The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 08, 1894, Image 1
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BLAND WINS THE TIGHT.
A yiJOitUM MADR ANI) IiOST.
Ail I'vciting Scene in Congress? j
Speaker Crisp Coinrs Out liest in I
n lilt With Ivv-Speaker ilectl.
Washington, Fob. 28.?Bland moved
that the House go into committee
of the whole upon his seigniorage bill
a id that general debate be closed at .'5
o'clock on Thuradav. On ?>>" 1
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the vote by division was 127 to 19.
Traooy made tlio point of no quorum
uml tho ,\ens and nays were called.
Before the result of tho vote was announced,
Livingston (Dom.) of Georgia
said ho desired to submit a motion.
Uule 8, ho said, required members
present unless excused, to vote upon
ov<jr$ proposition presented to tlie
House. Tho gentleman from New
York (Traeey) bad refused to vote aud
he demandod that ho be brought before
the bar of the llouso and explain his ;
refusal to vote. Johnson (l)om.) of
Ohio said he had a list of twenty-live
members who had violated tho rule,
which ho offered to send to tho desk.
The chair stated that tho rule was
well known. Tho eluiir could not enforce
tho rule otherwise than by appealing
to members to observe it. Tho
chair was but tho organ of the House
and would never make a rule unless
, authorized and directed so to do by t he
llouso. (Applause.)
Hoatnor (boiu.) of Louisiana argued
in support of Mr. Livingston's motion.
It was, he said, an effort to bring a
member to answer to a wilful contempt
and violation of the rules. Tho House
ought to determine hero and now
whether or not a member can defy its
*08.
The chair stated that under tho rules :
it. vrno li i-j A
.v. ...... .mi) m iiniiouiM.'u n113 resuii
of u vote. Tho result was: Yens 169; j
nays .">; f> short of a quorum. It was j
said that five supporters of Bland fail- j
od to get their votes in, because tnoy ;
were not in the hall of tho House when
culled. Those, in addition to those recorded,
would have made a quorum.
Clancy and Manner of tho New York i1
delegation, who had heretofore refrained
from voting, voted in favor of 1
tho proposition.
These proceedings had been watched
with tho keenest interest by members. j
and especially Republicans, as, having
within them the possibility of historymaking.
When tho chair announced 1
tho vote, however, and tho incident
was over, the humdrum of routine was
resumed, and the members who had
been eagerly crowding into the pit in 1
front of the clerk's desk, faded rapidly
away. 1
Mr. Bland moved a cull of the Ilouso. ?
On this motion there was lirst a viva 1
voce vote, then a vote by division,
third a voto by tellers?Bland and 1
Reed ollieiating?and Anally a voto by
yOUS and nays. The latter resulted: ]
Yeas 189: nays 4. So tho call was ordered.
It showed 2<i."> members prosent
and responding to their namos. On
tho motion to dispense with furthor
nn >< , 1 i mr< imil.'i' t.lu> I'M lonrl 11 ? t hi-? 1
I same proceeduro was followed?four !
separate votes being taken, ending '>
with the yeas and nays. Tho call ro- <
suited : Yeas 18d: nays .'i, tlius dispen- 1
sing with further proceedings.
I Hand renewed ins motion and the
yeas and nays woro called. As tho roll
eall proceeded, it became apparent to
many that a quorum would bo obtained
and members keeping tally crowdod 1
about the clerk's desk. Tracoy (Dem.) '
of .Now York occupied the scat, which '
for two weeks past, ho has kopt tally
with the clerk on roll calls, closely fol- ?
having tho responses to the call. When !
it was determined that a quorum had '
been obtained on the second eall of the '
roll, Tracoy voted aye, amid slight ap- }
plaiisu from tho Democratic sido, his 1
purpose being, as afterward appeared, I
to move a reconsideration. 1 ho an- i
nouncoinont of the voto by the Speak- '
or, 177 yeas to 7 nays, evoked a round '
of hearty applause from Democrats and '
1 'opu lists.
