Show N NO PLACE FOR PETTY SQUABBLES There has been boon a good deal of clashing in the theU U United ite States senate during the present short session This we suspect is inevitable when m men n of of opposite views discuss questions but hut if all were great reat men fit for that exalted position the dc- dc would he be on a high plane plan au anc ant none hone of the thc 1 of police court lawyers a aers ers would find their theil nay Yay a into that body lOd None would ever forget that no blackguard could ever make a name there tint thit pro o provoked ted there arc two t or three things which i senator must always have haye in mind First the place he hc is in and what is due f him to this great government second what is hue due from him lo u e the sovereign state which had done him him the honor to represent all the people of his state tate in that bod body and third his bis own self respect and the duty he owes himself to be while there a gentleman Inthe In Inthe the thc old days dars John Randolph made a personal at- at v tad tack on Henry CIa Clay for many minutes hurled such 1 contemptuous epithets at Clay as no ordinary blackguard could frame for all the invective of the classics was called up to point with poison every arrow of his arraignment For that Clay challenged challenged challenged chal chal- him and a duel was fought but that was wasI wasS no atonement for fur the insult that Randolph had S I i. i poured out not upon CIa Clay but upon the dignity 1 t and high character of th the senate itself By it Randolph Randolph Ran- Ran dolph made no friends for himself himself rather he lie liei f i shocked them by bj it Clay lost no friends rather he t drew rew his friends nearer to him Gratton once said in fr substance when he lie arose to reply to an arraignment arraignment arraignment arraign- arraign ment of like nature The gentleman was from from the first but I did not object be because because be- be cause cause he he wanted to be severe and some gentlemen gentleman n ca cannot annot mot at the same time be severe and also par par- Before I finish I hope to show to him how ho hoit it is possible at times to be parliamentary and at the same time somewhat severe Daniel Webster Webster Web Web- ster gave a sample of this in a paragraph in his speech ch in reply to fa 1 He said But then sir since Binco tho the honorable member has put rut the ho que question tion in a n manner manDer that calls for an answer I will give ichim i c him him an nn answer and I tell ten him that holding holdin m myself sef to be bethe bethe the humblest of tho the members here herc I yet Jet know nothing in inthe inthe in into the to arm arm of his friend fr from ni m Missouri either cither alone alono or when aided b by the arm of oC his friend from South Carolina that ne need deter leter even cven me from espousing whatever cr opinions I 1 Ima Imay ma may choose to espouse from debating whatever I may mar to debate or fT from m speaking whatever cr I ma may see fit fito 1 o 10 eay lAr on the tho floor of the senate So when hen uttered as matter Smatter of commendation or compliment I should from nothing which tho the honorable member might say of his friend Still loss less do doT I put forth nn any pretensions of my iy own But when put to mo me as a 3 matter of taunt I throw it back bliCk and say 8 to the gentleman that ho he could possibly s say ay noth jag less likel likely than such a comparison to wound my nn- pride of personal character The an anger cr of his tone rescued d the remark from intentional iron irony which otherwise probably would have been its general acceptation But sir if he heima ima imagined n d that b by this thit mutual quotation and commendation commenda o lion tion if ho hc supposed that by casting the characters of the drama assigning to such his part to ono one tho the attack to another tho the cry of onset or if it be thought that by bJ a loud and aDd empty vaunt aunt of anticipated victory an any laurels are arc to tobe be won here if it Q imagined especially aih that any or all theo things will viti shako shake any purpose of mine u I can cnn tell tho time honorable member mien for all that thal he is greatly mi mis mistaken mistaken taken and that b be he is is dealing with one ODe of who whoso o temper and character be he has yet ct much to J Irani Sir I shall not on this occasion 1 hope bope on no occasion to be betrayed into an any Jo low loss of temper but bul if provoked pro as as I trust I n never ncr cr shall be into crimination ancL recrimination tho timo honorable member memo mem- her ber ma may perhaps find that in that contest there will be bo blows to o take as as well as at blows to give hc that others III may a 1 state comparisons as ns significant at least as his lils own and anti that his impunity nUl may po possibly demand of him whatever powers of taunt and sarcasm m he no may possess I commend him mm to a prudent husbandry of his re resources Of course there are arc not a grea great t man many Websters in ill the senate senat nowadays but there ar arc a good many there who would profit by bj trying to imitate him When hen Webster spoke ours was but a u little republic half the states that arc are now represented Sin i i the senate with only about one sixth the thc inhabitants v only about twentieth one of 01 the wealth 0 ours was reckoned a second rate power anywhere around around this old world and the senate today should 1 be Ibe the most august of earthly assemblages hence the thc th news of petty there are arc most hu hit humiliating to read for the reflecting of them casts a shadow upon our nation an and foreigners ask What must the masses of the people be if this body of less than one hundred men arc are the ver very highest lest that the nat nation on can send tend to represent it 1 The bear garden methods should be done lone away 7 with ith in that bod body bod i I I |