The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-15
HILL ROASTS G0RMAN
A Red Hot Session Of the United States
Senate.
DEMOCRATS ARE DIVIDED
The Maryland Senator Finds small
Comfort in His Defense of the
Administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland.

been transferred 10 luo seudtS heiS |
that body the center of interest at the
capitol. The galleries were again well
filed to-day. in anticipation of develop
ments in the way of speeches as an indi-
cation of the probable course of the ma
| jorty.
| After routine business Senator Stewart
resumed the speech begun Saturday.
| Stewart spoke of the extent to which the
banks controlled congress, political con-
ventions, telegraph companies and the
| press. The banks always maintained
! lobby in congress. They dominated ma
tional conventions, republican, demo-
| cratic and populist, and secured the nom-
ination of their friends. There had been
bank rule in the administration Tor 70
years.
German quoted from the report or the |
the condition of the treasury Jan. II, |
showing that tho deficit since July i, 1891, |
or the "excess of expenditure" as Carlisle
called II, was S34, 90, 900 on Jan. II. Car
Isle, while the tariff bill was pending, had
estimated the receipts under the senate
bill for the ensuing fiscal year at S36o,OOO,-
O0J and the expenditures at sS13,OO,OOJ,
or a deficit of Sl5,O0o,00o. The dehcit was
already double that sum and the year was
but half over. German spoke OF the diff
Guilty of making accurate prognostica-
tions and declared that, in his opinion,
the secretary ought not to be held TO his
figures.
But" said he. addressing the demo-
cratic side, "you cannot afford to trino
with tho situation. You must maintain,
, without party divisions, the honor and
, integrity of the government
''We are raising moro taxes from our
people than from customs duties" said
: German. mot enough revenue is being
raised from tho customs to pay the
. pensions. The bulk of taxation is now
, being LEVIED within our own borders. The
: customs revenue will he many millions
c short of tho $1i0.OO0,0O0 required for
4 pensions. Can wo reduce the eNpendl-
B.; lures? Ianswer, no. In 1892 the pension
$ budget reached Sls0,OJ0,OO0, its highest
n point. 1t is now down TO SllO,OOO,OJo ana
will diminish as the old soldiers
die. 1t will average S125 100000 for tho
next 10 years. The expenditures Tor
postal service, the navy and rivers ana
harbors, must go on. The senator from
Pennsylvania, Quay, has said that tue
democratic party has been rebuked and
Is turned out of power. i think the senator
" from Colorado, Teller, stated the case on
~ Saturday last when, addressing his repuo-
70 lican colleagues, he warned them that the
n republican party had been swept into
y mower last fall, not because the people
* had overconfidence in that party, but be-
IS causo in their present distress they would
have removed any party from power.
W "You will come into power on March
y 4th next said G prman, "under circum
a. stances more favorable than We did. We
have removed many OF tho obstrucuons
ne from your path. You will have in th'
- house a big majority, as we have now, anC
er i'm the senate a majority as big as ours
u' for ours hangs but by n thread. say t'
10 the senator from Pennsylvania, when h'
and his colleagues meet tho question tina
&c confronts us now, ] will treat him and hi
" friends in spirit different from tina
~ which he manifested towards us. Wi
N0 say to him with any question ailectin
the finances of the government, that an
cs proposition TO prevent the bankruptcy o
oi tho government or to give tho country
nc sound currency, We will help you throug
'S' in tho hour of peril although you refuse'
., aid to us"
." Aldrich said: "As tho senator fron
"a MARYLAND says, there is a possibility h
ou will he on the republican side OF tn
y" chamber after March 4, let me ask him
- We will have the president with us afte
for that date?'
- German paused for a moment and the
- i'm eloaueut terms declared tho presideT
"a of the United States could be depende
'nd upon to meet any emergency presented
him with a patriotism uninfiuenced b
ro- party feeling.
10 "Let mo suggest" said Hale, th'
o.. while the senator from Maryland place
the responsibility on this side OF Il
no chamber after March 4, yet tho admins
~ tratiye branch of the government remain
- with the democrats. Now, wnen the SCI
IL ator says the president will patriotical
'0 ioin US in preparing a remedy, does
mean to say that the president will a
III prove such bill for raising the reven'
as this side of the chamber may prepare
We have our own idea "a TO how th
~ revenue should be raised. IL is part of q
- republican policy of protection. Now,
the senator authorized to say the pre-
,s,, dent will help us in defeating this mes
Tba ure:'
German disclaimed any authority
ho speak for the president or TO indicate I
course, but if tho republican congrei
g. after March 4, meets this grave reSpor
biIity with patriotism unsweryed by par
feeling, he felt confident that every ma
- from the president down to tho humble
- man in the party. would help IN securI
80 that end.
- Aldrich then suggested that CORN
- had pointed out that tho governing
needed more revenue.
~ And now what remedy does the ser
80 tor propose - asked Aldrich.
--,,J .,The first thing to do Is 20 pass tho
go propriation forcollecting the income Ia
X aid German. "For one, l am cOnyIuC
ttc the masses of the people who compT
\, Of the brawu and s.uew OF thc~land, "
4 re- love Justice and honest dealing, the ?
the pie whom Lincoln said could not DC 700
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