Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-25
NO HARMONY IN CAUCUS
Democratic Senators Carry the Fight Behind Closed Doors.
MIR. HILL ANSWERS MIR. GoRMAN.

He Defends the Presidsnts Letter, Urging
 Concessions to the House Committee.
 Another Attempt at Harmony win He
 Made Today-viIas Sticks to His Motion.
 WASHINGTON, July 25.-Another dra matic scene occurred in the senate but President Cleveland, instead of being the object of attack by the leader of his par ty, was defended with vigor and vim. Mir Cleveland's champion was his old politi cal rival and enemy, Senator David Ben. nett Hill of Now York
 The Now York senator spoke for almost two hours to breathlcss galleries and a full senate.
 Several times the presiding officer was unable to restrain the enthusiasm his re marks evoked, notably when Mir. Hill de clared that personal considerations would not prevent him from defending the prcsi- dent when he was unjustly attacked.
 Hc defended MT. Clcveland's letter, his right to send it and the sentiments 1t con tained, and made a strong point against his advcrsarcs when he pointed out that they criticised the president for siding with tho house when they admitted that they had used all their influence to induce him to intcrposo in behalf of the senat amendments to the tariff bill.
 He took up Mir. Germans argument and met it point by point in manner satisfactory to himself at least, and he concluded with n piece of satire that stun2 those on the floor and ticklcd the galleries unmeasurably.
 German n Cassius.
 Mir. German had compared Mir. Hill to Iago. Mr Hill likcned those who had joined in the assault on Mir. Cleveland to the conspirators who stabbed Cgrsar to death at the foot of Pompcy's statue in the Roman senate Mir. German he char actcrizcd as the lean and hungry CasIius; MT. Jones, Marcus Brutus, the honest Brutus of the senate; Mir. Vest, who struck the first blow on Friday. as Casca; | Mir. NoOrhecs us Trebonius, 'tcsty, but earnest" and MT. Harris as Mctallus | Climber.
 They had struck down tho president, MT. Hill said, not that they loved Mir. | ClcS cland less, but that they loved the senate compromise morc. And yet, !" he | cOncludCtl-apd each word rang out like | q hammer on an anvil-'I can say, with Anthony. they arc all honorable men. !" Mir. Hill said he was in sympathy with the presidents letter to Chairman Wilson. ] Its sentiments were his sentiments. Tho president violated no clause of the consti- | tuition when he sent that letter. He had | the right to do it. It was private com municntion. The question as to making 1t public was one to be decided by its | sender and rccciver It was ono with l which senators hGc nothing to do. | In neTrnzc of the Letter. | No Democrat on this floor could contro- | vert the position taken by Mir. Cleveland | in that letter. He saw that to place duty l on coal and iron would bc to violate tho platform declarations of the party and would place the party, whose success he desired, in a false and indcfcnsiblc posi- tion. The Democrats of tho country were in sympathy with Mir. Cleveland. Dem ocratic clubs and Democratic conventions all over the country had indorsed the Will son bill in respect to frcc raw materials. | On the other hand. tho senate bill had been received everywhere with signs of disapproval.
 Even in tho senate every Democratic | member of the finance committee had an nounccd himself personally in favor of free coal and frrr iron The senator from Maryland tMr. Gnrmanl. on the other hand with that frankncss and hullncSs' v | which was his natIIrc, had boldly thrown aside the mask yesterday and had pro | claimed himself in favor of n tariff on coal and iron.
 "A revenue tariff" suggested Mir Cor man quietly.
 "A revenue tariff. as you will, ," replied MT. Hill, but nevertheless tariff You," continued Mir. Hill, looking Mir German straight in the eye, did not, like your colleagues, set up the childish de- fense that you had been bunkocd into sup porting n duty on coal and from
 Mir. Hill thcn proceeded to take issue with MT. Germans argument that the president had only recently discovered the doctrine of free raw materials. He careful ly quoted from the presidents public ut teranccs to demonstrate that Mir Cleve- land has been welded to that doctrine since he sent his famous tariff message to congress in 1887. Neither did Mir. Hill believe that Mir. Cleveland could be held responsible for the unofficial utteranceS of Secretary Carlisle; but, referring to the official uttvranc,,s of tho secretary of the . treasury, Inc pointed out that, until this present question arose, both Mir. Clcvc land and Mir. Carlisle were consistent and in harmony.
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