Part 11 (1/2)

Mr Johnson said he should have no objection provided Mr Stanley was the operator Several gentle of the amendment, and it was read by the clerk as follows: ”Provided that one-half of the said su Mesmeric experiments under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury”

Mr Mason arose to a question of order He maintained that the amendment was not _bona fide,_ and that such amendments were calculated to injure the character of the House He appealed to the Chair, the House being then in committee of the whole, to rule the amendment out of order

The Chaire of the motives of members who offered amendments, and that he could not therefore undertake to pronounce the aht be raised to it on the ground that it was not sufficiently analogous in character to the bill under consideration; but, in the opinion of the Chair, it would require a scientific analysis to deterous to that eraphs He therefore ruled the amendment in order

The amendment was rejected The bill was subsequently reported favorably to the House, and two days later passed by the close vote of eighty-nine to eighty-three

The bill then went to the Senate, and was placed upon the calendar

A large number of bills were ahead of it, and Mr Morse was assured by a kindly Senator that there was no possible chance for its consideration All hope seeallery, he was a glooer to endure the strain, he sought his hu the next hter of a faithful friend, ran up to hie from her father, to the effect that in the hurry and confusion of the ht hour, and just before the close of the session, the Senate had passed his bill, which inature of the President

With the sum thus appropriated at his command, Morse now earnestly resumed the experiments, which a fewto the horapher says:

”One day Dr Charles S Jackson of Boston, a fellow passenger, described an experiment recently made in Paris by means of which electricity had been instantaneously transth of wire; to which Morse replied, 'If that be so, I see no reason why es may not instantaneously be transmitted by electricity'”

The key-note was struck, and before his shi+p reached New York the invention of the telegraph was virtually netic trans apparatus were sketched on paper Of necessity, in reaching this result, Morse made use of the ideas and discoveries of rapher:

”Various forraphic intercourse had been devised before; electro-netism had been studied by _savants_ for many years; Franklin even had experiths of wire It was reserved for Morse to comentary and unsuccessful attempts, and put theh his claims to the invention have been many times attacked in the press and in the courts, they have been triumphantly vindicated alike by the law and the verdict of the people, both at home and abroad The Chief Justice of the United States in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court in one of the Morse cases, said: 'It can make no difference whether the inventor derived his information from books or from conversation with ht and obtained the necessary information and counsel froht as an inventor, nor detracts from his merits'”

It will be remembered that soon after his first successful experiation, and that many attereat invention

True, he had been preceded along the sanized more unreservedly than hi up and applying the marvellous discoveries of others to the practical purposes of human life As stated by Mr Garfield:

”His to interpret to the world that subtle and mysterious ele been occupied

As Franklin had exhibited the relation between lightning and the electric fluid, so Oersted exhibited the relation between netism and electricity From 1820 to 1825, his discovery was further developed by Davy and Sturgeon of England, and Arago and Araph is the eht say the incarnation, of enerations of effort to elicit from Nature one of her deepest mysteries

No one man, no one century, could have achieved it It is the child of the hues Hoonderful are the steps that led to its creation! The very naraphic instrunetic

”The first, named from the bit of yellow amber whose qualities of attraction and repulsion were discovered by a Grecian philosopher twenty-four centuries ago, and the second, froe of Asia Minor where first was found the lodestone, whose touch turned the needle forever toward the north These were the earliest for force revealed itself to men In the childhood of the race men stood dumb in the presence of its leamed in the purple aurora, or shot dusky-red frory God before whom mortals quailed in helpless fear”

More than three centuries ago, Shakespeare put into the irdle round about the earth In forty minutes”

The words spoken in jest were in the nature of a prophecy After the passing of reat bard, Morse, in the words of Mr cox, one of the ists--

”Gave to the universal people the ence, and so stormed at once the castles of the terrible Giant Doubt and Giant Despair He has saved time, shortened the hours of toil, accuht by the rapidity and terseness of electric es He has celebrated treaties

Go to the uttero beneath the deep sea; to the land where snows are eternal, or to the tropical reale bloo, persistent, sleepless instru to your purpose”

It was ood fortune to serve in the House of Representatives with Mr Stephens of Georgia, and Mr Wood of New York, both of whoiven their votes in favor of the appropriation that ht with such stupendous blessing to our race The member who reported back the bill from the Committee on Commerce, with favorable recommendations, and then supported it by an eloquent speech upon the floor of the House, was Robert C

Winthrop of Massachusetts No public man I have ever known impressed me more favorably than did Mr Winthrop He had been the close friend of Everett, Choate, Webster, and Clay He was the last survivor of as brilliant a coterie of party leaders and statesmen as our country has ever known On a visit he made to the House of Representatives, of which he had many years before been the Speaker, business was at once suspended, and the athered about hi in Boston, Mr Winthrop stated that he was present in the Capitol while the first foric cords between Washi+ngton and Baltiht in his presence, of the nomination to the Vice-Presidency tendered hiave us the most vivid i_ had entered into politics, but that a th been subdued and trained to the service offact in this connection, to note that the little girl, Miss Ellsworth, who brought to Mr Morse the joyful tidings of the passage of the bill on that early May reat inventor to write the first e that ever passed over the wire When she selected,

”What hath God wrought,”

words to find utterance by all tongues--she builded better than she knew, for in the words of Speaker Blaine:

”The little thread of wire placed as a ti city grew, and lengthened, and multiplied with al its iron nerves, until, within his own lifetime, continent was bound to continent, heh ocean's depths to hey in the unrand achievereat inventor just after he had passed froe, can never lose their interest:

”Morse in his coffin is a recollection never to fade He lay like an ancient prophet or sage such as the old masters painted for Abraham, or Isaiah His finely chiselled features, classical in theirbeard; the death cal brain, and that placid beauty that lingers upon the face of the righteous dead, as if the freed spirit had left a smile upon its forsaken home--these are the memories that remain of the most illustrious and honored private citizen that the New World has yet given to mankind”