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1893. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. 1997 tiP"ate said evils and report to Congress-to the Select Commit in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disap te~ on Immigration and Naturalization. prove of my determination to retire. By Mr. VINCENT A. TAYLOR: Petition of the First Con The impressions with which I first undertook the arduous gregational Sabbath School of Akron, Ohio, 500 strong, against trust were explained on the proper occasion. In the discharge the opening of the World's Fair on Sunday-to the Select Com of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, con mittee on the Columbian Exposition. tributed toward the organization and daministration of the Gov By Mr. TOWNSEND: Memorial of the General Assembly of ernment the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment the State of Colorado, in favor of an amendment to the Consti was capable. Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of tution of the United States, providing for the election of United my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more States Senators by the people-to the Select Committee on Elec in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence tion of President and Vice-President and RBpresentatives in of myself; and every flay the increasing weight of years aimon Congress. ishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as neces · By Mr. VAN HORN: Resolution of the New York Board of essary to me as it will· be welcome. Satisfied that if any cir Fire Underwriters, favoring the repeal of the Sherman act of cumstances have given any peculiar value to my services they 1890~to the Committee on Banking and Currency. were temporary, I have th~ consolation to believe that, while By Mr. WILSON of Washington: Four petitions of Mountain choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriot View Grange, as follows: One relative to gambling in fal'm ism does not forbid it. products, the second relative to pure lard, the third relative to In looking forward to the moment which is to terminata the silk culture, and the fourth relative to pure food-to the Com career of my political life, my feelings do not permit me to sus mittee on Agriculture. pend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which Also, petition of Mountain View Grange, relative to the free I owe to my bslovej country for the many honors it has conferred delivery of rural mail-to the Committee on the Post-Office and upon me; still more for the steadfast confidence with which it Post-Roads. has supported me, and for the opportunities I have thence en Also, .memorial of the members of the Methodist Episcopal joyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services faith Church of Seattle, Wash., relative to the importation of Japa ful and pe.rsevering, though in usefulness unequaled to my zeal. nese girls into this country for immoral purposes-to the Sel-: ct If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let Committee on Immigration and. Naturalization. it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead amid appearances sometimes dubious-vicissitudes of fortune SENATE. often discouraging-in situations in which not unfrequently want of sucsess has countenanced the spirit of criticism-,the con WEDNESDAY, Februat·y 22, 1893. stancy of your support was the essential prop of the efforts and The Senate met at 12 o'clock m. a guaranty of the plans by which they were effected. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me The VICE-PRESIDENT being absent, the President p1·o tempore to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing wishes that took the chair. Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its benefi The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. cence-that your union and brotherly affection may be perpet READING OF WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. ual-that the free Oonstitution which is the work of your hands may be saCl·edly maintained-that Hs administration·in every The PRESIDENT pro temp01·e. The Chair will have read a department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue-that, in resolution of the Senate heretofore adopted. fine, the happiness of the people of these States, under the au The CHIEF CLERK read as follows: spices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preser IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, February 15, 1893. vation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to Resolved, That on the 22d day of February, current, the anniversary of the them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, birthday o! George Washingt,on, the Senate shall meet at 12 o'clock at noon, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it. - and after the re2.diug of the Journal, shall listen to the rcadingof Washing Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your wel ton's farewell address by the Senator from Nebraska, President p1·o tempore ot the Senate. fare which can not end but with my life, and the apprehension Attest: of danger natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like ANSON G. McCOOK, Secretary. the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recom The PRESIDENT pro tempore. In obedience to the order of mend to your frequent review, some sentiments which are the the Senate, the Chair will read the farewell address of George result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and Washington.· which appaar to me all-important to the permanency of your FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The period for a new elec felicity as a people. Thesa will be offered to you with the more tion of a citizen to administer the executive government of the freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings United States being not far distant, and the time actually ar of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to rived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the bias his counsel. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears your indulgent recept.ion of my sentiments on a former and not to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct dissimilar occasion. expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of Interwoven as is the love of liber~y with every ligament of our the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or con the number of th03e out of whom the choice is to be made. firm the attachment. I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured The unity of government which constitutes you one people is that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tran a dutiful citizen to his country; and that, in withdrawing the quility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your pros tend-::l r of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I peeity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from differ no deficiency of respect for your past kindness, but am supported ent quarters much pains will be taken, many artifices employed by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both. to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth-us this is The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to the point in your political fortress against which the batteries which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and ac sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for tively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed-it is of what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it infinite moment that you should estimate the immense value of would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with your national union to your collective and individual happiness; motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that you should cherish a cordial, hsbitual, and immovable at that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. The tachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and to speak of strength of my inclination to do this, previous to the last elec it as a palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watch tion, had even led to the preparation of an address to declareitto ing for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing you; but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event posture of affairs with foraign nations, and the unanimous ad vice be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of persons entitled to my confidence, impelled me to abandon the of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the jdea.