Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-30
TARIFF IN THE SENATE.
HIscocK ATTACKS THE DEMOCRACY OF
NEW YORK.

The Republican Members at Last Gonded
Into speech-VoOrhees Defends His
Party in the Empire state-Gormnu
Quotes BIaine's Words Freely.
WASHINGTON, July 29.-During the
tariff debate in the Senate to-day Mr.. Cor
man SAID that Democratic Senators wanted
q free discussion of the bill, and nothing
more. They wanted it considered intelli-
gently. Bur the Republican Senators
wanted to rush it through the Senate at
railroad speed. He reminded the Repub-
lican side of the chamber of Mr. Plumb's
statement that that party was in danger,
and of his warning that it would have to
increase taxation within Is months, He
also referred to Mr.. Blaine as the one man
who, in 20 years, had been able to bring the
Republican party into line, as the onlv
man who (while abroad) had the courage
and ability TO write an answer to President
Cleveland's tariff measure that gave to the
drooping Republicans hope and faith and
final victory; and he said that Mr.. Blaine
had (through the Senators from Maine)
told Republican Senators that if they passed
the bill as reported, they would not only
destroy the possibility of increasing trade
with the countries south of the United
States, but would bankrupt the treasury in
16 months. For that was the meaning of it.
Mr.. Hiscock repelled the general charge
that the Republican success at the last cleo
tlon was the result of the influence of mann.
facturers or monopolists, and he asserted
that in the State of New York. wherever
Democratic maj jorities were rolled up. stems
OF the whisky interest could be marked.
The saloon and the tippling shop had been
the recruiting stations of the Democratic
party. 1t was not in the great mauufactur-
ing centers of New York State that the
largest Republican majorities were rolled
mp, but in the agricultural portions of the
State, while the criminal population of the
cities were natural allies and constituents
of the Democratic party.
Mr.. voorhees, congratulated Mr. German
on his great victory in breaking the pre-
determined silence on the Republican side
of the chamber. As to the speech of the
Senator from New York, which had been
extorted under the lash, it was the same old
TRADE of calumny and abuse against the DEM
ocratic party. If that was ali there was of
it, he (Mr. Voorhees) would let it 90. But
it seemed that there was no one to sneak
fairly for the great Democratic city of New
York. He arraigned that Senator ior his
slander on that city-simply because it was
opposed to him politically. The Senator
had spoken of the vice and crime
and intemperance Of the city of
New York; but he (Mr. Voorhees)
asserted that the very Gibraltar of the Re-
publican party in that city, the only dis
trlct In which it had increased IFS majority
OF late was the Eighth Assembly district,
where Johnny O'Brien had been leading
the worst elements of society, and where i'm
morality vice and crime of all descriptions
were 50 rife that mans life was not safe
there after sundown. The Senator (Mr.
Hiscock) owed an apology to the great
metropolis on Manhattan Island. He had
heard such stigma attempted to be cast on
New York before, but it i'll became one of
her sons to retail that old-time slauder in
the Senate. an