Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-26

Washington, July 24.-Perhaps no
more remarkable scene was ever wifi
messed in the senate than that which
occurred there yesterday when for two
and one-half hours Senator German.
the democratic political leader on the
floor, delivered speech against the
president, and in defense Of the senate
tariff bill.
The galleries were packed and SO
great was the interest in Mr.. Germans
speech that members of the house
flocked to the senate and the house,
being unable to hold quorum, ad-
journed.
Mr.. German with frankness that
amazed those present discussed party
secrets, opened the door to party eau
cuseS and flashed Il search light into
the dark corners OF party history. The
president was aSsailed with keenness
and vigor. He charged that both
Secretary Carlisle and President
Cleveland We're not only aware that
concessions had been made in the sen
ate bill to procure its passage through
the senate, but that Mr. Carlisle was
consulted at every step and Mr.. Cleye-
land had sanctioned all that was done
He then told the inside history of the
conference over the tariff bill. He
even went back and told secrets of the
Mills bill and of the st. Louis and Chi
cago platforms, and of the demands
made upon the national democratic
committee by the sugar senators in
1892.
His personal attack on the president
was full of the most sensational char
acterizations. He told how he had
dared, when other men faltered, to
walk with Mr.. Cleveland through "the
filth and slime Of the campaign of
1884; how he and his colleagues had
fought for tariff reform, when towards
in high places would not show their
heads; how Mr.. Cleveland had tried
TO gibbet the senate before the eyes
Of the country, and said his action
must be attributed to a consuming
vanity-an action that was echoed by
those who "chirped when they talked"
His reference to the president Gro
ated so much commotion in the CALLER
les, sometimes Of approval, and some
times of disapproval, that the presid-
ing officer was obliged repeatedly to
caution them to preserve better Or
der. In conclusion Mr.. German practic-
ally warned his colleagues thaton ma
terial points, it must be the senate bill
or no bill
After the routine business at 1922,
Senator voorhees, called up the con
ference report on the tariff bill and
then the storm broke. Me. German i'm
mediately arose He hoped he appre-
ciated the gravity Of the situation, he
began. Ordinarily the situation would
be easy of solution. There would or
dinarily be no difference of opinion
about sending the bill to conference,
where the differences between the two
houses could be adjusted. He drew
picture of the anxiety with which
bill the idle factories, the closed work
shops and the unemployed,
Further suspense was neither TO the
best interests of the country nor of
the democratic party He hoped that
the senator's would meet the situation
as became patriotic men and duty
bound democrats. 1t was idle for him
70 add anything to what had been said
last Friday by the senator from New
Jersey (Mr. SMITH.
In the house there was an over
whelming democratic majority. Here
IN the senate the democrats were at
the outset confronted with the fact
that there were but forty-four demo
Gratis, A bill must be framed which
would secure the support of all these
senator's, all of whose votes save one,
We're necessary to pass it. That one
vote was lost
The senator from New York (AIr.
Hill had from the beginning opposed
the bill openly and manfully The
democrats, faced with such a condi-
uon, had gone manfully to work to
Aarmoni2e the differences, and had ac-
complished it by many sacrifces-al-
most ut the sacrifice Of principle. No
staioNlNG BpuN III llllS COuEllg ulu
ever been confronted with such a con-
dition. The senators of the states of
New York. New Jersey, Ohio, West
virginia and Maryland at the outset
announced that the house bill was SO
RADICAL 50 destructive Of the inter-
ests of the people that they would not
support it.
te paid high tribute to Senators
vest Jones, Voorhees, and Harris
those brave men whose laborious
work had at last accomplished the feat
oi adjusting these differences and had
made the passage Of the bill possible
Then In dramatic tones he delivered
IFS defiance: "The infamous calum-
4hes heaped upon the heads of the SEN
4 forced from his lips he said, "a
pam, unyarnished statement of the
lets He would make the state
henii he said, with malice toward
a9fle but he would look his colleagues
aaa the American people in the eve
Aaa tell the truth.
patriotism the democrats of the
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