The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-24
SENATOR G0RMANS ATTACK
HE SAYS THE PRESIDENT RSEH os
 ALL THE AMENDMENTS.

Every ss,f.Ra.pscting Man Who Believed
 In Our Form of Government Urged to
 Put His Condemnation on the First Step.
 Which if Followed Would Lead to the
 Control Of tho Governm snt by One Man
 Presidsnt's Interference Is Criticized
 Not s violation of Democratic Principles
 to Tax Coal and Iron-Furthsr suspsnss
 Destructive.
 Washington, July 2a--At l2,2b MT. Voorhees, called up ns n question of privilege the message from the house stating that the confsrees of the two houses on the tariff bill had bean unable to agree and requesting the oopsent of the senate to further conference. As soon as 1t was read Mir. German, dem.. Maryland, rose, and in Q tone marked by deep feeling, addressed the senate. He saidi
 "Mr. Prssident-I hope that I fully realize the conditions under which we are about to aot. The country is anx- iously waiting for @ speedy determina- ton of this question. Our treasury is depleted-there is not sufficient money to pay the current expenses of the gov ernment. Factories are idle, work shops are closed and honest mechanics and laborers are tramping through the country begging that they may be em- ployed. Further suspense is destr uc- tive of the best interests of our common country. Further delay, further agita- tion will be laid at the door of the dem- ocratic party, which now controls every branch of this government that deals with legislation. What fearful re- sponsibility - greater, perhaps, than has ever devolved upon us since 1860.
 'I hope, I trust, I believe that we shall meet this situation as becomes sena- tors and as becomes patriotic American citizens. The conditions in this cham- Der were 50 well described by my dis tinguished friend from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) on Friday last that it would be idle and futile for me to attempt to add anything to what he has said. He truly said that in 8 coordinate branch of the government we have an overwhelming majority of democrats able to pass any measure they saw proper, but that here we have only forty-four senators who were elected as democrats, including the senator from New York (Mr. HilD who has openly and manfully opposed this measure from the day it came to consideration until now. We have only 43 vOtes-a bare majority of the senate, every one. of which is nec- essary to pass any bill--forty-three votes to be cast by the ambassadors from tho great states, every one of whom had his distinct views and was compelled to represent fairly the inter- ests of the great state which he repre- sented, to harmonize them, to bring them together upon some common ground upon bill which was in direct line and thought with the promise of their party, to make sacrifices of indi- vidual opinions, sacrifices of great iI- terests, sacrifices almost of principle, and say without hesitation, that possibly but once in the history of this body were the conditions such as we had to confront. Behind those senators were intelligent people urging them to extreme action in more than two-tnirds of the states represented on the democratic side. On the other were the states of New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia and Alabama, which said that we are in favor of bill carrying out to the letter every promise of the Democratic party, but the bill which came to us is so radi- cal, SO destructive of the interests of the great municipalities that we cannot support 1t with this income tax attached to it.
 "When we went into conference, free and manly conference which only honora ble senators would hold, q fair and manly and straightforWar state ment of those differences was made. I am glad to say that while the uom- mittee on finance of this body had a majority of southern democrats there has been the greatest desire to do jus tice to very section of the union and an intimation that an industry was to be destroyed pr impaired made the southerner anxious to prevent d wrong and preserve the great industries of the north. But for the patience, the wisdom, the earnest devotion to princi- pie of the senator from Indiana (Mr. Voorhees, the senator from Tennessee (Mr. Harris) my friend from Missouri CMr. ,VesD and the senator from Ar kansas (Mr. Jones) these differences would not have been adjusted.
 "Right here in view of all the mis- representations of tfc body and of all the infamous calumny which has been published against members of this body I feel 1t to be my duty to give plain unvarnished statement of events. Mir. President, the declaration of the chairman of the conference con- mittee on part of a coordinate branch, accompanied as 1t was by the most ex- traordinary, the most uncalled for and the most unwise communication that was ever penned by president of the United States places this body in a position where its members must see that the dignity and honor of it's cham Der shall be preserved. It places me in . position where I must tell the story as 1t occurred. Never in the course of my life have I ever thought the provocation was sufficient to in- duce me to talk of private matters in public, but the limit of endurance has been reached. It is not my honor; 1t is the honor of many of my fellows which impels me to make the state ment which Inow make"