Outhwaito (Dem.) of Ohio and Tra- '
coy (Dem.) of Now York were on their
feet demanding recognition, the former '
a. . . .. 4 ,i n /\txl .i m f iwi tit 4 b /i i?lf . )
IU [HM'SUIll Jin ui uur ii inn i?uu uuiuututoo
on rules limiting debate on the '
ponding bill and amendments to two <
hours and the latter to move a recon- <
sideration of tiio vote just taken. Outh- <
waite was Ijiven the lloor and tho i
Speaker stated, after putting tho quegi
tion, that Traccy hud intorposod a 1110- 1
tlon to rooonsidor. i
Outhwaito demandod the previous
question on his motion, but the yeas
and nays woro ordered without a dl- i
vision. After a name or two had boon <
called. Heed precipitated an angry dis- '
cussion. which in intensity equalled '
tho scenes in tho Fifty-first Congress,
when Speaker Hood was counting quorums.
Tho gentleman from Maine sug- i
gestod that a roll call was out of order, i
inasmuch as the last vote did not dis- <
closo the presence of a quorum <
The Speaker?By what authority 1
does the gentleman make that state- i
ment?
Heed?I am informed by tho gentloman
from Now York (Tracey) that ho
kept a tally and that it did not show a
quorum voting.
Tho Speaker?Tho gentleman from 1
Now York is not the keeper of tho roll
of tho House. (Applause.) Tho clerk
I will proceed with tho roll call. I
Heed persisting, umind cries of "ro.rnh.r
order.'' stated that when a mom
H " ? '
her arose and suggested that an error
hud been committed, he was entitled
to rospeetful treatment from tho chair
and from the House.
The Speaker?J las not tho gentleman
had it'/ There has been no suggestion
that tho vote had been impeached by
tho gentleman from New York. If
one was made, tho chair will bo glad
to have it examined in the interests of
right and truth.
While this colloquy was proceeding,
tho members rushed down tho aisles
to the centre, and Outhwaito and Me
Millin ;n.) of Tennessee assortod
that UV*>?y had accepted tho validity
and cZ- rectness of the voto by moving
to re<* aider it. Ilis romody was to
have voto recapitulated,'and this
ho had\ 'od to do.
Tho '.eion became so great, morn- i
bors shWu ng at each other and tho |
I chair, that the Speaker suspended proceedings
until comparative order was
restored by members taking their
seats.
Reed, resuming, stated that he had
boon out of tho hall while tho roll was j
being called, atteading a mooting of
tho committoo on rules, at whioh he
I understood ho was to hav'e an oppor?
fcunity to bo heard on the order reI
.
p>rtod, and of course, did not know
, what had occurred. The gentleman
from Now York (Tracoy) had informed
him that a quorum had not been voted
and knowing that gentleman had beon
keeping tally for a number of days
without making an error, lie was so
much impressed witli the statement of
the gentleman that ho felt it to ho his
duty to call the attention of the chair
and the House to it, that the error
might bo corrected, if 0110 hud been
made.
Mo Mi 11 in (Doin.) of Tonnoaseo declared
that tho gentleman from NewYork
should speak for himself and not
by proxy.
Meredith (Dom.) of Virginia: Mr.
Speaker, there lias been a comodv of
errors lu>pi*. jm,l ?*?? ? !??<*>.,
New York has beou in error for sumo
weeks unci is in error now.
Mr. Tracey endeavored to make himself
heard, and finally succeeded. He
said that it was a matter of but little j
moment. A quorum would be secured
in any event, he conceded. But he
hud kept what he believed to be a correct
tally, and it showed but 174 votes.
But he would not undertake to impeach
the accuracy of the ofllcial count,
whereupon the storm subsided and the :
roll call proceeded. When the letter j
"T" was reached there was a slight
squall. Heed called tho attention of j
the chair to the fact that tho clerk, |
aftor calling Talbert of South Carolina,
returned and called Stockdale of Mis- i
sissippi, which, ho said, was out of j
order. The Speakor coincided with the I
gentleman from Maine, who continued I
from the floor: "It is decidedly out of '
order. Tho clerks have no right to interest
themselves in tho votes of gentlemen
on thy. floor, to back up their
action. But it is only a part of what !
we havo boon having right along."
