The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-06
QUAY KEEPS'vERY QUIET
he SEEMS BOUND TO GRIN AND
BEAR HIS DRUBBING.

dis Voice Raised Only Twice During
the Tariff Debate Yesterday-Talk Of
Expelling Kennedy from the Housa
Not to Amount to Anything-He is
Still threatening
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Senator Quay
sat In sullen silence under Representative
Kennedy's challenge through another day.
He sat most Of the time in his own seat
turning the pages of his red bound copy of
the tariff bill with his naked hand, and
watching 1t through his spectacles as he
voted for one increase of duty after another
TO keep his bargain with the high tariff
manufacturers, who gave him the money to
elect President Harrison. Twice only ne
opened his mouth to say more than aye or
no, once, when he moved in the interest of
the fever stricken men and women and
children OF the country to take quinine Off
the free list aud put it back on the dutiable
list. but this proposition was too
much even for the Senate re-
publicans, and it was defeated by
23 majority, only fourteen republicans
voting, with Senator Quay, while seventeen
republicans voted against him, twelve Of
them being western men. The other time
he asked and obtained the transfer Of ami
mails for exhibition in geological kardens to
tho free list.
MORE CHEERFUL
Senator Quay seemed more cheerful to-
day than yesterday, the Kennedy speech
not being pressed upon him as it was yes
( tsrday. He felt the sympathy of the re-
publicans. He smlled at the jocose re-
marks with which his republican colleagues
reassured their monoplistio votes and oc-
casionally ventured on joke himself, but
he did not rise to answer the charges
brought TO his attention by Mr.. Kennedy,
nor to resign his seat in the
Senate. Neither did he announce
privately that he was going TO institute
libel suits against the journals which pub
lished the charges, nor that he contemplated
resigning the chairmauship of the republi-
can national committee, nor did the repub-
llcan senators show any resentment against
the policy OF mastery In activity.
PAST MIsDEEDs coNDoNRD.
Apparently they have condoned ell past
Inisdeeds of their leader and do not care
what the people think about him. They
have taken no steps to call him to account,
| nor TO force him to call his accussrs, nor
even Mr.. Kennedy of Ohio, to account.
They talk with him, jest with him, and
| cat and drink with him, and above all, they
obey him just as though no whisper of
| suspicion had ever been uttered against him.
Senators Hoar, Dawes Edmunds, Blair,
Aldrich, Frye, Sherman and Allison and
all the other truly good republicans are
quiet and obedient followers of the man
whom Mr.. Kennedy compared to Judas Is
CARROT and denounced as a criminal.
CALLoUs TO ALL ATTACKS.
T. Apparently these republican leaders do
not mind little thing like that, although
they are troubled because Mr.. Kennedy
broadened his arraignment so as to include
| them all. Although Senator Quay seems
blind and deaf to Mr.. Kennedy's challenge,
he is still keenly alive TO the shocking i'm
propriety of Mr.. Kennedys method of pre-
| senting 1t. He does nothing about it, how
ever, because he is waiting to see what the
House will do, especially as he has been as
| sured that the attack can be kept out of
the Record. Ii Mr.. Kennedy will publish
only an expurgated edition of his speech,
leaving out all the illusions to Senator
Quay aud the Senate, all will be forgiven,
or at all events condoned.
KENNEDY STILL THREATENING.
But Mr.. Kennedy still says, notwith-
standing all the pressure put upon him, that
he proposes to publish his speech ia the
Record just as he wrote it and read it, He
| has promised, however, appare lty not TO
publish it until Speaker Reed returns Rep
resentativIeBurrows does not want to handle
| this two edged question II he can help 1t,
and is trying to put 1t Off until Speaker
Reed gets back next week. Meanwhile the
Pennsylvania republicans are withholding
| their resolution, which they do the more
easily that nothing but motion to censurs
or expel Mr. Kennedy would really be
effective and this is most useful as means
Of buildozing Mr.. Kennedy into keeping at
least tho most disagreeable features of his
| speech out OF the Record.
| DEMOCRATS HOLDING ALooF.
| A resolution TO expel Mr.. Kennedy was
| prepared by Mr.. Boatner of Louisiana,
democrat. but he was convinced by the
democratic leaders that 1T would not be
| wise to interfere In this republican family
| quarrel and so withheld it. IL Speaker
| Reed is reelected by a decided majority
he is expected to handle Mr.. Kennedy very
roughly, and Mr.. Kennedy is expected to
yield. Ii Mr.. Reed should be defeated or
should get a comparatively small ma ajority,
Mr.. Kennedy will probably show fight. Mr..
Kennedy says he has received numerous
expressions of approval OF his course
| from republicans In and out of the House.
He is proud OF it, he says, and will not baca
| down.
CHARLESTON'S CONVENTION