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created breach between the house
and the senate that will hardly be
healed over during the present adj
ministration. Mr.. German in his
speech Monday in dramatic tones,
said:
The infamous caIumnies heaped
upon the democrats of the senate
forced from his lips, he said, a plain,
unvarnished statement of the facts.
He would make 1t, he said, with mall
ice towards none, but he would look
his colleagues and the American pe0-
pie In the eye and tell the truth. In
patriotism, the democrats of the sem
ate had gone to work to save the coun-
try and keep their party in power,
Wnen suddenly in the midst of the
struggle came the presidents letter.
st was the most uncalled for, the
most extraordinary, the most unwise
communication said he In bitter
tones, that ever came from presi-
dent of the United States. 1t placed
this body in position where its men,
bers must see to it that the dignity
and honor of this chamber must be
preserved. 1t places me,n continued
Mr.. German, "in position where /
must tell the story as it occurred. The
limit of endurance has been reached
He then proceeded to detail the his
tory of the tariff bill after it reached
the senate, and the manner in which,
to meet the objections and secure the
support of certain dissatisfied demo-
Gratis, the changes in the house bill
had been agreed upon. He stated,
emphatically, that during the progress
of this work, Messrs. Vest and Jones
had frequently conferred with Secre-
tary Carlisle and oftentimes with Mr..
Cleveland himself.
No material sacrifice of principle
was made. The result was, as he had
declared on a previous occasion, a
democratic measure which, in his
opinion, leaned toward the radical
tariff reform sentiment, and which,
he thought, would receive the support
of a democratic house, senate and
president. He believed then, as he
believes now, that he had authority
for that statement. He charged di-
rectly that every one of the senate
amendments had been seen by Secre-
talY Carlisle and scanned by him be-
fore they were agreed upon.
He drew from his desk and read an
interview with Secretary Carlisle on
April 80, in which the secretary of the
treasury gave the senate bill his
sweeping Endorsement. That inter-
view, said Mr.. German, had softened
the hard places for those who were
trying to harmonic differences. 1t
did much to aid the democrats of the
senate in getting together. He did
not believe that the democrats would
ever have gotten together had it not
been for that interview.
The secretary of the treasury neces-
sarily spoke in great measure for the
president in matters relatingto his de-
partment. On the morning following
the publication of that interview, the
papers announced that the president
was in entire accord with his great
secretary of the treasury. If that was
not true, then the forty-three demo-
cratic senators on this side of the
chamber had been misled.
AS compromise Mr.. German as
serted that the bill as completed was
satisfactory to not a single solitary
human being in all its details. But,
as whole, the structure presented, as
scanned by the secretary of the treas
ury and the president, and as looked
at by us, was acceptable as the best
bill that could be passed. There was
no suggestion anywhere, either from
the president or the treasury, that the
bill as modified was violation of
democratic principle.
With dramatic emphasis Mr.. Cor
man called upon Messrs. Vest, Jones
and Voorhees, to bear testimony as to
whether his statements had varied a
hairs breadth from the truth.
sLet the people have the TRUTH
said he as he paused.
Then these gentlemen, each in turn
in bated breath and dramatic gesture
confirmed what Mr.. German said.
There was never a moce intensely in
teresting and dramatic picture wit
messed in the senate. The following
will indicate something of the thrill
ing nature of the testimony of these
distinguished witnesses:
"Mr. Jones, in your interviews with
the PRESIDENT asked Mr.. Villas,
were the subjects of coal or iron ever
mentionedY,
Eyes, replied Mr.. Jones with ex-
plosive vehemence, lat every CONVEX
sation between the president and my
self, coal and iron were specifically
mentioned"
Senator German next summoned
Senator Harris as witness, who stat
ed that in conversation with Mr..
Cleveland he (Harris) had been led
to conclude that the president favored
the passage of the compromise senate
bill, not because he approved, but be-
cause it was the best that could be
secured.
Mr.. German here resumed with one
of the most sensational references of
the day to President Cleveland. The
senator spoke of the deep regret that
he was compelled to ask the public
testimony of these senators, but the
time had come to speak. The limit of
endurance had been reached. The
senate had been traduced. An at
tempt hadbeen made to s'try to gibbet
it before the country
These charges had been nfoully
made from such distinguished
sources that they must be met and
refuted. The charges were made by
men who "chirped when he talked
The senators who had been sum-
moned had fought for tariff reform
when towards in high places would
not show their heads.n Mr. German
said he could conceive no reason for
the remarkable action that had been
taken unless, perhaps, the one res
ponsible for 1t was consumed by a
vanity to have the country regard
him as the author of all that was right
in tariff reform. As Mr.. German
made each reference to the president,
there was commotion in the gall
leries, which compelled the presiding
officer to interpose constantly against
further demonstrations.
He spoke of the president In COM
pIimentary terms. He had always
had the highest respect for him. He
had worked for him in 1884 as he had
never worked for any other man.
81 walked with him through the
slime and filth of his first camnaiOn u