St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-09
GORMAN'S PHILIPPIC.
The Maryland Senator Pours
Hot Shot Into Lodges
Measure.
The Supreme Court Decides
Adversely in Clifton H0l-
den'S Case.
Report Of Interstate Com
meree Commission Sent
to Congress.
New York People Petition
Against the Federal Elec-
ton Bill.


to-day Mr.. Hoar moved to proceed to
the consideration of the elections bill,
but OIL the suggestion that Mr.. Gray
was temporarily absent he withdrew the
motion, and then asked unanimous con-
sent to have time fixed FRIDAY next at
p. m.) for taxing the final vote on the
bill. Mr.. Gray meanwhile came into
the chamber, and. the bill having been
taken uD, he yielded to Mr.. German,
who argued against the proposition to
fix the time for taking the vote. He
RECALLED the statement of Mr.. Hoar at
the last session that if the election bill
were not taken up and disposed of
there would not be time to do so in the
short session. 1t had been (Mr. Cor
man said the firm conviction on his SIDE
OF the chamber that after what had oe.
Cured at the late election the senator
from Massachu husetts would not press the
bill at an early stage of the session.
Mr.. German continued:
Trouble Ahead.
'We stand to-day. Mr.. President. on
volcano. We have heard the discus
cussiOn as to the starving Indians, but
we take no note, 1t appears, of the fact
that the farmers of the land are meet
ing and resolving that there is danger
and trouble, if not starvation, among
them. The labor of the country appeals
to the administration and to congress to
stay this awful wreck. The faces of
the bankers and merchants are blanched
with fear. No man can tell whether.
tomorrow or next day, every bank in
the great centers of commerce will not
be closed by the suspension of pay
ment. And now, in the midst of Sucn
state of afalrs.rWe, who came here
flushed with victory, had the hope that
the majority party in the senate would
give US an opportunity to join with it in
preventing the wreck which is now inl-
pending. But the senator from Massa-
chuSettS, since the second day of the
session, has continued to keep this bill
before the body day bv day and hour by
hour. refusing eveiI the usual time of
adjournment from Friday till Monday.
Read
The Great Papers
of the city of New York to-day. They
tell you that the secretary of the treas
ury. taking the only action that he is
authorized to take within the law, has
come again to the relief of commerce by
buying five millions of bonds, and that
that is mere drop in the bucket. The
secretary of the treasury has paid out
of the treasury a hundred million for
bonds, and that hundred million has
disappeared. The banks have less
money now than they had before the
payment of that hundred million. |
would say to the senator from Massa-
chusetts: Lay aside this bill. which
the country has pronounced against.
Let it go: and let Us take up matters
which all classes OF our fellOw-citizeuS
are looking to US to consider. If you do
not, if you persist in the course which
has been marked out by the senator
from Massachusetts, the responsibility
must rest with the party in power. If
the senator from Massachusetts forces
the consideration of this partisan meas
IRE, while
Bankruptcy and Ruin
are going on, he has the power to do it:
but when he goes back to Boston he will
find that the merchants and the bankers
and the men of affairs there. as Well as
the farmers and lahorers, will tell him
that while he is attempting hostile ley
islatiOn against a section of the country,
if it had not been for the products of
that section, if 1t had not been for the
moving uf the cotton crop, there would
not be bank in Massachusetts, able to
pay it's depositors. The only thing that
has saved them has been the fact that.
they have been able to draw on the cot
ton crop and on the oil. You may hasten
the wreck; you may speed the time
when this distress shall become uni
versal. So be it, Mr. President, if you
will have it so. Again We tender TO you
dk1aV
and save our common country"
Gentle Mr. Hoar.
Mr.. Hoar replied to Mr.. German. 1t
seemed to him that the speech Just
made had presented, IN the strongest
possible relations. the reason for the
proposition which he (Alr. HOar) had
made. For four days the senate baf
been listening TO Democratic speeches,
which those who made them knew
would not affect single vote-speeches
for mere delay and obstruction. If the
senator from Maryland had another
measure which he thought would alIay
the panic or the menace to the CONNER
ciaI prosperity Of the country, which
had begun when the elections were de-
clared in favor of his party (the country
having been before that in position OF
unexampled prosperity, why should be
not, after fair and proper statement of
the reasons for voting against the cleo
ton bill, let the senate vote upon it?
The senator from Maryland had spoken
of it as a sectional measure. 1t was a
measure wh9se snIe purpose was to SUBJ
nit to the judges of the courts of the
United States, against whose integrity
and official honor no man could bring
charge, the question of who had the
prima facie title to a seat in the house
of representatives, instead of having it
declared by rufianism, fraud or vio-
lence, as has been SO often the case in
the past.
Mr.. Berry obtained the floor, and after
short executive session the senate adj
iourned.