Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1894-07-25
GORMAN'S BIG GUNS.
THE MARYLAND SENATOR OPENS HIS
BATTERIES ON CLEVELAND.

land and Carlisle Sanctioned the Conces-
s.ons Masle-some Inside Democratic
History Made Public-A Most Remark
able Scene.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Perhaps no
more remarkable scene vas ever wit
messed in the United States senate than
that which occurred there during the
day, when for two and half hours
Senator German, the Democratic poiit-
ical leader ON the floor, delivered his
speech against the president and in de-
Tense of the senate tariff bill.
The galleries were packed to the doors
and so great was the interest in Mr..
Gorman's speech that the members OF
the house fiocked to the senate end of
the Capitol, and the house, being unable
to hold quorum, adjourned.
Mr.. German, with frankness that
amazed those present, discussed party
secrets, opened the door to party eau
cuses and flashed his searehlight into
the dark corners of party history, The
president was
Assailed With neennoss and YigOr
by the leader OF his party on the floor of
the senate. He defended the senate
tariff bill and its preparatio,l, and
charged in turn that both Mr.. Carlisle
and Mr. Cleveland were not only aware
of the concessions made in that bill to
procure its passage through the senate,
but that EIr Carlisle had been consulted
at every step and that Mr.. Cleveland
had sanctioned all that was done. Mr..
German is cool, easy ta.lker, but he
gives tone and gesture dramatic effect
that thrill the auditor, and he was at his
best. One by one he called Senators
Vest, Jones and Harris as witnesses to
the truth of his statements. Then, hay-
ing freed himself from all restraint, he
told the inside history Of the conference
over the tariff bill He even went back
and
Told the Secrets
of the Mills bill and the ST. Louis and
Chicago platforms and the demands
committee by the sugar senators in 1892.
His personal attack on the president
was full Of tie most sensational charac
terizations. He told how he had dared,
when others had faltered, to walk with
Cleveland through the 'flth and slime
of the campaign of 1894, how he and
his colleagues had fought for tariff re-
form when towards in high places
would not show their heads, how Air.
Cleveland had tried to ''gibbet the SEN
ate before the eyes Of the country" and
said that his action must be attributed
to consuming yanity"-an action that
was echoed by those who ''chirped when
he talked" His references to the
president created so much com1notion in
the galleries, sometimes of approval and |
sometimes of 6fisapproval, that the pre-
siding officer was obliged to repeatedly
caution them
To Preserve Better Order.
He was listened to with wrapt attention
throughout his speech, a deep feeling Of |
excitement being printed on every face.
Among those who listened most ear
nestly was Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British minister, who was in the diplo-
matte gallery. In conclusion Mr.. Cor
man practically warned his colleagues
that, on the material points, it was the
senate bill or no bill.
Mr.. White of California was the only
other speaker of the day. While per-
sonally in favor of free coal and free
iron ore, he, too, declared it to be the
part of patriotism for the Democrats to
stand together for the senate bill After
he concluded the senate adjourned with
the situation seemingly in as chaotic a
state as ever.
HEr. German Leads.
At 1885, when the conferees report
was laid before the senate Mr.. German
arose and began his address, speaking
from carefully prepared notes. The
speaker at once proceeded to detail the |
history of the tariff bill after it reached
the senate, and the manner in which, to
meet the objections and secure the sup
port of certain disaffected Democrats, the
changes had been agreed upon. He
stated emphatically that during The
progress Of this work, Messrs. Vest and
Jones had frequent conferences with
Secretary Carlisle, and often times with
Mr.. Cleveland himself. No material
sacrifice of principle was made. The
result was, as he declared on previous
occasion, q Democratic measure which,
in his opinion, leaned towards the radi-
cal tariff reform sentiment, and which
he thought would receive the support of
a Democratic house, senate and presi-
dent. He believed then, as he believed
now, that he had authority for that
statement. He charged directly that
everyone of the senate amendments had
been seen by Secretary Carlisle and
scanned by him before they were agreed
upon. He drew from his desk and had
read an interview with Secretary Car
Isle on April so, in which the secretary
of the treasury gave the bill his sweep
ing endorsement.
softened the Hard Places.
That interview, said Mr. German,
softened the hard places for those who
were trying to to harmonic differences.
1t did much to aid the Democrats Of the
senate in getting together. He did not
believe that the Democrats would ever
have gotten together had it not been for
that interview The secretary of the
treasury naturally spoke in a great mea-
sure for the president in matters relat-
ing to his department. On the morning
following the publication of the inter
view, the papers announced that the
president was in entire accord with his
great secretary of the treasury. If that
was not true, then the ~ Democratic
senators on this side of the chamber had
been misled. AS compromise Mr..
Gorman asserted that the the bill as
completed was satisfactory to not q
single, solitary human being in all its
details, but as a whole the structure pre-
sented as scanned by the secretary OF
the treasury and tbs president, as
looked at by us was acceptable as the