The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-16
4 CLASH OF PARTIES.
Mr.. Allen Stands on His
Own Platform.
WHICH HE MADE HIMSELF.
Senator George Says Mean Things
About POpuliSts.
THUNDER STOLEN FROM DEMOCRACY.
There Was a Scene in the Senate, Full
Of Quiet Amusement to the
Senator's.
THUNDER STOLEN FROM DEMOCRACY.

income tax served as text for a wide
range of discussion on the tariff, currency
and the Populist platform. Hills propo-
sition, made last week, to amend the def
cheney bill so that the income tax would be
tested in the courts has apparently started
an inexhaustible flow of speeches on public
affairs in general Mr.. CockreIl, in charge
of the deficiency bill, has sought vainly to
secure a vote on the Hill amendments, so
the bill might move along to final passage.
He hoped to secure action to-day, but the
speeches of Call of Florida and Allen of
Nebraska made this impossible. Allen
took occasion to defend the Populist party
against many charges made in and out of
Congress that it was party of vagaries.
This led to very full discussion of all
Populist doctrines and a comparison of
them with the doctrines of other parties.
A touching reference was made in Chap
lain Millburn's opening prayer to the
bereavement of Senator Hansbrough of
North Dakota in the loss of his wife
Voorhees,, from the Finance Committee,
favorably reported bill for coinage at the
branch Mint at Denver.
Manderson secured the passage of resolu-
tons calling on the Secretary of the Treas
ury for information on the tariff. One
resolution asks for the quantities of spirits
and high wines taken out of bond
during the sixty days before August %
last, when the new tariff law took effect,
names of parties or concerns who took
goods from bond, and all other detailed
information concerning the same. The
other resolution calls on the Secretary for
full information as to the amount Of sugar
imported during sixty days prior to August
%, names Of importers, amount of imports,
the country whence it came, etc.
Quay submitted statement from the
stockbooks OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company showing that the income tax
would fall only on stockholders having
small amounts of stock. 1t gave the total
number of stockholders as 5000, while more
than 70 per cent of this number had in
tereSts below $4,000. Quay said the show
ing of this company was undoubtedly the
same as that of other corporations.
Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska spoke of the
fact that German and the Senator from
Iowa (Allison) were now announcing to
the country their readiness to get together
on plan for raising revenue, although the
parties of these two leaders had been irrec-
oncilably separated on the revenue ques-
ton for twenty-five years. He said a con-
siderable element on the Democratic side
of the Senate were as essentially protec-
tionists as the Senators on the other side.
It was merely difference of degree in
their protection. This common feeling
was the reason the Senate had witnessed
yesterday the remarkable spectacle of
Democrats and Republicans falling on
each others necks and INDUCING in love
feast.
Allen yielded for the submission OF
message from the President concerning
the arrest of two Japanese students in
China while they were under the protec-
ton of the United States.
Resuming, Allen urged that the two old
parties had served their periods of useful
ness and that the Populist party, repre-
senting the masses, was the party Of the
future. It had cast a million votes in
1893, and two million in 1894, showing the
phenomenal growth of 100 per cent. 1t
had no "vagaries" as Senators had as
serted, unless it was the sub-treasury
scheme, and this was not believed in by
the great majority of Populists. Allen
read the Populist platform adopted at
Omaha, and commenting on it stated that
the Populists believed in the election of
United States Senators by the people.
Chat doctrine" interrupted George of
Mississippi, twas embodied in resolution
by Democratic House of Representatives
before the Populists were thought of. 1t
will be found that whatever is good in the
Populist platform was taken from Demo
cratic principles"
Another Populist accession from the
Democratic ranks" said Allen.
mo, not an accession" declared George.
''The Populists are following Democrats,
not Democrats following Populists. Give
me your national platform and I will point
out the planks taken from Democracy"
George took the Populist platform and
awaited an opportunity to comment on it.
A sharp controversy arose, when George
secured recognition on the point that the
platform submitted by Allen was not the
authorized platform of the Populist party;
that it was ''made up out of the Senator's
head" and that it omitted the sub-treas-
ury scheme and Government ownership of
railroads. Allen, however, insisted that
he had not claimed that the paper submit
ted was the Populist platform.
George commented sharply on the action
of Senator in giving the authority of his
name to platform purporting to embody
Populist doctrine and yet carefully and de-
signedly emitting Government ownership
of railroads and other doctrines adopted
by the Populist national convention. There
was spirited exchange between the Sena-
tors, and as George insisted on holding the
Senator to the fact he had undertaken to
issue his own Popuist platform, and Allen
charged George with "hedging and dodg-
ing" the galleries and the few Senators
present listening with evident amusement.
Continuing his speech Allen defended
the Populist party against the charge of
socialism and anarchy.
Cockrell gave notice that he would insist
on final disposition of the deficiency bill
tomorrow. The Senate then held brief
executive session and at AS P. NJ. adj
journed.