The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-09
WHERE ARE THEY AT !?
Democrats Asked to Explain Some
Tariff Contradictions.
SENATOR HOAR THE PRINCIPAL
SPEAKER YESTERDAY.

MIR, Hale Enumerated the Various Bills So
Far Reported and MIR. Morrill, Suggest
ed Time for Another One-Messrs
Gray and Palmer Tried to Answer for
the Democrats and then MIR. Quay
Fired Off Chapter six of His Serial
Speech.
Washington, May S.--Senator Hoar of
Massach usetts, delivered today his antic-
ipated speech in opposition to the Will
son bill. The Senate is asked, he said,
to enact into law a spasm that the peo-
pie have got over. 1t is to be controlled
and guided by delusion from which the
people have recovered. The hasty action
and excitement of the fall of 1892, Of
which the American people are repent
ing in sack cloth and ashes, is to take
effect In the infinite mischief and misery
of great act of legislation. This bill. is
funded upon no principle and has no
legitimate parentage. 1t is born of an
unnatural union between two hatreds
thatof section against section, and that
Of. class against class. The passion born
OF the Rebellion, which never has for
given the Union for it's victories, COM
bines with the passion of idleness and
ignorance against honest labor and hon
est gain and honest property.
Ii Is not Democratic measure, whether
Democracy is to be found in the resolu-
tions OF its platform or in the teachings
OF it's sages of old. Wherever the present
administration does an act identified
with measure, either in diplomacy or
legislation, it is in the interest of the
foreigner and against it's own people.
This bill should be styled the IMAM
erlcan bill. 1t is un-American in princi-
Gle, un-American in general, una meri-
an in deJail, un-Amercan purpose, and
una merican in effect.
Protective duties are violation of the
Constitution, and specific duties are
A DEVICE OF SATAN,
| and 10, here is specific duty amount
ing to go per cent ad valorem for the
protection of uncleaned rice. This is the
highest protective bill ever heard of, the
| grossest violation of the Constitution
ever thought Off the Democratic prin-
| ciples be sound. 1t is distinguished from
| Republican measures by this essential
difference: The Republican tariffs are
| designed for the protection of American
| industries, while Democratic tariffs are
| drafted for the protection of Democratic
Senators. The Republican tariff is meant
| to secure happy homes to millions OF
| American Workmen, the Democratic tar
| iii to save the seats OF half a dozen
| Democrats. The wisdom of the Repub-
| lican policies is vindieated by the re-
| turns of the census. L he wisdom of the
| Democratic policies will be tested when
1 the election returns come in. r.
| This bill is the contrivanceof sectional.
ism. 1t is the product OF hatred. 1t
| violates every sound principle of legis.
| lation. 1t violates every sount method
OF legislative proceedings. No COM
mittee of the Senate has approved it.
No committee of the Senate will ever ap.
prove it. No committee of the Senate
will ever be permitted to discuss it. Nc
| committee will ever be permitted Il
vote according to it's convictions on any
OF it's important provisions. 1t will pass.
it it pass at all, by the votes of the men
| who disbelieve in it. 1t will pass, if i,
pass at all, after the country has put the
stamp of its dfsappro baton upon it, Il
will pass, if il pass at all, by the votes
of the men whose
STATES REPUDIATE THEIR AC
1t will pass, If it pass at all, by thu
votes of men who,ss according to theil
own avowal, compromise importan
principles and violate, in so doing, no
only their Judgment, but their owl
construction of the constitution itself
The men who make this coinpromis,
make no compromise with the majority
of the American people. The deferenc,
1. = Al,x- "a nak III L
not extend to the business interests d
the country. to it's manufactures, to it,
commerce, to it's skilled labor, or tt
it's earners of wages.
MIR. Gray said every attempt to an
proach the monstroUs aggregation O.
folly and greed known as the Mckinley
law, had been met on every side by thos,
who made clater against the efforts O.
the people to come to their own again.
...-Mr. Hoar ascribed to Mr.. Gray a mar
vellous gift of wrapping himself up ii
his own virtue and imputing to Others
what he was constantly doing himself
Here.was bill, Mr.. Hoar added, dotted
and crowded all over with protection
yet the Senators on the other side wht
declared that the constitution prohibited
such protection, were prepared to vot,
for it.
Mr.. Gray said he did not propose t,
vote for the protective duty on sugar
He supposed Mr.. Hoar understood tn,
difference between pro ective duty ant
revenue duty.
MIR. Palmer, Democrat, of Illinois, sal,
Il he could not avoid feeling that tn
y speech of M. Hoar had behind it the 10
cal, selfish interest of his people, regard
less of the interests of other people. Sue
protection as the Senaor from Massachu
sets advocated was simply communism
1t was the cry that unless aid was Civ
en- by law the industries of the countr
would perish. That was also Coxeyism
Nj. Hale, Republican, of Maine, aske,
; Mr.. Palmer to indicate what bill it wa
he supposed the people favored. Was i
the Wilson bill? Was it the first draf
of the Senate bill? Was it the bill in
PRODUCED by Mr.. Mills? Was it the ney
. bill just laid before the Senate? Was j
tn bill designated by the Senator fror
Wisconsin
AS THE SUGAR TRUST BILL?
, None of these bills, Mr.. Hale added
were alike. The bill reported yesterda
By Mr.. Jones Of Arkansas was no Emor
like the bill reported by the Senate
from Indiana than the gavel of the pre-
siding officer was like an E fat buglt
(Laughter).