Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-08-04
Says the President Has Played
the Senate False.
The Executive Had Agreed to Sup
port the Amended Bill.
The Maryland Senator Calls on Vest ia
Verify His Assertion MlssourIs
Statesman Assents-Gorman De-
ciares That the Limit Has
Been Reached and
Warns the Pres
ident,

1850 Nf@ haPi CAoJ ati
representatives on the loor when Sen.
ator Voorhees,, at 12:92, called up the
conference reports on the tariff bill
aud Senator German, dem, Maryland,
began speaking on the subject. In an
impressive manner the senator told OF
the closed factories and suffering me.
chanics and said if the present sus.
pense should continue it would be
destructive TO the democratic
party, which now controlled
every branch of the government, and
he hoped the situation would be met as
became American enators and as be-
came patriotic citizens, Mr.. German
said the democrats had only "A votes
for the bill. and excepting the distin,
guished enator from New York, Mr.
Hin, who had openly and man,
fully opposed the measure,
there were only 43 democratic
votes 20 be depended on. Senators had
voted for the bill at a sacrifice Of state
interests, almost of princi pic. Never
before had there been such a sacrifice.
When the radical and destructive tariff
bill came from the house it had been
asserted that IL could not be passed bv
the senate with the odious income tax
attached. When the bill went
into conference, although q majority
OF the democratic confcrecs had been
southern men, justice had been done by
them TO every section. TO resent the
calumnies that had been heaped on the
conferees he would give n plain unvar-
nished statement, putting the response
biiity where il belonged. He would say
now, as ne would tell every democratic
senator privately, that no matter at
what sacrifice to state interests, the
paramount duty Of every democrat was
to keep the party in power.
Mr.. German made reference TO Presi-
dent Cleveland's letter to Chairman
Wilson as the most unusual, the most
uuwise letter ever penned by n presi-
dent of the United States. On account
OF this letter he was forced TO talk of
private party matters in public. The
honor Of his fc low senators also made
him make the statement he would
make Speaking of the tariff bill CON
ference, Mr. German said every demo-
cratic senator had been consulted
with a view 10 reconciling their
views. Two of the democratic.leaders
had conferred with the president.
knowing that the bill would not pass
without the hearty cooperation of the
executive branch of the government.
What the the president had said gave
him the right to make the statement.
rs he did at the time, hat the senate
bill would receive the Endorsement of
IA democratic house and "A democratic
president and of the secretary of the
treasury, himself n tariff reformer.
who had seen every amendment that
was proposed or was to be proposed,
knowing the condition that confronted
his party and wanting TO let the coun-
try know how matters stood, published
IA prepared statement on April 80.
1894. This statement was an inter
view with Mr.. Carlisle about the tar
III bill, in which he said that the
bill would be passed without difficulty.
That statement, said Mr.. German. had
probably n wonderful effect, but il did
not stop there. The president was not
ignorant of what the senate proposed
TO do. Forty-three democratic senators
understood and believed this. The
daily papers stated that the
president %concurred with his
secretary of the treasury.
1t was known that he was not salts
fed with the measure. The same could
be said of every democratic senator, for
q compromise measure would not be
satisfactory in every particular to
everybody. Ii was believed that every
an htnat nfEapr nyapu Aapannputta snna-
tor and the president himself was sat
isfed with the compromise bill as the
best that could be had. Mr. German
called on Mr.. Vest, dem, Missouri, TO
verify this broad statement
Amid an intense silensc Mr.. Vest
somewhst hesitatingly arose and told
Vest said Secretary Carlisle had told
him that the greatest calamity
that could happen to the dem-
ocratic party aud to the country
would be the failure 10 pass
the president and Secretary Carlisle
and both had told him that the bill as
proposed to be amended by the addi-
ton Of the 400 Jones amendments
would be perfectly satisfactory
10 them, the president
concluding with these words:
II am willing to do or say anything to
pass this bill through congress-" Il
told Senator Jones'" said Mr.. Vest,
''that If we go into this fight we must
have the president behind us" Mr..
Jones assured him that this was the
case and he Vest gave up his personal
opinions, and for the first time, when
he heard Of the presidents letter to
Chairman Wilson, he learned that the
president VAS against them. Laughter
and applause, which the president pro
tenn, Mr.. Harris, checked.
Mr., German called on Mr.. Harris,
dem, Tennessee, for an explanation
OF his understanding of the presi-
dents policy and Mr.. Harris told
of several interviews he had with
the president. The president, like
every democratic senator was not per-
fectly satisfied with the bill; but he
was in fauor of the senate bill as 4
great improvement owe the existing
law.
German Throws Down the Gauntlet.
Senator German threw down the
gauntlet 10 President Cleveland and
insinuated that the latter was seeking
to blacken the character of senator's.
Men in high places. said Mr.. Cor
man, had sought 10 blacken the
character Of senator's. These men
were guilty of dishonor. .'The limit
Of endurance has been reached" said
he. This is no one-man power gov
ernment. The president with all his
patronage cannot keep me silent
longer" He hurled this at the presi-
dent, he said, and ut those
who chirpped as he talked
that their insinuations were infam-
Gus. 1t was destructive to the country
that men of high position should seek
to tlacken those who battled for their
rights when towards in high places
dared not show their heads. lSubdued
applause.
Mr.. German hal read (by Mr.. Cock
rclD "a statement of Secretary Crlisle,
furnished to the United Press and
published in the Washington Post
of April 30. favoring the
aassage Of a compromise measure.
That Interview, or abatement, Mr.. Cor
man said. had a wonderful effect. IL
had softened the hard places, and
when democratic senators same 10 con-