Springer [Bern.] of Illinois stated
that Mr. Stockdalo had responded
when his name was called. Speaker
Crisp directed tho clerk not to return j
to a name after it had been passed; it j
was not in order.
Outhwaito's demand for the previous ]
question was seconded 170 to 10?and
again the friends of the pending bill j
expressed their pleasure at tho rosult I
by vigorous hand-clapping.
On the passage of the order the vote ,
on the division was ayes 145, nays none, i
Tho ayes and nays were ordered. Be- i
fore tho call had proceeded far, howover,
Burrows and Reed criticised the j
methods of tho reading clerks. Burrows
said tho roll was really called
four times, every name being repeated ,
on each roll call. Reed called attention
to the fact that the calling was ir- j
regular, some names heiiur <>n.llnrl i
others twieo, and some three times,
until the clerk forces an answer. There
was no authority for this, they contended.
Tho Sneaker stated that he did not j
know how tho practice hud grown up. i
but over sinco ho had been in the !
Llouso tho names had been called twice, I
when the members failod to answer.
Tho philosophy of the rule, lie supposed
to be that, with tho least necessary
delay, overy member should have j
in opportunity to vote, and a repetition
>f the name was probably the best
method of securing that end.
The voto resulted; Yeas 105, nays
II?three less than a quorum?and at
I o'clock, on motion of Outhwaite, tho
House adjourned until noon tomorrow.
Tho establishment of a quorum in I
the House this afternoon ended one of
the most celebrated and extended filibustering
contests of late years.
The Bland seigniorage bill was callad
up in the House on tho bth inst.,
ind uebatod generally for several days.
Jn tho 13th the opponents of tho bill i
began to filibuster by refusing to an- ;
jwor to tho roll calls, thus preventing i
tho presence of u quorum. Tho Re- j
publicans, under the leadership of
Lleed of Maino, refrained from voting, I
with tho exception of a few Koproscn- i
tatives from the West, who favor the j
Freo coinage of silver. The ranks of |
the Republicans were reinforced by all j
tho Democrats from Now York and
New England, with a few scattering I
voios irom noino 01 tno otlior Northern
States cast of the Mississippi. On the
vote by which Bland secured a quorum
m his motion to take up the bill for
consideration, the following Republicans
voted with the Democrats and the
Populists in the affirmative: Aitkeu,
Bowers of California, Broderick, Doolittlo,
Ellis of Oregon, Funston, Hartman,
Herman, Hilborn, Lacy, Lucas,
Marsh, Pickler, Settle and Sweet?lf>.
Clancy, Cuuunings, Haines, Magner
find Traeey, New York Democrats,
niso voted in tlio affirmative?Traccy
to move a reconsideration. The negative
votes comprised Cuusoy, McAloer,
Mutchler, Pago, Pigott, Husk and
Kyan?all Democrats. At o'clock this
afternoon, when the presence of a quorum
was established, the crowd was so
denso that the doors could not be
(closed and scores of persons stood in
the corridors outside, unable even to
see the floor beneath. Many of the
visitors wore strangers in tho city.
HOW A PRESIDENT WORKS.
CLEVELAND'S 1>All.Y ROUTINE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Sixteen Hours a Day During the
Week?(iocs to Church on Sunday
and Then Romps Willi Ruth.
Rone llacho in Washington Star.
Who would not enjoy being President
of tho United States just for one
day ?
Well, it is all a mattor of taste. Tf
you like work and worry for sixteen
hours at a stretch you might iind tho
experience agrooablo. For tho sake
of illustration, take a typical day as it
is spent by Mr. Cleveland.
At exactly 8 a. m. tho President
gets out of bed. IIo is a rapid dresser
and shaves himself, though Uncle Sam
providos him vith a colored valet,
borne on tho pay rolls as a messengor,
who is a tonsor la I expert. Ho is all
ready when, half an hour later, Sinclair
announcos breakfast. Sinclair
is Mr. Glovoland's family butlor. His
most conspicuous characteristic is discretion.
