Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-27
SERIAL
To Be Continued in Our Next,
Says the Senator.
PALMER MANGUVREs A DIVERSION,

His Charges Specific and Name His
Man," q Suggestion That Does Not Meet
the silver-Tongued Orators Approval
Morgan Puts in a Disclaimer and Voor-
hees Eulogizes the President.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-There was an
interruption to Senator Stewards flow of
eloquence when Palmer of Illinois began
to get inquisitive, and the colloquy that
ensued was the only lively incident of the
day in the upper" house. After squab-
BILE as to Stewards right to yield when
anybody else wanted TO speak-to farm
out the foor"-Stewart got down to busi-
ness and proceeded to read newspaper ex-
tracts in which the eminent editors as
sumed and the Washington correspond
ents assumed to speak for the president
tell what he is going to do with this sena-
tor. and how he is going to put the screws
to that senator, in order to whip them
into line on the repeal bill. He varied
the reading with a letter dated at New
York, signed "One Who Knows" ad-
dressed to himself and telling him to "be
CAREFUL how he obstructed the work OF
the majority.
Wants Somebody to Contradict.
Then more newspaper articles of the
same character. He wanted to know why
these articles, and the differences and
statements they contained, were not con-
tradicted if they We're not true And this
was the ground upon which he based his
belief that they were true, II senators
had not been dragooncd into support of
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why did they not deny it. IF the presi-
dent had not come to the capital and ar
raigned the legislative department as cul-
prits, as was asserted by one metropolitan
editor, why was it not contradicted?
Charles had done just what Cleveland
had done here up to this time.
Palmer Begins Interrogatins.
He charged conspiracy on the part of
the ''goldings" to keep from the people
knowledge of what was transpiring in the
capital, and had read charges against the
president made in San Francisco paper
At this point Palmer of Illinois asked
whether it was consistent with the proper
relations that should exist between tie
president and the senate thus to have
charges against the executive read to the
enste.
Stewart replied that it was consistent for
him as a senator to defend to defend the
senate against what the press regarded as
a ''rebuke" administered to it by the pres
| ident. Let his friends, D." he added angrily,
deny that he has used patronage to con-
| troll legislation. Let them make it clear
| to the country that patronRge has not been
given TO those who supported his measures
These charges have become too common;
aud if they are not true they should be
| denied"
Wants Stewart to File Charges.
Palmer-Will the senator himself indi-
| cate single instance in which the presi-
dent has employed his patronage TO con-
| troll a senator or member of the house?
"Why, my dear SIR" Stewart exclaimed,
| "these things are charged every day in
the public press. and let you deny them if
You can
"Deny WHAT"
those who are supporting the administra-
ton measure"
| "If the senator himself" Palmer per
sisted, "will on his own responsibility as
| a senator make charge of that sort l
will confess or deny it; but the idea that
the friends of the president or the presi-
dent himself should formally deny all
the charges against him in the newspapers
is absurd. am calling attention to the
strange attitude which the senator occu-
pies in repeating on this floor charges
against the president for which the sena-
tor himself will not be responsible"