The Portland daily press., 1888-09-13
SENATOR HOaR ENLIVENS THE SESSION
with Questions Which Trouble the
Presidents Friends.
Trusts and Election outrages the
Subjects OF Discussion.
The Women Take Up the Case OF
Mary Ann Dougherty.


question being on lSenator Georges amend
ment
Senator Hoar made very sarcastic and
pointed remarks on the connection Of the
cabinet and the Democratic party with trusts.
He said that when the Senator from Texas
Senator Reagan) had undertaken to enlight-
en- the Senate, some days ago. on the question
of trusts, he Senator Hoar) hoped to get
some light as to what these trusts were,
where they were, what relation they:bore to
the great political parties and what likelihood
there was Of political danger from them.
Was there. for instance, Standard Oil trust
in the country? II so, was that trust repre-
sented in the cabinet at this moment? Was
it represented in the Senate Twas it repre-
sented in the councils of an important politi
cal party? Was there sugar trust and were
its representatives consulted In framing a
great revenue tariff bill, and did they have
their interests looked after and considered?
He had listened to Senator Georges amend
ment, In which he proposed TO attack those
trusts, or assumed trusts, by putting power
in the hands of the executive to alter the tariff
and thus strike down every honest manufac-
turer engaged in the same business. Had 1t
not occurred to that Senator that II might be
well TO include in his amendment the trusts
which he ISenator Hoarl had just mentioned,
and which were not protected by the tariff
Why had the Senator arranged so carefully
his proposed legislation as not to hit these
great trusts, which stood. as a great many
people believed, in the relation Of treasurer
to the Democratic party, and in executive
control of itP He did notIthink that it would
turn out to be a good plan to put in the
hands of the Chief Executive Magistrate.
who notoriously owed his election to the aid
o1 those interested in such trusts, and who
had representatives OF them in his cabinet,
power to affect the revenues of the country
by his unsupported WILL 1t would be good
deal like setting a cat to watch the cream.
There was another trust of which he would
like a little information. There was a
gentleman alluding to Senator Scott who
was understood to be a most powerful and
trusted counsellor in directing the Democrat
lc campaign, who was apt to walk from the
White House down Pennsylvania Avenue to
the capitol with a bill in his pocket, arrang-
ed at the White House, who was apt to have
that bill passed unanimously in the House,
and who was apt to have it pressed in the
Senate until the mistake was found out.
He would like to know whether that gentle
man had any relation to any of these trusts
or TO transportation and coal interests, or
other interests; whether he was interested
in trusts which put tax on the fire of every
w0rkingman in winter, and increased his
fare when he travelled by railroad in sum
mer for pleasure or business. The Congress
sional directory showed that that gentleman
was interested as director in railroad COM
panies aggregating 2, 600 miles of road. Just
think OF IL; twenty-five thousand miles of
railroad In the service Of the Democratic
party IN this election, more than all the rail-
roads OF Great Britain and France put to-
gether, and part of these lines are in Cana
do. do not wonder: that the Canadian
minister who negotiated the late treaty went
home and told the Canadian people he had
been told by the Democratic Secretary of
State that the House of Representatives and
the great Democratic party Of this country
proposed to do exactly what Canada desired,
Senator Hoar said he wanted to know the
iaets about the five or six great trusts al
luded to, which were sufficient in their
power to overthrow any government in
Europe, IL they existed in that country.
There were coal, sugar, whiskey, cotton,
fruit and railroad transportation, all con-
trolled by these giant chieftains, manipu-
lated In the interest of the Democratic party
and OF the present administration and re-
presented in the Cabinet and Senate and
with one of their chieftains chairman of the
National Democratic committee. He did not
wonder that the gentlemen were awakening
the attention of the American people to such
gigantic dangers.
Senator Reagan expressed regret that a
great question could not be treated In the
senate without partisan use being made of
II. He had not undertaken to say W neither
the Democrats or Republicans were connect
ed with such trusts, nor did he care. His
purpose was to get law that would punish
both Democrats and Republicans, but he did
not intend to discuss the question of trusts
until the bill came up for consideration.
Senator Payne remarked that nine-tenths
OF the stockholders Of the Standard Oil
company we're now, and always had been,
Republicans. There were bnt two Demo-
Gratis who had been stockholders within his
knowledge. He hardly knew how to treat
the insinuation that the Standard Oil Com
pany was represented In the Cabinet. That
lnsinuation might be worthy of the lower
class OF stumpers, but was unworthy Sena-
tor. Senator Payne intimated that the SEN
ator from Massachusetts was laboring under
a "Copiah" excited Imagination, although he
had experience enough and wisdom enough
to be able to rise above the role Of dema-
gogue.
Gray's amendment was ordered printed
Senator Spooner offered resolution recit-
ing the fact that Joseph Hoffman Of Bren-
ham, Washington county, Texas, a promi-
nent Republican witness before the Senate
committee on privileges and elections. had
been recently shot down in cold blood in
that city; that the assassination was believed
to be directly attributable to his political
views and activity. and to the fact that he
had given strong testimony before the COM
mittee investigating the illegal election out
RACES, and that 1t is Of the utmost import
ance that the witnesses before the congress
slonal investigating committee may, without
danger to their lives, freely and fully testify,
and instructing the committee on privileges
of the killing of Hoffman, with special ref
erence to ascertaining whether II was due
In any sense. to his testifying before the
committee. The resolution gave rise to an
extended and heated political discussion,
the speakers being Senators SpoOner, Pugh.
Coke. Teller, Eyarts and Reagan.
During the discussion, the Presidents
message, in reply to the resolution calling
for the correspondence on the fishery dis
pqte, was read and referred. The Senate
adjourned.
Mrs. Dougherty's Case.
In connection with the petition to Congress
by Mrs. Charlotte Smith for authority to
prosecute President Cleveland upon the
chargeof libelling Mrs. Mary Ann Dougherty,
the Irish woman whose pension bill he re-
Gently vetoed, the Woman's National League
of this city has just issued brief in the case
which has been distributed among members
of Congress. The President, in vetning the
bill, said that Mrs. Dougherty was woman
OF bad character. The brief prepared by the
league shows that Mrs. Dongherty was never
arrested for drunkenness, larceny, creating
disturbances and misdemeanors as charged
Dy President Cleveland, and a complete alb
sbidct VI sue records OF tne ponce precinct
where she has lived is produced in evidence.
The following language is used in the head
lines of the brief: "a dastardly outrage:
Grover Cleveland assails the character of
Mary Ann DouSherty. He vetoed her PEN
sion bill and then denounced her as drunken
and worthless to the whole country. The
charges against her proven false. Will Irish
men vote for a man who shelters himself be-
hind his high Office to ruin the name Of a
helpless wOman?'
Notes.
The House today passed the Senate bill
amending the act in relation to postal crimes.
The House today resumed consideration Of
the conference report on the sundry civil bill
and non-concurred in the Senate's amend
ment appropriating 100000 for a Geological
Park in Washington.
Admiral Luce Is making the trip from
Washington to Norfolk in an 1S-foot launch,
owing to the fact that war vessel is not
available at present, and the dignity of his
office will not permit the trip to be made by
land. The Admirals flag floats over the lit
tie vessel, and for armament she carries two
shot guns and the necessary ammunition.
FORGOT HIS iNNITATInN