St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-03
BRAINS and BRILLIAACY'
CHARACTERIZE SENATOR Voorhees,
/ ABLE TARIFF SPEECH!
\ CROWDED SENATE APPLAUDS
The HOosier Statesman Defends
the Income Tax and Free
Wool Clause, and Dcnounces
the Sugar BGuaty and Reel.
procity Features of the Nc.
Kinlev RiIl


the Sugar Btuaty and Reel.
procity Features Of the Nc.
Kinley Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The princi-
pal interest in the senate today cen
tered in the speech of Senator VOof-
hees. the chairman of the committee on
finance, who thus launched the tariff
question upon the sea of senatorial de.
bate. While his speech was read from
manuscript, it was delivered with all
the fiery energy which characterizes
his usual eXtempore efforts. There was
an unusually full attendance, both or
the floor and in the galleries, and the
conclusion of his speech was greeted
with hearty burst of applause. He
lauded the walker tariff bill of 1913 as of
blessed and glorious memory" and re-
GREETED that this bill did not more
closely resemble it. He defended the
income tax feature and free wool clause,
and as vigorously condemned the sugar
bounty and reciprocity features of the
Mckinley bill, the former being char
acterized as "a tumble and fraud"
the latter as IAN unconstitutional
freak"
He called attention to the fact that
today was the 150lh anniversary of
Thomas Jefferson, THAT great emanci-
pator of mankind" and quoted extern
sively from Mr.. Blaine's Thirty Years
in Congress-"
n ofnr ~
sought to have passed a bill providing
for the carrying into effectof the awards
of the Paris tribunal of arbitration in
the Behring sea matter, but when it
was OH the eve OF its passage it went
over until the bill could be printed.
Then the unfinished business. the
bill OF Senator Hansbrough for the de-
StructiOn of
THE RUSSIAN THISTLE.
was laid before the senate, and
Immediately came into collision with the
tariff bill, which Senator Voorhees, had
given notice of his intention to call up
at that time.
Senator Hansbrough asked that the
unfinished business shonld be Temporal
rily laid aside in favor of the opening
speech on the tariff, without losing its
place as the unfinished business. This
was met by a motion from Senator Har-
ris that the tariff bill be made the unfin-
ished business.
While he was opposed to the bill of
the senator from North Oak ota, he said
if there should be any gap i'm the con-
sideratiOn of the tariff bill, he would
have no objection to the Russian thistle
bill being taken up. He would be will
ing to give the senator his day in
court. but he could not afford to let the
great tariff bill play seco nd fiddle to the
thistle bill. The tariff bill must now he
made the unfinished business. he de-
clared. or majority of the senators
must declare against it. g
Senator HanSbrOugh, though defeated,
marched off the field with colors flying
and the bands playing, for he annOun ced
at the protection of agriculture, while
the tariff bill from his point of view
was intended to destroy 1t, yet in view
Of present circumstances, he withdrew
his proposition. y.
The tariff bill being made unfinished
business by the enthusiastic acclama-
ton of the majority, while only few
scarcely heard nays came from the Re-
publican side, MIR. Voorhees,, the chair
man of the finance committee, was rec
ogniZed. He looked around OH we'll
filled chamber, whose members accord
ed him the closest attention. A num-
Der of representatives came over from
the house to follow the progress or the
bill. The galleries were crowded with
an attentive audience, which paid the
strctest attention to the speaker on the
floor. Senator Voorhees,, as is his usual
custom, read his speech from a con-
venient desk made of large books piled
upon his desk.
SENATOR VOORHEES, SPEECH,
Senator Voorhees, said: Mr.. President,
great abuses in government, strong by
the sanction and growth of years, en-
bedded in the powerful interests of
privileged classes, created, fostered, en-
cOuraged and protected by the laws
themselves, have rarely, if ever. in any
age, been promptly and totally eradi-
Gated, except by forclble revolution ana
bloOdshed. Such is the concurrent and
unbroken testimony of history. The
spirit of peaceful and practical reform.
on the other hand, is a reasoning and
progressive spirit, moving forward, step
by step, no matter how radical and
thorough its ends and aims may be, and
overcoming the most gigantic evils with
patient wisdom and courage, rather than
by violent and wholesale assault.
The protective system of tariff tax
alton, as developed and fastenued upon
the business and labor of the American
people, especially during the third Of. a
century past, growing worse at every
stage. is system of indescribable in
justice and oppression; and yet who
will contend that all its vicious prin-
ciples and workings, ramifed as they
are through every branch of trade and
commerce, can be annihilated by a
single blow, or totally wiped out by a
single legislative enactment? For the
bull now under consideration no such
claim is made, but in its beh alf it can be
truthfully asserted, and will be sue
plishes vast work in the field of tariff
reform, embodies great relief to the
people from Ubiquitous existing burdens
and cOnstittes long stride, though not
final one, towards the approaching day
of full and
PERFECT DELIVERANCE. !.
Sir. challenge the attention of the
senate and the country TO the great aud
commanding fact that by the proyis-
ions of this bill the seeming paradox
of reduction of tariff and at the same
time an increase of public revenues
Will be reconciled when it becomes a
law. I will not stop to consider at
this point the vast individual robberies
committed in protected markets, the
untold and incalculable millions Of
blackmail levied by American manu-
facturers for their own pockets on their
enforced customers. when cut off from
alt outside connection. IL js eno,,r,,