Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-04-20
SENATOR HILLS VIEWS.
An Epitome OF His Speech on the
Wilson Bill.

Senator David Bennett Hill, of New York,
has come out squarely against the income
tax and what he calls tho "un-Democratio
tariff'' bills of Wilson and Voorhees,. He
condemns the Senate bill as unsparingly as
the House bill. Both are denounced Us con-
trary to Democratic principle, political ex-
pediency and public policy.
His speech in the United States Senate was
the longest he ever delivered. 1t bore evil
dences of unremitting toll, deep purpose
and settled conviction. 1t was delivered as
deliberately and cold bloodedly as judges
charge There was neither passion, nor elo-
quence, nor feeling In it. His reputation
of the Administration and of the tariff policy
of the majority of his own party was as calm
as if he was not participant in the strife.
Never since the days when an announce
ment that Senator ingalls, expected to
speak used to fill the galleries of the
Senate has there been such crowd at
tracted to the Senate end OF the Capitol to
listen to single speech as thronged to
listen to tho senior Senator from New
York define his position on the
tariff question. Long before two O'Clock,
the hour fixed for the speech to begin,
every seat was occupied and standing room
was at a premium. The steps in the aisles
of the galleries were used for seats, and
every available foot Of space against the
walls was occupied by men and women Will
ing to stand for two or three hours to hear
what was expected TO De tno uOSL llupOIldnt
speech of the tariff debate.
Practically every Senator in the city was in
his place, and every vacant chair was occu-
pied by member of the House Of Represen-
tatives, while all the space in the rear OF the
seats on the floor was occupied by Repre-
sentatives sitting on chairs brought in from
the cloak rooms and committee rooms, While
scores stood against the wall.
The burden of tho Senator's speech was
to the effect that the tariff bill IS framed
on the lines laid down by the President
and Secretary of the Treasury at time
when there was a surplus instead OF an
empty Treasury and at the dlctation OF
the Populist clement of the Democratic
party. The income tax proposition, he
said was never tenet of Democratic
faith, but was stolen from the Populist party
by the disciples of the new Democracy, VINO
desired now to make it the test Of the loyalty
of men who are Democrats of the most radi-
cal kind but who will not submit to engratt-
ing into a Democratic tariff measure this
new doctrine, whose provisions are undem-
ocratic and whose tendencies are sOcfallst1@-
Incidentally, he embraced the occasion
to get in as many hits at the Administration
as possible, but the burden Of his speech was
against the Populist income tax rider to the
Democratic Tariff bill.
The conclusion of Senator Hills speech
was largely q statement OF his own position
on the Tariff bill. He virtually declared he
would oppose the bill to the last If it con-
tanned the income tax feature, but that he
was willing to make concessions upon other
points for the sake of a speedy settlement OF
the tariff question.
When Senator Hill concluded with an i'm
pressiye question to his fellow Democrats as
to whether it was the part of wisdom to thus
imDerii Democratic success, there was rip
pie of applause on the floor of the Senate
Chamber, but it was confined almost entirely
to the Republican side.