The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-24

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 Mr.Gorman asked Mir. Harris whether the president had suggested that the duty on coal or on iron ore was viola ton of democratic principle and that senators who voted for it had been guilty of perfdy.
 Mir. Harris replied with emphasis" No such suggestion has ever been made to me by the president. by any member of the cabinet or by any human being" 
 Mir. German then remarked that he would not now call on Senator Voorhees, to make a statement. as that senator intended to make his own statement be- fore the discussion closed. Continuing. Mir. German said: "This is . most ex- traordinary proceeding for democrat. elected to the highest place in the gov ernment. to join with the commune to traduce the senate of the United States. to blacken the characters of senators who are as honorable as they dare. who are as patriotic as they can be. who have done as much to serve their party as the men who are now the beneflciar- les of your labor and mine-taunt and Jeer us before the country as the advo- cates of trusts. as being guilty of dis honor and perfidy.
 There Is no power, no matter how great, in this countryside president with his patronage-that would keep me silent longer under the imputations so foully made from such distinguished quarters. I hurl back to him and to those who joined in his charges those charges and say that this treatment of their fellows is infamous. It Is destruc- tive to the government that men in high positions should attempt to lower this body, consisting of eighty-eight of states when full. No man can reach here by devious ways and remain here long. It is composed of men who represent the best thoughts of the country, men who have battled for tariff reform when the towards in higher places dared not show their heads. Applause in the galleries.) Men who when another place was over run and they had not the courage to stand and fight a tyrant, stood here at the risk of health, at the risk of for tune, of all that Is dear, and saved the liberties of the country when the cow ards could not be seen. We will not be traduced longer"
 MT. German stated that he who took the responsibility of keeping the Mo- Kinley law upon the statute books in stead of accepting this bill had a terri ble responsibility before his country. He could imagine no man who would do it unless he was consumed with van ity and desired to set his judgment above that of his fellows or desired to keep an issue before the people that he might ride into power, rather than give content and peace and labor and prosperity to his fellow countrymen. He said that Senator Hill had been looked upon as the most active and the most dangerous opponent of the bill. What godsend the letter of MT. Cleve- land had been to that distinguished sen- ator. It was the only comfort he had had out of this administration. Uaugh- ter.
 "The senator is entirely right in the last proposition" MT. Hill said.
 MT. German said: "The bass in the Potomac never went moro swiftly to the hook than the senator from New York did to this letter of the president" He declared that MT. Hill offered motion that the senate recede from the amend ments on coal and iron ore because he thought that if he was successful in changing line of the bill before 1t went back to the conference the bill would be defeated. He would not say that MT. Hill did not believe in free coal and free iron, but the main purpose of that sen ator had been to thwart his party and to prevent the passage of the bill.
 MT. Hill was playing his hand we'll and stirring up'passions. It was the role of Iago, played by man who was not suited to the part. Gaughter)
 MT. German further criticised the presidents interference in the matter. One department of the government. he said, had encroached upon another. He urged every self-respecting member who believed in our form of government to put his condemnation upon the nrst step, which would, If followed, lead to the control of our government by one man. Don't open the door for any man who controls OO,0OO appointments to dictate to either house of congress what they shall do. Let us say that tho liberty of the senate shall not be invaded. though ] thousand hirelings write the senate town and traduce its members.
 MT. German then argued that 1t was not a violation of democratic principle to tax coal and iron ore The Wilson Dill, he said. had in many instances taxed the crudest raw material He showed that it had been the uniform action of democrats from the founda- ion of the government to tax coal and ron ore. The senate bill made the du- les on these commodities lower than democrats had ever made them before he war. MT. German remarked that in
 1884, when President Cleveland was elected "by the grace of God and a great leal of hard work by people whom 1t is not necessary to describe" the plat .orm declared not for free raw mate- 'ials, but for a fair revenue duty. In 1is celebrated message in December,
 1887, to congress recommending a re- vision of the tariff, MT. Cleveland alked of free wool, but said nothing in ,egard to coal, or iron and made no general declaration in regard to free 'aw materials all around. Mir. German 'eferred to the fact that MT. Mills had placed iron and coal on the dutiable ist in the Mills bill, and MT. Mills said 1e was then in the position that the majority of democratic senators were n to-day-in the hands of half a doz- ,n gentlemen. He was not in favor of he duty on coal and iron in the Mills