St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-09
LIVELY SENATORIAL SPAT.
H0AR AND CRAY HAv: A ROW OYER
THE TARfFE
THE FORMER CALLED Down.

LAN EOkhMk Il II CAAAED DO w Ne
The Massachusetts Senator Ac.
cuses the Democratic Members
of Violating Their Oaths and
the Consultation - The Della.
ware Veteran Reads the Riot
Act to the Republicans.
WASHINGTON. May S.-There was
promise of an electrical display iii the
senate when that body met today. The
Republicans were active. and disposed
to ask some embarrassing questions
concerning the "compromise amend
ments" offered to the tariff bill yester-
day.
MIR. Quay demanded the presence of a
quorum before the journal was read I.
Some routine business then intervened.
The credentials of Senator-elect Gear.
OF Iowa, were presented by Mr.. Allison.
MIR. Hoar questioned the form of the
certificate, saying that certificate of
the speaker of the Iowa house and the
president of the Iowa senate was not
sufficient.
MIR. WILSON,, whom Mr.. Gear is
to succeed. stated that the GER
tificate was in the form usually em-
ployed in Iowa. Mr.. Allison suggested
that the certificate lie on the table.
There was plenty of time, he said. be-
tween now and March next to exam
inc it.
At l1:30 Mr.. Harris, in charge of the
tariff bill, abruptly moved to proceed
with the consideration of that bill. The
resolution offered by Mr.. Allen yester-
day looking to the appointment of a
special committee to Investigate the
alleged police clubbing on the steps of
the capitol ON the occasion of the Coxey
demonstration went. over until tomor-
row.
When the tariff bill was laid before
the senate MI. Hoar took the floor.
Toward the close of his speech Mr..
Hoar succeeded in
ARoUsING THE IRE.
OF Senator Gray, of Delaware. He was
talking about the methods used by the
so-called non-conservative Democratic
senators to secure concessions in the
form of higher duties, and concluded
his statement by declaring that Demo-
cratic senators who would support the
compromise bill agreed upon by the
Democratic caucus would violate the
constitution and their oaths. This
statement brought Mr.. Gray to his feet.
He demanded to know what the Massa-
chusetts senator meant by such charge
"a charge, he said, which was unworthy
of Mr.. Hoar.
MIR. Hoar waved the Delaware SEN
ator 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 upon an explanation.
Very well,' said Mr.. Hoar, 81 can
not be intimidated by little bluster.
But | will explain. l meant to say that
for Democratic senator who sub
'scribed 10 the doctrine of the Chicago
platform, that a tariff for protection
was robbery, who went to the people
affirming his allegiance to that plat
form, and who now comes here seeking
and obtaining protective duties, mean
10 say that for such senator there is no
escape from the logic that he violates
both his senatorial oath and the con-
stitutiOn."
Senator Gray made on effort to reply,
but Mr.. Hoar refused to be Interrupted,
whereupon MIR. Gray called him to
order, and asked ruling upon his
point. that such language as the
Massachusetts senator had used was
supplementary.
Mr.. Galinger. who was In the chair,
overruled the point OF order.
Mr.. Gray then could do nothing but
sit down and wait. In a few minutes
MIR. HJar
COMPLETED HIS SPEECH.
MIR. Gray arose. His anger had not
subsided. This was the sixth week OF
the tariff debate, he began. If there
was any doubt about the artificial
character of the ediice of protection
this debate had dispelled it. Every at
tempt to approach the monstrous ag-
gregation of folly and greed known as
the Mckinley bill had been met by
those who raised ciamor about the
interests of the people and by the
greed OF corporations.
The elimination of McKinlsyism was
characterized in this debate by the
wild statements and assertions OF the
advocates of the system that had
wrought so much ruin to the country,
They threw aside all restraints of
speech and dealt in the rhetoric of the
slums. They cast their foul aspersions
on those who sought to do their duty to
their country aud their party. Today.
in the speech of the senator from Mas
sachusetts, the decorum of DEBATE had
been violated, but the language he in
dnlged in only showed the straits to
which he had been put.
MIR. Hoar's temper was seemingly un-
ruffled when he replied in few words
to what Mr.. Gray had said. He said
that the senator from Delaware had
been too severe In his condemnation of
the Mckinley law, and he stood here on
this floor advocating measure dotted
and crowded all over with protection.
If protection was unconstitutional and
robbery, this was wicked thing to do.
Why did he not tell the senate in ex-
tenuation of his course why he had put
a protective duty OIL sugar.
IL do not propose to put protective
nls
from his seat. ''Can the senator not
understand the difference between a
protective and revenue duty"
An audible litter ran round the Re-
publican side at this retort.
MIR. Hoar insisted that an attempt to
show that increases in duty were for
revenue purposes and not for protection
was
SIMPLY AN EVASION.
When Mr.. Hoar took his seat, Mr..
Palmer Dem., lll.) felt called upon to
defend himself from several Of the in
situations in Mr.. Hours remarks. AS
far as he was concerned, he declared a
half loaf was better than no bread at
all. If he could not get in measure
framed by his, Democratic colleagues
all he desired he would take what he
could get. He then branched off in an
effort to show that Coxeyism is legiti-
mate outgroMth Of the paternalism of