The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-09

WAsuIsGToS, D. G., May s.-There
was promise OF IN electrical display in
the senate when that body met to-day.
The Republicans were active and dis.
posed to ask some embarrassing CUES.
tions concerning the "compromise
amendments" offered to the tariff bill
yesterday.
When tho tariff bill was laid before
the senate Mr.. Hoar took the floor and
spoke in opposition to It. Toward tho
close OF his speech Mr.. Hoar succeeded
in arousing the ire OF Senator GRAY, OF
Delaware. Ho was talking about the
methods used by tho so-called ICON.
scryative" Democratic senator's to So
cure concessions in the form OF higher
duties. and concluded his statement BY
declaring that some senators who would
support tho compromise bill agreed
upon by tho Democratic caucus would
violate the constitution and their
oaths. This statement brought Mr..
Gray to his feet. fIo demanded to
know what the Massachusetts senator
meant by the charge-a charge, he said,
which was unworthy OF Mr.. Hoar.
Mr.. Hoar waved the Delaware sena.
tor aside. He would rofuse to yield to
him, ho said, but Mr.. Gray was not to
be put Of. His cheek was flaming. He
insisted upon an explanation.
HoAR EXPLAINS.
"Very well," said Mr.. Hoar, 'I can.
not be intimidatcd by li.tle bluater,
bu. l will explain. meant to say that
for Democratic senator who sub.
scribed 10 the doctrine OF the Chicago
platform, that q tariff for protection
was robbery, who went to the people
affirming his allegiance to that plat.
form, and who now comes here seeking
and continuing protective duties, I
mean to cay that for such senators
there is no escape from tho logic that
he violates both his senatorial oath
and the constitution"
Senator Gray made an effort to rcply.
but Mr.. Hoar refused to bc interrupted,
wheveupon Mr.. Gray called him to or.
dor and asked ruling upon his point,
that such language as tho Massachusetts
senator had used was unparliamentary.
Mr.. Gallinger, who was in the chair,
ovorruled the point OF order.
Mr.. Gray then could do nothing but
sit down and wait. In few minutes
Mr.. Eoar completed his speech. Mr..
Gray arose. His anger had not sub
sided. This is the sixth week OF the
tariff debate" " he began. III there was
any doubt about the artificial character
fthe edifice Of protection this debate
had suppliedit.
GRAY's FusTIAN.
s"The elimination of McKinleyism
was characterized in this debate by the
wild statements and assertions OF the
advocates OF tho system that had
wrought go much ruin to tho country.
They threw aside all restraints OF speech
and dealt in the rhetoric OF the slums.
They cast their foul aspersions on those
who sought to do their duty to their
country and their party. To-day in the
speech OF the senator from Massachu-
sets tho decorum OF debate had been
violated, but the language no had in
dulged in only showed the straits to
which he had been put"
Mr.. Hoar's temper was seemingly un-
ruiiied when he replied in q few words
to what Mr.. Gray had said. He said
that tho senator from Delaware had
been too severe in his condemnation of
tho Mckinley law when he stood hero
on this floor advocating measure
dotted and crowded all over with pro-
lection. II protection was unconstitu-
tional, protection was unconstitutional
and robbery, and this was a wicked
thing to do, why did he not tell tho
senate the extenuation OF his coursc |?
Why had he put a protective duty on
sugar?
II did not propose to put protective
duty on sugar." calculated Mr.. Gray
from his seat. "Can the senator not
understand the difference between i
protective and revenue duty?"
An audible tittor ran around tho Re-
publican side Of the cham Der at this
retort.
Mr.. Hoar insisted that an attempt to
show that increases in duties were for
revenue purposes and not for protec.
;ion, was IN evasion.
pALMER's PLANT.
When Mr.. Hoar took his scat, Mr..
Palmer Dem, Ills.) felt called upon to
defend himself from several OF tho in
situations in Mr.. Hoar's remarks. As
far as he was concerned he declared n
half loaf was better than no loaf at all.
II he could not get in measure framed
by his Democratic colleagues all he de-
sired, he would take what ho could get.
He then branched off in an ciFor: to
show that Coxeyism is legitimate out.
growth OF the paterualism OF protection.
Those who come to the national legisla-
tuto asking protection. crying help,
help, save US. or We sink, wore CoSey-
ties in reality.
Mr.. Hale inquired sarcastically which
bill 1t was that the senator from Illinois
thought the American people would,ap.
prove? Tho Wilson bill, the first draft
ot tho senate bill, tho bill introduced
BY Mr.. Voorhees,, tho bill at present bo.
lore tho senate under tho management
a Of Mr.. Harris, or tho new bill intro.
anced yesterday. The bill introduced
Yesterday was no more like tho original
OIL than tho gavel OF the President was to
INC keaue fat bugle. From the ground
" II was different. Certainly il it was
ISht 10 pass any ono Of these five bills
prepared by the majority it would have