VVhen a newspaper men asks
him for any information, no matter
how trifling, ho replios: "Our foiks
do uot like publicity." Just at prosont
he is a government omploye, acting as
steward of the White House.
Tho President escorts his wifo down
to the oozy private dinning room. It is
a haudsomo but not pretentious apartment,
with two enormous sideboards,
fllleid with complete services of solid
silver and gold. Mrs. Cleveland sits
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opposite her husband at a circular
table, and pours out his coflfoo with
her own fuir hands, In tho middle of
tho board is a great bouquet of rare
orchids from tho conservatories of the
Kxoouttve Mansion. Sinclair, mute
and observant, waits, assisted by a
i menial inferior rank, who fete he
whatever may be wanted from the
pantry adjoining1.
Mr. Cleveland's cup, of generous
si> iv is lilff* ??ti iMftruiinll PnnKuliI*' ii
j j - * -v ?. a 1vvui/1j iv
coulcl not bo duplicated of broken for
1 $100. It is one pieoo in u set of chlnu
' made to order for the White House,
' which cost $5,000. His wutcr tumbler
is cut glass of the most costly sort.
The napkin with which ho wipes his
lips is big us u towel and of the finest
linen thut can be spun. IIo is helped to
hum and eggs of which he is very fond,
from a dish of massive silver, with the
Amorican eagle engraved upon it.
Sinclair is under bond of $-0,000 to
| properly care for these expensive uppurtonauces
but he is not responsible
for reasonable breakage.
TilK WORK OF THE DAY.
Breakfast over, the President goes
upstairs and on ioys a few minutes conversation
with Little Ruth and Baby
Esther in Mrs. Cleveland's boudoir.
I (is watch tells him at length that
the hour for work has arrived, and he
loaves the private apartments and the
pleasures of domesticity to enter the
olllcial wing of the White House and
take up the affairs of state. At 9:110
he is seated in a big leathorcoverod
chair at tho desk in his ollico, and
Private Secretary Thurber comes in
with his morning's budget.
For an hour already Mr. Thurber i
has been busy with tho morning's
mail, which consits of 300 to hMt
letters. Early in the administration,
when office seekers were more active, |
1,500 was not an unusual batch. A few
epistles, evidently of a private nature,
he puts aside. Those which do not
appear to be of any special importance j
ho sends to the executive clerk, who i
dictates replies to a stenographer.
Others he roads, reserving for the
President's eye such of them as require
his attention. Of these last there may
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uu iv uu/'Uii wr t v> ? 11iy.
Tho bulk of liis correspondence is
novor soon by Mr. Cleveland. If lie
tried to uttcml to it all himself ho
would lmvo no time for anything' olse.
Civil answers are sent to courteous ;
communications. Autographs of tho
President and his wife are mailed to
most people who ask for them. Mis- i
sives from palpable cranks are thrown
into tho waste basket. The whole of
this business is accomplished without
oven bothering thoehiof magistrate for
instructions. The same remark applies
to a majority of tho letters addressed
by strangers to Mrs. Cleveland.
It is one of the penalties of her
popularity that she is appealed to for
advice and for holp by people all over
tho United States whom she has never
seen or heard of.
An hour and a half is the time available
for going over the selected letters
with Mr. Thurber and for giving instructions
on alTairs of immediate importance.
At II if the day be Tuesday
or Friday, tho cabinet meets.
Each Secretary has a budget of business
to lay before tho President, comprising
matters which only he can
pass on and decide. It is ant to be 2
or .'J p. in. before everything is disposed !
of und thoeonferoneo adjournes. Then
Mr. Cleveland goes to lunch?too lute,
of course, to moot his wife at that !
meal, which he outs in solitary state.
Mrs. Cleveland usually chooses those
days for the ladies' luncheons which
she gives frequently during tho season.
WORK AFTER DINNER.
