The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-05
Senator HOar Sees No Good in
the Democrats.
1t Exasperates Him to See Them
in Power.
HILL AS A FIGHTER.
Has Ability But is Too Fresh
for a New Senator.


feelings which only time can assuage- The
rather queer action of Senator Hoar has
excited especially venomous criticism A
Populist member of the house who fol
lowed the closing debate in the senate very
closely said. The old man has got to the
age where it comes natural to him to scold,
and that's a sign that he feels himself on
losing ground. 1t isn't strange either. He
entered congress and became prominent at
a time when the Republican party was the
grandest organization on earth 1t ruled
50 entirely and he was SO important part
of it that it became a second nature for
him to look upon that party as the sole re-
lance for liberty and civilization. It IS
not a pretensc with him He actually
looks upon the Democratic party as the
embodiment Of all that is vile, and now
that he secs it in power it is gall and
NORWOOD to him In fact lie looks upon
all that is going on now as simply a rebel
lion which is temporarily successful No
wonder it aggrslvates him
An Interesting Period
just tho same Mr.. Hoar has worried the
Populists IN the senate great deal, and
toward tho last tho crowd i'm the galleries
seemed to eglnpathizo with him. The pop
ular interest grow intense as the fiscal year
drew to a close. Every word of every lead
ing senator was listened to with strained
attention, and his every movement was
watched Even tho shaking of Senator
he did not like excited whispered com
mcnt in the galleries When the final vote
in the senate as q committee was taken on
the income tax, hundreds of pencils were
out, and one could hear the half suppressed
but still audible OH and ali as each doubt
full senator's vote was recorded One fact
was conclusivciy demonstrated-that the
long session and continuous pounding
they have been subjected to have prac-
tically solidifed the Democrats On this,
which was not strictly n party test, only
Senators HILL Murphy and Smith Of the
Democrats voted against the tax, while
six Republicens-Messrs Hansbrough,
Mitchell, Pettigrcw, Power, Shoup and
Teller-voted against the proposition to
strike it out.
On one point there IS universal agree
namely, Senator Hill has shown
wonderful ability as q hand to hand fighter
and ON another there is a decided prepOn-
derance Of views-namely, it is always
a misfortune for a new senator to dissent
from his party When the Populists had
their little caucus and decided to oppose
the committee 5 schedule on sugar, IT was
taken for granted that we should know all
about their intentions as TO tho final vote
within an hour or two after they separated,
but they have beaten the record They &C
tually met, caucused and agreed upon
single clause Of the bill without asking
each other as to their final action and with
out betraving their intentions until the
atOr Irby who Went into caucus was an
uncertain quantity to the last Old sena-
tors say they have never known in
stance where tho secrets of q caucus were
so well kept, and their only explanation Is
that it was because there were only four
there
Business In the House.
In the house business has gone on with
very comnendable speed, and a vast
amount has been done, some OF it of great
Importance The struggle over the pro
pOsal for erecting hell of rec0rds-in orli
er words, n place of general storage for cid
documents-yvas lively enough to bring mp
the great question of whether we should
build for the future or only from time to
time, as we are compelled Another meas
ure which its promoters have struggled
very hard to bring forward IS the SO called
pooling bill from the committee on inter
state and foreign commerce Mr. Storer OF
Cincinnati has taken a special interest in
this measure, and he is literally loaded
with information thereon. The bill sim
ply fOrbids railroads to pool their earnings
and is an Amendment to the interstate
commerce acr-
The special investigation has also devel-
oped a good deal Of richness, and the final
report Mr. Cummings thinks. viii be very
entertaining reading to those who can I'M
derStand it. Superintendent COrrie of Car
negie & Co Is armor plate shops furnished
the principal sensation. The witnesses be
fore him had been moro or less evasive,
but he answered every question with what
might be called reckless frankness, admit
ting that the work was .jockeyed'' and
'manipulatcd' and the government Off
Gals deceived in a great many ways A
very curious part of his testimony was
that he and his coadjutors had tried to i'm
prove the ar1nor plate by special treatment
after it had been inspected and accepted
Mr.. Corrie fatty admitted that he had or
dered fraudulent treatment in the matter
OF stretching plate, ard that he had con
senred to the Justification of some of the
records Of the work done, and that the rec
orJis were So arranged as to deceive the
government
Universal Peace.
OF the various committees which are
closing up business for the session none
feels better satisfied with itself and the
world in general than that on foreign af-
fairs. At various times during the session
members of the committee have INDUCED
in some rhetoric over the fact that the
world is in condition of more complete
peace than at any time for Il years, and it
SO happens that just the fiscal year
closes and the end Of the session seems to
be near the few remaining international
troubles have come to an end Just roll
that globe around - said Mr.. Money
pointing to the large globe in the commit
tee room, and see if you can put the
point of your pencil on any spot where
there is now q war any very great pros
poet of one Our friends at the antipodes
are perhaps going to have scrap in Korea,
and If they do VIC shall take ten times
as much interest in it as we did in their
last trouble over there, for we are every
year growing into closer relations with ia
pan France and Germany are just as
they have been for years, but less likely to