The record-union., 1894-04-10

ductions of duties therein. / am ready
to waive all minor reference of details
which do not involve a question OF prin-
ciples.
mir. President. this is an important
crisis in the history of the Democratic
party. The failure of the tariff revision
means the defeat OF the Democratic po-
stion. if not The revision and annihila-
ton Of our party. Moreover it means
injury to the best interests of our coun-
try. Let those who insist on injecting
into this bill this odious and undemo-
cratic principle of an income tax pause
and reflect upon the possible conse-
Quences of their demands.
They should realize it means the loss
of the control of this Senate, now nearly
equally divided between the two great
parties; it means the loss of the next
House or Representatives; it means the
loss of the electoral votes of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and probably
every Northern State, and finally it means
the loss OF the next Presidency and all it
implies.
They should consider whether there is
anything about an income tax SO sacred.
so desirable, so popular, so just and so
detenSibie that its maintenance is worth
the risk which they are precIpitating.
Let them remember 1860 and the ultra de-
mandS then made upon the Democratic
party to which 1t could not honOrably
accede-demands which led to our diVi-
sion and de.eat; let them remember the
triumphs OF our opponents, the civil war
that followed, the devastation, the suffer-
ing, the humiliation, the force bills
which threatened, and all the incidents OF
the terrible years which darkened our
party'S and oar country'S history from
1850 TO 1884, when, through wiser coun-
sells, moderate action and restored conf
Il 1r,fV tn1 ,.tirb
again; and, rejecting upon all these feel
| ings, let them say whether 1t is the part
of wisdom, by the insistence upon eX-
treme demands, to imperil the success of
our party again and thereby tend to re-
tard the progress, diminish the glory and
endanger the best and highest interests Of
our common country"
At 4:25 p. NJ. Senator Hill concluded
his speech. which was greeted by q burst
of applause.
Mr. Harris then demanded the full
reading OF the bill. The question was
debated at some length, and was becOm
ing somewhat tresOme when Senator
Henderson moved that the Senate ad
| journ., The yeas and nays were de-
manded, and the Senate refused to ad-
jonrn.
The Republicans continued to occupy
the clerks with the rulings of citations
! for an hour and ten minutes, when Mr..
| Hale moved to go into executive session,
! and on yea and nay vote, the Repub-
| licans, with two exceptions, refraining
| from voting, and in voting no quorum
! being present, the roll was called, when
! fifty Senators answered to their names. A
quorum being shown to be present, the
question recurred on motion of Senator
| Hale 10 go into executive session. Pend
| ing this colloquy took place between
| Mr.. Harris aud Mr.. Aldrich in which
each sharply criticised the other. The
! yeas and nays were again called on MIR.
| tale'S motion, and the absence of a vot-
| ing quorum being again shown, a call of
| the Senate was again ordered. Fifty Sena-
tors having answered to the roll-call, the
question again recurred on Mr.. Hale's
! motion, and the absence of voting
quorum being again shown, call of the
Senate was ordered. Fifty Senators hav-
! ing answered to the roll-call, the question
! again required on Mr.. Hale's' motion.
| The yeas and nays disclosed no quorum
| voting, whereupon Mr.. Quay moved an
! adjournment
The yeas and nays on this question
were called for by the Republicans, and
the Senate refusing to adjourn Mr.. Harris
said that under the rules it was not in
order to instruct the Sergeant-at-Arms to
request the presence Of the absent Sen
ators while the roll call showed the pres
ence of u quorum, and he moved at 6:l5
/ that the Senate adjourn.
The motion was agreed to and the
Senate adjourned until II o'clock to-
morrow.