The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-12
MORGAN AND The TARIFF.
The Senator Answers an Attack Made
in Minnesota.

Offers to Yield More Time to Allow
Other Senators to Go to the Confess
sional if They so Desire.
Washington, April 1.-THE Senate
took up the pending urgent deficiency
bill and discussed it without action upon
any proposition, until ! O'Clock, when the
tariff bill was taken up, Mr.. COckrell
giving notice that after 3 p. m, he would
ask to have the deficiency bill resumed.
Mr.. Hale took the floor, but yielded to
MIR. Morgan. who said that he desired to
make an explanation, or statement, which
might be called personal or political. He
read an extract from an article in New
York evening paper of a recent date, com
menting upon the manifesto of the Min
nesota democracy against certain demo
cratic senators for their supposed opposi
ton to the tariff bill.
That" said MIR Morgan, els the
French method of trying a man in his
absence and without serving copy OF
the indictment upon him. / have the
opportunity now, however, and l think it
my duty to enter a plea of not guilty to
this accusation from Minnesota, which
doubtless, was manufactured here and
sent to Minnesota. / am satisfied with
the bill now before the Senate, as II came
from the finance committee. / propose to
vote for it without any amendment what
ever And if my friends on the other
side want to delay action upon 1t in the
line of filibustering, and If they notify me
of that, / will take occasion to do
rs / have done before-sit up
for several nights consecutively to accom-
modate them. | was tariff reformer be-
fore the gentlemen were born who have
accraH OF 1iutFi no ana1nCt and I
have not, in the least degree, relaxed my
purpose and desire to have in the United
States fair, equitable, just system Of
taxation which shall bear equally on all
persons, so far as / can make 1t do so, and
that shall not contain one single item of
bounty to any person in the country That
is what have to say
HALE WILLING TO YIELD AGAIN.
'If any other senator who is on the
Minnesota list" said Mr.. Hale laughing,
t'desires to state his position on this i'm
portant bill ! will yield with pleasure,
even though it shall consume considerable
time, and be open, probably, to the sug-
gestion that those senators may be fill
clustering. l am not anxious TO go on if
anything of that kind is sought to be
brought before the Senate
Mr.. Jones, dem, of Arkansas-Will the
senator yield to me for morning business2
For a personal eXplanatiOnl' asked
Mr.. Hale, humorOuslY
For morning business" Mr.. Jones re-
peated.
Mr. Harris objected to anything that
would interfere with the tariff bill while
proceeding under the consent rule.
THE senator would not, of course, ex-
clude the confessional" said Mr.. Hale
Exclude what2' MIR. Harris inquired
with a puzzled expression.
THE confessional, MIR. Hale repeated,
''if any senators desired to go to it"
when the senator yielded to the sena-
tor from Alabama it was in the nature of
debate on the tariff bill, and not a viola
ton of the rule" said Mr.. Harris.
Il so considered it" said Mr.. Hale with
laugh, in which he was joined by the re-
publican senator's.
HALE CONTINUES HIS SPEECH.
Mr.. Hale then proceeded with his
speech on the tariff bill and in opposition
to it. In the course of Mr.. Hale's speech
an illusion to Canada walked up some dis
cussion of the question of Canadian an
nexation.
Mr. Gray said that he agreed with the
senator from Maine as to the ACCESSIBILITY
of extending the area of free trade and of
+'abolishing the border"
Mr.. Morrill, said that in case Of annexa-
ton, large amount of the immigration
TO Canada would stay there and consume
all its agricultural products so that there
would be none to cross the border.
In closing up the discussion on that
point, MIR. Hale said: without any con-
dition or reciprocity this bill gives up
every particle of protection which farm
ers and others on this side of the border
now have, for the benefit of the Canadian
farmers; and thereby postpones indehn-
itely any prospect of annexation The
moment that the Canadians get what
fbpU hv a darpncrotf 10 Il,
tariff, that moment the annexation senti-
ment dies out and we may look to
see, as the legitimate result of
this bill, if it passes and if
maintained for the next few
years, the dying out of the annexation
sentiment on the other side; and the
American people will find itself con-
tronted with rival, perhaps hostile all
along our entire northern border. This
In itself is so important a consideration,
that in the broad domain of statesman
ship il ought to be alone a death blow to
this bill Every patriotic impulse of the
American people is aroused against such
policy"
In discussion of the question of duties
on this line Mr.. Hale yielded to Mr. Nc
Pherson, who put long and rather in
volved question to him, the response to
which on the part of Mr. Hale was that
the question contained so much knowl-
edge on subject which the senator knew
nothing about that he (Mr Hale) could
not answer him. Laughter
Mr.. McPherson's retort was that Mr..
,Hale's remarks on the subject were not
worthy of consideration.
Honors being regarded as easy between
the two senators, Mr.. Hale went on with
his speech.
PETER RESUMES HIS SPEECH.
Mr.. Hale finished his speech at 9:15
o'clock, and then MIR. PETER resumed the
speech which he had commenced last
Thursday. He repeated the statement
which he had then made, that the popu-
lists had no tariff plank in their platform.
But they believed in graduated income
tax and regarded it as the most equitable
system of taxation. Personally, he fav-
ored graduated tax on large landed es-
tates.
Mr.. PETER had been speaking about
three-quarters of an hour when the alb
sence of a quorum was called TO the at
tention of the presiding officer by Mr.
Quay, who said that during part of the
speech there were in the chamber one
democratic senator and three republican
senators. When he was reminded that
the suggestion of an absence of a quorum
was violation of the unanimous consent
that the debate should 90 on daily from l
to 5 O'Clock without dilatory motions or
votes he offered to withdraw it, but twas
haIa hot h IL,