The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-18
AFRAID OF FARMERS.
Senator Allen Says the Action
of Congress,
Has Incensed the Whole Body
of Agriculturalists.
EVERY MOTHERS son
Will Be Turned Out if Senate
Fiddle Paddles.

When senator Alien began MS InOF64ucuo
in favor of fixing an early day for a vote
on the tariff bill, it was supposed to be
rather an indirect way of making an at
tack upon the Democrats for their delay
A little later it was taken as meaning that
the Populists would support the bill IL the
managers would bring it to q vote in its
present shape On this question of put
ting an early end to the debate the ex-
trenes have met, for Senator Hill, who
is the most strenuous opponent of every
thing of n Populist nature, agrees fully
with Senator Allen, and among the advo-
Gates of some process of closure are men
representing o5her extremes OF political
thought
A Rule For Closure.
, Senator Allen has been saying for some
time that there is no reason under the
rules why the discussion of the bill should
end before the close of this congress, as
there are Republicans enough to continue
the speaking until that time and give each
one about six weeks to prepare a new
speech for each turn. He insists, however.
that the trap thus set is SO open affair,
meaning that it is SO obviously mere
scheme to delay action, that he cannot be-
,1ieve the Democrats will submit to it, His
short speech on his resolution setting
date early in June was listened to with the
closest attention. Indeed no other senator
is more pleasing to the galleries, for his
voice is not only pleasing, but his enuncia-
ton clear and strong that every syllable
can be heard in the reInotest corner, and it
is pleasure to listen to him.
When he made his famous IS hour
speech, he remained in the senate chamber
continuously, q feat of physical endurance
never equaled in ngress nor probably in
any other deliberative body As to adopt
ing a rule for closure, however, the Demo-
Gratis feel that they may soon be in the
minority and want to practice obstructive
tactics. 1t is true, says Senator VOORHEES,,
he Css.,-ir, %o1I Ho &c
spread in vain in the sight of any bird, and
we know just what the net is spread for,
but the rule allowing unlimited debate
has killed more bad laws than good Ones"
Other senators ridicule Mr. Aliens argu-
1nent that committees have no right to
pigeonhole bills, but ought to be required
to report for or against any measure sub
mitted to them. They say that would de-
feat the main object for which committees
exist-namely, to kill bills and prevent
the senate from being bothered with them
In the meantime, If one can trust the gen
eral talk outside, the old time opposition
to senate is springing up again
A Gloomy Picture.
As the month of March drew near its
close there was . universal expression that
the oldest inhabitants had never seen its
like for general Inildness and early spring
beauty. Before April was half passed there
was an equally general and far more en-
phatic expression that it was by far the
worst ever seen, and the days passed
on, and the rain fell and was followed by
snow, and the sleet ratified against the win
dows the gloom outside was more than
equaled by the gloom within the capitol
and especially in the hearts of Democrats
and Populists.
The veto OF the seigniorage bill, the
long delay on the Wilson bill in the SEN
ate, the savage attack on the administra-
ton by Senator Hill, the successful fill
clustering by the minority in the house
and dozen other causes of discourage
ment, followed by the municipal elections
sweeping away nearly all tine Democratic
strongholds, reduced all but the most hope
full to painful state of depression. 1t is
particularly hard on members from the
exclusively agricultural states of the west,
whose financial interests are now suffer
ing more than their political Said one
such member, speaking to a group in the
gallery:
Il have been noticing things for over 40
years and reading the papers all that time,
and never saw the prospects Of the farm
ers as gloomy as they are right now. In
that part of Ohio from which L went west
the very best farms are selling for less than
they would have brought 40 years ago and
for a great deal less than they were assess
ed at % or 30 years ago For Is years now
there has been an almost continuous de-
cline in farm produce, and after careful
figuring 1 am satisfied it will take about
seven years longer for agriculture to turn
itself. In that time the farmers will get
out of these lines that are so badly over
done and will diversity their crops more
and the population will grow up to the
supply, but it won't do US fellows any
good If that (expletive) senate fiddle fad
dies along till August, the farmers will
turn every mothers son of US out, and the |
majority in the northern states |
Will be 600, 600. Saltpeter won't save u.s.
II that bill is made into law as late as |
the Mckinley bill was, the Republicans |
Will carry every northern state and Della |
ware, Maryland, West Virginia and North |
Carolina besides You hear mes''
One Kind of Consolation.
At first hearing such talk excites smile, /
but it is the opinion of many besides the !
speaker and men not given to gloomy |
views either Mr.. Hatch, whose whole /
soul is wrapped up in the idea of doing
something to help the farmers, freely con-
,edes that a failure to act speedily will be
disastrous alike to his party and the coun-
Try, but he takes care to add that this /
overthrow viii be followed by worse legis-
alton and consoles himself that things /
will soon be 50 desperately bad as to force
a sort of fiscal and financial revolution
How very great the pressure from the
outside has become within a few days may
De judged from the fact that senators here
,ofore extremely reticent have taken pains
% state their position on the Wilson bill
aI0 Tic eACl4O-- u 41e-AADCAS OL Jlo mouse IN
what the senators from their
tate ought to do and must do have a pain
nj resem blance to those resolutions passed
1y some state delegations during the John
ON impeachment trial, threatening sena-
ors with political destruction if they Ibid !
lot vote right Senator Morgan went SO
ar as to rise to a personal explanation and
o declare that he would vote for the bill |
md it is stated by members that other SEN
Lt0rs who thought it rather undignified to
notice outside denunciations have private
y assured their state delegations that they