After lunch the President goes back
to the oftico and works until 7 o'clock,
which is dinner time. Gen. Harrison
always put on evening dress for tho
formal meal of tho day ; but, as a rule,
Mr. Cleveland performs that ceremony
only when there is company. Dinner :
over, he and his wife have a half
hour's romp with the children. JLiuth
is getting big enough now to appreciate
larks. Then tho father of the
family returns to his desk and resumes
his toil, which continues until long
after midnight?often until 2 or a.
m. When it is considered that all of
tho departments are constantly engaged
in preparing matters for him to
determine and that ovey question that
comes up in Congress must reach him
sooner or later for consideration and
decision, it will be understood that
leisuro is out of tho question for him.
Ho is tho man from whom all things
emanate and in whom all things center,
so lur as tne government of the people
of the United States is concerned. It
is said tliat lie is the hardest worker
that has over occupied the chair of
chief executive. Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, from 10 to 1, Mr.
Cleveland receives Congressmen and
others who come on business. Notwithstanding
much mistaken talk in
the newspapers, itepiesentatives and
Senators who call at those hours do
not have any difficulty in seeing the
President, and it is not demanded of
them that they shall state their business
in advance to the private secretary.
Monday is always a " field day,"
on which the chief magistrate sees no
callers, devoting the time to clearing
his desk of accumulated departmental
business, papers relating to appointments,
applications for pardons, &c.
On three days in every week he devotes
an hour to receiving the general public
in the east rooms.
IIKDGHD IN MY GUARDS.
On these occasions the President is
always in more or less danger of an
attempt on his life by somo murderous
crank. Accordingly ho is fairly
hedged in by guaras. Tho captain of
the Whito llouso watch stands at his
right hand, while opposite him are
stationed two other stalwart mon.
All three are armed with six shooters,
which thoy would not hesitate to use
if called upon. Through tho passage
thus formed by Mr. Cleveland and his
protectors the crowd proceeds in
single tile, each person roceiving a
brief grasp and shako of tho hand.
Meanwhile two other policemen,
posted at the front door, have keenly
eyed every applicant for admission.
1 hrough practic they are ablo to dotoot
ft doubtful character at a glance. A
crnnk is readily recognizable nearly
always. It would bo hardly possible
for anybody to make a movement
hostile to the chief oxocutlvo without
being instantly seized and disarmed.
Having greeted the people, tho President
makes two or three steps bock;
ward and disappears through a private
HURSDAV, MARCH 8,
! door into the main corridor of the iuatij
sion.
Mr. Cleveland sees nothing and
i hoars littlo of the bestirs and crunks
who come to demand alms or interviews.
it it hardly possible for any of
iiivmu poopio 10 get \\ ii iiiti speaking
distance of htiu. Thoir letters aro
destroyed, suvo when now ami then u
specimen is doomed sutliciently remarkable
to bo worth adding to the
so-called "crank tile."' The frequent
appeals for loans or gifts of money
which are addressed to the President
by mail never reach him. Persons
who want him to indorse notes or to
help them buy homes waste thier time
in writing to him. lie is not, as some
individuals seem to imagine, in the
{ business of furnishing cash to lift the
mortgages from old family estates
threatened with foreclosure. Applicants
for cups, saucers and other brica-brac,
to remember the Executive
Mansion by, should address their requests,
though not too hopefully, to
Sinclair, the steward.
THIS COUKKSl'ONDKNCK.
Even the telegrams addressed to
Mr. Cleveland rarely get beyond Private
Secretary Thurber. The President,
by the way, conducts most of his 1
daily correspondence with ollloors of
the executive departments by the wire
which connects the latter with the |
White House, lie communicates with
the Capitol in the same manner. A
very laborious part of his business
consists in signing his name to documents.
Early in this administration
an old friend of his spent an hour with
him in his otlieo. At the end of that
timo the visitor remarked: "On the j
whole, Orover, I don't know that 1 !
envy you your job.*' Said Mr. Cleveland
in reply: " You've no call to, >
dim." Another annoyance which the
President has to put up with is indicted
by delegations which visit him from 1
all parts of the country. He has got
to be polite to them, though they take
up much valuluhle timo and bore him
dreadfully. Usually they wish to
urge the claims of candidates for
ofYlces.
