New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-25
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MR.. HILL TO THE RESCUE.
HE DEFENDS HIS CLIENT" THE PRESL
DENT FOR WRITING THE WILL
SON LETTER.


INTERFERENCE. HE SAYS THEY SHOULD
NOT HAVE CONSULTED Mr. CLEVELAND
CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP-AN
OLD PARALLEL RECALLED.
rsY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBrxht
Washington July A-Interest in to-days com.
paratively brief and unexcitng session OF tho
Senase centred In the reply. half-serious. half
malevolent. attempted by Mr.. Hill TO Mr.. Cor
mans savage and whitening attack Of yesterday
upon the President Mr. Hill alone among the
Democratic leaders Of the Senate can contem-
plate the intestine warfare now raging In the
party with undisturbed serenity, and In the situa-
ton resulting from President Cleveland's ill-con-
sidered assault upon the Senate he has already
found such solid personal satisfaction that ne can
scarcely refrain from expressing at every oppor-
tunity the exhiaration he plainly feels at having
been lifted at one stroke from political isolation
to political popularity by the undersigned blunders
Of his former party rival.
The sprghtlness and jauntiness OF Mr.. Hiirs
oratorical manner since accident and fortune
have thrust upon him the role Of haf-en,husi-
astic half-jocose anu ironcal defender in the
Senate of Mr.. Clevelands interpretations OF
democratic principle" have been most marked.
and his patronizing assumption OF a protective
guardianship Of what he styles his clients IN
terests and policies can scarcely be less gaming
TO the occupant OF the White House tnan ME-
Germans bitter and outspoken taunts OF per-
hdy"
USING HIS OPPORTUNITY.
Mr. Hps speech to-day fell somewhat Short
naturally. In biting sarcasm and sardonic humor
OF the mark reached in his extraordinarily 'isor-
Gus and effective deliverance last FRIDAY but
that the possibilities Of the role OF lago' WHICH
Mr. German yesterday partly described MI fi'a
as fulfilling toward the head of the Admlnistra-
;lon. have not yet been exhausted was demoh-
stra,ed ,,-day by the many new touches OF grim
and mordant irony given TO his professed apology
for Mr. Clevelands course In arraigning the per-
1dy" OF Democratic Senator's and In the exc
tremely clever shifting Of characters ana epitheI3
by which he pinned upon Mr. German ana h''
fellov-promoters and defenders OF the Senate
compromise" the names and ostensioy the mo-
t,ves Of the Senatorial conspirators who assassi-
mated Caesar.
Mr.. Hilrs most serious argument In reply to
Mr. Germans structures the President ror IN
tervening irregularly between the two houses 70
affect tariff legislation conveyed the two-edged
rehuI,e that the managers Of the Senate bill nad
renaatadly and as they thought successfully.
,mnortuned Mr. Cleveland TO indorse the legisla-
ton which they were preparing. and were there
fore in no position 70 cry out when the Presidehts
Intervention was exercised, but In an unexpected
and hostile way. Why had not the Indignantly
virtuous Senatorial managers kept away rom
the White House? Mr. Hi blandly asked UT
why, after appearing to secure Executive ap-
proval and Endorsement for their own measuro'
should they appeal for sympathy on hndins thein-
selves "buncoed." and that approval ana IN
dorsement diverted Internationally 10 the House
bill? Mr. Cleveand's duplicity might be as nein-
Gus and aggravated as 1t had been descrioe1
But Mr. German and his associates, MI. mn un-
feeIingy !ntilnated had simply been burned Do
cause they were themselves playing with hre'
The New-York Senator's efforts to demon
s,rate the soundness OF President Clevelands
dogma that free coal and free iron ore are IN
dispensable prerequisites in any scheme OF Demo-
cratic tariff reform were rather perfunctory'
though Mr. Hill did what he could IN Ms
clients" interest 70 parry the fatal blow deaiI
Yesterday at this gratuitous assumption by MI.
German
MR. HILLS PARTING STROKE.
When put TO the tes: himself by the Maryland
Senator's searching inquiry whether he would
vo,o for the Wilson bill as II stood, with free coal
aud free iron ore Mr. Hill smilingly evaded the
issue q nd declined 70 commit himself. His parting
stroke at Mr. German and his associates was
conceded by all who enjoyed II 10 be one or the
1a, ,oio,,ous ,urns IN repartee ever heard in
C.oro,ress,onaI debate. Mr.. German had COM
,arad rho New-York mischief maker to Iago, the
horo,s NJ of the Moor Of Venice Mr.
,,m da,,aa fu,thor into Shakespeare and fitted
w. co.r,or and his allies Of the Finance
~ ~, ,haracters Of the Senatorial COM
-. l.. 81, inns C,aslr'': Mr. German the
,,,.,,.,. ~ossius" who thinks too
, 3. 49,, o. Io,garous Mr. Vest as the en-
,, cco q" NJ Jones as Brutus. Mr.. Noor-
h,os 40 rrsl.,nius and NJ Harris Climber
h,so an, o,d nointed characterzati0ns Of the
pros,d.n,.s opnonents caught al once the fancy
-, .h ,ouerias and Mr. HITS speech closed py