Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-08
RESULTOF REPUBLICAN RULE
Cause of the Present Condi-
ton of the Treasury.
GERMAN REVEALS THE RECORD
What Republican Legislation
Has Produced.
1t Reduced the Revenues, Squandered
the surplus and Depleted the Treasury
--Senator German Places the Blame
Where IL Belongs, and Makes the Re
publican Senators squirm.

w ASiINGTON, Jan. Ol.-lne attempt
of the Republicans to shift to Demo
cratic shoulders the responsibility for
the depressed financial condition of the
country and the empty treasury re.
ceived the severest rebuke to-day in the
Senate. The chastisement was laid on
without mercy by Senators German and
Voorhees,, who proved so cleverly that
even the wayfaring man could under
stand it that the Republican party is
directly responsible for the unsettled
financial condition and for emptying q
treasury which they found plethora.
Senator German occupied the floor
for an hour and half and his speech
was mastery effort, decidedly the best
he has ever delivered in the Senate.
Almost every seat on the floor was occu-
pied and the galleries were crowded. He
was subjected TO an almost continuous
cross-tire of questions and interruptions
by Senators Sherman, Hoar, Hale,
Aldrich and Allison, the leading lights
of the Republican party, who in vain
attempted to disavow the resi- possibility
which Senator German charged to them.
He met each question boldly, pointedly
and without evasion. His replies served
only to taunt his adversaries into fury.
In their haste to deny the charges Of ex-
travagance and Of the enactment of
laws which failed to collect sufficient
revenues to support the government
half dozen Senators would be on the
floor at once.
SUDDEN AND LIVELY DISCUSSION.
1t was regular field day, with the
Democrats, on the defensive, upholding
the financial policy of the admnistra-
ton, while the Republicans were de.
tending IS best they could the billion
dollar Congress, their extravagant pen
sion expenditures and their Chinese
wall Mckinley Tariff bill. Senator
Germans speech provoked Senator
Sherman into defense of the general
line of policy of his party.
Senator Voorhees,, chairman of the
finance committee, also gave the Repub.
licans some hard raps. Then Senator
Hawley of Connecticut, was inyeigled
into the arena, and he had a great deal
to say as counsel representing the de-
Tense. Senator Stewart found 1t a
favorable opportunity to expound his
thread-worn silver views and to charge
the depressed financial condition to the
ANPNaA VI lhC 1uCIlldu uCl. mere Is
every prospect that the debate will be
continued to-day.
The discussion came as suddenly as
yesterdays wind storm, and was about
as fierce while it lasted. Senator Allen.
the Populist member from Nebraska,
had talked for an hour or more DENY
ing the right of the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue bonds, as he proposes 10
do. He had hardly completed his speech
when Senator German took the floor
He read an extract from Mr.. Sherman's
speech of yesterday and praised him for
his attitude that the Secretary of the
Treasury had right to issue bonds, "but."
he continued, "when the Senator saws
that he is coming to the aid of the
Democratic administration he makes n
mistake. He is coming to the aid of the
last Republican administration, which
is responsible for the depleted treasury
and for the present dep!orable financial
condition. When he made this claim
saw him sink from patriot into a
partisan.
Senator Hoar's voice was next heard
as he wanted to know why the Demo-
Gratis did not bring in measure for the
relief CT the treasury, meaning a bill
authorizing the issue of bonds, thereby
relieving the action of Secretary Carlisle
OF any doubt as to its legality.
Senator German replied that any such
bill, even il necessary, would be sinh.
jected to that delay which encumberod
the passage of the repeal of the Sherman
act, and the needs of the treasury were
were too pressing to admit of any such
tNrFho hIn Ials,tr Co. &c
sage OF bond issue bill. In closing,
however, Senator German expressed
himself as opposed to any gag" rule in
the Senate, believing that freedom of
speech in that body should never be
trampled upon.
SENATOR GoRMAN's SPEECH.
Continuing, Senator German said
1t Is true or it is not true that the
Mckinley law aud other laws, when
this Congress began, produced revenue
enough to support the government with
lis expenditures. | maintain that the
Democratic party when it came into
power on March 4th last came in IN
bear the burdens which the Republicans
had put upon the government. By their
revenue laws and by their expenditures
they bankrupted the treasury before
the Democratic party took possession
1t was notorious that the balances IN tbe
treasury prior to the Democratic rulo
were not sufficient to meet the demands
upon it. But for the election poing
against the Republicans in 1899 thaS
would have been compelled to ask a
loan or an Increase of taxes. Tho
senator from Ohio (Mr. Shermanl
knows as well as know that when the
election went adverse to his party tile
then Republican Secretary of the Treas.
ury came out fiankly-and it is no
secret-and. said to members on both
SIDES ot this chamber, the revenue laws
OF the United States have not produced
money enough to meet the expcndi.
turesi you must come to my relief-yon
must come to the relief of the treasiIrv
NOW that the Democratic party has won
l ask you 10 JOIN me-
Under the lead of the DISTINGUISHED
Senator from Ohio, in the short session
az the close OF Mr.. Harrison's adminis-
trallon, the committee on finance re.
ported provision for $4,000, 600 of
bonds. For what purpose? The Senn.
tor says that the sale of these bonds
which he and l voted for at that time
and under a Republican administrators
was simply to keep up the reserve fund
To-day he says that that reserve fund
was complete and perfect at that time.
IL SO, the Senator misled the country.
mlsled the Senate and misled US, and
the secretary of the Treasury deliber-
atsiy misled us, unless he intended nj
that time, as the present Secretary does
that the proceeds of the sale Of the
bonds should be merged into the
treasury to relieve it from its distress.
DECREASED REVENUES.
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