The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-02
The Measure Denounced in Unsparing Terms,
Greatly to the Discontinue of the
Free-Trade Democracy.
The Kellogg Trial Terminates in the
Acquittal of the Defendant.
Hon. W. II. English Pulling Wires to Secure
Seat in the House for His Son
How Aliens Obtain Land Titles.
AN EFFECTIVE SPEECH.
Mr.. Eaton's Vigorous Denunciation OF the
Morrison Tariff Bill.

MT. EaUOnS vigorous DenuncIaCIOn OF the
Morrison Tariff Bill
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON May l-Ex-Senator Eaton's
speech in the House, to-day, on the Morrison
bill, surprised the free-traders. He read the
riot act to the Morrisons, the Hurds, and the
Dorsheimers, and they do not feel quite so well
after the performance. They blowed and crowed
about Mr. Hurds brilliant rhetorical effort, made
the other day but they are in the dumps to-
night. Mr. Eatons cold facts were not relished
by the authors of and sponsors for the Morrison
bill but the House and the galleries showed their
appreciation of the old mans homely truths.
The speech commanded such attention as few
speeches can get in the House of Representa-
tives, and after it was finished it was full ten
minutes before order could be restored so that
the next speaker could be heard. Mr.. Eaton was
applauded and congratulated and on all hands
it was admitted that he had eclipsed Mr.. Hurd.
1t was the greatest speech of any Democrat this
Congress- and one of the most remarkable that has
been delivered in the House for years. Mr.. Hurd's
speech was rhetorical gen. deficient in logic,
while Mr. Eaton's remarks bristled with logic,
strong points and hard hits, without any effort,
in the direction of fine finish. He said he was
not speaking to his constituents, but to members
of the House of Representatives He wanted to
produce an effect, and he-succeeded; and if vote
had been taken on the bill when he concluded,
it would have Jared badly. Friends of the
measure will have to tax their resources to the
limit to counteract this speech. Mr.. Eaton
fairly laughed the bill out of court. He de
scribed it as "a Republican bantling with its
tail cut off, and said 'any cardriver in Wash
ington with his hook could do just what Nor
rison had done, in chopping off part of an old
bill" The bill had been commended he said,
step in the right direction, but it was rather
the staggering of political nebriate; it was a
'crab-like step;r it was bastard Democratic
bill
During his speech, Mr.. Eaton paid his respects
to Messrs. Hurd Dorsheimer and Oscar Turner,
of Kentucky. He said Mr.. Hurd did not know
the horn-book of commercial science,
and tore his Hi1nsy statements concern
ing the American merchant marine to tatters.
He told the House that he had gone to Mr.. Nor
rison and proposed to formulate a bill that would
do honor to the country, but that his proposal
had been rejected. In general and in detail, he
exposed the statements of the free traders and
demonstrated the absurdity of the Morrison bill.
Striking out from the shoulder, he hit the Nor
risons and the Hurds the most telling blows at
every turn His speech alone will stand as a
refutaton of everything that has been said by
the trade doctrinaires and tariff tinkers in
his party. 1t was a surprise, and effective
one, too 1t is a call to reason from the folly
and madness of the hour and is an expression of
the sober second thought of the people against
useless and untimely agitation of the tariff ques
ton. 1t is a note of warning to the Democratic
party from one of the oldest, ablest and best-re-
speeted Democratic leaders in the country. 1t
shows, however, the wide chasm that has inter-
vened in the Democratic party on this great and
vital issue 1t is death knen to Democracy.
rung by one of its own generals.