Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-24

crets, opened the door to party caucuSeS and flashed his seachlight into the dark corners of party history. The president was assailel with kecnness and vigor by the leader of his party on the floor of the senate.
 He defended the senate tariff bill and its preparation, and charged in terms that both MT. Carlisle and Mir. Cleveland were not only aware of tho concessions made in that bill to procure its passage through the senate but that MT. Carlisle had been consulted au every step, and that MT. Cleveland had sanctioned all that was done.
 German at His Best.
 Mir. German is a cool, easy talkcr, but he gives his tone and gesture dramatic effect that thrills the auditor. He was at his best One by one he called Senators Jones, Vest and Harris as witnesses to the truth of his statements.
 Then, having froed himself from all TO- straint, he told the inside history of the confercncc over tho tariff bill. He ovcn went back and told the secrets of the Mills bill and the St. Louis and Chicago plat forms and the demands made upon the national Democratic committee by the | sugar senators in 1892. His personal attack on tho president | was full of the most sensational charac | tcrizations. He told how he had dared, | when other men faltcTed. to walk with | Cleveland through the filth and slime of the campaign of 1SS4;" how Inc and his | colleagues had fought for tariff when towards in high places would not show | their heads; how Mr. Cleveland had | tried to "gihbet the senate before the eyes | of the country and said that his action | must be attributed to consuming van | ity''-an action that was echoed by those who "chirped when thoy talked" His references to the president crratod such commotion in tho galleries, some times of approval and sometimes of disap- proval, that the presiding officer was obliged to repeatedly caution thcm to pre- | servo better order. He was listened to | with rapt attention throughout his speech, a deep feeling of excitement being printed | on every face.
 Among those who listened most ear nestly was Sir Julian Paunccfote, the Brit ish minister, who was in the diplomatic gallery.
 In conclusion MT. German practically warned his colleagues that on the mate rial points IL must bc the senate bill or no bill.
 l MT. White of California was the only other speaker of the day. While personal- ly in favor of free coal and frcc iron orc, he, too. declared it to be the part of pa. triotism for the Democrats to stand to gether for tho senate bill. After he con cludcd the senate adjourned, with the sit uatinn seemingly in as chaotic state a: ever.
 MT. Gorman's Speech.
 After the expiration of the preliminary routine business. senator Daniel W. Noor hees (Dem., Ind. called up the conference report on the tariff bill. Then the storm broke Mir German (Dcm., Md. imme.li ately arose. He hoped he appreciated th, gravity of the situation, he began. Or dinarily the situation would be easy O solution. There would ordinarily be nc l difference of opinion about sending tn bill to conference, where the difference between the two houses could be adjusted He drew n graphic picture uf the anXiet, with which the country awaited the fat of the biil-tho idle factories, tho close, workshops and the unemployed ] Further suspense was neither to the bcS interests of tho country nor to the Demo cratic party. He hoped that tho senator , would moot the situation as became pa triotio men and duty bound Democrats It was idle for him, he said, to add any thing to what had been said on Frida last by the senator from New Jersey (Mr Smith). In the house there was an over whelming Democratic majority. Hero fl the senate tho Democrats were at the out set confronted with the fact that ther | were put H DenOcratS
 A bill must be framed which would sc
 cure the support of all these senators. al
 of whose votes save one were necessary t pass it. That ono vote was lost , The senator from New York Mir. Hill , had from tho beginning opposed the bill openly and manfully. The Democrat. faced with such a condition, had gon manfully to work to harmonize tho differ ences and had accomplished it by man sacrificcs-almost at the sacrifice of prir ciple. No legislative body in this couT
 try, he declared, had ever been confront
 ed with such a condition. The report P from the states of New York, New Jcrse!
 Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland at tf , outset announced that tho house bill WI so radical, so destructive of tho intcrcs | of the people, that they would not SUI t port it. He paid high tribute to Sem tors Vest, Jones, Voorhees, and Harris ? those bravo men whose laborious wor ' had at last accomplished tho feat of a justing these differences and had made tl . I passage of any bill possible.
 His Dramatic Defiance.
 Then in dramatic tones he deliver,
 his defiance The infamous calumni
 heaped upon the Democrats of tho sena
 forced from his lips, ho said, plain, u
 varnished statement Of tho facts, which would make, he said, with malice iowa
 none but he would look his colleagu
 and tho American people In the eye al
 tell the truth. In patriotism the Dem
 crats of the senate had gone to work IS save the country and keep their party
 power when suddenly in the midst of t
 struggle came the presidents lettor. Ut was the most uncalled for, the mo
 extraordinary, the most unwise comm
 nication," !" said he in bitter tones, .'th
 ever came from president of the Unit
 States It placed this body in e positi
 where It's members must see to it tn
 tho dignity and honor of this ohamt
 must Do preserved