The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-18
Congressional Proceedings.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1.-THE time of the
senate was taken up by Mr.. Hale of Maine
| in discussing the tariff bill. In opening.
Mr.. Hale said that for twenty-five years no
tariff bill had aroused so deep feeling or so
strong an opposition among the American
people as the Wilson tariff bill. Among
the reasons for this was the fact that the
people OF the country are being educated by
| observation and experience to a more
thorough understanding of the relation
which all our industries bear to each other
lie was familiar with the tariff plank of the
Chicago convention of 1892 and with the
letter of acceptance of President Cleveland
that followed the convention, but found
himself hopelessly confused in an attempt
to reconcile either of these with the pro-
visions OF the bill, either as passed by the
house or as tinkered and manipulated by
the senate committee. Mr.. Hale went on
TO say that in almost every schedule of the
bill he saw the sectional work of Southern
brigadiers, and declared that Canadian in
terests had been the special care of its franz
ers He declared that he would fight it to
the bitter END, and in closing said "The
oppression of this bill upon the industries
OF Maine is so great that neither / nor NV
colleague will allow it to rest with the pro-
test which | am entering here. So indefen.
slble are these provisions that when differ
ent paragraphs are reached in the bill, we
shall present to the senate in greater detail
the merits of these industries. Whether
party pressure and the feeling that some
bill must be passed or the party be dscred-
tied will finally carry the bill through, no
man can say, but it will be debated and dis
cussed In every paragraph till all its pro-
visions are laid bare, and no man in the
country, whatever may be his party or his
employment, will be left without a full
knowledge of all its defects and enormi-
ties" AT the conclusion of Mr.. Hale's
speech, the senate adjourned Mr. Hale
I'm LOT tod htr tha
can members of the senate. - After a
Drlef session OF ilibustering, the house adj
Journed without transacting any business.
THURsDAY.-ln the senate, the provision
for printing an abstract of the eleventh CEN
sus was striker from the urgent deficiency
Dlll. Mr.. Peifer continued his speech ON
the tariff bill and kept it up till the hour
for adjournment - The committee on
rules introduced a resolution in the house to
fine members $40 for failing to vote on a
call OF the yeas and nays, or for absence
without leave 1t provoked lively discus
sion, which continued until adjournment
Another resolution was adopted revoking
leaves of absence and instructing the SER
geant at arms to telegraph absent members
mat their presence is required at once at
Washington.
FRIDAY.-The tariff debate was resumed
in the senate by Mr.. Mitchell of Oregon.
He declared in his opening sentences that
Judgment, national recognition of one of
the most dangerous political and constitu-
tlonal heresies ever advocated by any po-
lltlcdl party since this government was
founded. lie spoke for three hours, in
which he exposed the cruelty of the bill to
agricultural interests and its blasting effect
on the wool industry. He closed by saying:
" The bill IS sectional in the extreme in its
general makeup, giving protection to the
products and industries of one section and
denying that protection to another. In
word, the pending bill is legislative
monstrosity, with the head of a man, the
arms of dragon, the tail of a fish and the
claws of bear. 1t is un-American, I'M
democratic, un-republican. 1t is danger
GUS menace to the prosperity and general
welfare Of the people of the United States,
and hence II is that the voice OF patriotism,
OF Americanism, of repubicanism, and of
real democracy, demands that it be strangled
In the legislative womb and never be per-
United to be born" - Filibustering for
quorum in the house was continued until
one O'Clock, when an adj journment was
made.
SATURDAY.-Senator Morrill, was con-
graduated by number of senators from
both sides of the chamber on reaching his
eighty-fourth birthday. The urgent de-
hciency bill was passed after discussion of
hfteen minutes, and Mr.. Quay of Pennsyl-
wanna spoke in opposition to the tariff bill
Mr. Morrill, gave notice that he would adj
dress the senate on that question Wednes-
day, April IL - The house was again
without quorum, and was obliged to adj
Jouru without doing any business,
MoNDAY.-Out of respect to the memory
OF Senator Vance of North Carolina, senate
and house adjourned, after the appointment
OF the usual committees to attend the flu
neral and accompany the remains to their
last resting place. Funeral ceremonies
were held in the senate chamber at four
O'Clock in the afternoon.