The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-25

the criticism which could be properly
made of it.
AS to the interviews with the President
as rehearsed yesterday by senators, MIR
Hlu remarked that these senators had
"badgered' the President with their
concessions" and had striven to get
him to support them. They had known
how weak and tame their bill would seem
to the American people if it did not have
the sanction and approval of the demo
cratic President.
WAsHINGTON's FAREWELL ADDRESS.
Abiding to the fact that Senator Cor
man had read yesterday a paragraph of
NaShlngt on's farewell address, MIR. Hill
SAID that that address had been DOTTED
IN VAIN when senator's, instead of relying
on their own reserved rights and acting
on their own Judgement, and taking their
own steps independent of anybody else,
sought the white house, and asking inter-
position of the President of their party
lApplausel 1t came with poor grace
from senators VINO asked suggestions. aid
and help from the President, to turn
round and have read to the Senate Wash
lngtons farewell address-to show that
the President ought not to make any sug-
gestlons pending legislation in the form
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had done"
Then Mr.. Hill alluded to 1.-THE wonder
tul and unusual spectacle which the SEN
ators witnessed yesterday" when CONVEX
Stations with the President were retailed
for the avOwed purpose of placing that
PRESIDENT IN false position before the
Senate and before the country" He was
no defender of the President, ordinarily
de had received no favor at the PreSi-
dents hands. He had his grievances.
He differed with the President on party
politics, and especially as to matters in
his his own state. But he thought that
in this particular it was his duty-and
that he was broad-minded and liberal
enough to defend the President when he
was uniustly attacked. Renewed and
continued applause.
LIKE A COURT OF IMPE ACHMENT.
Coming again to the session of yester-
day he said: Great scenes have taken
place in this chamber for the last half
century and more; great, fierce personal
denunciations have been had encounters
have taken place; great debates have
been heard. Yesterday, with crowded
floors and crowded galleries, we wit
messed the conceded leader on the demo-
cratic side of this chamber, whom l per
sOnaLy respect and honor call witnesses,
one after another, on the question of
what the President had said to them
about the details of the tariff bill A
stranger came into the Senate chamber
yesterday. He looked at the presiding
officer and heard those witnesses called,
and he asked a bystander whether that
was the chief justice of the United States
presiding, and whether this was a court
of Impeachment, trying the President of
the United States. 1t was pertinent in
quiry under the circumS Stances"
CLEVELAND NEVER FAVORED THE BILL.
Again reverting to the Presidents let
ter, Mr.. Hill described it as IAN honest
and manly letter to the chairman of the
committee on ways and means, telling
him of his doubts and his fears in regard
to the bill He had not intended, Mr.. Hill
asserted, to dictate to either branch of
congress. The letter could not be con
strued into dictation. 1t was a sugges-
tion, an expostulation, a warning TO his
party friends not to persist in the Senate
bill.
AS to the interviews with the Presi-
dent, which had been detailed yesterday,
MIR. Hill asserted that there was nothing
in them which ought to lead Senators to
believe that he was irretrievably bound
TO the Senate bill. He Mr.. Hill had
known the President for many years. He
was man who said little in conversation.
conclusions slowly, eliberately, honestly
and sincerely. He permitted his party
friends to disclose their plans and pur
poses And it was certain to his Mr..
Hills mind that the President did not
bind himself to the provisions Of the
Senate bill, and that he did not approve
them.
The senator from Maryland had re-
ferred yesterday TO him Mr. Hill as an
6 RI 10 Lot bof
be so far as 1t applied to the bill in its
present shape The democratic masses
were against it. The President of the
United States was against it, and he Mr..
Hill was, therefore, in pretty good com
pany. Laughter.
Mr.. Hill touched upon that part of Mr..
Germans speech referring to the prom
Uses made in the last campaign TO protect
the interests of the sugar planters of
Louisiana, and said if that were proper
ground for urging the adoption of the
sugar schedule on the Senate bill it
would make the people desire more than
ever the provisions of the House bill
placing sugar on the free list. He be-
iieved that if the duty on sugar was de-
feasible at all, it should be defended on the
principle of its being requisite for reve-
nue..
GROVER DIDN'T ovERREACH THEM.
Coming back again to he interviews of
senators with the President he told them
it was not right for them TO keep running
to the white house seeking instructions;
and he added amid much laughter: II
suggest to my friends that theyitO as l do,
keep away from the white house." The
idea that the President of the United
States had overreached these other
politicians, who had been through
MANY a campaign that he was too sharp
for them, and that they came away with
a different sort of impression from the
ideas which he had, is absurd. And
then. when the President wants to clear
the atmosphere, and tells the democratic
masses Just what the bill is, and what he
wants it TO be, they say that they were
overreached by this ambitious Pres
ident." Laughter.
Coming again to the question of the pro-
posed duties on coal and iron ore, Mr.
hin said that it had been suggested by
MIR. German that there were some great
interests somewhere demanding free coal
and free iron ore. He MIR Hill did not
know where those interests were; and he
presented petition of citizens of Balti-
more asking for free iron ore. He did not
know what interests were seeking for
free coal He had yet to hear any senator
suggest that the President OF the United
States in making these recommendations,
had desired to subserve the interests OF
anv monopoly, or of any individual He
believed that the President had made
.h,.a ~aeorn mend tiOng because they