New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-23

Democrats violate all parliamentary law III
o,der 10 make fraud supreme i'll Northern is
we'll ~ Southern elections. They were lulS
warned Of the consequences. oh ounu''' VIZ
17tb "The Ncw-Yorl Times said
No legislative project could cause the han'ss y.
ra,tv nassion 20 mount higher or more quickly
- a., r,,cter Election bill. TO excite a partisan
,r,rci. M a time when party lines nave peeh
,,t,.,,te1 I'm a supreme effort 10 save the country
,D,, , ,rcat peril was a blunder that rises 10 the
proportions OF a crime.
1.-THE Ncw-YorlI Herald" on Thursday morn
ing said
rho ovarzeolous and stupid Democrats gave Tue"
enemies this opening and the latter have taken IT
49,, o,,nlne big enough to put the Democratic major
g., ,r a hoe and leave the Republican minority saieiy
.i,tirg on the cover. That IL the SITUATION
7, ysas go evidently probability that The Herau
on rnesflv called attention To IL the very "'o'"e
following the spfIngng Of the Election la"S iepo"'
IN the House.
The warning Of "Thc Times" which de-
nonnced the act as a crime, ana oil " ne Ilcr-
ADJ and other Democratic journals maze 10
difference whatever with the overzealOus anu
.tupid Democrats" for they deliberately pre-
forred partisan advantage to measure Whlch
tho President declared of the highest necessity
10 the public welfare. Indifferent to the GER
t,inty that repeal would be at least delayed by
= partisan measure, they have not only forced
that paltiSan measure 10 the front but IN order
:, do SD have resortod to such parliamentary
mtrages as abundantly justify the opposition
in every form If resistance within It's power
The Sneaker i'm the House when he can get
ouorum of his own party, makes himself a
md
rights as any Sultan or Gar. But mere re-
mains the Senate, in which the Democratic
majority is so small that it will have trouble
at any time TO maintain quorum OF It's OWN
membcrs. and there the silver Senators are
blocl,ng legislation indefinitely on their own
account.
Sneaker Crisp will probably have many oc-
c,sions in the not distant future to wish that
no had not taken the lead of the oyelZcalous
and stupid" Democracy. His disregard OF
parliamentary law in ordering a report read
while the House was engaged IN trying 10 de-
eide whether il should be read, was not merely
without precedent it was a disclosure OF char
acter. The very fact that it endcars him to a
Marty is "A revelation OF the character OF mat
no,+v In order 10 make fraud triumphant in
oloctions the party and its Speaker stand ready
IA hopip with insoent violation Of all the laws
which govern "A legislative body and ITS pre-
siding officer. The result will inevitably be
STATE of feeling in both houses which Is IN the
HIGHEST possible dc~rce adverse to any useful
looislation The warnings OF Democratic
noncrs and Of President Cleveland himself were
nerfccty justified and the consequences OF fail
ure in the senate are thus stated by 1.-THE
Times on Thursday:
There f. no use in mincng matters at this time.
rh siu,nle truth is that to fail in the repeal OF the
chrr,on law unconditional By anything that leaves
nor the question OF silver basis for the currency
'o,,1 he suicide for the Democrats. Nothing that
tho, could 10 IN regard to anything else. nothing
mot they could promise to do would avert the fate
IN, would come upon them. or even long defer It,
The country could stand ten years of the
uot,nIev tariff better than twelve months more OF
the Sherman law.
Already il is seen that delay of months over
tbo Silver bill followed by another long stug-
oIo over the Election bill will go far to render
tho massage of any tariff bill more difficult.
n, every measure after the shameful conduct
of tho Sneaker the Democrats are liable 10 be
obliged to find their own quorum in the Sen
,to and to keep it all the time The Demo-
crafts must have forty five Senators present in
or5er 70 do any business. There is never a
,;mc when some Senators are not sick or com
nolled t. be absent 1t may be found that
th6se who are forced by party discipline to vote
| if pre.ent for measure they do not exactly
! Flo or the effect Of which with their con-
stituents they fear. may find it convenient 10
ho sick or delayed elsewhere by imperative
necessity, il they know that their absence will
give the Republicans power to leave the ma
iorty without quorum. Speaker Crisp and
! his laNbreaking friends may learn that il is a
dangerous thing in a legislative body, for a
marty which must succeed in certain measures