The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-01


acterlzing him as the circumstances
would warrant from the recklessness
and carlessness evinced in the senator's
statement.
SHERMAN STANDS BY HIS STORY.
Mr.. Sherman insisted that his state
ment was substantially true. because any
attempt to change what had been agreed
upon IN advance by the majority of the
committee was so utterly useless that the
minority should have declined to present
any amendments at all. The fact re-
manned, he said, that the bill had not
been treated as other tariff bills had been
treated. 1t had not been read in full
committee, sentence by sentence with an
opportunity for friendly suggestion and
discussion
Mr.. Morrill,, another minority member
OF Jhe hnance committee, made a state
ment to like effect.
VOORHEES, READS THE JOURNAL.
Mr. voorhees, read the journal of the
hnance committee, from March to 81, to
prove the correctness of his assertion in
contradiction to Mr.. Shermans state
ment, and added, with strong emphasis:
Whatever may be floating in the air, the
income tax will stay in this bill have
made all the concessions to trusts and
to great protected industries that |
shall make have gone to the limit l
see what is in the newspapers as well
as others. There will be amendments
| am ready to make amendments of q GER
tain character-for example, to the ad-
illustrative features Of the measure.
would be willing even to adopt amend
inents to the administrative features of
the income tax. But as to interfering
with its vitality, its substance and its
force | never intended to yield AS to
concedlng further to the sugar trust, or
anything on the subject of sugar, l never
intend TO go a hair further If ! am
oVerruled by my own party, I will
go with my party, unless there be
something in it so fragrant and outrageous
that 1t would not be preferable to the ex-
listing law. In other words as long as
the measure before us is an Improvement
on the mons trous system of injustice now
on the stntute books, l will embrace it,
But as to making further concessions for
the benefit of trusts, or of any other kind
of protection in the direction indicated
In the papers of the country, it may as
we'll be known now as at any other time,
that shall not be party to it,"
FARMING OUT TIE FLOOR
Mr.. Chandler inquired of Mr.. Harris
when he could have the opportunity of
making some remarks, which he had kept
bottled up since last Wednesday,, and was
told that the obstacle was the fact that
the floor had been held for the last two
weeks by Senators Quay and Dolph, who
Harmed IL out" He hoped that that
condition of things would not survive to-
day.
At this point In the proceedings Mr..
Turpie rose, and in a voice quivering
with passion, attacked Mr.. Aldrich,
charging MIN with having put forward
three lies, gross, pajpa6le; three lies
basely born !; three lies of ineonceivable
mendacity''-that there were thirty
amendments to be offered by the finance
committee; that the bill had never been
considered by the committee, and that it
was not the bill that would be finally
presented for action. There had been,
Mr. Turpie went on, denials Of Mr.. Aid
rich's statements by four senators
He (Mr. Turpie) believed the greater
number, and disbelieved the lesser
number, or rather the lesser unit the
diminutive unit, which asserted the con-
trary. Who, he asked, was the father
and author of all these reports with ref
erence to these factionsl Who claimed
the paternity of them2 The honorable
senator from Rhode Island was equal to
such paternity. That senator might
claim the fatherhood of many more such
fables, such tictions, such falsehoods.
ALDRICH VERY MEEK.
The only notice Mr.. Aldrich took of
this bitter attack upon him was a qLiet
remark that he did not suppose the sena-
tor from Indiana represented anybody
but himself; and that under other cir
cumstances and other conditions that SEN
atsr would not have made the speech he
had just made
Mr.. Quay then took the floor and deliv-
cred the third instalment OF his speech
against the tariff bill, assisted by Mr..
Gallinger in the reading of the statistics.
He was asked by Mr.. Mitchell, rep. of
Oregon, at o'clock p. m, whether he
would conclude to-day, and replied that
he would not.
Mr. Mitchell thereupon moved to ad-
journ, and the motion was voted down
yeas 10; nays 33.
Mir. Quay went on for a few minutes
longer and then yielded for motion to 90
INTO executive session. On that motion
there was no quorum voting The roll
was called and 40 senator's, more than a
quorum responded Then the question
of going into executive session was voted
on again, with a similar result as before.
and for half an hour there were altern-
alive roll calls and votes by yeas and
nays.
Finally Mr.. Harris, tired of this fruit
less waste of time, agreed to move an ad-
journment. He gave notice, however,
that if the Senate should be left without
a quorum again he would move that the
sergeant-at-arms be directed to compel
the attendance of the absentees and Mr..
Cockrell, chairman Of the committee on
appropriations, said he would introduce d
resolution directing the sergeant-at-arms
to put in force the provision of law for
deductions from the salaries of absent
senator's
Finally at :55 o'clock the Senate ad-
journed till noon tomorrow, that hour
being fixed TO allow senators to attend
the funeral of the wife of Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama.
The tariff bill occupied nearly seven
hours of the time of the Senate to-day.
TO BE PASSED IN FIFTEEN DAYS.