Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-14
HOAR HAULED OVER THE GOALS
He Grows Testy and Whines
at Gray's Lashing.


Mr. Gray said that he did not intend
to be drawn into discussion of the
Hawaiian matter, even though the Sena-
tor from Massachusetts could not with
hold or restrain himself from an indul.
gence in his habit of scolding an adj
ministration belonging to party OPP
posed 10 his own. This was the com
mencement of the opportunities that
would come to him in this second adj
ministratlon of Mr.. Cleveland. The
Senator had scolded all through Mr..
Cleyeland's first administration, and
had scolded him back into the White
House again. He (Mr. Gray did not
think that the Senator from Massachu-
sets was to gain anything from the
sober second thought of the American
people (Which, after all, had vindicated
itself time and time again in our history
by putting up hypothetical cases in order
to deliver himself of the welcomed
Yitupcrative phrases with which he had
entertained the Senate this morning.
Nor did he think that the honorable
American representative at the Court of
Saint James (Mr. Bayard) would take
much detriment by his share of the
scolding, because, when that honored
representative occupied another high
position in the Government of the
United States, he came in for vehement
lecturing from the Senator from Massa-
chusetts and had actually survived it.
Mr.. Bayard stood as high to-day in
the estimation and honorable regard of
his fellow citizens as he did prior to
that pronunciamento of the Senator
from Massachusetts. He (Mr. Gray said
this much because lie thought it would
have been in better taste all round If
the Senator from Massachusetts had
quietly waited until the official infor-
nation which was asked for day or
two ago, and which he (Mr. Hoar) must
know there had been no opportunity
yet to prepare and furnish, came to the
Senate. III he had waited for that, the
light of the patriotic duty of Senators,
leaving partisanship behind them in the
dark places to which it belonged in a
discussion of this kind. For himself,
he knew no partisanship when the
honor of his country and his flag was
concerned. lie wanted to know
whether the statements alluded to by
the Senator from Massachusetts, and
with which the public presses had been
full for weeks past, were true or not;
whether il was fact that the flag of the
United States had been disgraced and
dishonored by superserviceable agent
of the government, and been made to
symbolic an act Of piracy and aggres-
sion to which every honorable Ameri-
can ought to hang his head in shame.
II this were true, it was very well for
the Senator from Massachusetts, and
for others who agreed with him, 10 ask
Senators again and again to avert their
gaze from what was SAID to have gone
On in those distant islands of the Pa
citic in the middle of last January. But
he (Mr. Cray on the contrary wanted
to know something of what had taken
place. And it was for that purpose that
he had cordially co.operated with the
Senator from Massachusetts last week
in supporting resolution requesting
the President to furnish, as speedily as
possible, the information promised in
his message. And until he (Mr. Gray)
felt that the giving of that information
had been unduly delayed, he would
possess his soul in patience, fully be-
lieving and quite content that the honor
of this great government was safe in the
hands of the President. Without at
tempting to go into discussion of any
of the hypothetical cases which had
been made by the Senator from Massa-
chusetts the ground of his animadver.
sions upon the administration, he (Mr.
Gray would simply remind the Senator
and the Senate, and the people of the
United States, that the special commits
sioner had been sent to the Hawaiian
Islands because there had been trans
action there involving the honor of the
United States, and it was the duty of
the government of the United States to
possess itself of information on the sub
ject by sending out gentleman who
could sec with his eyes and hear with
his ears what it was impossible for the
President and the Secretary of State
to see with their eyes and hear with
their ears. And the President and Sec
rotary of State would have been dere-
lict in their duty If they had not awaited
themselves of the ample authority
which they had to acquire that informa.
ton through an agent duly authorized
by the executive. He thought that the
resolution should go over until to-
morrow under the rule, and he asked
for an order to that effect
Mr.. Hoar objected to Alr. Gray's char
acterization of his remarks as scolding,
and a dialogue ensued between the two
Senators in connection with what MIR.
Bayard was represented as having said
as to the Presidents change, or no
change, of policy in regard to restoring
the Queen TO her throne. At some
points this dialogue tended to acri-
moniousness. In fact, Mr.. uoar grew
petulant and WINGED under the invectiYe
whip Mr.. Gray hurled at him. While
the exchange of remarks did not reach
the climax of each doubling the veracity
OF the other, yet at the wind-up of their
colloquy Mr. Hoar said
"The Senator misstates my views"
81 do not misstate the views of the
Senator from Massachusetts" replied
| Mr., Gray.
"But the Senator does misstate nv
views" insisted Mr.. Hoar with an
ominous and threatening saving of the
air with his right index finger.
u do not mlsrepresent the sentiments
of the Senator" calmly replied Mr..
Gray, and that was the end of the battle
Of words which Mr.. Hoar, always
lrascible and ever prone to scOld, as Mr..
Gray said of him, and Mr.. Gray, always
cool and fair, carried on for two hours.
In the course of this dialogue Mr..
Gray declared his own belief and that
of Mr.. Bayard to be that Mr.. Cleveland's
policy is one not only of justice and
magnanimity, but one of non interfer-
ence. Finally, the discussion came to a
close and the resolution went over.
The affair was one of those memoir
able debates which spring up in the
Senate like an unforeseen storm upon
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