The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-24
SPOKE OF STATE MATTERS
Expressed Great Joy at Re.
 jetiOn of Canal Treaty.
He Dwelt at Great Length on Bound less Resources of the State and Solution of Internal
 Questions.

Tn an address delivered before a joint session of the two houses of the Alabama Legislature yesterday. Hon. John Tyler Morgan. senior United States senator from Alabama, declared that the South need have no fear of a scarcity of labor and inferentially that this country could get along without the negro.
 He said that the matchless resources and the natural wealth of Alabama would always be such an inducement to labor that a good laboring class was insured for the future
 Senator Morgan spoke one hour and forty-dve minutes. beginning at R;O5 o'clock and concluding at 1:50 o'clock. The speech was delivered in the hall of the House of Representatives and great crowd filled the gallery and overfiowed the floor of the House. many ladies being given seats there. Throughout the address Senator Morgan was given the closest att tention and there were frequent outbursts of applause.
 Spoke of Alabama Affairs.
 The distinguished Alabamian did not dwell on national affairs except as they bore upon Alabama. For nearly an hour he spoke of the material wealth of Ala bana and of its internal affairs: the so- lution of State problems and needed leg islation. The closing part of his speech was devoted to the Isthmian canal and his fine face was illumined with pleas ure as he spoke of his qualification at the rejection of the canal treaty by Colom- bia He sketched briefly the history of the movement to which he has given the evening of his life and he elucidated the terms of the treaty which has just been rejected.
 It had been announced that Senator Morgan would speak at noon and the House continued to work until that hour.
 Received by Joint Session.
 At F o'clock the House rose and receiv- ed the Senate. Speaker Tunstali called MT. Starr of Dallas, to the chair. and he and Lieutenant Governor Cunningham Jointly presided over the session.
 Iaesftenant Governor Cunningham named on the committee to wait on Senator Morgan and advise him of the assembling of the joint session. Senator Thomas of Barbour and Messrs. Blackburn of Jefferson and Rich of Mobile.
 Senator Morgan was found in the office of Governor Jelks and was escorted to the hall of the House of Representatives by the committee.
 As Senator Morgan. with the commit tee, entered the hall there was clap ping of hands. He proceeded to the speakers stand where he shook hands with the Lieutenant Governor and Mir. Starr He was introduced by Lieutenant Governor Cunningham in few eloquent words.
 Senator Morgan thanked the joint ses- sion for the honor bestowed on him. He said he had hardly expected to live to accept such great honor It was a great honor he declared. for the Legis- lature in its closing, busy days, to stop awhile to hear him. He declared that fhe Legislature of a State was the high est sovereign body of government, and it was a pleasure to him to address the Legislature of his State.
 Then Senator Morgan spoke of the rel etiye functions of State Legislatures and Congress
 Since the new constitution had been adopted Senator Morgan said there was less friction between the State and na- tional government than before within his knowledge-a period of 70 years
 Democrats Should Win.
 He said he expected to speak briefly and would not dwell upon national af- fairs, but would turn his attention to matters which concerned Alabama more deeply He expressed the opinion that debates in the next Congress would re- concile all factions of the Democratic Party and after the party had gotten together the Democrats would elect the
 
 should be, Senator Morgan said was not A matter of great consideration. He must be an honest man and a man to repre- sent the country.
 Senator Morgan spoke of the wonderful resources of Alabama, its great geologi- cal systems, limestone, coal, granite and fertile soils All of these great systems unite upon the bank of the Coosa River. He described the unity of these systems and said there was no other such con dition in the world. They were in juXta- position and were easily thrown tOgeth- CT. They produced industry for all forms of labor and made Alabama the most re- Inarkable State in the world.
 Running through the coal district, Sen ator Morgan said was a wonderful strata of iron ore whose depth was practically unknown. He drew a picture of Jones Valley and said no eye in the world had ever viewed the picture without declar- ing 1t to be the most pre-eminent pie ture of iron and steel industry in the world
 Dwelt on Cotton Industry.
 Then Senator Morgan spoke of the cot ton industry. He said that aggregated capital in the United States had become so great that we no longer look to Lv erpool for q market. The cotton mill was now located by the side of the cot ion field. He compared this condition with his early hIe ana Salu II made nm feel as though he had lived at that time fin another part of the planet. He said we ought to put the price on cotton and not export it until our price Is paid.
 The labor question was discussed by Senator Morgan. He said the future of Alabama depended on the inducements The State would offer to laborers to come here.
 How are we situated in Alabama in re- snect to labor? asked Senator Morgan. These coal mines bring in skilled labor. which is necessarily hardy and. without any disrespeet to those men-are of a rough character. The laborer for the mines would do as the laborer for cotton crops he said. The cotton crops. he said, gave us much concern. The cotton plant Is almost universal in warm climates, but there is no place in the world where inc cotton plant has its real home except the Southern part of the United States.