The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

with Elliott F. Shepard in the meantime. Whether
that had any effect upon his digestion or some
other part of his make-up I do not know. At any
rate that or something caused him to repudiate all
that he had done and shut out the principle which
he had embodied in that resolution and presented in
order that we might be heard.
Dr. Lewis, the Seventh-day Baptist, went to
Congress to be heard. He told me that he went to
Mr. Durborow, the chairman of the committee, and
asked to be heard. Mr. Durborow asked him what
he represented and what his argument was to be.
Mr. Lewis told him that it would be upon the point
of the unconstitutionality of the legislation already
taken by Congress. Mr. Durborow told him that the
Committee had decided not to hear any arguments
at all upon the principle but only upon the policy of
the legislation; not to consider any question at all
as to whether it was constitutional or not, but that
Congress had done it, and it was presumed that
Congress had the right to do it. And any mention as
to the propriety of the legislation would be entirely
left out, and it was only considered now as to
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