The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-05-11
flR. GRAY'S IRE ROUSED
Insists on Senator Hoar Making
an Explanation.
he REFUSED TO BE INTERRUPTED

The Trouble Arose Over the Compromise
| Amendments to the Tariff BiII-Opposi-
ton TO TayIOr's Northumberland
/ sionaI Investigation of Coxey-Niob-ara
Bridge Bib Approved.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-There was a
promise Of an electrical display in the
senate when that body met Tuesday.
The Republicans were active and dis
posed to ask some embarrassing ques-
lions concerning the compromise
amendments offered to the tariff bill.
Mr.. Quay demanded the presence of a
quorum before the journal was read.
Some routine business interviewed. The
credentials of Senator-elect Gear of
Iowa were presented by Mr.. Allison.
Mr.. Hoar questioned the form of the GER
tificate.
A certificate of the speaker of the
Iowa house and the president of the
Iowa senate, Mr.. Wilson, whom Mr..
| Gear is to succeed, stated that the certifi-
in Iowa. Mr.. Allison suggested that the
certificate lie on the table. There was
plenty of time, he said, between now
and March next to examine it.
AT 1880 Mr.. Harris, in charge of the
tariff bill, abruptly moved to proceed
with the consideration of that bill. Mr..
Hear took the floor.
Senator Gray's Ire Aroused.
Toward the close of his speech Mr..
Hoar succeeded in arousing the ire of
Senator Gray. He was talking about
the methods used by the socalled ''con-
sentative Democratic senators to Sc
cure concessions in the form of higher
| duties and included his statement by de-
Glazing Democratic senators who would
support tie compromise bill agreed upon
bp the Democratic caucus would violate
the constitution and their oaths. This
statement brought Mr.. Gray to his feet.
He demanded to know what the Massa-
chusetts senator meant by such charge
"a Charge, he said, which was I'M
worthy of Mr. Hoar. Mr.. Hoar waved
the Delaware senator aside. He would
refuse to yield to him, he said. Mr..
Gray was not to be put off. His cheek
was famed. He insisted upon an ex-
PLANTATION.
every WE'LL said Mr.. Hoar 81 cam
not be intimidated by little buster
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Democrat who subscribed to the doctrine
of The Chicago platform, that a tariff
fer protection was robbery, who went to
the people affirming his allegiance to
that platform, and who now comes here
seeking and obtaining protective duties,
mean to say that for such a senator
there is no escape from the logic that he
violates both his senatorial oath and the
constitution.
Hoar Refused to Be Interrupted.
Senator Gray made an effort to reply,
but Mr.. Hoar refused to be interrupted,
whereupon Mr.. Gray called him to order
and asked ruling upon this point that
such language as the Massachusetts SEN
ator had used was unparliamentary.
Mr. Gallinger, who was in the chair,
overruled the point of order. Mr.. Gray
could do nothing then but sit down. In
a few minutes MIR. Hoar concluded his
speech.
Mr. Gray arose. His anger had not
subsidized. This was the sixth week of
the tariff debate, he began. If there was
any doubt about the artificial character
of the edifce of protection this debate
had supplied it. Every attempt to APP
DTOdCh Ju6 luOlobIOuo otSS5S4O9dOAOA "a
folly and greed known as the Mckinley
bill had been met by those who raised
clamor about the interests Of the people
and by the greed of corporations. The
elimination of McKinleyfsm was char
acterized in this debate by the wild
statements and assertions of the advo-
Gates of the system that had wrought so
much ruin to the country. They threw
aside all restraints of spies and dealt in
the rhetoric of the slums. They cast
their foul aspersions on those who sought
to do their duty to the country and their
party. In the speech of the senator from
Massachusetts the decorum of debate
had been violated, but the language he
had INDUCED only showed the straits to
which he had been put.
Too Severe on the Mckinley Law.
Mr.. Hoars temper was seemingly I'M
ruffled when he replied, in few words,
to what Mr.. Gray had said. He said the
senator from Delaware had been too Sc
we're in his condemnation of the McKin-
ley law and he stood here on this floor
advocating a measure dotted and crowned
all over with protection. If protection
was demonstrations and robbery, this
was a wicked thing to do.
why did he not tell the senate in ex-
tenuation of his course why he had put
protective duty on SUGAR. calculated
Mr. Gray from his seat.
sCan the senator not understand the
difference between protective and a
revenue dutyY
At this retort, the Republicans Uttered.
hIr. Hoar insisted that an attempt to
show that increases in duties were for
revenue purposes and not for protection
was simply an evasion When Mr.. Hoar
took his seat, Mr. Palmer IIls.) felt
called upon to defend himself from sew
eral of the insinuations in Mr.. Hears
remarks He said, as far as he was con-
cerned, a half a loaf was better than no
loaf at all IF he could not get IN
measure, framed by his Democratic col
leagues, all he desired, he would take
what he could get.
Senator AIorrH Cracks y Joke.
The discussion was closed by the ven
cradle senator from Vermont. Mr. Nor
I'll. When the author of the old war
tariff, white haired and bent with age,
arose IN his place, smile was playing