The Washington herald., 1910-03-05
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/ nifty and whose political funeral he said
he would like to aid in celebrating Witty
and bitter. logical and triiing, the Mary
land Senator's attack on the Nebraskan
was listened to with the utmost attention
At War with Lawyers.
7 think perhaps it would have been
better for the senior Senator from Ne
hraska TO have allowed his first speech
upon the postal depository bill to remain
as it was" Senator Rayner said, with
out attempting to correct it. because in
his first speech he was simply at war
with every other lawyer in the United
States except himself and in his
last speech he is at war with all of them,
including himself, and he has precipitated
| himself into such a bowling wilderness of
| confusion that even the senior Senator
| from Montana will not be able to ind him
and If he should succeed in finding him :
he will be. unable. with all his dexterity !
and ingenuity, TO extricate him.
| Il tried 10 compliment the Senator |
! from Nebraska when he stated a PROPOSE |
| ton that. to say the least of it, aroused |
| the curiosity of every law student and |
apprentice IN his profession in the land ]
who read the observations of the Senator. !
'"The Senator does not desire any COM
! pliment. however. He would rather |
stand out in bold relief. challenging and
defying the rudimentary principles of his |
profession than make an acknowledge |
ment that he had thoughtiessly stated |
proposition. which, upon further refec- |
ton. he deemed it best to reconsider, an
| acknowledgment that would have served !
as a sufficient explanation, even for a |
Senator of such professional attachments |
as the Senator from Nebraska seems TO |
be gifted with.
His Pearls of Thought.
Now let me glance at some of the
thoughts that fell from the Senator in |
his last address on the subject of this |
bill The Senator spoke as follows:
The distinguished Senator from
Maryland, in one Of his heroic and |
habitual defenses OF the Constitution a |
day or two ago. criticised a speech OF |
mine at the last session Of Congress upon |
the postal savings bank. In fact, a lit |
tie colloquy between the Senator and |
myself during the time of my address. |
which l am sure no one else who heard /
It took so seriously. seems TO have laid /
heavily upon the Senator's mind during |
all these intervening months
Mr.. President, the Senator is mis-
taken I did not take his address seri-
ously. The Senator should exculpate me /
from this imputstion. I have never |
taken the Senator seriously. ] further
more respectfully submit that If nothing
ever lay more heavily upon my mind /
than the Senator's speech would have
the Hghtest and most buoyant intellect /
Of any Senator in this body.
THE Senator then proceeds to say
that Madison was great linqulst. ! !
never knew that before. nor do any of |
his biographers take notice of that &C
complishment; but even admitting it TO /
be so, there is one thing that Mr.. Mad
isOn never was. and that is that while
he may have been a great linquist he
never claimed 10 be a ventriOquist The
Senator says:
have neither the time. the inclina-
ton, nor the equipment at the moment
10 undertake an exhaustive address on
this subject. I am not vain enough 10
hope that I shall be able 10 do what
Hamilton and Adams and Webster and
the mighty Marshall could not do.
Can Speak on Anything.
''Why not? The Senator undertakes
himself. He may not have the time nor
the inclination. but he certainly has the
equipment The Senator is always pre-
pared upon one theme as we'll as an
other - semper peratis - a gift of Provl-
dence-of being thoroughly prepared upon
subjects with which you are entirely I'M
familiar Why should not the Senator
therefore be able to do what Hamilton
and Adams and Webster and Marshall
could not do? No one of them ever de-
livered a speech like his. They could not
do that. Therefore the Senator can do
what Hamilton and Adams and Webster
and the mighty Marshall could not do.
We require no greater proof of that than
this constitutional argument Of the Sen
ator from Nebraska Great thought,
great power. profound research. and,
above ALL a matchless voice, rising from
the middle, re-echoed through the CORR
doris, and coming back upon the waves
Of sound, VIGOROUSLY and triumphantly
rode upon the circumambient air
''The trouble with the Senator is not
that he could not do what Hamilton and
Adams and Webster and Marshall could
not do. but that he did not live In the
carly days Of tha republic SO that he
could have shed the Illuminating light of
his eagle intellect upon the Constitution
Of this country. That is the trouble with
a great many men of wonderful gifts
they live at the wrong time. If the Sena-
tor had been q member OF the Constitu-
tional convention, what different instru-
ment we would have hadt And how men
like Hamilton. and Patterson, and VIII
son. and Madison. and Rutledge, and
Pinckney would have paled into insig-
nifcance beside the marvellous and ma
jestic genius of the Senator from Ne
braska.
''The Senator has done what Marshall
and fancy never accomplished, because
the Senator seems to have studied the
Constitution only for ABOUT seven DAYS.
but within that time he has acquired a
familiarity with it greater than both Mar
shall and fancy. who spent together over
sixty years upon the Supreme bench of
the United States, interpreting its pro-
visions, and both OF whom. at various
times. gave expression to the thought
that they had hardly approached the
threshold of that immortal charter.
Insult or Compliment.
Now the Senator. says (speaking Of /,
mel.
If he had been called for to preach ;
ne probably would have specialized on
funerals, and chanted requiems to the