox
asked, And you were wrong about that?"
wen" replied Dolllver. Il am trying to
apologize for it, Colonel"
Il am trying 10 get you out Of the hole
! you put your party in,' explained Mr..
| Cox.
Mr.. Dolliver said he had nothing to say
against Mr.. Bryan because the latters
| predictions had not come true.
| When man tells me that it is going
| TO rain" he said, land it turns out TO be
| a sunshtny day, / do not have any less
respec for his moral character. But where
| man predicts dry weather and plenteous
| showers fall instead, l insist that, unless
| he expects to hear a personal application
| of the proverb by which the mental out
| ht of such a one is described, he should
| at least get in out Of the rain"
! Gen. Grosvenor recalled the Democratic
| prophecies of disaster and calamity and
| added:
| In the light of the history of the past
| TWO years, l say TO my friends here on
this side of the House and to my friends
| on the other side of the House there is
hope for us yet May we not apply to our
situation the words of the poet:'
| Break, break break,
| On thy cold, gray stones, o sea-
And l would that my tongue could utter
| The thoughts that arise in me-"
| Several Democrats denied that the Re-
! publican administration was to be cred
tied with the country's prosperity, and said
| It was the act of God and not of the Pres
ident. To this Gen. Grosvenor replied:
The Lord always works through instru-
| mentalities, and at present he seems to
be operating through the fundamentally
of the Republican administration"
Lentz of Ohio read an extract from the
New York Sun in his speech, and Over
| street of Indiana, gaining the floor for a
moment to reply to him, said:
1t is a strange anomaly, MIR. Chairman,
| that the gentleman from Ohio who in a
| ten-minute debate has undertaken to rap
| idly pass over all the subjects in modern
politics with speed only equaed by that
| with which his good friend Aguinaldo is
measuring the territory of Luzon, should
| have undertaken to prove the verify of his
! statement by the New York Sun. 1t re-
minds me of little verse by Coleridge:
lne river Rhine. il is well known
Doth wash the city of Cologne:
But tell me, nymphs, what power divine
snail henceforth wash the river Rhine?"
William d. Nandiver of Missouri, in IL
Illustrating the many-sided character of the
currency views of some Republicans, as
shown in their speeches of the past and
present, told this story:
The progress of this debate has remind
ed me of an Irshman who went out into n
graveyard and read the inscription on the
| tombstones, Seeing one which read. Ion
athan A Jones, born July l, 1881; died jan
| l, 1871; an eminent lawyer, an honest man.
| Faith, and be gosh, and the soil must be
very dear when they have to bury two
men in the same hole
Mr. Nandiver was making some sarcas-
| nc references TO 1.-The gentleman from
Ohio" when Mr.. Sutherland asked him
which gentleman he meant
mot being permitted under the rules"
replied Nandiver, ito call gentlemen bv
name, 1 viii designate him as the gentle
man from Ohio who looks like Santa C,Iaus
and talks like Satan"
The first part of this descrintion at laast
was such an accurate portrait of Gen.
GrosVenor that it moved that gentleman
to reply, man
Il know how distinguished and hand
some -ook,' he exclaimed but if
were going to retaliate in kind I womb
say, thank God when a man looks at
me ne is not reminded of that familiar
sign, the skull and crossbones and death
mead on poison jar in an apothecarv
shop And 1 further rejoice that when
he hears the sound of my voice he would
to the poet:
Hard, from the the tombs doleful
sound,
Nine ears attend the cry"
On Dec. IA Mr.. Burnett of Alabama d.
clared that the Republicans in 1895 de-
| ceived the people into thinking that thew
were for bime allism. The Republicans.
| he said, were
BY smooth discrimination. skilled to grace;
devils nature with an angels face.
Scarcely decade has passed." said he
"since 1t denounced the Democrats nartv
for trying to do what 1t is about to do
| But.
| vice is monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen:
| Yet seen too oft. familiar with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace"
He was followed next day by Mr.. Lamb
| OF Virginia also Democrat. who said:
1t Is an interesting study to watch the
! course of our opponents upon this oues-
! ton and see how they have glded from
one position to another until they have
planted their feet without disguise. upon
| this Atlantic City bill. Nothing more
aptly describes their shifting attitude than
| the oft-quoted lines of Alexander Pope:
| Vice is a monster OF so frightful mien.
! As to be hated reeds but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft. familiar with her face,
| We first endure, then pity, then embrace
| Lamb invelghed against the bankers but