New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-14
Farrell convicted OF drDkcnpcss and scandaIous con-
duct.
TILT BETWEEN HoAR AND GEORGE.
FRIES TREATY.

ENLIyENING A DULL DEBATE ON THE FISH
ERIEs TREATY.
washington, Aug ID (speclaD.-Debatc on the Fish
erics Treaty 10 far as tho Republican sldo Is
ccrncd has come to close. 1t now rests entirely
with tho Democrats how far the discussion shall be
prolonged. The end Of the week may witness It's
close. To-day's discussion confined entirely to
the Democratic side, with the exception OF
little TIT between Mcssrs. George and Hoar late In
the afternoon which did not entirely the ducs-
ton at ISSUE. additional light thrown upon the
subject by anybody.
An unusually long and unusually prosy debate
came TO an end to-day with which reminded
old habltues OF tho Senate gallery Of reconstruction
times George Of Mississippi, was the assallant and
the victim. George will be remembered by people
who have visited Washington within the last four
years as the fat man on the Democratic sldc whose
urkcmpt appearance in contrast with the tidy and
dignlGcd people around him, makes him subject of
curious inquiry OF the Senate guides. lie Is an orator
Of the jefferson Brick school-a man who could not
utter the simple words fortyGve dollars and seventy
five cents without an agony of crushing emphasis
only to be expressed In italics and small caps ITO
does not speak a great deal, rule, but he has
now spoken once too often, TO tho exceeding regret
and chagrin of his party colleagues. lilo had some
where got hold OF series Of idiOtic resolutions de-
nouncing at great length some alleged combination
Of fishing interests, which resolutions had, he claimed,
been passed at local meeting OF tho Knights OF
Labor In Gloucester Mass. He set out
to read them, but between sentences interpreted
speeches of his own in HIS own most volcanic style.
He denounced the rich and commlsera ed the poor
lie enlarged on the evils Of protection, which had
made mlonaTes OF vessel owners and vassais OF
the fishermen Of Massachusetts, After windy cx-
curson Of half hour into the realms Of free trade,
re returned to his resolutions, whcrcupon Senator
Vance suggested soto voce that he read them all
nh AfI-uf- tnt.fan a nj
sec tic satire OF the thing, but took the suggestion as
a tribute to his own inImablc performance and with
the cownish air Of one who knows he is doing
mighty good thing-lauGEing and cLuchllng over tho
exceeding richness Of the concespromscd TO do 1t,
but rcpented and sat down.
Senator IIoar in his quiet but incisive tones. de-
nounccd the resolutions as lacking even the shadow
of substantial basis He spoke Of tho three hundred
and fifteen mlllions I'm the savings banks Of Massa-
chusetts the property OF its laborlng people, as con-
yincing evidence OF the fa!sy Of tho imaGnings OF
the Mississippi Senator and declared that the working
men and women OF Lowell for c1ample could to-day,
IL they chose, buy the city and pay for it out
OF hand. He showed that by tho prevalent
system Of shares, by which the common sailors and
fishermen became partners with the vessel o"llers
and shippers, such condition as had been described
was impossible. Waxing earnest, no said tho utter-
anccs to which the Senate had listened coming from
The man who confessed himself chairman of tho Demo.
cratic State Central Committee OF Mississippi III
1879 passed the limits Of comedy and buresque.
dwelt upon tho notion that Senator whose IDEAS
OF capital and labor until within the last twenty-five
years. that capital should own labor and have
right to whip tho laborcr and separate him from his
wife and sell his children should get up In The senate
and undertake TO taunt the people OF Massachusetts
ehont shackles and unrqlitrd TOLL That senator's
later notions would be found on the records OF tho
senate in the Coplah and Jackson reports, and his
style of mathematics applied to the counting OF
vOtcsl would be made known before the close or tho
present session. It was o'clock and the SEN
from Massachusetts had occupied only about five
minutes. The senator from Mississippi gaihercd
himself together, swelled himself UP and made mo-
lion II TO reply. but senator Beck came TO MS
rescue with motion to adjourn, which was carried