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Then in the consulship of Marcus Minucius and Aulus Sempronius a great quantity of corn was imported from Sicily and it was debated in the senate at what price it should be offered to the commons. Many were of opinion that the time was come for crushing the commons, and recovering those rights which had been wrested from the senators by secession and violence.
Appian, on the other hand, says that the courts of the equites had been more corrupt than the senatorial courts. De Bello Civili, i. 22. Cicero was perhaps prejudiced in favor of his own order, but a contemporary statement thus publicly made is far more likely to be trustworthy. Sylla had himself nominated a large number of senators.
In truth, I tell you, you will need a new appearance on Mount Sinai; otherwise you will never get out of your difficulties, you, your Council of State, your chamber of representatives, or your areopagus of senators. The correctness of these reflections cannot be questioned.
The parterre of the theater was usually filled with generals, senators, and councilors of state; the first boxes were reserved for the princes and princesses of the imperial family, for foreign princes, marshals, their wives, and ladies of honor. In the second tier were placed all persons attached to the Court.
From this you may infer that Americans are fond of sport. The official sport that is, the game I heard of most among Government officials, senators, and others was "poker," and the sums played for at times I am assured are beyond belief.
It also provides that the Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, and adds with peculiar force that no State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. . . . Burdens have now to be borne by all the country, and we may best deem that they shall be borne without murmur when they are voted by a majority of the representatives of all the people. . . . At present all the representatives of eleven States are excluded, those who were the most faithful during the war not less than others.
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His absolute SHALL? Com. 'Twas from the canon, O good, but most unwise patricians, why You grave, but reckless senators, have you thus Given Hydra here to choose AN OFFICER, That with his peremptory shall being but The horn and noise o' the monster wants not spirit To say, he'll turn your current in a ditch, And make your channel his?
Having thus summarily excluded all the large and troublesome points of the investigation, these Senators decided that there remained "but two grounds on which the right or title of Reed Smoot to his seat in the Senate" was contested.
There was a movement among the senators at the answer of Gino; and the half-terrified varlet thought he perceived frowns gathering on more than one brow. He looked around in quest of him whose greatness he had vaunted, as if he sought succor. "Wilt thou name thy support in this great trial of force?" resumed the herald. "My master," uttered the terrified Gino, "St. Januarius, and St. Mark."
In that year four, the Georgia, the Georgia-Mississippi, the Tennessee, and the Upper Mississippi, companies obtained grants from the Georgia Legislature to a territory of over thirty millions of acres, for which they paid but five hundred thousand dollars, or less than two cents an acre. Among the grantees were many men of note, congressmen, senators, even judges.
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