Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-26

WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Voor
hees speech on the Presidents message wa:
the principal feature of yesterdays pro
eeedings in the Senate. After a number Of
bills had been reported from committees
the Senate took up the motion to refer the
Presidents annual message. Mr.. VOORHEES,
secured the floor, and read long speech
from manuscript. He said the issues which
the two great parties would present TO the
American people next November were
plainly laid down. On the principle pro-
claimed by Jefferson that error was
not to be feared so long as truth
was left free to control il, the
pe-nicious ideas and dangerous policy
maintained by the Republican party might
be looked upon without apprehension. An
extensive discussion OF the tariff in the
Senate and House left no doubt as to the
attitude of the Republican party on that
question, and it had at last been forced to
. throw away misks and false faces, and to
admit that taxation was not to stop at the
revenue line OF the Government but to be
turned loose, without limit and without
shame, on the labor of the people for the
purpose of enriching a favored few-a
syndicate of devcuring, insatiate monopo
lists.
The Republican party leaders were going
before the people opposing every reduction
VI dAto t1Ccpt tIlUSt Ddlu Oh anu
alcoholic spirits. He did not intend that
that issue should be lodged in the coming
campaign, at least in Indiana. The posi-
ton of the Republican party may be de-
scribed thus:
First-Taxation not to be limited by the
expenses of the Government, but to be left
unconfined with view TO the protection
of manufacturing monopolists
Second-All the protection given and all
its profits TO enure to the further enrich
ment of capitalists. but not dollar of it to
laboring men and women.
Third-That If any reduction of taxes
was to take place, it must be on liquor and
tobacco, and not on the necessaries of life.
Referring to the charge that the Demo-
Gratis in Congress have been hostile to
Union soldiers in the matter of pensions
he insisted that the Democrats had been
liberal toward them in the EXTREMIST sense,
and gave figures to show the increased
number of pensions allowed under the
present administration.
Referring to the criticisms recently made
in the Senate by Senator Ingalls, upon Cen
erals Mcclellan and Hancock, Mr.. VOORHEES,
reviewed the services of those two Generals
during the war, and dwelt upon what he
alleged was the injustice with which
Mcclellan was treated because he was a
Democrat Mr.. Voorhees, declared that at
Antietam Mcclellan saved the Union. He
spoke of General Pope as 'vapid" and in
competent and denominated those who
now assail the memories of Mcclellan and
Hancock as ''clamorous kites and other
seavenger birds"
Senator voorhees, then aeviewed the his
tory of reconstruction and denounced the
Republican administration of Southern
State Government He justified the South
for its refusal, to affiliate with the Republi-
can party. saying as well might the frontier
settlements be expected to welcome another
invasion of tomahawks and scalping knives
He could see nothing 10 wonder at in the
1900 Democratic majority given in Louis
lana but a few days ago. These people
alarmed at the possibility OF return to
power of the party and the men who robbed
them and left them overburdened with
debt His only wonder was that the vote
was not unanimous
The present prosperous condition of the
south answered the partisan charges against
that section. Mr.. Voorhees, closed a very
eloquent speech with the prediction that
the verdict Of the people next November
would be that there had been honest capa-
bic government for the last four years and
that it should be continued.
On moGo2 nf Mr.. Frye the conference
report on tie bill for a conference of
American Nations in 1889 was non-con
Cured in and a new conference ordered
The animal industry bill then came up, but
was laid aside temporarily and the un-
earned land grant bill was taken up and
discussed until 5 O'Clock, when the Senate
adjourned.