The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-30
BEN T|LLMAN TALKS
Delivers a Highly Dramatic and
Sensational Speech.
A TORRENT OF INvECTivE
He Fearlessly Arraigned Men
in High Places.
COMMITTEE REPORTS ON CUBA
Veteran Members Characterize Till
mans Speech as One of the Most
Remarkable Ever Delivered
in the Senate.

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in the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 29.-The presenta-
ton of committee reports on Cuba, and
a highly dramatic and sensational
speech form Mr.. Tillman, the new
Senator from South Carolina, furnish
ed two stirring events in the Senate
to-day.
The majority resolution on Cuba,
presented be the Chairman, Nh. Morgan,
asks the President to urge Spain to
grant belligerent rights to the insnr-
gents while the minority report offer
ed by MIR. Cameron, directs the presi-
dent to take steps toward securing
from Spain the complete independence
of Cuba. Both resolutions went to the
Senate calendar.
Such a torrent Of inyectiye has sell
dom been heard in the Senate as that
in the speech of Mr.. Tillman. Veteran
member of the body characterized the
speech as one of the most remarkable
in the history of the upper branch of
Congress. 1t abounded in statements
of a sensational character, arraigning
President Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle
and other men in high places. There
was a directness of statement and a
dramatic manner of delivery which
awed the galleries. The gestures of the
Senator we're used frequently in act
ing his words. At one point he made
a profound salute and tipped his hat
to Sherman, as the financial victor of Il
quarter of a century. The galleries
were moved alternately 10 applause
and laughter.
pausing for a sip of water, amid
roars of laughter he remarked, u sell
dom wet my whistle while | speak;
still you can't run a wind mill on wa
ter" The next moment there was a
hush through the chamber, as the SEN
ator applied such names as Judas" 10
a member of the Cabinet or character
lied the President in superlative Bit
terness.
At times the Senator's voice sank to
a whisper, as, for instance when he
gave warning of the approach of pop
ular revolution and communism and
the marching on Washington of host
with rifles in their hands. Again his
voice resounded though the chamber
and the outer corridors as he called
Senators and members towards" for
not resorting to impeachment.
Mr.. Tillman began by saying that he
would use plain Anglo-Saxon, the lam
guage of the common people, for he
was one of them. He spoke bitterly of
the essay reading indulged in by Sena-
tors. He referred to the statement
of the Senator from Ohio tSherman), (,
that the silver question had been
thrashed out, saying: Yes, it has been
thrashed by the spectators but not
n fa - far ha xRafII6
thrash ii again, taking up the whole
subject on pitchfork, ready, if need
be. to uncover the manure likely to be
found.
"Mr. President he said, ''it is not
saving too much, and / feel warranted
in charging that the arrangement of
our finances, and all this cry about
sound money and maintaining the
honor and credit of the United States,
are all part and parcel of damna
BILE scheme of robbery, which had for
its object, first, the utter destruction
of silver as n money metal; second, the
increase of the public debt by the
issue of bonds payable in gold; and
third, the surrender to corporations
the power TO issue all paper money
and give them a monopoly of that
function"
Senator Tillman refs4g4ss 10 the
Sherman silver law in 1850, and in this
connection said: s"rhe silver Republi-
cans of the West who had deserted the
silver Democrats of the South, and ac-
cepted the compromise offered by Sen
ator Sherman, may take warning as to
what faith or trust they can put in
any utterances or actions of the Sena-
tor from Ohio as TO legislation in re-
gard to our finances. The time for
another Presidential election approach
es. They must understand that the
election of any man to the Presidency
who would veto a free coinage bill
means defeat. 1t means more; it
means continued disaster to our in
,dustries and increased poverty to the
masses of our people"
Under the Sherman law he ccn-
tinued, 'there was a diminution Of the
amount of free gold in a gradually de-
creasing scale, but not enough to cause.
any alarm. During the entire year of
1891, and the entire year 1892, there
was approximately as much gold as
there was during 1894 and 1895.
IF the secret history of the year
1892 shall ever be written, it will dis
close the fact that, which cannot be
proven now, but of which / have not
the slightest doubt, that the gold ring
of New York, which embraces nearly
all the bankers in the Eastern and Mid
die States, and the stock gamblers of
Wall street, controlled the presidential
nominations of both the Democratic
and Republican parties, and had an
understanding with the managers of
both the candidates themselves in re-
gard TO which policy should be pur-
sued towards our finances. They con-
tributed money for the booming of Mr..