New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-31


income tax? Or they to be left where 'he!
had been for twenty years. a prey 10 those WIN
took tithes and tolls from the earnings anu p''P-
ery OF the industrial classes? one word Oh e"-
couraeement from the President or from the CO.
aii,on would be grateful relet 10 the "pp'.
hension of the people. and would tend 10 es'ap'9'
that confidence the want of which had been sau
10 be the cause OF all the sunerinss OF 'he peo-
nle AR Morgan declared that If he had tod the
people of Alabama that Mr.. Cleveands hrs' eho'''
II elected President. would be TO put siVer III d
position from which there was no possipIi''! vi
extrication and shat silver was to die IN the sen
ate anu in the House by Mr. Cieveands conn
mand the state Of Alabama would never nave
cas-, its vote for him. and told him So III d
cordial and friendly manner. he added
While Mr. Morgan was speaking. and as the
hour @ o'clock suggested for taxing 'he ma"
vote approached many OF the members OF the
other House. including Messrs. Springer ha"u
Fellows and Gesenhaner. entered the chanper
and either took seats which happened 10 be vacant
or stood in the Of the Democratic side' Inc
galleries were crowded so that the outer uooiS
were besieged by and women watching the"
chance of admission and so that the dpioha"c
gallery had TO yield up its ordinary exclusNehess
and admit some favored personaSes, including MIS-
Carlisle. The two rows in the wonens SalIerI'
which are set apart for the use OF the freslaeh'
family, were also full At 23o Mr. Morgan was
st!ll speaking. with indication or bringing MS
/ speech 10 close. INC uncertainty u III ''''N
when the final voting would begin was such that
all the members of the other House Withdrew
from the Senate chamber. Mr.. Noorhees "hoWea
| signs of Impotence. and had interviews WIN NJ
Jones' of Nevada and other anti repeal "e''A'''
Bat Mr. Morgan needed not, and went on win
his speech, as il there was no need OF hurry
TIE PRESIDENTS STAND AGAINST FEEE-CoiNA"E'
AT 2:;o Mr. Morgan said that lie had now
finished what he had desired to read to the senate,
| He had prepared II because he haa not "'S"''
| in his state of health MAKE efforts in an eN-
teronorareous address He left the subject WIN
tho knowledge that the die cast. The senate
and the House and the President had dcterih'n"'
that the pending measure should prevail anu '"'
people had nothing now to look to put so'e '"h"'
promises made the floor of the senate VIM"
were entirely incapable Of being realized. Inc
President would not have driven majority OF
Democratic Senators into the corner they "eie
now in and forced them into that unfortunate
condition. If he had not set his face AGAINST li'r
COINAGE of silver He regretted IL exceedingly. but
he did not deceive himself because the freS'nc"'
had made a formal emphatic and. OF course IT
rcvocable declaration that there was 10 De no
free coinage of silver in this country ana no APP
Proclamation to it unit! the assent oil ioreWh io"D'S
was first secured. He was utterly hopeless III 'hat
direction because it was matter in,9os"'pie VI
accomplishment. 1t as fer away as inc mn
| Ienium There not the slightest nope LOT H.
II might do for n foil or for matter OF aInuse-
ment 1t might do to hatter the people Win ''e
| idea that something was to be dohe io' '"''
| benefit but that result would never be reachei.
Mr. Vest 1em MOI expressed his sympathy
with the silver-produclng States, ana declared WIN
| much feeling that no car or Kaiser "ou'' nav
| desolated an nsurrectonary province as Congress
| was desolating the silver states. ~ had s""eh
! down in those States everything which '"Hu'
| life dear and had impoverished men VINO EeS'er
| dow were mllionaires He went on TO argue IN
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Treasury in opposition to the plan OF issuins so''
honds and closed with a declaration mat 'he
| Issue In the next political campaign "ou'N D'
equality among the people justice 10 al mn
| no monopoly in aiming, and no cehtra'@<''o" ~
| finances.
SENATOR HILL TO THE FRONT.
Mr. cockreu dem. MOI argued that at the last
| Presidential election the tarln queSuo"' "os ~
financial question. had been pressed 10 Inc ''o"'
and that on II the Democratic party had oeeh VIC
torious But now that the election was over an"
victory achieved tariff was lost s'sht o. am va
senior Senator from New-York CMr IND WIS o'
held pitching hcadong to the front on the hhai0'"i
question The lion at one END OF the avenue INV
tive tiger at the other end were coming together
In q fond embrace. Uaughter) lie Ga not h'o"
all that had been going on behind the scenes Du'
ne thought Il well examine and ma OUT eNuc"'
What the posit.on was Mr.. Cockrel then went on
TO trace the course of the Repeal bill IN the fouse
Of Representatives and in the Finance Committee
and ridiculed the idea OF It's being Democratic
measure The Senator from ONO 'Mr. Sher''a'p'
the leader Of the Administration on the hep"p"-
CON side NJ the chamber had denounced the Demo-
cratic majority had told Democratic senators '"a'
they were imbeciies and that they could not agree
IN ANYTHING He had told them TO go ana agree
upon some compromise and bring II INTO 'he sen
ate and pass It. Then that Senator had proc'a'neu
10 the world through newspaper interVie" '''A'
unconditional repeal was failure. ana that some
he
that compromise would be-
Then" said Mr. Cockrell.r I'VE Democrats began
TO realize that we were about TO be heid apsoiu'eN
and Internationally responsible for the result oil
this legislation, and then we began to get 10
eether Non-par,isanship had been laid aside ana
the political banners had been hosted In the SEN
ate chamber by the Senator from ONO. we 20.
together and began talking compromise we 'a'hch
compromise and compromise-first on one thihs anu
then on another After a while 1t developed that
we could compromise-:hat we could agree upon
n measure Every Democratic Senator realized and
believed thai could agree on measure which
Democratic President and a Democratic Secretary
of the Treasury could approve without one soil
tary sacrifice Of principle or policy But Just as we
thought that victory within reach. the Senator
from Ohio with his Administration Republicans.
was found entrenched In our front. Our party had
practically united. and we thought there would be
harmony But then II was that the incandtacent
light OF non-part!sanship and Of the Republican,
! Alucw,rp- Democratic coalition was cast ath"art
our pathway and the Democratic Administration
vas revealed In all It's non-partisanship. laugh
teri The yill has been taken out OF the hahds OF
/ the Democratic party and has been placed in the
hands of a combination. Republican Senators had
TO he consulted before anything could be done and
the Republican party will be Infinitely more re-
sponsible for unconditional repeal than the Dem
ocratc party"
Mr. Hale Rep.. Me)-Undoubtedly.
Mr. Cockrel,-I'ndoubtcdly They will bear the
burden of IT, They have presented to the country
the magnificent spectacle OF having unanimously
passed the law of 1890 and now unanimously vot-
ing for its repeal The victory must not be thrown
; hack in our faces tInged with partisan Democracy.
II has no smell and flavor of Democratic or
ganization in II. We will hold you responsible for
the return of the hacyon days Of prosperity which
YOU have predicted from the repeal Of the Sher-
man act. II they come you Will have all the honor
and credit OF It, but II they do not come you will