The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-05-26
THE SPARR|NG
STATESMEN \
Senators Harris and HOar Entertain Their
Colleagues.
MR.. BLANCHARD ALSO finds FAULT
A Debate Between the Members from
MASSACHUSETTS and Tennessee Gre
ates Laughter MIR. Blanchard Ac-
cuses Member of Pharisaism.
Louisiana Ideas of Sugar Bounty.
The Drum Major Conciliated- La
bors in the House.
WASHINGTON. D. G.. Nav 25.

UST before the tariff bill wa,
taken up In the senate today
nj there was something Of the ma
" ture OF scene between Senators
Hoar and Harris. Mr.. Hoar rep.
Mass } was about to make II correction
of the journal, when Mr.. Harris, Ten
nessee, rose to insist upon consideration
of the tariff bill Il will yield the
floor in ten seconds Mr.. Hoar pleaded.
Il hope he will and In less than ten
seconds, Mr.. Harris put in curtly.
Il think the senator from Tsnnes-
see" Mr. Hoar retorted sharply,
carries his feeling toward other sen.
ators too far. He is in charge of this
bill, to which am about to address
myself And he constantly, out of
order, thrusts in his angry, peremptory
and (although not Intentionally iiscour-
teous) prac tically discourteous lectur es
on other senators. l hope that will
stop"
will the Senator allow me-" Mr..
Harris asked.
Il will,' Mr.. Hoar answered.
"The tariff bill, said Mr.. Harris i'm q.
pressively, us the thing now before
the senate. The senator from Massa-
chusetts is violating the rules of the
senate, or at least the universal under
standing. And in view of the conduct
of the senator from Massachusetts, the
senator from Tennessee owes him less
courtesy than he owes any other sena.
tor"
''The senator from Tennessee" Mr.
Hoar rejoined with caustic bitterness,
"if he owes courtesy to the senate, or
to one senator, will be bankrupt, be-
cause he does not possess enough of it
to pay one mill or the thousandth part
OF one mill on the dollar of that DEBT. "
Laughter
Mr.. Harris was In the act of reply
ing when the vice. president raped for
order, and continued rapping until the
scene came to close.
LOUISIANA PROTEST.
Mr.. Blanchard, Louisiana, talked
against the Republican senator from
Delaware. (Mr. Higgins), and accused
him of Pharisaism in thanking God.
the other day. that he did not get his
ideas from the South. But the main
point of his speech was in defense of
the sugar schedule in the bill. On that
point he was met by Mr.. Aldricb with
the reminder that he had voted re-
Gently in the house to put sugar on the
free list, and to abolish the sugar
bounty; and it was insinuated by the
Rhode leland senator that the two
Louisiana senators would, under party
exigencies. vote again for a bill that
would do these things.
Later in the day the amende honor.
able was made by MIR. Hoar, Massa-
chusetts, to Mr., Harris, Tennessee, for
having disrespectfully referred to him
the day before as q drum major" not
general.
An earnest an impassioned speech
was made by Mr.. Teller. Colorado, who
took the position that the tariff bill
would neither benefit nor injurs the
country to the extent that its friends
and enemies predicted, and that the
only remedy for the present depression
was q return to the double standard
with the mints open to gold and silver
at ratio of 16to1.
The actual progress made in the con-
sideration of the tariff bill was gres ter
than any other previous day, some
thirty-five paragraphs having been
disposed of.
THE OMNIBUS RESOLUTION.
This was private bill day in the
house and the entire session was de-
voted thereto. in committee of the
whole. One bill for the relief of
Thomas B. Reed, an officer in the
Pennsylvania Troops during the war,
was ordered to be favorably reported
to the house. The rest Of the day was
spent upon what is known as "The
Omnibus resolution. being resolution
referring 81 bills in bunch to the
court of claims.
The house took a recess until s
o'clock, the evening session being for
the consideration Of private pension
and relief bills.