The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-06
THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF.

Senators Hill and German are said 10
have fallen out Did they do ii when
they fell out of the democratic carry
an?-Louisville Courier-Journal (dem).
Senator Walsh refers to the senate as
an august body. Business men are hop
ing that the session of congress won't be
prolonged till then.-Philadelphi Record
(dem).
In case the tariff is the issue in 1896
Mckinley will have no sure thing on the
republican nomination. 1t may go TO
some of the democratic United States
senators.-Washingto Post (dem).
1t is now said that Senator German
was suffering from a severe attack Of in
digestion when he delivered his tariff
grafton. The speech shows internal evil
dence of the fact-Chicago Herald (dem.)
We have now to take what 0arifO re-
lief we can get, but there is a day Of
reckoning ahead for those men who have
made the democratic party untrue to it
self and have basely betrayed the in
terests which the people confided to
them.-Columbia Is. c. State (dem).
All that is needed at this time is pluck
and principle. Mr.. German will be
among the first to come down when the
real tariff-reformers in the senate and
house announce their ultimatum. He is
bold well-nigh to the point of despera-
ton at times. but he knows when he is
whipped.-Charleston News (dem).
One service we trust Mr. Germans
speech will prove to have rendered. II
will serve to show more plainly than ever
both the utter inability of the COM
promisers to give a decent explanation
Of their conduct and their total want
Of support in the democratic party. Mr..
Germans speech has been laughed out of
court.-Baltimore News (dem).
The bill to which Senator Gorman's
name has been attached and which he
says affords all the incidental protection
that is necessary, is not the kind Of bill
the people who elected the democratic
congress expected to have passed, nor
does the bill conform to the Chicago
platform. Senator German knows this,
and his attempt to justify his course by
anything that President Cleveland may
have said is simply an effort to place
responsibility where it does not belong
Wheeling CIV. Va) Register (dem.).
The closer the amended tariff bill is
scrutinized the more obvious the betrayal
Of the democratic party appears. David
T. Hill and Edward Murphy, Jr., and
John r. Mcpherson of New Jersey, Ar
Shur p. German of Maryland and Cal
win S. Brice of Ohio, all elected to the
senate by the states they represent as
democrats, have turned traitor to the
party that honored them. and, like Bene-
dict Arnold, sold for a consideration the
principles they professed to revere and
support.-KGnsas City Times (dem).
In it's devotion to special interests the
senate has fixed the duty on tin-plate at
L Is cents per pound-a higher rate than
existed before the Mckinley act. The
authors of the senate bill seem TO re-
gard the tariff of 1888 as a very liberal
measure and TO be quite content to keep
the rates of duty a little above the scale
of that Ubiquitous measure Of protec-
ton. They appear to Ignore the fact that
the democratic tariff reform movement
was originally directed against the act
Of 1888, and its predecessor, and that
the Mckinley act only accelerated a
movement that was already in the full
tide of success. When democrats in 1894
insist upon higher protective duties than
the republicans themselves proposed In
1888. they give the measure Of their
interest in the cause of tariff REFORM
Philadelphia Record (dem).
1t is announced that the state repub-
lican convention in Michigan will NOM
mate. besides state officers. two candi-
dates for the United States senate, one
TO succeed Senator Mcmillan, whose term
will expire next March, and one for the
remainder of the term of the late Sem
ator Stockbridse- Whether the state