The morning call., 1894-05-11
SOME TALK ABOUT CHEMICALS
Debaters of the Tariff Get Down
to an Extremely Abstruse
Discussion.

three to investigate the condition of the
country. with special reference to the pre-
vailing business depression and what legis-
lation can sfford relief.
Aliens resolution to investigate the al
legged police clubbing on May 1 then came
up, and Cameron of Pennsylvania said
the Coxey movement was the child of a
paternal theory of government. Remedies
for existing conditions were to be found in
the centralizatIon of power.
Teller favored the resolution. Coxey
was law-abiding citizen; he and his fol-
lowers had trudged through the rain and
mud, and were entitled TO respectful con-
sideration. He did not indorse the statute
under which they had been arrested. He
did pot think the Senate could refuse to
investigate the police clubbing. He him.
self would furnish the names Of witnesses.
Whether Coxey was crank or not did not
matter. His statement was absurd, as
were many others put forward In the hour
of distress; but it was not wicked
seheme-it only asked Congress to provide
work for the unemployed.
Aliens Coxey resolution went over with
out action.
The first item in the tariff bill-acetic
acid-was taken up. and an amendment by
Senator Allison substituted. The Mills
bill rate was adopted by strict party
vote.
Stewart maintained strenuously that
Coxey had committed no offense and
drifted gradually into a discussion of the
general condition of the country. which he
attributed generally to the monetary policy
Of the Government.
Hoar said that Coxey knew the law
under which he was convicted was on the
statute-books. He came here with the de-
liberate Intention of violating it. He
wanted to test the power Of Congress in
the court, and when he found both court
and jury against him he set up howl.
There is danger" said Mr.. Hoar, Sin
such assemblages. They afford cover for
one or two fanatics. 1t does not do to
scOff Within ten years an attempt has
been made to blow up the House Of Par
Lament; within two years another at
tempt 10 blow up the French Assembly.
Two Presidents Of the United States have
been murdered-one in crowd at depot,
the other in crowd at theater-by mis-
guided fanatical persons to whom the
peaceable assemblages afforded an oppor-
tunity TO escape This is why in the pro-
visions of the riot law of every State, when
the magistrate reads the act, all the people
must 60 home. A man may be there with
peaceable intentions. but if when the riot
act is read he refuses to go he is liable to
punishment. Those who are peaceable
shield those who are not. 1t is needless
for me-" went on Hoar, drawing his finger
up and looking about the chamber. his eyes
pausing when they reached Allen and
Stewart, ito declare that l sympathize
with all my fellows in distress. / sympa-
thiZe with them a great deal more than
some Of those who always prate of SYM
pathy for the downtrodden in order to ad-
vance their disgraceful political ambi-
TONS"
| The Senate burst into ringing applause at
this utterance and in order to Quell the
demonstration Faulkner, who was in the
| chair, was forced TO use the gavel vigOr-
ously and threaten to clear the galleries.
| Hoar closed with an impressive declara-
| tion that the Senate would stand on its
constitutional rights and it would not be
| frightened into doing what was not best for
the country by any mob demonstration or
the camp Of Coxey or the seat of war from
Nevada.
Harris closed the debate for the day with
vigorously worded speech. Until this
morning he had opp osed the idea of ap-
pointing committee to investigate the al
| legged outrages on the Capitol steps, but
when Senator like Teller, usually care
full and calm in his judgment. entered
charges of outrageous conduct against the
police of the District of Columbia, he
thought the Senate was entitled to know
the facts.
Gray got the floor minute before /
| o'clock and was proceeding to say that be
! had never seen anything in connection
with the Coxey movement that warrants
Congress in taking the slightest heed of
it when the morning hour expired and
Harris insisted on going ahead with the
tariff bill. When il was laid before the
Senate GalliDger offered the amendment of
which be had heretofore given notice con-
cerning the tariff operations between this
country and Canada. Other Senators ex-
pressing desire to speak on the amend
ment Gallinger withdrew 1t with the inten-
tion Of again offering II.
he 0TSL paragraph OIL tue tarl1 ScleQule,
that of aceic acid in the chemical schei-
ule. was taken up. and Senator Allison
offered an amendment. substituting the
provision in the Mckinley law on this ar
ticle for this provision in the pending bill
| of 20 per cent ad valorem. He called at
tenti0n to the fact that the acetic acid
schedule during the Mills regime was In
accordance with the specific system and
| intimated that Mr.. Mills had not in that
instance been unfriendly to specific rates.
Rising at this juncture, Mills said the
Iowa Senator was doing him entirely too
much honor. Il was not" he said, re-
spOn sble for the specific rates in the Mills
bill. The Senator knows very well no one
man makes a tariff bill" Mills thought
the acid should 60 on the free list.
Allison's amendment was lost by a strict
party vote-27 to %.
Allison Immediately modified his amend
ment so as to make the duty ON acetic or
pyroliginous acid specific at rates of from
to cents per pound. AS the Senate
was now on 1.-The chemicals schedule,
Lodge suggested that the replies on this
subject received by the Finance Committee
to its inquiries should be placed at the dis.