Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-09
IN THE SENATE.
Hale Gels the Laugh on Palmer Of Illinois il,
the Tariff pebase.

WASHINGTON, May IN the Senate
the tariff bill was taken up, and Hoar spok,
against 1t. Gray ssit that every attempt t,
approach the mOnstrous aggregation Of
folly and greed known as the NJ kinney law
iad been met on every side by th.se who
raised clatter against the fort Of thu
people to come to their own again. Corpo
rate gre-d, private avsrice, all bred b,
years OF high protec IN Of the worst f. ell
'ngs OF humanity, were arrayed In a solo
phalanx against even the most moderate al,
tempt to ameliorste the conci,ions of hiyl
protection which had, at length, eliminate q
In widespread ruin and want What the ad
vDcatss Of prote ction ola med for themseiye,
the ministers of illeness and rapine wer.
claiming for themseives They were claim.
ing that the national Leglsl ,ture should b.,
cure-all for all evils ADD they should have
the assistance of Congressional action &c
SUPP ment The d fl iencies of tn, ir OWL
capacity.
Hosr ascribed to Gray "a marvellous
gift Of wrappiog himself in his on virtue
and imputing TO others what he was con.
stantly doing himself" Here was a bill,
Hoar added, dotted and crowded all over
with protection, yet the senators on the
other side who declared the constitution
prohibited such protection, were prepared
to vote for it.
Gray said that he did not propose to vote
for protective duty on sugar and he sup.
posed Hoar understood the difference be.
tween protective duty and revenue duty
Palmer said that he could not avoid n
feeling that the speech of Hosr bad behind
1t the local, selfish interest of his people
regardless of the interests of other people
Such protection as the senat ,r from Ma. 50
chusetts advocated was simply communism.
IL was cry that unless aid is given by law
the indu tries of the country would perish
That was also Coxey ISM
Hale asked Palmer to indicate what bill
1t was that he supposed the people favored
Was il the Wilson bill? Was it the fir.t
draft of the Senate bill? Was it the bi
lDtroduc I'd by Voorhee Was it the bill
championed by Mills, or was it the new bill
just laid before the Srnate-the bill
designated by the senstor fr m VISIONS n
as the sugar trust bill? Nnne of these bills,
Hale added, were alike. The bill reported
ye sterday by Jones was no more like the
bill reported by the senator from Indiana
than the g,vel of the presiding officer was
like an E flat b1gle. daughter There
was no resemblance between them. He IT.
peated The question as to which bill it was
that Palmer supposed the people favored.
Palmer replied that the country disap.
proved of the NcKialpv act and would re-
gard any of the pending bills as preferable
to it.
Morrill,, a mr. mber of the finance commit
tee, ex ore sed himself as desiring to say
something in appreciation Of the Democratic
M j rity of the finance committee. They
had learned something and forgotten somt
thing, he said, from the debates of the last
five weeks, and as they had made
some progress he should ask leave for them
to sit again. If they would postpone rthe
consideration of the tariff bill and pass the
appropriation bills, they might, perhaps, OF
the end of another month, be able to repor
another bill which would pass the S,nate
unanimously. (Laughter.)
Quay delivered the sixth part of hi,
speech against the tariff bill. Gu y, at 2 40.
yielded for motion to procero.to xecu I've
business. The presiding officer laid before
the Senate the New York and New jersey
bridge bill, which was referred " the com
mittee ON CONNIE CO. Fhe Senare went
into executive session and at Go L. M ,ad-
JJurned.