The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-25
Another Sensational Day i'm the Senate
with the New York Senator the
Conspicuous Figure.
HIS WORDS LACK SINCERITY
Both Jeers and Kisses at Times
from the Spectators.
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, Follows
with Secrets Concerning the
Sugar Schedule.


Sugar Schedule.
WASHINGTON, July 2L-Another dra-
ma tic scene occurred in the Senate to-day,
but President Cleveland, instead of being,
as on yesterday, the object of attack by
the leader of his party, was defended with
vigor and vim. Mr. C1eveland's champion
to-day was his old political rival and en-
emy Senator David Bennett Hill, of New
York. The New York Senator spoke for al
most two hours TO breathless galleries and
a full Senate. Several times the presiding
officer was unable to restrain the erIthusi-
asm his remarks evoked, notably when
Mr.. Hill declared that personal considera-
tions would not prevent him from defend
ing the President when he was unjuStly at
tackled. He defended Mr.. Clevelands let
ter, his right to send it, and the senti-
ment of the contents, and made a strong
point against his adverSaries when he
pointed out that they criticised the Presi-
dent for siding with the House when they
admitted that they had used all their in
fiuence 10 induce him to dnterpOse in be-
half of the Senate amendments to the tar
iff bill. He took up Mr.. Germans argu-
ment and met it, point by point, in a man.
ner satisfactory to himself, at least, and
concluded with piece of satire that stung
those on the floor and tickled the galleries
unmeasurably. Mr.. German yesterday
compared Mr.. Hill to Iago. To-day Mr..
Hill likened those who had joined in the
assault on Mr. Cleveland to the conspira-
tors who stabbed Caesar to death at the
foot of Pompey's statue, in the Roman
the lean and hungry Cassius Mr.. Jones,
Marcus Brutus 1.-The honest Brutus of the
Senate" Mr.. Vest, who struck the first
blow on Friday. as Casca; Mr.. Voorhees,
as Trebonus, ''testy but earnest" and Mr..
Harris as Metellius Climber. They had
struck down the President, Mr. Hill said.
not that they loved Mr. Cleveland less, but
that they loved the Senate compromise
more "And yet" he concluded, each word
ringing out like a hammer on an anvil, Il
say, with Antony, They are all hon
orable''
POLITICAL PRISON HOUSE.
Mr.. Caffery, of Louisiana, who followed
Mr.. Hill with a brief speech, also gave to
the country his share of the secrets of the
political prison house He detailed at length
the manner in which the sugar schedule
made by and in the interest of the Sugar
Trust. He gave way in order to give the
Democrats a chance to caucus. Altogether
it was very exciting day, and the 'indi-
cations are that others as interesting will
follow.
When, at 1928 o'clock, Mr. Harris, the
floor manager of the tariff bill, called up
the conference report almost every seat on
the floor was occupied. Mr.. Hill was on
his feet and was Immediately recognized.
He agreed, he said at the outset, with Mr..
German, that the Democratic party was
in the midst of great crisis The Demo-
cratic party, after such long struggle in
the minority, had at last been intrusted
with power. 1t had gone to work to reclaim
the pledges il had made. The greatest of
those was that to reform the tariff The
House had passed a tariff bill which, aside
from its income tax feature, seemed to
meet with general satisfaction and ap-
proval! As it passed the Senate, however,
after long, weary months of debate, it was
not satisfactory and it violated the pledges
of the party. 1t went to the conference.
The House conferees were confronted with
the fact that the Senate had made the
bill inconsistent; had made it unworthy
of Democratic support. They rejected the
duty on coal and iron ore. They refused
to yield and there was no hope that they
would yield If they insisted their attf-
tude and the Senate was obstinate all pros
pect of tariff legislation was at an end
His CHilIs) motion that the Senate recede
from the coal and iron duties was in the
line of agreement. 1t would do no good
to obstinately adhere TO the position taken
when the bill was passed.
do you any signs of yielding on the
part or the House, he asked. addressing
his Democratic colleagues. Backed by the
public press OF the country. by the Dem
ocratic masses and the President of the
United States, as it undoubtedly is the
House Will never yield. Why not yield
does not lead TO an agreement"
HILL IN SYMPATHY
He was not, he said, talking about Mr.
Vilas's motion to recede from the differ
entail in favor of the Sugar Trust. But
concessions must and should be made if the
bill were TO become a law. Mr. Hill said
he was in sympathy with the Presidents
letter to Chairman Wilson. It's sentiments
were his sentiments. The President vio-
lated no clause of the Constitution when
he sent that letter. He had the right to do
ii. Ii was a private communication. The
question to making il public was one to
be decided by its sender and receiver. II
was one with which Senators had nothing
10 DO. NO Democrat on this floor could
cOntrovert the position taken by MIR Cleve-
land in that letter. He saw that TO place
a duty on coal and iron would be to vio-
late the platform declarations of the party
and would place the party whose success
he desired in a false and indefensible po-
sitiOn. The Democrats of the country were
in sympathy with Mr. Cleveland. The Dem
ocratic clubs and Democratic conventions
all over the country had indOrsed the Will
son bill in respect TO free raw materials.
On the other hand. the Senate bill had
been received everywhere with signs of dis
approval Even in the Senate every Demo
cratic member of the finance committee
had announced himself as personally in fa-
vor OF free coal and free iron ore The
the other hand, with that "frankness and
boldness' which was his nature had boldly
thrown aside the mask yesterday and
had proclaimed himself in favor of tariff
on coal and iron ore.
"A revenue tariff" suggested Mr.. Cor
man, quietly.
"A revenue tariff. as you will" replied
looking Mr.. German straight in the eye he
sad: You did not. like your colleague,
set up the childish defense that YOU had
been 'buncoed' into supporting a duty on
coal and iron"
Mr. Hill then proceeded TO take issue with
Mr. Gorman's arguments OF yesterday that
the President had only recently discovered
the doctrine OF free raw materials lie
carefully quoted from ,he Presidents pub
lie utteranceS TO demonstrate that Mr..
Cleveland had been welded 10 that doctrine
since he had sent his famous tariff mes
sage To Congress in 1857. Neither did Mr..
Hill believe that Mr.. Cleveland could be
held responsible for the unofficial utterances
OF Secretary Carnsle, but. referring To the
official utteranCeS OF the of the