The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-09
GOADED By MIR. HOAR
Democratic Senators Angered by
the Massachusetts, Statesman.
Their Ire Aroused by a Speech Full of
Patent Facts Regarding the COmprO-
mise and Other Tariff Bills.
MIR. GRAY CUT TO THE QUICK
General Palmer Also Offended by
the Republicans Charges.
Status of the Agreement as to Further
Debate-COmments of Senator'S
and Representatives.

promise of an electrical display in the Sem
ate when that body met to-day. The Re-
publicans were active and disposed to ask
some embarrassing questions concerning the
compromise amendments offered to the
tariff bill yesterday.
Mr. Quay demanded the presence Of a
quorum before the journal was read. Some
routine business then intervened. The Gre
dentials of Senator-elect Gear, Of Iowa,
were presented by Mr.. Allison Mr.. Hoar
questioned the form OF the certificate and
said a certificate of the Speaker Of the
Iowa House and the President OF the Iowa
Senate was not sufficient Mr.. Wilson,
whom Mr.. Gear is to succeed. stated that
the certificate was in the form usually en-
ployed in Iowa. Mr.. Allison suggested that
the certificate lie the table. There was
plenty of time, he said, between now and
March next to examine IL.
At IL 80 Mr.. Harris, in charge of the tariff
bill, abruptly moved to proceed with the
consideration of that bill. The resolution
offered by Mr.. Allen yesterday looking to
the appointment Of special committee to
investigate the alleged police clubbing on
the steps of the Capitol on the occasion
Of the Coxey demonstration went over until
tomorrow.
When the tariff bill was laid before the
Senate MIR. Hoar took the floor. After
asserting that the people meant that the
Senate should respond only TO their delib-
crate will, Senator Hoar said it was to-day
asked to enact into law a spasm that the
people have got over. The hasty action
and excitement OF the fall OF 1892, OF which
the American people were repentlng In sack
cloth and ashes, was to take effect in the
infinite mischief and misery of great act
OF legislation The Senators were TO hurry
and get the work done before the people
could get at them. This Democratic ma
jor.ty of two, said the Senator, made by
the Junior Senator from North Dakota and
the junior Senator from Kansas, expected
to compel the American people 10 submit TO
condemned and which they loathe and hate,
as they tell us on every occasion and IN
every form in which they can utter their
will. Idle factories, extinguished furnaces,
suffering homes. armies OF tramps, unprece-
dented majorites at the polls are ,clamoring
in the deaf ears OF this accidental majority
in the Senate to wait and pause until the
will Of the American people can again find
its constitutional expression.
BORN OF AN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
"This BILL" Senator Hoar continued, 'is
founded upon no principle and has no legiti-
mate parentage. 1t is born OF an unnatural
union between two hatreds-that of sec
ton against section and that of class
against class" The present bill was not a
free-trade measure, said the Senator Ie
contained clauses in the highest degree
protective, inserted for the undsguised
purpose of buying votes. 1t was not pro-
tectionist measure either moderate ex-
treme. There was not scrap Of good
hearted Americanism in the bill There
is" Mr. Hoar said, "a large majority or
Democratic Senators this floor who avow
the doctrine that duties for protection are
a gross violation of the Constitution itself.
And yet they bring to us "a bill crowded
with protective duties and tell US that they
arg rad IN
TO be accomplices in this revolution because
they think their measure, taken as whole,
they think this revolution and perjury are
necessary TO buy votes for a measure that
cannot otherwise be passed"
In concluding his remarks the Senator
said that two great disturbing causes
threatened the peace of the Republic and
exposed us 10 the danger Of great social
disorders. One of these was the acquisition
in few hands of vast Accommodations OF
wealth by dishonest or questionable prac-
tices, and the other the wicked and un-
scrupulous appeal TO the preJudices and
passions of large masses of people by po-
litical leaders for political Influence, spread
ing abroad throughout the country false
hoods which made the people dissatisfied
with their own institutions and their own
laws. The Senator argued that there are
four things which come from competition,
namely, high wages, national Independence,
varied employment and a stmulant of in
ventive faculty. Upon high wages depend
ed constant Improvement in manufacturing
processes, which increased production and
diminished cost 1t was said that you cam
not interfere with the natural laws OF in
dustry and trade, but Mr.. Hoar contended
that all the progress of human life rested
upon such interference.
Toward the close of his speech Mr.: Hoar
succeeded in arousing the ire OF Senator
Gray. He was talking about the methods
used by so-called conservative Demo-
cratic Senators to secure concessions in the
form of higher duties and concluded his
statement by declaring that Democratic
Senators who would support the compro-
\ b. h..
caucus would violate the Constitution and
their oaths. This statement brought Mr..
Gray to his feet. He demanded TO know
what the Massachusetts, Senator meant by
such a charge-a charge, he said, which
was unworthy OF Mr.. Hoar.
GRAY'S CHEEK AFLAME
Mr.. Hoar waved the Delaware Senator
aside. He would refuse to yield to him.
he said. But Mr.. Gray not to be put
off. His cheek was fiaming he insisted
upon an explanation. every WELL" said Mr.
4oar, 'I cannot be intimidated by a little
buster. But / will explain. 1 meant to say
that for a Democratic Senator who sub
scribed to the doctrine OF the Chicago plat
form that tariff for protection was rob-
berry, who went to the people affirming his
allegiance TO that platform and who now
comes here seeking and obtaining protec-
tive duties-I mean TO say that for such
Senator there Is no escape from the logic
and the Constitution"
Senator Gray made an effort to reply, but
Mr. Hoar refused TO be interrupted where
upon Mr.. Gray called him to order and
asked a ruling upon his point that such lam
ellage as the Massachusetts Senator had
used was unparliamentary. Mr. Gallinger,
who was in the chair, overruled the point
of order. Mr.. Gray then could do nothing
but sit down and wait. In a few minutes
Mr. Hosr completed his speech. Mr.. Gray
arose. His anger had not subsided. This
was the sixth week of the tariff debate
he began IL there any doubt about
the artificial character OF the edifce OF pro-
lection this debate had supplied IL. Every
attempt TO approach the monstrous aggre-
CATION OF folly and greed known as the
Mckinley bill had been met by those who
raised a clamor about the interests Of the
people and by the greed of corporations.
The elimination OF McI<inleyism was char
acterized in this debate by the wild state
ments and assertions OF the advocates of
the system that had wrought much
ruin TO the country. They threw aside all
restraints of speeches. and dealt ia the
rhetoric of the siums. They cast their foul
aspersions on those who sought 10 do their
duty TO their country and their party. To-
day. in the speech of the Senator from
Massachusetts,, the decorum OF debate had
been violated. but the language he had in
dulged in only showed the straits TO which
he had been put.
Mr. Hoarg temper was seemingly un-