St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-24
AN UNbR0KEN FRONT
Presented in the Senate Yes
terday by Democrats.
ER. TELLER MOVES TO TABLE
The Tariff Bill Without Fur
thep Debate.
HILL AND G0RKAE IN LIVE,
Likewise All Other Democrats
ana Three Populists.
6GREAN'S KERY ST2GKG SPEECH
HILL AND G0RKaE IN LINE,
GGRRARS YERY STRGNG SPEECH

WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Cor
mans speech was the feature OF the
days session. Mr. German and Mr..
Brice have been credited by the oppo-
SItion with the Joint authorship OF the
compromise amendments which conSol-
idated the Democratic side, and MIR.
German especially has been subjected
to much criticism both in and out OF tile
senate. This speech today. replying in
measure to the attacks that had been
made upon him, explaining the neces-
Sity for the compromise and defining
the theory upon which the modified bill,
now before the senate. was constructed,
attracted intense interest. 1t was re-
garded as an exceedingly able eXposi-
tion of the position of the conservatives.
Mr.. Gorman'S speech furnished the
texts for the Republicans for the re-
mainder of the day. His statement that
a majority of the senate would support
the bill was put to the test by Mr.. Teller,
whose purpose was 10 "smoke out' any
latent opposition on the Democratic
side. Mr.. Germans statement was JUS
tilted by the vote, however, as the Colo
RADIO senator's motion to lay the tariff
bill on the table was met by all un-
broken Democratic front. Both Sena
tor Nill. of New York, and Senator
IrbY, whose positions have been the
subject OF gossip from time to time,
voted with their Democratic aSSocl ateS,
as did
THE THREE PoPULIsTs,
Including Mi. fetfer.
The rates fixed today were as follows:
Railway bars, "I'' rails, etc, 7-2U of a
cent per pound; black Iaggers, between
tell and twenty wire gauge 40 of one
cent per pound; between twenty and
twenty-five wire guage $40. thinner
than twenty-five, Ito cent; iron and
steel plates coated with zine or other
metals. except tin Or terne plates,4 cent
more than rates in preceding para
graph. Sheet iron or steel, polished, Ia
cent per pound.
Announcement that Senator German
would speak today upon the tariff had
the effect OF bringing out larger at
tendance than usual. Senator Kyle
introduced a resolution DECLARING for
nou-intervention in Hawaiian affairs,
wulch went over until tomorrow, and
then the tariff bill was taken up. Sen
ators Jones and Piatt discussed the "T''
rail- amendment for time, after which
Senator German, pale from his recent
illness, took the floor. He spoke slowly
and in low tone. lie relearsed the
difficulties that had confronted the
Democratic party in dealing with the
question of tariff reform. The diff
Guilty was not all in the opposition.
but in internal dissension as
TO how the fruits of victory should be
secured. Withal he claimed that action
by the present congress had not been
unusually delayed. 1t was the last of
September beTore the president signed
the Mckinley bill. and this is only May.
THE WILSON BILL,
he said, had been reported to the house
before its effect upon existing indus tries
could be properly studied an imperfect
measure that not only failed to meet the
treasury demands, but actually in
creased the deficit created by the Re-
publican prohibitive duties. There was
no expectation that it would become a
law unchanged. The senate had al
ways perfected such bills. Yet no
sooner did the finance committee begin
its work than the cry for action" was
renewed with extraordinary vigor. and
the Democratic senators were Informed
that any change would he set down as
HhntrovaI nf tho OartvsS ,,,I
that every senator who showed the
least concern for the interests of his
own state was traitor to the Union
and his party;' that the senate was no
longer coordinate boiy, but its sole
duty was to ratify blindly the action of
of the house.
Said Mr.. German: "It would be idle,
MI. President, TO dwell upon the mani
fest absurditieS of this outgrowth of
that the demand for prompt action
seriously impaired the efficiency of the
finance committees work, and became
so strong that revision was hastily com.
pleted and the bill was reported to the
senate. l ventured the assertion in the
course of
THE SILVER DEBATE
that nowhere was the truth of the old
adage, The greater haste, the less
speed better eXemplifed than in legis-
lation. So it proved then, and so it is
now.
ii do not propose to discuss the mer.
its or dement's of either the original
Wilson bill or the measure first reported
by the finance committee. 1t is suffi-
cient to say that there never has been a
moment when either could command a
majority of the votes in this chamber.
We might deplore such a condition, and
others might, and did rail against these
In a measure responsible for it. But
the fact remained that We could not
pass the BILL"
''Such was the situation the Demo-
cratic senators had to meet, and they
have met it by the Introduction of a
which merits and, believe, will receive
every Democratic vote in this body.
endorsement of Democratic house, the
the signature of Democratic president
and the approval OF the Democratic
party"
In answer to the charges by the Re-
publicans, Mr.. German asserted tia,
the bill had been constructed on the
Democratic theory of tariff for revenue,
with such incidental protection as could
be given consistently to the industries
of the country. 1t followed strictly the
course marked out by President Cleye.