The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-04-25
THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.


Twenty-Five out of twenty-scven chair
men OF democratic state committees IN
| terviewed warmly denounce Senator Hill
/ for his attitude OF hostility 10 the party
program.-Springfield Republican Ond.l.
An apology is due Governor Hogg Of
| Texas. whose name was connected sew
| eral weeks ago with that of Senator
! Hill on the proposed presidential ticket
| The governor has our regrets for the
| publication and We trust he viii waive
! his claim for damages.-St. Louis Re-
public (dem.).
In his Buffalo speech last November
| Senator Hill spoke of those who have
| been fatteninC of governmental favor
! itism'' Some of the persons thus de-
scribed have been sending kilograms ana
| letters 10 the senator heartily congrat-
ulating him upon his speech.-Buf1alo,
| y. y. Courier (dem9-
The house has supplied itself with
new time-saving. quoruHl-counting rule
The place. however. where new rules are
| most needed is the senate. Despite all
! the filibustering of the republicans. the
| house has managed to transact its busi-
! ness with reasonable dispatch. and has
! kept months ahead of the senate.-LouiS-
| vile Courier-Journal (dem-)-
Too much time is wasted in the senate
| with so-called set speeches and thus
Rome burns while Nero fiddleS. Con-
! gress should not forget that the country
| is still suffering. and the early settle
ment Of the tariff question is absolutely
necessary TO the revival of business. Let
/ us have an end, therefore, TO this ever
/ lasting business Of set speeches.-Cincin-
! natl Commercial Gazette (rep).
A democratic county convention on sat
! urday gave expression 70 the unhappiness
| Of Indiana democrats in general by pass
| ing a resolution not only denouncing
/ Hill for his protectionist swing. but CEN
mo- Nafr1
| ical on the free trade side. If any demo-
| cratic politician sUppOses that his party
| has been preaching tariff reform for
| nothing all these years, he is sadly mis-
taken.-Spring1ield Republican dnd)-
Mr.. David Bennett Hin has come from
behind the fence and given the country
/ a chance 10 look at him. 1t finds him
| lined up with the Mckinley Instructors
] Of prosperity. Even yet his inveterate
/ habit of evasion prevents him from conf
| uniting himself to the definite assertion
| that he will not vote for the Wilson bill
/ on the final test, but from anybody else
| a speech 50 Indignantly hostile as his
would necessarily be followed by hos
| tile vOte.-San Francisco Examiner
| (dem).
1t is incumbent upon the Missouri
| democracy 20 tell without single
| equivoca ton what fl approves and dis
| approves in the tariff bill. IN Cleveland's
| administration. in the currency We find
| available for the business OF the people
| and in the conduct of parties during the
| congressional sessions Of the past year.
| We are not called upon To unearth novel
| phrases or doctrines. Our task Is 10
| see that words are weighed and opinions
| digested until the Missouri platform eN-
| presses what Missouri thinks and viii
] still think when the day comes 10 cast
| vOtes.-St. Louis Republic (dem-).
There viii be something Of a breeze
| in the senate when Senator White lays
| before tina body the resolutions adopted
| by a mass meeting Of California demo-
| Gratis in which they declare that 1.-The
| recent utterances Of Senator Hill are
| traitorous in their purpose. false IN their
] assumptions. absurd in their logic and
! excite the indignation and derlsion OF
! the democracy Of California tt may
be noted in this connection that the
! Samoset club Of Omaha. the leading
J democratic organization of Nebraska,
| adopted resolutions Monday night de-
nouncing Senator Hill as "a traitor Who
| having hitherto skulled behind the
| watchword L am a democrat has dealt
| a treacherOus blow at the vitals Of his
| party at the time of its greatest peril
N. Y. World (dem.).
Mr.. David s. Hill is quite dead in the
| South as a presidential possibility. But
| we are not sure il II because the people
| of the South think he has gone back on
/ silver They are not thoroughly per-
| suaded that that IS a fact; nor IS MS
/ loss of consideration there due to antiCi-
/ nation of what his position on the tariff
| will be- Mr. Hill has played out at the
! South because he has been found out
| to be a machine politician, and nothing
| more. The South has her own machine
! politicians. and they manage 10 swim
! along smoothly enough for a time. but
| they are always found out after "A while.
and then the people of the South throw
! them aside, as they have done Mr.. Hill
| The machine politician always plays ont
at the South when he is found out, and
| that is the reason the South has had
| enough of Mr. Hill.-Richmond Times
! (dem).
! The views OF Senator Lindsay OF Ken
| lucky which viii be found in an inter
| view with A reporter of the Times in an
| other column. are reassuring as to the
/ tariff bill. He is confident that no demo-
! cratic senator will finally vote against
! 81. that the bill will pass the senate sub
| stantiallv in its present form; that in
| the conference committee sugar will not
be placed again on the free list. and ne
! expects that the income tax viii be in
the bill when it becomes a law. He is
not so reassuring in his opinion as 10 the
| time that will be consumed. thinking
| that the senate will not reach vote
| before June /. This, ii seems 10 ms,
| depends wholly on the Vigor and judg-
ment with which the bill is pressed. IL
/ its friends would consent 10 forego tbs
| pleasure Of discussing it, leave its foes
| to do the talking, and be on hand faith
! fully to vote. we believe that the bill
! could go to conference by the first week
in May.-N. Y. Times (dem).