Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-01
AID RICH ATTACKED


 SENATOR AID RICH ATTACKED
 The Senator From Indiana Charge Him With Putting Forward Gros
 Lies, but only . quiet Remark Wa
 she RePly made to It.
 WASHINGTON, April 80.-The senate wal
 again enlivened this morning by little
 "scene." Mir. Wolcott, rep, of Colorado
 put the question categorically to Mir. liar.
 ris, dem, of Tennessee, representing the
 finance committee, whether the bill now
 before the fenate was really the bill to be
 acted upon, or whether there were not in
 reserve such notifications of it as would
 render useless all present action on the
 bill as 1t stood.
 MT. Harris repeated virtually what he had said lset Saturday, that he was ready to compromise conflicting opinions, and
 was striving to make notifications where there was an absolute necessity. He could not tell, and no senator could tell, what form amendments would take.
 l MT. Teller, rep, of Colorado, asked Mr. Harris whether he expected amendments of radical character to be offered, e the public was told. Mir. Harris said he could | not answer as to their radical character. He did not know to what extent such changes rested on newspaper speculation | and newspaper absurdities. MT. Teller said he was prepared to join in pushing the bill to nasty conclusion whenever the senate was authoritatively | informed that the bill before 1t was one which the majority of the finance commit tee decided upon and expected to psss. On motion of MT. Harris the bill was taken up and then a motion was made by MT. Quay, rep., of Pennsylvania to lay the tariff bill aside and to take up bill for a bridge across the Monongahela river at PIttsburg. That motion was voted down, 36 to IS, and Mir. Quay gave notice that he wonld renew the motion every day.
 Then MT. Aldrioh produced an interview with Secretary Carlisle, and re asserted that some 300 amendments were in print and were to be offered to the pending bill. This statement was declared by the chair man of the finance committee MT. Voor- hees) to be untrue. He admitted that there were amendmnnts in contemplation, but the statement of the secretary was merely conjectural ss to wha. might possi- bly, be done.
 MT. Aldrich repeated his statement and said that the proposed amendment would change completely the character of the pending measure. MT. Mills characterized the movements of the republicans as pyrotechnic display f:om the enemy for the amusement of the groundlings and those in the pit.
 The discussion took another turn by Mir. Voorhees, chairman of the finance com mittee. taking exceptions to the statement made last Saturday by MT. Sherman to the effect that the tariff bill had never been considered in the finance committee. MT. Voorhees, presented the record of the com- kl-k I,s Il der consideration of the full committee for twelve days-or ten days emitting Sun days-and added that amendments had been offered by Senators Sherman and Morrill, and had been voted on-one of 1 MT. Sherman's amendments having been agreed to.
 MT. Sherman, while admitting MT. Voor- hees' statement, insisted that what he had | said on Saturday was substantially true. The majority of the committee had fixed up the bill and no effort of the minority or been considered in committee, ss tariff l bills were always considered section by eec- ton, with opportunity to exchange opin- l ions.
 Mir. Harris, dem. of Tennessee, remarked satiIically, that the minority members of | the committee had not been permitted to | shape the bill.
 1uht le MI bhlu mr. Su6Imhu.
 "Of course 1t is right" MT. Harris ex- | claimed, emphaticslly.
 At the close of some remarks by MT. | Voorhees,, he declared emphstioslly that | whatever might be floating in the air, the I income tsx would stay in the bill; and that | he had made all the concessions to trusts | and to great protected industries that he | should make. He had gone to the limit.
 MT. Hswlsy, rep, of Connecticut, re- Co k<~. hao 4v,alo ohar aNar raft thah saying that 1t had been matured substan- tislly by three gentlemen from west of the | Mississippi. He did not know that any of | them had travelled extensively through | Pennsylvania, New York or New England | so as to understand the social and econom- icsl grounds that there existed. The bill | had been made by men who did not know their own country. If they had elements of a com mon humanity, to say nothing of generosity. they could not do some of the | things which they proposed to do.
 During a colloquy between MT. Palmer and MT. Chandler, MT. Harris broke in and said the republican side of the cham. ber wanted to know what tariff bill would | be voted on. They would know that when | the pending amendment as to the date of | the bill to go into effect was disposed of | and they would not know 1t before that. I MT. Chandler inquiring of MT. Harris
  making remarks which he had kept bot | tied since last Wednesday and was told that the obstacle was the fact that the floor had been held for the last two weeks.
 At this point MT. Turpie, dem. of h. diana, rose and in voice quivering with passion attacked MT. Aldrich, charging him with having put forward thres lies, grose, ,palpable, three lies base. three lies of | fnconoeivsble mendacity-"viz. that there | were 300 amendments to be offered, that the bill had never been offered by the com mittee and that 1t was not the bill which would be finally presented for action"
 There had been, MT. Turpie went on, de. nials of MT. Aldrich's statements by four senators. He (rurpie) believed the greater number and disbelieved the dimlnutive which asserted the contrary. Who, he asked, claimed the paternity of all these reports with reference to these fctionsa The senator from Rhode leland was equal to such paternity. That senator might fables, such Actions, such fslsehoode.
 Then (working in the Jekyll-Hyde idea and recalling MT. Aldrich's position on the Mckinley bilD Mir. Turpis referred to MT. Aldrich's predecessor in the senate (mesn- ing Mir. Aldrich himself) ss not being SO rash as the present senator. That prede- cessor, he said, was perhaps @ man more prudent, more cautious. At least that predecessor might have consented to be | the father of one of those enormous un- l truths, but the triplet would have driven him from the field. That predecessor was young man, younger than the present senator, we'll versed-from his services as retail grocer's apprentice in the fiscal schemes of the government. The preds- cessor had an enormous development of cheek. It spread from the cheek, on both sides, clear down to the feet. What then, he continued, would be thought of his successor, @ man found without chips or cheek when there was an attempt made to call him the other day. As to the aurieu- lar appendsge of the predecessor of the senator from Rhode Island they would
 scrape the dome of the capitol. In conclu-
 sion MT. Turpie said:
 'I.st me aek the senator from Rhode Isl-
 and when he assumes the paternity of
 these whether be will attempt to rival his
 predecessor. Will he rival him in men,
 dscitya It is utterly vain to try 1t. Will
 he attempt to rival him in that hatred of
 the truth and that love of fslsshood which
 has always chsrscteria d the champions
 and the cheats of protectionp
 The only notice which Mr. Aldrich took
 of this bitter attack upon him was quiet
 remark that he did not suppose that the