Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-25
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WASHINGTON, February 24.-Major Nc
Kinley returned from Fort Monroe last
night, almost completely restored from his
recent attack of the grip and much invigor-
ated by the change. Mckinley gave some
hard rsps to those Republicans who are try
ing to force bill through to nullify the
effect of the Ohio gerrymander.
"I would not prevent the Ohio Democrats
from gerrymandering the State if could, +"
said ne. "It is their right. If bill de-
signed to prevent gerrymandering during
the decennial period between the census ap-
pointment is to be passed, it is wrong in
principle to pass it to meet a certain contin-
gency, and am not sure that such gen.
eral law, stripped of its temporary aim,
might not be grossly unjust.
THE MEANS FOR REDRESS.
"The only redress accorded to q party
suffering under partisan gerrymander is
to appeal to the people, and if they rebuke
the party in power at the polls by electing
Legislature from the opposition, the Legis-
lature certainly ought to have the power to
correct the monstrosity."
Referring to the work Of the Ways and
Means Committee. Msjor Mckinley said:
81 think we will report the tariff bill within
two weeks. The general debate, in my opin-
ion, will be brief, as it is merely threshing
over old straw, and the people are very
tired of it. What they want is tariff bill
enacted into Law. However, / shall give
the opposition all the latitude they desire.
Of course under the fve-minute rule the de-
bate will be spirited"
"How much ofa reduction does the bill
make?"
''I am not prepared to say how much the
bill will reduce the tariff, nor to indicate
where the principal cuts will be, though
doubtless the internal revenue will be
largely reduced"
SLIGHTLY SENSATIONAL.
The other end of the Capitol also
furnished political episode to-day. The
scene in the Senate to-day when Senator
Chandler, of New Hampshire, raked Sena-
tor Call, oil Florida, over the Goals for inter-
polating matter in speech in the Record
which was not delivered on the floor of the
Senate, was not so exciting, but, neverthe-
less, vividly recalled the scene of few
years ago when Senator Ingalls, gave Sena-
tor "Joe" Brown, of Georgia, drubbing
Ingalls, had made speech attacking the
South. Brown replied, but in his remarks
as published in the Record he inserted abuse
of Ingalls, which was not uttered on the floor
OF the Senate. In his attack upon Brown
for this, Ingalls,, to be parliamentary, made
use of hypothetical case iu which he pict-
ured the "Senator from Alaska" guilty OF
an offense similar to that of Brown, and,
under this guise, described the poor old
Senator as having belonged to all parties
and been false to all; hypocrite in religion,
a sniveling Pecksniff in political and social
life, the Uriah Heep of the Senate, washing
his hands with invisible soap in imaginary
water, and so on to the extent of long
chapter.
THE WORST ON RECORD.
1t is probable that such a severe personal
castigatlon was never before administered in
a parliamentary body, and it had the effect
to prevent members from indulging in abuse
of the privilege OF revising speeches previ-
GUS to their appearance in the Record which
had been growing for years. Senator Calls
were more extensive, more
personal and more insulting than those OF
Senator Brown, but in Senator Chandler his
act did not stir up so tremendous COM
batant as Senator ingalls,.
Chandler introduced resolution of Gen.
sure. While Democratic Senators as we'll as
agree that Call richly deserves
a formal vote of censure, it is probable the
matter will be permitted to drop after the
attention of the country is called to the
sneaking manner of attacking an antagonist
by secretly slipping insulting matter into
the Record which would have demanded
call to order from the President of the SEN
ate if it had been uttered on the floor.