The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-11
DENOUNCED BY BLAINE.
Sen ATOR BLACKBURN RECALLS
A THRILLING INCIDENT.
Secretary Blaine Denounces the Idiocy
OF the Mckinley Bill-.Harrison's
Smallest Trick Exposed.
(Atlanta Constitution. J

VI tne MCKINLEY Bill. HarrisOn's
Smallest Trick Exposed.
(Atlanta Constitution
WASHINGTON, Nov 1O-[Special Sat
urday mornings Post prints highly SEN
sational interview with Senator Black
burn, in which the distinguished Ken
tuckian gives graphic account of Secre-
tary Blaine's announcement of the
| Mckinley bill before the senate finance
committee last July.
According to Senator Blackburn, the
scene was every bit as exciting as when,
on memorable occasion, he BLACK
burn) took New Hampshire Bill by the
ear and banged him ABOUT a senate COM
mittee loom.
Senator Blackburn says Secretary
Blaine appeared before the committee,
accompanied by William Elroy Curtis,
| and bright, brand new silk hat. He
appeared to be in good humor until
Blackburn asked him his opinion of the
Mckinley bill, which had just passed the
House. This was the signal for the out
burst.
The Secretary colored up in an instant
and said:
''Thls bill is an infamy and an out
rage 1t is the most shameful measure
ever proposed to civilized people. Go
on with it, and it will carry our party to
perdition."
Senator Blackburn said he suggested
that it would be good thing for the
country if Mr. Blaine was in the Senate,
SO that the opponents of the measure
might have the benefit of his assistance
An Open Declaration.
81 wish l were,' was the Secretary's
reply. eff SO, [ would stamp it under
my feet and spit on it."
Then advancing towards Senators AL
lison and Hale, he snapped his fingers
Election, said:
$50 on with your driving idiocy, and
see to what destruction it will lead he
Republican party. Pass this bill, and
in 1892 there will not be man IN the
party so beggared as to accept your
nomination for the Presidency"
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded to dissect
the bill in mercileSs manner, and when
informed Of the sugar bounty clause,
which had been added, said:
cit isn't true"
b ing assured that Senators Morrill,
and Edmunds had secured such an
amendment, Mr.. Blaine SAID
1T is good sample Of the breadth Of
, their craftsmanship"
The Hat Goes.
'tAnd then" says Senator Blackburn
"the climax came. The Secretary's new
beaver was in easy reach. With a sud
den blow he brought his clinched hand
down on it with such force as to smasl
it flatter than pancake, and then, seiz
ing the battered chapeau, he hurled i
+ against the wall violently | never say
such an ebullition, but it only empha
: sized the deep earnestnesS of the Secre
J tary."
! B,ackb1rn's interview is confirmed b
d friends of Senators Allison and Hale
3 who told in confidence the episode at th
g time it happened. 1t has caused grea
0 sensation, and 1t is said Mr.. Blaine
J greatest regret is that he allowed Pres
dent Harrison to coax him into takin
81 the stump for Mckinley and Quay
:, The Smallest Act Yet.
:. The administration has pulled itsel
= - together, and to-day Mrs. Maria Wa
y kins, soldiers widow, who is employe
g at one of the delivery windows of th
city postoffice, was made to feel tt
y power of Harrison, Wanamaker an
10 Ouav's vengeance Dick Quay, son
his dignifed and quiet father, called
:, the post office for his parents mail. Nh
Watkins turned to some OF the clerks
inquire as to its whereabouts, and OF
es of the more mischievous, Democr
~ who had been reading the Pennsylvan
y. election returns, said:
''The senator's mail nov goes to tt
dead letter Office"
Taking the remark in earnest, MI
n Watkins impaired the information
nd young Dick. The latter rushed off
by Postmaster General Wanamaker's o1fit
We and in short time Postmaster Sherwo
nd received an order from Pious John
ch suspend the woman, and it was prom]
lv complied with. The woman was p
IN fectly innocent of any desire to offer
nd suit. and Superintendent Of Delive
Bell, who made the remark, came mf
at fully to the front and exonerated b.
op but Wanamaker's order went into effe
en- and the widow of a union veteran v
wv summarily suspended. This is regard
md as about the smallest trick Of this snl
ith and hypocritical administration.
Sherman's Bitterness.
or or In an interview to-day Senator Sh
lo1 man has this to say of the Democrats
ana Holmes county who stood like ST.
wall against McKinley's Doodle assau
Tue "Well, they were rebels during
war, and they have not yet recove
from the prejudices then aroused
1t will be seen that the Ohio Sena
/, still refuses to come into the union,
"' it is not improbable that the Ohio I
pie will resent this next year by sci
ing a Democrat to succeed "HoI
or a John"
:, VI Lumber Burned.
veil,
,e in NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 1O.-A specia
TED; the Landmark from Tunis, n. O., Sc
6 - "The dry kiln and half million feet
t;fv w. lumber belonging to the Tunis Lun