The record-union., 1894-04-21
Peffer'S Resolution Receives Rough
Handling in the Senate.
SENATOR ALIENS SPEECH IS Sc
VERELY CRITICISED
Passage at Arms Between Represent
atives Burrows and Wheeler in the
House-A Flaw Reported to Have
Been Discovered in the Behring
Sea Law Which May Prove of Some
Importance
special 70 the REcoRp-UNIoN.

Special to the REooRD-UNIoN.
WASHINGTON, April 20.-When the
Senate was called to order to-day, Mr..
Sherman, from the Committee on For
eign Relations, reported bill for the cor
rection of an error in the Behring Sea
bill, recently passed. By the substitution
of the word exclusive for Inclusive"
the intent Of the Act, he said, had been
entirely changed. The bill was passed.
The PETER resolution for the appoint
ment of a reception committee for
Coxey's army of the Commonweal, to be
known in Senate parlance as ''The Com
mittee on Communications" came up a
few minutes before l O'Clock, but in these
few minutes it received some very rough
handling. Senator Hawley, who dealt
the blows, said he wonld have preferred
to have some one of the dominant party
In the SeHate take the floor, for certainly
the speech yesterday by Senator Allen of
Nebraska ought not to be allowed to go
forth to the country as representing in
any degree the views of the Senate. He
criticised Senator Allen for his reference
to the Commonweal army as ''the peo-
ple,' and also for his illusions to the dis
lrict militia, under command Of General
OrdWay, and he ventured to say General
Ordway had been given more time to
study the question than had the Senator
from Nebraska, and that not one step
would be taken by him except at the
command of the civil power. These
men who are coming here did not repre-
sent the general views of the people; they
were not coming with the intention of
prOstrating themselves at the feet of Con-
gress, but to impress them by their pres
ence.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hawley said there
were many other things in Mr.. Aliens
speech, which would be refuted, but he
did not propose to do it. II am sorry to
say" he continued, "but I feel bound TO
say the speech of the Senator from Ne
braska is such as would be received
with applause by gang of anarchists.
and it would not require wide scope to
discover in it the microbes and baciln OF
anarchism.'
Senator Allen intended to reply to Sen
ator Hawley, but, the time being up, the
resolution went over without action, and
the tariff bill being laid before the Sem
ate, Mr.. Galllnger of New Hampshire
spoke against the bill. He denounced
the bill as one that nobody unqualifiedly
approves except the Senators from Mis-
souri, and Indiana, McLaurie and Turple.
Even the author entered an apology for
the measure. 1t is strictly Southern
bill, and most of the New England money
invested in the South would forever be
lost if it becomes a law. He took up in
turn the various industries OF New Eng
land which would be injured if the bill
became law, and said it increased the
tax on spirits to benefit alone the whisky
trust. Free wool would ruin the wool
industry, and the income tax was de-
nounced as sectional and unjust. The
laboring masses of the North had set
fboir coa1 ~ 10
and no longer vote the ticket they voted
last year, but would ally themselves with
the party that stands for protection, good
wages and happy and comfortable homes.
IN the course of MIR. Gallinger'S speech
running controversy came up between
Mr.. Gray of Delaware and Mr.. Aldrich
of Rhode Island, the latter asserting and
the former denying that in the recent
elections, the people had expressed their
appreciation of the kind of tariff reform
now before Congress. When Mr.. Gray
said the only way to settle the dispute
was by popular vote, Mr.. Gallinger asked
if Mr.. Gray would agree to postpone
further action until the people could be
heard from in November.
Il would not dare go home," replied
Mr.. Gray, IF l did agree"
Mr.. Aldrich reminded Mr.. Gray that
the Democratic press of the country had
had nothing but words of praise for the
LWO SpeecDOS III opposition 10 LD0 Dill
from the Democratic side of the chamber
''Their appeal to put the bill in such
shape to conform to the Democratic policy
had the heartiest support of all the Dem
ocrats of the North"
1.-THE Senator from Rhode Island is
building great superstructure of the two
speeches to which he alludes," replied
Mr.. Gray, 'but l understand both those
speeches. Certainly the last was con-
fined TO a discussion of the income tax,
which has about as much relation to the
tariff reform measure demanded by the
people in 1892 as an ukase by the Russian
Emperor, and if the Senator from Rhode
Island builds any hope on the founda-
ton, he viii have to sympathiZe with his
disappointment"
II shall be very much surprised said
Mr.. Adrich, ''if great many Senators on
the opposite side do not soon come to the
conclusion that the income tax is a very
important feature of the bill.''
rs the Senator opposed to the income
tax ?o asked Mr.. Gray.
Il am opposed to the income tax, and
every other feature OF the tariff bill be-
fore the Senate replied Mr.. Aldrich.
Senator Gallinger was followed by Sem
ator Mcmillan of Michigan, who said:
"a comparison between the Wilson bill
as it comes from the House a I'd the new
Canadian tariff shows how close an I'M
the trainers of the two measures" He
pointed out, in detail. the parallel be-
tween the two bills.
Senator Dolph followed in a speech
against the bill, in which he incidentally
paid high tribute to ex-President Har-
rison.
Mr.. Dolph reviewed the story of the
two last National campaigns, the enact
lnent by the Republicans of the McKin-
lev law IN response to the mandate of the
people, and the dire disasters threatened
by the supremacy of the Democrats and
the imminent enactment Of a revenue
tariff. He went over the history of pro-
gress under protection for the last thirty
years. 1t had been attempted, he said, to
make the Sherman law scapegoat for
the ills that appeared after Cleveland's
election.
Referring to cotton ties, the Senator as
serted the result of the Mckinley law
had been not only to cause all cotton ties
in this country to be manufactured
in America, but TO reduce the price below
that of any previous time. The hay crop
of the country amounted to more in
value than the cotton crop. No Demo-
crat had ever suggested placing ties for
baling hay on the free list. The farmers,
he said, had been selected for attack, and
he argued at length TO show the superior
ity of specific over ad valorem duties.
The Senator proceeded to discuss yari-
Gus provisions of the bill, which he de-
clared would be a disaster to the Pacific
Coast, among others, hops, prunes. lead.
lumber and wool. Mr.. Dolph quoted
from President Cleveland's tariff message
of 1887 estimating the loss TO the wool
grower on a flock of fifty sheep TO $50 a
wear. and 100 sheep only So. and said that
ihe President, living in a mansion pro-
vided by the Government surrounded
by servants and by all which wealth