The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-16

well proportioned. He said just enough
and no more.
Joseph B. Rawlins, senior Senator
from Utah, then opened fire on behalf
of the minority He used gatling gun,
and stroked his formidable mustache
while watching the effect of his shots
Unpretentious in manner and direct in
argument. he denounced the proposed
tariff in unmeasured terms and with.
out interruption. He opened up the
whole Philippine question, and reveled
in the doctrines of the Declaration of
Independence. His peroration aptly in
dexed his argument. Let the Ishmae-
lite go!" he shouted. Otherwise the
burden of our difficulties viii grow. Our
means of national defense win be
weakened. Taxes, like the old man of
the sea, will hang upon our necks, and
in the end the CORY head of the repub-
lie may be raised upon pike as a
terrible warning to any who would
struggle to be free"
Senator Augustus O. Bacon OF Geor-
gia picked up the gauntlet thrown
down by the descendant of Sebastian
Cabot. He tried hard to avoid rum
ming debate, but failed. The discus
sion became Kaleidoscope. It's col
ors We're brilliant, and were shot from
from every point of the compass. Sen
ators Mitchell of Oregon, Hoar of
Massachusetts, Teller of Colorado,
Hansbrough of North Dakota. Lodge
and others were drawn into the dis
pute, and it must be confessed that
Senatorial honor was somewhat dim
med. There were insinuations that the
majority possessed advantages in the
way of information that were not
vouchsafed to the minority. They were
Indignantly but dignifiedly denied. FL
Ia q
William NJ. Stewart of Nevada obtain
ed the floor He soothed the warning
elements with sedative doses of Eng
lish and American Jurisprudence and
wound up by expressing astonishment
that any American Senator should con-
tend that il is the duty of judges i'm
all cases to construe the law literally
where hi would work a great wrong.
ut never has been DONE" he exclaim-
ed. land il never will be done where
enlightened Jurisprudence prevails"
This asseveration drove the dignitaries
into executive session, and subsequent
proceedings were hidden from public
view,
The Senate was placid until January
81, when it was aroused by case of
spontaneous combustion. Fred Dubois,
the recuperated Senator from Idaho,
burst into flame He brandished
copy of an Associated Press dispatch
from Manila. 1t said that Gen.
Wheaton had denounced speech made
by Prof. Schurman in Boston and had
criticised the minority report of the
Senate on the proposed Philippine
tariff. Assuming that the dispatch
was authentic, because the military
authorities there censor all such dis
patches, the senator declared that
Wheaton ought to be censured by the
President. Denying that Associated
Press dispatches were censored, Sen
ator Lodge questioned its correctness.
The minority flew to arms. Teller,
Rawllns, and Carmack locked shields
with Dubois and advanced on the enc
my. Senator Tillman recalled the cen-
sure OF Gen. Miles and insisted that
there should be no distinction Of per-
sons. Foraker. McComas, and Spooner
rushed TO the aid OF Lodge. and the
nre was spreading far and wide when
the venerable and Eagacious Senator
HOar seized chemical extingulsher
aud Hmothered a. He said thai. news
paper gossip was not sufficient foun.
dalton for debate In such an august
body. n Gen. Wheaton. however, ala
make such r. statement it was un-
d0ubtedly the duty ~ the President 10
reprimand bim.
The blaze was Hnoihcred. hut the
embers were sfiil smniderinF The die
eufhlop Was resumed an hlur " Two