Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-01
SENATE LISTENED IN ABATEMENT.
An Exciting Climax to Day Brlstling With Sharply Worded Passages at Arms Over the Tariff Bil,-The Minority Stirred Up the Majority Very Successfully.

Up the Majority Very Successfully. | WASHINGTON May l.-The Democratic l side of the senate was goaded almost to | desperation by the eXasperating prodding | of the leaders of the opposition. The in teresting fencing which began last week was continued, but the rapiers were sharp CT, the lunging more vicious and the thrusts directed at more vital spots. The Repu ublicans, led by Senator Aldrich, as stunned the aggressive at the outset, using | the recent newspaper reports of radical changes agreed upon by the Democrats in | secret conferencr as weapons with which | to harass and irrltate them.
 Their success was admirable. During the day almost every prominent Democrat on the floor was forced to defend himself. Senator Voorhees,, chairman of the finance committee, was finally driven to making a statement in which he utterly repudiated the reports about radical notifications of the bill and declared himself unalterably hostile to concessions to the protected in terests especially to the various trusts that are seeking increases.
 Turpie's Attack on AIdricll.
 Toward the end of the high tempered de bate, which began when the senate opened, the lie was bandied with freedom that was quite startling in the dgnitied senate, and the climax was reached when Senator Turpie of Indiana launched a terrific as- sault of most personal character against Senator Aldrich.
 In opening he referred to the record of the meeting of the finance committee which had been read during the day by Senator Voorhees,. This he said, furnished complete evidence that as far as this bill was concerned MT. Aldrich had undergone all the anguish of paternity. The present cries from the other side hat they had not been accorded the regular opportunity to consider and offer amendments in commit tee lacked foundation in fact. They came too late. The bill had been before the senate two months. If there was ground for the objections now made, they should have been made long ago. Three monstrous untruths had characterized the opposition three gross, palpable lies of inconceiv able mendacity. He had no objection to parliamentary obstruction if it was not based on deliberate falsehood, as this was.
 The first of those untruths was that a new bill was being prepared by the secre- tary of the treasury; the second was that three or 300 amendments Git did not matter which, were to be presented, and the third was that the bill reported from the finance committee was not the bill that "ttS t' 'le lliiSSeu All luSSe dSSSEllOuS Hdo been u, d, categorically denied, by four Democratic members of the finance com mittee.
 And yet,' continued AIr. Turpie, rais- ing his hand and stretching it toward Mir. Aldrich, the senator from Rhode Island comes in here and says he believes they are true. There could be no sharper issue of veracity. prefer to believe and I do believe the senators on this side, and dis believe the senator-no, 1 will not say sen ator-disbelieve the diminutive unit on the other side who asserts the contrary. Who is the author of these reports that are be ing circulated here and in the newspaper press? Who claims the paternity? The senator from Rhode Island," said he em- phatically, answering his own questions.
 Ironical Personalities.
 II recollect the predecessor of the hon. orable senator from Rhode lsland," he continued. with biting and venomous irony, referring to the Senator Aldrich of 1890 as different individual from the Sen ator Aldrich of today, "but even he could not then have been the author of all three of these untruths. He might have been the author of one. but three would have driven him from the field. He had been a drug clerk and was thoroughly familiar with all that line of business and of other lines as a wholesale grocer. We who were here then will never forget the writhing of his distinguished countenance, his enor nous development of cheek that extended from ear to ear and from chin to forehead. He would not have surrendered either chips of check few days ago. We will never forget his auricular appendages that scraped the dome of the capitol.
 ''How can the present senator hope to rival his predecessor in the hate of truth and in the love of falsehood that have al- ways characterized the cheats of protec- tion?''
 When MT. Turpie sat down, there was a hush upon the chamber. Every one was amazed at the personal character of the attack upon Senator Aldrich. Then all eyes were turned on the Rhode Island sen ator. He arose slowly. In the position the senator from Indiana now takes, " he said slowly and deliberately, "he speaks for no one but himself. Under other cir cumstances and conditions I do not be- lieve he would have made the speech he has made"
 NIr. Aldrich took his seat. The incident closed without another word, and Mir. Quay took the floor and resumed the pre- pared speech he began some weeks ago Within feW minutes, however, motion to adjourn was made, and the Democrats suddenly found themselves without q quo rum. Mir. Harris threatened to order the sergeant-at-arms to send for absentees if this occurred again, and MT. Cockrell gave notice that the law of 1857 to dock sena- tors salaries should be enforced to com pei the attendance of senators. On the whple it was a very interesting and at times exciting day.
 The house finally concluded it's consider ation of the army appropriation bill and passed it with the amendments adopted just before adjournment During the morn inghour the resignation of Representative Caldwell of Ohio was laid before the house. Almost the entire day was devoted to the consideration of amendments of an unim- portant character. ~
 Fourth Glass Postmasters.
 WASHINGTON, May 1.-The following fourth class postmasters were appointed:
 Connecticut-Ridgesbury, Michael Hagan;