St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-10
HILL IN OPPOSITION FORM.
He GIVES BATTLE TO THE SENATE
thrift BILL.
INCOME TAX HIT HARD.
The New York Senator Scores
Cleveland by BelittIing the
Secretary of State-His Speech
Only Skirmish of His AS.
sault Upon the Great Measure
He Means to Kill.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The chief in
terest in the senate today centered in
Senator Hill'S speech. That the tariff
question has not lost all its fascination
was shown by the large crowds drawn
to the senate. The speech was mainly
directed against the income tax. al
though Mr.. Hill spoke of the "humilia-
tion'of the Hawaiian question, which he
attributed to the fact that the head of
the state department was Republican.
Senator Hill is a striking figure.
Within the space of the past ten years
he has grown from common country
lawyer to be the central feature in the
most prominent deliberatve body in
the world. He is certainly man Of
marvellous qualities. Without early adj
want. yes of education, he towers above
the scholars who surround him like
Gulliyer among the Liliputians. The
son OF stone mason. and with no early
social training, he has called around
himself the elite of the American four
hundred. He is man without any
known vices of appetite or habit, not
given to social dissipation in any form,
entirely ignoring all the allurements OF
feminine ASSOCIATION, and apparently
caring nothing for the good or bad Opin-
ion of his fellows of either high or low
estate. He does not possess popular
manners. The nearest approximation
to smile he contrives to arrive at is
bitter grin of cynicism which would
cmake the fortune of trained actor in
the character of Mephistopheles. This
grin is ever present on his face when
listening to the public or private adju-
ration of friends. AS he sits beneath
the scornful denunciation of enemies,
it widens and expands into whitening
grimace, which might proclaim his i'll
Spiration of the devil.
He is bold iE speech. fertile in ora
tori al expedients. often illogical, fire.
quently ungrammatical. awkward and
ungainly in gesture. His speech is
never ornate, and bears no single mark
of wide reading or deep thought. Every.
thing that his great predecessor-RoS-
coe Conkling-was, David b. Hill is
not, and yet, with all these drawbacks,
no man in the senate of the nation can
pack the galleries or crowd the senate
upon the floor. Shermn, with his wide
knowledge blucked from the tree of
long experience; Morgan with his
smooth, Southern diction and clear
logical thought; Davis or Voorhees,,
their oratorical powers trained to har-
monize with all that is classical and
brilliant in English speech-none of
these can conjure such multitude as
the uucouth and awkward, but courage
Gus aud ready senator from New York.
One reason Of all this is, of course.
the knowledge that Mr.. Hill hates
President Cleveland, and that he has
proclaimed his determination never to
ask for or to give quarter to his arch
enemy. 1t is Hills influence which
modified the Wilson bill, land sent it into
the senste arena shorn of its fair pro-
portions. MANNED in its most useful
features, and battered out of all shape.
Hill organized and consolidated the op-
position, and gloats over his work as
defeat OF the administration.
lt was largely this fact. perhaps.
which called together the superb audi
ence today that greeted him when he
rose TO speak. But there were other
and weightier reasons. Senator Hill
has courage, and no more vaunting am
bition puIsated within the breast of
Napoleon than that which drives him
forward toward-what for inality?
Will it be st. Helena or Tuilleries?
Will he return to the pent-up walks of
private life, or direct the policy of the
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