Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-07-24
TUESDAY JULY "a. 1894.
THE GREAT SENATE DEBATE.


in the senate come hard blows in his
letter to Wilson. The senatorial
whales have been frOthing and lashiDg
in their tubs and spouting and BLOWN;
water aud blood, showing that the e1
ecutive harpoOn hit them bard. II
them rage. 1t will DO them good. ]
will not hurt the country.
Our dispatches relate how German,
Jones of Arkansas, and other million
aire senatorial corruptiOnists, haye
poured out their contempt and sarcas m
against the president for several day, +.
The Republican senators keep silen'.
Hill and Reed are the only two bapI y
men who let out their feelings, in tie
whole emblage of statesmen. In
concluding his speech Monday G, :
man next turned his attention to Sen
ator Hills speech endorsing Cleye.
lands letter. "That letter." said Cor
man, "was Godsend to the senator
from New York. II was the only com
fjrt he had from this administration. D."
(Laughter)
AS the laugh continued, Hill arose,
and with good natured deliberation
said: ain the last proposition, 1 will
say the senator from Maryland is en-
tirely correct"
German asserted the New York sem
ator had throughout attempted to
thwart his party.
Speaking to the duty on coal, Cor
man argued that 40 cents per ton was
purely revenue duty. Free coal, he
said, would give to single foreign cor
poration all the coal trade from Boston
north. Free coal would not benefit
any man or woman In the country.
Who demands 1t? There was but one
great concern on earth that wanted free
coal. In Nova Scotia there was de-
pOsit of coal as broad and as high as
any on the face of the earth. The gov.
ernment of Canada had controlled
that. Five years ago the dominion
government was induced to change its
policy. Small leases were wiped out.
The Canadian Pacific, that great artery
Of Great Britain, together with men
from the United States, associated
themselves together and secured 90
year lease of this coal land on condition
that they would pay into the Canadian
treasury IL cents per ton royalty. If
coal were free, the coal of Nova Scotia
would displace that OF the United
States In New England and the treas
ury of Canada would be enriched by
the money that ought to go into the
treasury of the United States.
German expressed strong preference
for American trusts against foreign
trusts. He exclaimed pathetically:
"God knows we have enough trusts !!
/ will never consent to allow this nam.
moth toTeign corporation to invade our
fnFr ffnrU ond tQEn tho aIahata M
from our people,"
In his discussion of the sugar tax
levied by the senate, German confessed
that the Republicans had outwitted
the Democrats. He admitted they had
given the people free sugar in the Nc
Kinley bill, He owned up that the
sugar tax was a great weak ness In the
bill, saying:
"Our friends on the other side, with
great generalship, saw the weak points
In our line from the beginning. In the
construction of the Mckinley bill they
made free sugar the pivot. They at
tempted TO secure free sugar by fight
ing us when we attempted TO reverse
their Mckinley act, outwitting US by
our going back and putting upon the
list an article which they had
put upon the free list. They managed
Il well. They knew how TO stir up
aud feelings which are nat
urally against duties on anything
whatever. They used the press Of their
party TO charge all sorts of bad motives
against the men who were In favor of |
putting sugar on the dutlable list. They |
wltted us upon this floor. You had |
scarcely gotten into consideration OF |
he bill before they wanted TO investi-
ate and see whether we were not sell
ng out 10 the trust"
Gorman's reference to the president
bows deepseated feeling and concludes
'itha stab at the man who cannot
gain come before the American peo-
Ie, and who 10 most severely criticised
? his own party. Here are the dou-