The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-12-09
YESTERDAYS CHAPTER OF ORAT0Ry.
mr.. Hoar Asks for Action and Gets
Rhetoric Instead.
Senator German Paints a DoIeful
Picture Of Financial Ruin.
Judge Gray Shows Senator Edmunds
Led Off to Prison.

WASHINGTON, December SIN the Sen
ate today proceedings opened with another
discussion as to Indian affairs, Mr. Dawes
maintaining that there is food enough among
the Sioux, and Mr.. Voorhees, claiming that
they were suffering from lack Of food.
Mr.. Hoar, at 1.15, asked unanimous con-
sent to have Friday next. at p. m, fixed as
the time for taking the final vote on the cleo
tions bill.
Mr.. German said: eve have heard dis
cussion as to the starving Indians, but take
no note, it appears, Of the fact that the farm
ers of the land are resolving that there is
danger and trouble, If not starvation, among
them. The labor Of the country appeals to
the administration and Congress to stay this
awful wreck. No man can tell whether by
tomorrow or the next day every bank in the
great centres Of commerce will not be closed
by the suspension Of payments. In the
midst Of such state OF affairs we had the
hope that the majority party In the Senate
would give us an opportunity to join with 1t
In preventing the wreck now impending.
But the Senator from Massachusetts since
the second day Of the session has continued
to keep this bill before this body. day by
day, and hour by hour, refusing even the
usual time of adjournment from Friday un-
til Monday. The Secretary Of the Treasury
has paid out of the treasury one hundred
millions for bonds and that hundred mil
lions has disappeared. The banks have less
money now than they had before the pay
ment of that hundred millions. | would say
to the Senator from Massachusetts, lay
aside this bill which the country has pro-
nounced against and let us take up matters
which all classes Of our fellow citizens are
looking to US to consider"
Mr.. Hoar replied that 1t seemed to him the
speech just made presented in its strongest
possible relations the reasons for the proposi-
tion that he Mr.. H0arl had made. For four
days the Senate had been listening to Demo-
cratic speeches, which those who made them
knew would not affect single vote-speech
es for mere delay and obstruction. IL the
Senator from Maryland had any measure
which he thought would allay the panic, or
menace to the commercial prosperity Of the
country, which had begun when the cleo
tions had declared in favor of his party, the
country having before that been In posi-
tion Of unexampled prosperity, why should
he not, after fair and proper statement Of
the reasons for voting against the election
bill, let the Senate vote upon 1t. The Sena-
tor from Maryland had spoken of 1t as a
sensational measure. 1t was a measure
whose sole purpose was to submit to the
judges of the courts of the United States,
against whose integrity and official houor
no man could bring charge, the question of
who had prima facie title to seat 10 the
House, instead of having 1t declared by ruff
fianism, fraud or violence, as so often have
been the case in the past.
Mr.. Gray spoke of the machinery provided
in the election bill as similar to that under
which Napoleon the Third, arrayed his
plebiscite In 1852 and erected an empire on
the ruins of the French Republic. Mr.. Gray,
having referred to the New York Herald's
report of hearing before Inspector Daven-
port OF New York In October. 1873, from
which he had quoted Saturday, Mr.. Hoar
said he was authorized to say that the report
was absolutely false. No such transaction
had occurred. The transaction, Mr.. H0ar
said which did occur had been the subject
OF complaint against the chief supervisor be-
fore Justices Blatchford and Woodruff of
the United States court, who had, on a full
hsarlng OF the case, pronounced the conduct
OF the chief supervisor correct and proper In
every particular.
Mr.. Gray declared he would not believe
even the chief supervisor of New York as
against a newspaper reporter. The chief
supervisor had said to counsel in the case
that he was talking to newspapers. Il am
now talking to newspapers" said Mr. Gray.
"because the Sci ators on the other side
will not listen to me. | am talking through
the newspapers to the people of tho country
who will give me hearing"
Mr.. Kenna asked MIR. HOar as to when and
where the chief supervisor Of New York
had given him authority to deny the correct
ness of the newspaper report.
Mr.. Hoar intimated that the question was
very impersinent
Mr.. Kenna ain that for weeks and months
the chief supervisor of New York had been
il the lobbies promoting the passage of this
bill. Applause in the gallery, rebuked by
the presiding officer, Mr.. Dolpbl Mr.. Ken
ma said that there was scarcely day since
the bill was presented when John l. Daven-
port had not been in Washington suggesting
and debating every feature Of it.
In the course of colloquy between
Messrs. Gray and Edmunds, Mr.. Gray imag
ined the case Of the Vermont Senator going
having dirty deputy marshal, inspired by
run and politics. lay his hand upon his
shoulder, saying he arrested him for Offering
to vote when not properly registered, or
when not residing in the precinct and taking
him before an United States commissioner.
Was that, Mr.. Gray, asked consistent with
the freedom of elections