St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-25
HILL AS A CHAMPION.
Continued From First Page.

Vi Ilr ltcuSuTy u6udIueu TePcuuo
duty OH sugar MIR. German had said
yesterday, in characterizing him Child
AS an opponent of this bill, that he could
dance waltz down the aisle with the
senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Aid
rieh.
Mr.. Hill said he was not aware that
L he had been waltZing with Mr.. Aldrlch.
but he remembered last summer, when
Mr. German was Waiting down the
aisle with MIR. Sherman in the fight to
Prepeal the Sherman silver law. The
New York senator said this with biting
sarcasm. and then recalled the fact that.
his colleagues who were now prOphesy-
ing the sdefeat of the tariff bill were
then loudly proclaimlng that uncondi-
tiOnal repeal could never pass; that the
/ struggle must be compromised.
L The president was then the bold and
unfinching champion of unconditional
repeal.
You said it could not pass,'' said Mr..
Hill, turning to tile Democratic side,
but it did pass. and L tell You now
that, while this compromise bill may
pass, do not believe it will"
He then referred to Mr. Germans
assertion yesterday that the Maryland
senator, Mr.. Brice and Mr.. Smith had
promised the Louisiana senators duty
on sugar during the campaign of 1892.
He doubted their authority
TO CONSTITUTE PLATFORMS.
he tor one would refuse to be- divert
ed. He thought that, il Mr.. Cleveland's
interference was to be complained of,
the best way to avoid such an entangle-
ment in the future was Ito keep away
from the White house. as l do"
daughter.
| The idea that these old political foxes
no RI hi I,n.
misunderstood the president was alb
Surd.
1t was childish fol them TO come back
here and plead that they had been over
reached by one. ambitious president. IL
shall vote to perfect this BILL" coll
tinued Mr.. Hill; shall vote for free
coal, free iron ore and free sugar"
''if the senate recede from every
amendment placed upon the bill when
it came from the house." interrupted
Mr.. German, Twill YOU vote for il?''
Il will cross that bridge when L eome
| to II" replied Mr.. Hill, parryiug he
| thrust of the aStute senator from Mary
I land.
but you have said," he adtled. "that
I the senate will not recede, and you are
| perfectly safe i'll making that bluff"
why don't you calllt?" inquired Mr..
Lindsay, naively.
1.-The senator understands the terms
| of the national game better than do"
| retnrted Mr.. Hill.
MIR. Hill closed his speech with as
| keen piece OF satire as has been heard
DURING THE DEBATE.
"The Senator from MARYLAND has
sought to term ME the 1ago of the SEN
| ate," said be. IL might respond with
| drafts upon ShakeSpearean characters.
In that case L would term the senator
| from Maryland as the CasSiuS of the
| senate. Great laughter. We all recall
| CassiuS, The lean and hungry Cassius."
| Mr.. Hill leaned over and addressed
| himself almost directly to Mr., German.
''And the senator from Arkansas L
would call Marcus Brutus. 1t is the
i seuator from Arkansas who has labo1ed
SO earnestly for this bill He is the
honest BrutuS OF the senate floug
| 1aughterI and Casca is the name OF the
senator who struck the first blow of
1Friday last (Mr. VesD.
II "frebonluS is the senator from
Indiana, teSty, yet earnest, and Metel-
IuS Climber Is the senator from TelueS-
see (Mr. Harris}.
Having thus characterized the sena-
tors amid great laughter, Mr.. Hill add
/ ed: we all remember the cabal which
Struck down Cse5 AT, and when OH yester-
day these senators sought to strike
down our president, they made the mis-
! take that had been made before. Not
that they loved Cesar less. but that
they
LOVED ROME MORE.
Not that they loved the p eSident less
but that they loved the senate compro-
mise more"
Then, pauslng for moment, Mr.. Hill
closed with sarcastic deliberatiun: but
l can say with Antony, they are all
honorable men,"
Mr.. Gallery followed Mr.. Hill, first
moving that cunfereeS be instructed to
nlaiie the following amendment: Fiat
the bounty provided in said act shall
stand unrepealed to the extent that
there shall be paid to the pro-
ducer of sugar from beets, sorghum or
sugar cane grown in the United States
In the year 1894. or from maple
sap produced in the United States dur.
I ing tire year 1894 Under license for 1894
and subject to The limitations now I'M
posed by law, and Oh all sugars testing
not less than 80 deg by tile pOlariseope,
nine-tenthS or Ope cent per pound, and
upon all such sugars, testing less than
90 per cent by the pDiarseopp, and not
less than 50 deg eigIt-teiiths of one cent
per pound"
MIR. Gallery then commended Senator
|, Hill for his defense of the president,
and dtelered there was nothing in the
letter which need arouse the ire of the
senators who felt themselves aggrievpd,
ana the Louisianan declared that it dld
not cali for the denuHciation of the SELL
ator from Maryland.
He then read an extract from the let
ter and commented upon it III favorable
terufS.
MIR. CAFFERY DECLARED
that the president was enumerated from
the charge made against him by Mr.
German. The very evidence aGducpd
by Mr.. German. Ire said, Justified tle,
president IN writing the letter lie had.
There was absolutely no truth i'll the
allegation that Mr.. Cleveland had vio-
LATED the functions of his Office in giving
his views to The chairman OF the ways
and means cDmmittee. If the members
OF the finance committee had denounced
the bill, as they did III saying that GER
tain features OF the bill involved party
surrender, how was it wrong fer the
president to charge "Derfidy and dis
honor?"
Since the secrets of the past were to
be Givuiged, he would not longer keep
i'll the dark secrets of his own prison
hnUSe. The Louisiana senators had
been made the target for the sings and
arrows of tariff reformers. The time
had come for him 10 tell his story He
was at a little conference at whict were
present. ameng others, Messrs. Brice and
GormaII. 1t WAS decided at that confer
ence that 40 per cent on raw and so per
Gent OH refined sugar was proper. Il
took that schedule to the finance coIn-
mittee and gave it to Senator Jones" he
continued. mir. Jones after calcu-
slatiOn pointed cut that in The ditferentiaI
allowed the refinerS was concealed
,differential greater than the Mckinley
law. l thereupon withdrew it. After
! further consultation presented another
!, SCHEDULES placing one cent on raw and
+, one and one-eighth Oh refined. So it re-
,mained for some, time when was adj
m0niShett by Mr.. German and MIR. Brice
that this second schedule
so MEANT FREE SUGAR.
y MIR. Jones told NE that the sugar-re-
7 filming interests would favor free snpar