Show 4 4 M M M 4 4 M m 4 M t M M 4 M M 4 M M f M t I 1 A GR GRUEL EL SENTENCE It I- I t 4 t t MM t 4 t 4 t I I I t M It t- t H 4 M M M M M 4 44 M f 4 The Senate of the United States has not achieved glory in its punishment of the two Senators Senators Senators Sena Sena- tors from South Carolina who on Washington's Birthday outraged its dignity and decency by a tumble and fight on the floor of the chamber The resol resolution ution of censure which was adopted yesterday yesterday yes yes- was as about as milk and a piece of perfunctory per procedure as could well be imagined The sentence was that the senatorial rowdies deserved censure might consider themselves censured and nd would then be good enough to resume their pyrotechnic pyrotechnic pyrotechnic pyro pyro- courses as if nothing had happened rhe The ie Senate has established a lamentably ba bad precedent in its invertebrate and treatment treat treat- ment of this tIlis malodorous affair Aside from that consideration it has distinctly lowered the upper House of our national leg legislature slature in the estimation of the tho country To go trough through the hollow form of ff ofa a mild censure in Tillmans Tillman's case was an injustice to him as well as to the body he had of of- fended Either he should have been expelled or allowed to purge himself of contempt by simply rising in his place and nd saying Impressed with the s solemn lem duty I owe to the great State of South Carolina T r. embrace this fortuitous opportunity t to assure the the Senate Senate that if I have done one anything I Iam Iam f for I of it itI am s sorry rry l a am glad |