St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-24
SLAPS AT SENATORS.

1t looks as If it might be necessary for
President Cleveland to rush to the de-
Tense OF Senator Hill. - Washington
Post.
Sometimes the strong man wins the
race, aud sometimes he breaks an oar.
Mr.. Cleveland. Isn't your senate oar
cracked?-New York Recorder.
1t is fine quarrel as it stands. With
Vest ''arraigning" and Hill applauding
the president. ones breath is fairly
taken away. indianapolis News.
1t begins to look as If the senate sugar
trust Investigation were being held as a
club to Keep certain senators in line on
the tariff NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
fhe country will soon conclude that
as between Mckinley and German 1t is
between the devil and the deap sea, with
Mckinley in the water rOle.-St. Louis
Republic.
Mr.. Cleveland apparently has not the
slightest hesitation in assuming to be
better than the portion of his party TO
be found in the United States senate
Washington Star.
The only point upon which the senate
and the hoase agree seems to be that the
retention of the Mckinley law is likely
To be the result of the pending contest.
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
- fhe sleepy United States senate is
having some life infused into 1t just
bow, and its proceedings will soon elicit
the interest or the people as much as
those of the house. -Toledo Bee.
1t is rather likely spectacle, this
heroic attempt of Smith, he of the SEN
ate, from New Jersey, In the attitude of
a protection Ajax defying free-trade
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
The senate must realize by this time
that the whole country is against it in
its attempt to foist upon the people
tariff not much less oppressive and
ruinOus than the existing Mckinley
law.-New York Herald.
Strange that senators who protest so
angrily over the interference of the
president in favor of honest legislation
should have submitted SO quietly to the
interference of the trusts TO secure dis
honest legiSlation.-St. Louis P0st-Dis-
patcn.
There are yet some angry speeches to
be made. but when it comes to asSum-
ing personal responsibility for the de-
feat of all tariff legislation, there cannot
be many protesting Democrats who will
care to face the Philadelphia
Times.
ments and provoked autagoniSIns which
bid fair to ind parallel only III the
bumptious attempts of Andrew john
son to force upon congress his recon-
struction policy Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette.
II the United States senators wish to
retain some high tariff features in the
new bill let them put prohibitiye duty
on Imported revolutionary anarchists.
There will be no partisanship i'll the
country's approval of such all act
Boston Globe.
There is Democratic fight on in the
United States senate. 1t is an old say
lGg that Democratic nights always result
in more Democrats. After the exchange
of hard knocks a man has more respect
Tor his adversary than he had before
Philadelphia Record.
The senate has been sublimely in
different to the wishes of the people SO
far, but if they are drilled by bot sun
they may possibly hurry matters up.
Our hope rests III the fact that Wash
lugton is mighty uncomfortable place
in August.-New York Telegram.
1t is lime for Democratic senators to
abandon their caucus combination to
defeat Democratic principles and vote
Senators Jones, Vest, Gray and men
like them ought 10 be glad TO recede
froID the sugar schedule. They cannot
fUrce it Oil the eounIry.-New York
World.
1t is evident that the Democratic sena-
tors are hot yet ready to follow the
wise counsel given by the great national
leader of their party. We do not, how
ever, al all despair of an ultimate soft
ening OF their obstinacy under the
pressure of the situation and the wrath
of the Democratic masses. - Boston
Herald.
The president under, rather than over
states the case, and when he inquiries
how The party can face the people after
iudulgiDg i'll such Outrageous dlscrim-
lnations and violations of principle" he
but echoes question that has been
asked by all honest Democrats ever
since the senate laid its hands On the
bill.-Brooklyn Eagle.