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14181 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 42 paragraph 1

… any arguments as to the constitutionality of the question, or the principle involved, was not to be considered at all, but only the policy of the legislation …

14182 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 42 paragraph 2

… the argument was opened. So I did not have time to learn anything about the situation at all. After the hearing Mr. Thompson of Chicago came to me and asked me …

14183 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 42 paragraph 7

… the argument I was making upon the constitution, yet other members of the Committee asked questions until the whole half hour was consumed, and every one …

14184 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 44 paragraph 3

… own arguments, they have gone right ahead, and got Congress to do it, when they knew it was unconstitutional.

14185 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 45 paragraph 11

… my argument, and which explains this point a little more fully before this Committee:-

14186 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 45 paragraph 14

The Chairman (Mr. Durborow). - I don’t want any more of such stuff as that. I do not see what bearing that has on this question. Please confine yourself to proper lines of argument.

14187 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 46 paragraph 2

Mr. Durborow. - I don’t think your whole argument is very respectful to the Congress of the United States.

14188 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 46 paragraph 13

… the arguments presented here, or to present my case with the force and fluency that gentlemen in the opposition have, having been forced by my condition to …

14189 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 49 paragraph 13

… . The argument has been made, and it was made when the legislation was before the Senate, that as Congress was appropriating the money, it had the right to put …

14190 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 51 paragraph 1

Mr. Houk. - Your argument is, then, that the quotation of that commandment by Senator Quay, and the insertion of that, incorporates the fourth commandment and the whole Bible into the legislation of this country?

14191 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 51 paragraph 11

… constitutional argument and refused to have that go before the Committee; but the questions that were asked brought all that out, until the time was consumed …

14192 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 51 paragraph 12

… any argument that would not come within the Constitution. But they shut that out, and now see what they did listen to in the first speech that followed:-

14193 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 52 paragraph 1

… heavenly arguments by any means - but they proposed to consider heavenly things, and they reined the Committee up before death and the Judgment, stating that …

14194 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 52 paragraph 3

Here is an argument from a lawyer, a judge, Judge S. B. Davis, of Terre Haute, Ind., that was sent up there, and distributed by the hundreds, and lying in quantities on the table of the Committee, in which is said:-

14195 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 52 paragraph 5

… chief argument of all. This is a Christian nation; the Supreme Court of the United States has said so. If there are any of the brethren here who doubt whether …

14196 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 29, 1893, page 52 paragraph 7

… the argument, for they have not; but the publicity given to the matter throughout the country by this agitation has brought down upon Congress an avalanche …

14197 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 31, 1893, page 57 paragraph 1

… nice argument - intellectually, - and it can be presented, perhaps, in a way that will silence an opponent; but that does not convert the heart. We will have to take …

14198 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 31, 1893, page 61 paragraph 1

… this argument when he was compelled to meet it? He said, Oh, it is well known that John wasn’t a prophet(!) So, at the debate out in California where this happened …

14199 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 31, 1893, page 69 paragraph 2

I read these simply as samples of the arguments that were presented to the Committee to persuade Congress to stand fast in the position where the government has been placed.

14200 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 5 January 31, 1893, page 69 paragraph 7

… hierarchical arguments only. When that is so, - when the Constitution itself is shut out from before, and from the consideration of, a committee of Congress …