Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-12

HlleTlOon uTeW ny lar tle DlSEest Louso VI
the season. There were many more persons
present than on Monday last, when SEN
ktor Voorhees, opened the tariff debate.
Crowds of people besieged the gallery doors
unable to obtain admittance. There was an
evident expectation that Mr.. Hill pur-
posed to create q sensation, and rumors
were rife of his intention to declare open
war on the administration. There was also
curiosity as to whether he would take any
notice Of the remarkable manifesto issued
by tine Minnesota Democracy, denounclng
him and other Democratic Senators by
name rs traitors to the party on account
of their attitude on the Tariff bill As Mr.
HilPs speech was sent out in advance last
night il was, of course, understood that il
he paid his respects to the Minnesota
Democracy his remarks must be of an inn
promptu character.
GREAT CROWDS IN THE GALLERIES.
Every one in the galleries was peering
around and looking for Mr.. Hill, Who did
not make his entrance into the Senate
chamber until about 2.l5 o'clock. lie
took his seat on the outer row, very
quietly, and did not seem inclined to COIL
versation, although number of Senators
and others came up to him. AT this time
three or four of the front rows in the
diplomatic gallery filled up with the men,
bers of the diplomatic corps, and the re-
mainder of the gallery was speedily in
vaded by outsiders. The diplomatic corps
always complain of this disregard Of their
privileges upon occasions of great public
interest, but it never appears to have any
effect. The character of the audience
assembled to hear the New York Senator
was a compliment of which he might well
| be proud, for it was intelligent and dis
tinguished in marked degree. Standing
room even when he began was not to be
had. and ladies in brilliant attire stood
| wedged in between black masses of men,
| packed against the walls which ran all
around the galleries.
Mr.. Hill, minute before o'clock,
moved forward to the seat in front of his
| own. Rising with his hands on his desk
the impression at first produced was that
his speech had been memorized and would,
therefore, be delivered without reference
to manuscript or print. This expectation
was soon dispelled, for in less than three
! minutes his hands were taken from his
desk, his right hand fast grasped the COPY
of his speech and, with the frequent
assistance of his left, was constantly lifted
almost up to his eyes. This compelled a
slow utterance and lost the opportunity
for any rhetorical grace or any impas-
stoned flights of eloquence.
MR.. GREsHAMs SELECTION DEPRECATED.
eNevertheless at the very outset he gave
his hearers all the sensation for whirh
they craved. He did attack the admins
tration, and in unmistakable TERMS Crlti-
cising briefly but as strongly as any Re-
publican could the administrations Ha-
waiian policy, he deprecated the appoint
ment of Republican as Secretary OF
State. An approving smile swept around
the whole Republican side at this. Scarce
q Senator's seat was vacant on either side
of the chamber, and scores OF members of
the House of Representatives, Democrats
and Republicans, had tiocked into the
Senate chamber in time to catch and enjoy
the words of criticism OF a prominent
Democratic Senator upon q Democratic
administration. Messrs. Reed and Bou.
telle, the bull terrier aud the fox terrier OF
Maine, suspended their incessant badger
ing of the Speaker of the House in order
to come over and join the crowd.
The New York Senator held that the
Democrats in Congress had in great extent
so far as they were able, redeemed the
pledges made to the people. The vein Of
thought and argument which ran through
his speech was that the executive and the
executive departments were to blame fol
what had been lacking, and not the legis
latiye departments. With ironical en-
phasis he instanced the power of thu
; President to call Congress together il
March, 1898, and his choosing rather tt
keep the obnoxious Mckinley act in fore,
for another year. lie, i'll quiet but no
less effective ridicue, at least effective fol
the enemies of the Democratic party, helt
up the treasury estimates as imperfect AM
misleading; the calculation of both Presi
dent and Secretary US inaccurate. He LET
no doubt as to his position on the pendinl
bill, pronounced it undemocratic an
socialistic and declared in what he said h
represented the implacable hostility of tn
people of New York. He burned, indeed
his bridges behind him. He dilated u
| much length in opposition to the incom
tax, and on this point it is recognized b.
: all there is a legitimate division in tn
Democratic party.
I BoURKE COCHRAN DERIVES SATISFACTION.
The burly w. Bourke Cochran, who re
peatedly sided with the Republicans in th
? House TO break quorum when the incom
tax was under discussion there and VIII
was close by when Mr.. Hill's s words were III
, tered derived much satisfaction. Only b.
, the Populists was there any suggestion q
an income tax in the great campaign c
. 1892. Mr.. Hill objected to this larceny
/ objected to making Democracy tail to tn
Populist kite. The Republican Senator
laughed outright at this sally. He, with
q disdainful air and clenched fist, repudiate
, any such test of party fealty. Presidei
, Cleveland had in his second annual me
sage, i'll 1856, declared the revenues of tn
government should mainly be derive
from import dues. The extreme advocat,
t of an income tax were rapidly driftin
, toward the theories of Henry George. Th
$ issue to be met now was direct against il
s direct taxation. No party had ever befol
c seriously advocated the former except
s time of war.
TALKED LIKE A PRoTEcTIoNIsT.
Passing at last from his elaborate reyie
Of the income tax, Mr.. Hill touched upo
y the general features of the bill, and ce
tainly no Republican. no protection speeC
j, has yet been or is likely to be made col
:, taining stronger anilnus against the mea
o ure. When he went into the worn-ol
h clap.trap about American labor an
n American industries it could scarcely
realized this was the man who uttered ii
" proud boast, 81 am Il Democrat" Aft
= all this ii seemed Il mockery for him
/, supplicate that he be not misunderstood
that he favored u tariff for revenue only.
e las Democrat" said he, Il prote
E. against direct taxation" And as Dem
rt crat he proceeded to support the Republ
e can demand that all the expenses OF IL
d government be provided for by the custo
d houses. He harped much upon the bu
d dens Of taxation laid upon New York.
had paid 30 per cent of the income tax &C
lected during the war period; the san
proportion would again exist. He forge
J. however, to say that New York has Il
h whole country tributary to it, and that q
n immense proportion of the Federal tax
lie nominally paid by it really comes fro
K. all the rest of the country. Said he, gazii
directly into the face Of Mr.. Voorhee
THE extreme provisions of the Mckinl,
of bill sent one party to the wall. Do not
s. us meet the same fate by going to Il
Il other extreme He spoke strongly
the feeling against the rich, SO constant