Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-27


and Hypocrisy in Attacking the SenR-
tors.---"NIem who Set High Standards
should Come TO us with Clean Hands"
party perfdy and party dishonOr"
were charged against the Democrats of the
Senate by President Cleveland in his letter
to Representative Wilson which was read
in the House the 18th and fully reported in
The Phoenix of last week That the Presi
dent consented to this 'perfdy and dis
honor and that he was afterward guilty of
duplicity and hypocrisy was shown by
Senator German of Maryland, who on
Monday hurled the most scathing inyectiye
which has been aimed at a chief executive
in the Senate chamber for years. Mr..
German corroborated his statements re-
garding the Presidents course by calling
for testimony from other senators, and in
cidentally revealed interesting party secrets.
1t was generally understood that Mr.. Cor
man would throw down the gauntlet to
the President, and long before the Senate
was called to order every available specta-
tors seat was taken. Before entering the
Senate chamber Mr.. German called upon
President Cleveland at the White House,
at the latter's request. What passed be-
tween them is not known. 1t is said that
the President told Mr. German of his great
anxiety to restore harmony within the
party ranks, and requested his assistance
in bringing to a satisfactory conclusion the
tariff fight; that Mr.. German replied that
harmony could only be restored by the
speedy adoption of the Senate amendments
by the conference committee That the
consultation bore no fruit is shown by
Senator Gorman's speech an hour and a
half later.
Early in the afternoon after the transac-
tion of routine business Senator VOORHEES,
called up the conference report on the tar
itf bill. Mr.. German Immediately arose
He hoped he appreciated the gravity of the
situation, he began. There would be ordi
narily no difference of opinion about send
ing the bill to conference where the differ
ences between the two houses could be ad
justed He drew a graphic picture of the
anxiety with which the country awaited
the fate of the BILL the idle factories, the
closed workshops and the unemployed
Further suspense was neither to the bes
interests of the country nor to the Demo
cratic party. In the House there was al
overwhelming Democratic majority. Here
in the Senate the Democrats were at tn,
outset confronted with the fact that Their
were but A Democrats. A bill must b.
framed which would secure the support o
all these senators, all of whose votes saw
one were necessary to pass it. That on
vote was lost.
why Compromise Was Necessary.
No legislative body in this country, MI
German declared, had ever been confronte
with such a condition. The senators frOr
the states of New York, New Jersey, Ohio
West Virginia and Maryland at the Outse
announced that the House bill was 5
radical, so destructive of the interests c
the people that they would not support il
Then in dramatic tones he delivered hi
defiance The infamous calumnies heape
upon the Democrats of the Senate, force
; from his lips, he said, plain, unvarnishe
statement of the facts, which he woul
= make, with malice toward none but
D would look his colleagues and the Amer
can people in the eye and tell the truth
patriotism the Democrats of the Sena
had gone to work to save the country an
e keep their party in power, when sudden
5 in the midst of the struggle came Il
Presidents letter.
9 The ''MOst Extraordinary, Most Unwi
! Communication"
: 1T was the most uncaled forth me
e extraordinary, the most unwise commuI
d cation" said he, in bitter tones, "that ev
e came from President of the United STATE
s 1t placed this body in position where
le members must see to it that the digni
IF and honor of this chamber must be pl
is served
IF Mr.. German then proceeded to detail
" history of the tariff bill after it reached
al Senate, and the manner in which to mt
the objections and secure the support
certain disaftected Democrats the chang
had been agreed upon. He stated empha
cally that during the progress of this VIC
Messrs. Vest and Jones had frequent CT
ferences with Secretary Carlisle and oft,
times with Mr.. Cleveland himself.
IL drew from his desk and had read an int
!
ST. in which the secretary of the treasury g
he the same bill his sweeping Endorsement.
W. The President Knew of Every Amer
m. ment.
N He declared that President Clevela
,e- concurred with Secretary Carlisle, and t
on every prominent amendment was know
ae- both. The bill was a compromise measu
n it was not satisfactory to a single sena
err in all its details, but as a whole it was !
ognized as the best that it was possible
ed pass through the Senate; and it was ne
* suggested by the President or by any Sc
he tors that there was any violation of De
o. cratic principle in what the Democr
raj senators did
'rt- Senators Vest and Jones Show the Pr
dents Double Dealing.
. Mr.. German called upon Senators Y
of Missouri, and Jones of Arkansas to
roborate his statements.
Mr.. Vest said that Secretary Car
had agreed to all of the amendments;
the secretary had seen the President
the President had said to him: 81 am
ing to do or say anything that will pass
bill through Congress"
Senator Jones of the finance comm
told how Secretary Carlisle looked over
schedules with him, and of his reque