The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-09

Washington, May 8.-There was
promise of an electrical display in the
Senate when that body met today.
The Republicans were active and dis
posed to ask some embarrassing ques-
tons concerning the compromise
offered to the tariff bill
yesterday.
Mr. Quay demanded the presence of
a quorum before the journal was read.
Some routine business interviewed.
The credentials of Senator-elect
Greer, of Iowa, were presented by Mr..
Allison. Mr. Hoar questioned the
form of the certificate. A certificate of
the speaker of the Iowa house and the
president of the senate was not suffi-
Gent
Mr. Wilson, whom Mr.. Gear is to
succeed, stated that the certificate was
in the form usually employed in Iowa.
Mr. Allison suggested the certificate
lie on the table. There was plenty of
time, he said, between now and March
next to examine it.
At 11:30, Mr.. Harris, in charge of
the tariff bill, abruptly moved to pro-
coed with the consideration of that
bill.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Allen
yesterday, looking to the appointment
of a special committee to investigate
the alleged police-clubbing on the
jsteps of the capitol on the occasion of
the Coxey demonstration, went over
until tomorrow.
HOar's Weak Plunge.
When the tariff bill was laid before
the Senate, MIR. Hoar took the floor.
The Senate was asked, he said, to en-
act into law a spasm the people had
got. The tariff bill was born of an un-
natural union between two hatreds,
that Of Section--against section and
that of class against class 1t was
not free trade nor a protectionist
measure. The senator argued that upon
high wages depended the constant i'm
provement in the manufacturing pro-
cesses which increased production and
diminished the cost. 1t was SAID that
| you cannot interfere with the natural
laws of industry and trade, but Hoar
| contended that all progress in human
life rested upon such interference.
| Toward the close of his speech. Mr..
| Hoar succeeded in arousing the ire of
Senator Gray
| He was talking about the methods
used by the so-called conservative
democratic senators to secure conces-
sions in the form of higher duties. and
| concluded his statement by declaring
that Democratic senators who would
support the compromise bill agreed up-
on by the Democratic caucus would
| violate the constitution and their oaths
! Th1s statement brought Mr.. GRAY to
his feet. He demanded to know what
the Massachusetts senator meant by
such a charge-a charge, he said,
which was unworthy of Mr.. Hoar.
Mr.. Hoar waved the Delaware sena-
tor aside. He would refuse to yield
to him, he said.
But Mr.. Gray was not to be put off
His cheek was flaming. He insisted up
on an explanation.
VERY we'll said Mr. Hoar, 81 can
not be inundated by little buster
But will explain. I meant to say that
for Democrat who subscribed to the
doctrine of the Chicago platform thai
tariff for protection was robbery
who went to the people, affirming his
allegiance to that platform, and who
now comes here seeking protective
duties l say that for such senator there
is no escape from the logic that he has
violated both his senatorial oath anG
! the constitution"
Senator Gray made an effort to reply
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whereupon Mr.. Gray called him t.
order and asked a ruling upon hi:
point that such language as the Massa
chusetts senator had used was unparlia
mentary.
Mr.. Gallinger, who was in the chair
overruled the point of order.
Mr.. Gray could do nothing, then. bu
sit down. In a few minutes Mr.. Hoa.
concluded his speech.
Mr.. Gray arose. His anger had no
subsidized.
This was the sixth week of the tariff
debate" he began. IF there was an
doubt about the artificial character O
the edifice. of protection, this debat
had supplied it. Every attempt to an
proach the monstrous aggregation o
, folly and greed, known as the Nc
Kinley bill, had been met by those VIII
/ raised a clamor about the interests o
f the people and by the greed of copora
| tons.
The elimination of McKinleyism wa
{ characterized in this debate by the viii
r statements and assertions of the ad
l vocates of the system that ha
wrought so much ruin to the country
They threw aside all restraints &
r speech and dealt in the rhetoric of tn
g slums. They cast their foul aspersion
IOll llIOSS VIII SOQSul W 40 their out
to their country and their party. To
day, in the speech of the senator fror
i Massachusetts the decorum of debat
, had been violated; but the languag
: he had INDUCED in only showed tn
: straits to which he had been put.
Mr.. Hoar was, seemingly, unruf1e
when he replied in a few words t
what Mr.. Gray had said. He said tn
; senator from Delaware had been to
= severe in his condemnation of the Nj
: Kinley law. and he stood here on tn
: floor advocating a measure dotted an
crowded all over with protection.
! protection was unconstitutional an
= robbery, this was wicked thing
= lido.
why did he not tell the Senate. i
extenuation of his course, why he ha
{ put a protective duty on sugar?
Il calculated Mr.. Gray from his seat.
S Can the senator not understand tt
) difference between a protective and
t revenue duty?"
n An audible litter ran around IL
+ Republican side at this retort
e Mr.. Hoar insisted that an atteml
Ito show that increases in duties we