The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-03
THE WILSON TARIFF BILL.
Belief That II Will Have Stormy
Opposition in the Senate.

II Is Thought the Louisiana and New
York Senators VIII Insist Upon
Great Changes in It-Speaker Crisp's
Speech-It Made a Great Impression
Upon the House.
Washington, Feb. 2-The Wilson bill
is ready to run the gauntlet in the Senate.
The concluding vote gives its friends
great fear for its treatment in the SEN
ate. When such men as Amos Cummings
voted in the negative, together with some
of the other democratic members from
New York who are under the control Of
the machine, clearly foreshadowed the
fight which will be waged during its dis
cussion in the Senate Should the bill go
to the President tomorrow it would at
once receive his signature, as is shown by
the votes Of Bourke Cochran, Gen Ira
cey and other administration friends,
representing New York districts in the
House.
The name of Amos Cummings had no
sooner been reached and his response
given, voting against the measure, than
there flashed through the minds Of every
democrat in the House the thought that
the bitterest enemies cf the bill will yet
be forced to meet are David Bennett Hill
and Edward Murphy, Jr. The same in
tiuences which acted like poison on the
minds of Cummings and Campbell, forcing
them TO vote against the measure, will
control the actions of the two New York
senator's.
So a combination between the senators
of New York and the senators of Louisi-
ana will leave only a majority of one TO
pass the bill through the Senate. The
fate of the bill practically rests in the
tender consciences of these four senator's
providing that the republicans vote
solidly against it. But as far as it has
gone 1t represents a great democratic
victory and the day Of its passage in the
House was purely democratic day,
Such scenes as were enacted in the hall
of congress yesterday, we're unfamiliar to
the oldest representative on the floor and
astonishing to the Oldest habitue in the
gallery.
SPEAKER CRIsP's SPEECH.
Speaker Crisp, in his speech, showed
himself throughout TO be a master of
logic, and in fulkcontrol of every faculty
which has endowed his mind with the
power to lead and to command. Every
word he utters has weight, and his argu-
ments are cogent in the House A few
UOAOS AAO odAd iOEdlOAile bilb lLGDult bdA,
his explanation of it, and his recommen-
dation for its passage put that measure
beyond defeat. 1t but remains for Mr..
Wilson to add his Endorsement to the
measure to carry it by an overwhelming
majority. Such is the power of these two
democratic leaders on the floor Judge
Crisp was somewhat of a study as he
arose to speak. His position In the chair
has not made him bold, and while assum-
ing his place in front Of the desk he occu-
pied as simply MIR. Crisp" his nervous
ness was apparent TO the entire House.
He realized what was expected of him,
and nerved himself for the ordeal. He
began with an argument, and at the end
of the hour closed with an argument He
attempted no peroration, but his speech
was fusllade of epigrams from the be-
ginning to the close.
AS Dunnell, of the New York Times,
said, each sentence could be written sep
arately, placed in paragraph form and
make a work which would be a good text
book if called Tariff Epigrams by
Crisp" Certainly it was the most re-
markable specimen of condensation ever
heard on the floor of the House. He put
whole principles in paragraphs, and what
would be speech for another man he
slrivelled into sentence.