The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-21

senate for not supporting his amend
ments. I decline to take instructions
| from him.
Mr.. Hill-Does the senator mean to
say that 1 have endeavored to instruct
! him?
Looked. Into His Eyes
This was said with such deliberate
distinction that Mr.. Hill had advanced
| from the back row to within SO short
| a distance of Mr.. Gray that there was
anticipated a close and bitter war of
words.
Mr.. Gray gazed into the eyes of the
senator from New York a second time,
and said:
Il do not want any personal contro-
versy with the senator from New York
The Democrats of the, Senate know,
and | know the senator from New
York had taken every occasion to tell
the Democratic senators what they
should do. and how they should pro-
coed in the matter of proceeding with
| this bill"
Mr.. Hill asked Mr. Gray to say what
he had said in the Democratic confer
ence referred to, but Mr.. Gray rotor
ted he would not be led into the i'm
propriety of disclosing what took place
there.
Mr.. Gray, continuing, said that the
New York senator had no authority to
a
which point Mr.. Hill interrupted him
to say that he had not endeavored to
instruct the Democratic senators nor
TO reflect upon any member of the
Senate, but, he added, that if in .pur-
suing what he conceived to be pro-
per course in the Senate, he had. re-.
hected upon anyone, he could not help
/ it, and he supposed it was because of
such reflection that the Democratic
senator was SnllirrniDp now
Mr.. Pugh sought to ask question,
but Mr.. Hill declined to hear it,
whereupon Mr.. Pugh remarked that
he had hoped to end the controversy
by such a question.
You might open it," Mr.. Hill re-
marked, as he took his seat.
The Lion and the. lamb.
Mr. Vest took the floor when Mr.. Hill
was seated. After the speech from the
senator from New York, he began: 1t
was a subject of congratu!ation that
Mr.. Hill and the president had at last
found platform on which both could
stand. The lion and the lamb had at
last lain down together, and were led
as little child by the ways and means
committee. He left to the other side
which was the lion and which was the
lamb. The senator from New York had
SAID that free raw materials was a,
cardinal principle of Democracy. The
president went further, and declared
that failure TO place raw materials on
the free list was Democratic perf1dy
and dishonor
why did not the senator from New
York vote for free wool?' he asked.
Il did not vote on several motions
when the bill was in committee" re-
piled Mr.. Hill. but 1 distinctly voted
for free vol in the Senate"
IF my. very soul was thrilling and
pulsating for free raw materials re-
torted Mr.. Vest, sarca stically, at the
peril of my life 1 should have been on
dinal principle of the Democracy
Mr. Vest said the letter of acceptance
of President Cleveland in 49, pronounc-
led in favor of freer raw materials. Yet
now he denounced freer raw materials
as perfidy and dishonest.
In scathing lines, he arraigned the
president He had been his second, he
had defended him on the floor of the
Senate when his friends could have
been counted on the fingers of one hand
Where did the president get the right
to dictate to congress? To denounce
one branch of congress to the other?
Did he emboy in his single being all
the Democracy? all the tariff reform
sentiment in this country?
The Party Bigger Than the President
''Mr. Cleveland is a big man, but the
Democratic party is greater than any
man 1t had survived Jefferson, Madi-
son, Jackson. it would survive Grover
Cleveland. Under what clause Of the
constitution did Mr.. Cleveland get the
right, after a bill had been sent to full
and free conference between the two
houses, to make an appeal to his party
friends to stand by his individual
views?
Mrs Madison had said in her mem
oirs that the capitol had been placed
at ,one end of the avenue and the
White House at the other to prevent
the president from exercising an undue
influence on the legislative branch of
the government. If the president could
send letters here to his friends to stand
firm, he had the right to send his cabi-
net ministers here to coerce members
in Congress; he had a right to do as he
had done during the fight over the re-
peal of the Sherman law-punish re-
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