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Show Would Hang Their Heads in Shame Ove- the Action of Their Ancestors By SENATOR PAT HARRISON, of Mississippi, Filibuster Speecn VThut if s hundwl years from now your great-gTeat-grfat-grand-children should look over the Journal of yesterday and discover that no mention is made of the fact that there wa prayer yesterday in opm-jn opm-jn this body, and they then shonld take the proceedings of the following jay as they will appear in the Journal tomorrow, and should read that their grcal-grcat-great-grandfathrrs voted against my motion to anicml 'the Journal 'so that the prayer might be incorporated in the Journal? Why, thoFe children of tomorrow would hang thoir heads in shanu over tha action of their ancestors. So we must change this policy, if it has been a policy, and rtarf a new one today, so that the record of this body that is to be handed down to future generations will reveal the fact irat we fcad prayer ir opeiing tliw august body. t |