On tine days Mr. Cleveland manages
to got out sometimes for a drive, in
which he is always .accompanied by
Mrs. Cleveland. Though ho has five
beautiful carriages, including a landau,
brougham, victoria and phaeton?the
last his wife's own vehicle?he prefers
a surry, which has less style about it
than any of the others. Willis, the
White 1 louse coachman, flrivna
footman goes along to add to the swell
effect of the turnout, though a groom,
available for that purpose, is employed
in the stable. Once in a while the
Resident finds time to go to the theatre.
It was at the urgent recommendation
of James G. Blaine that the
District, Commissioners some years
ago required the theatres of Washington
to adopt electric lights. He insisted
that such a precaution against
liro was much more important here
than in any other city in the country,
because it often happens that a play
is attended by the chief magistrate,
the members of his cabinet and other
conspicuous men on the same night.
Thus a catastrophe of this sort might
actually wipe out at one stroke the
principal men in the nation's affairs,
leaving tho ship of state without captain
or officers.
One day in each week Mr. Cleveland
reserves to himself. Sunday ho devotes
to getting acquainted with his
family and to appropriate amusements.
On that day he does no work unless it
is absolutely necessary. In tho morning
he attends dlvino service at tho
first Prosbytorian Church, lie would
even prefer that friends should not
visit tho White House on this holiday.
Ho is very fond of playing with the
children, though he is not export like
Gon. Harrison in making up bear
stories for the oi.tertuinment of the
little ones. Evon Baby Ruth, however,
is not old onough yet to appreciate
boar stories. Mr. Cleveland is hardly
nimble enought to indulge in pillow
ngnis, at which his predecessor was a
proficient.
Though so hard a worker Mr. Cleveland
hugely enjoys a vacation, lie is
a thoroughgoing sportsman and a very
fair shot. In this respect he is superior
to Gen. Harrison, who on one
melancholy occasion distinguiscd himself
hy knocking over a tamo hog in
mistake for a 'coon. He thinks it
great fun to pop at ducks from behind
a blind, for which amusement the
Chesapeake affords unusual facilities;
hut beyond all things he loves to roll
| for blue-fish. It is not very often that
ho gets time to use the hillard table
which I 'resident Garfield put up in the
basement of the White House, but ho
is fairly expert at the game. lie plays
a good hand at whist and is rather
strong at poker, according to the testimony
of intimate friends who have
contended with him at a small limit.
. mam ?
PRIVATE JOHN ALLEN ON DEOK.
Til 10 MISSISSIPPI HIMOIUST AT
IIIS BEST.
He Scores Fix-Mayor Hewitt for l?efuiiiing
the Soulh?Patterson's Apology
for Southerners is Itepudiatcd.
Representative Allen, of Mississippi,
in the course of a speech last week on
the silver question, made a witty and
eloquent reply to Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of
Now York, and Congre^inan Patterson,
of Tennessee, for their detractions
and doformations of the public men of
tho South. Mr. Allen said :
I was pained beyond measure to read
a few days ago in the public press that !
Hon. Abram Hewitt of Now York did
not regard mo as great as Calhoun, j
Sildoll, Soulo and some of the rest of
those men who preceded mo. (Laughter.)
No, that is a revelation to me.
I had never suspected that I was not as
rri'iiut 11 a t Ikuo mon iitif.il V! ? IF*, tariff
| Haiti ho. (Laughter.)
Mr. Bryan : May bo ho does not know
you personally.
Mr. Alien : That is tho trouble. Ho
does know mo personally. That is
where it stings. (Laughter.) It iw utterly
without excuse. The truth is, I
regard Mr. Hewitt's remark as somewhat
personal to mo, becauso I was to
have spoken at the very dinner at
which he dolivored this spoech. j
(Laughter.) And ono of tho great obistaclos
in my meeting tho approval of
Mr. Hewitt is that; while Mr. Hewitt is
one of tho host of men when ho is
asleep, ho is troubled soino with in!
somnia. (Groat laughter.)
I have ono consolation, when I think
I of myself and the groat majority of lay
I colleagues from the South having in
1894.
I
ourrod his displeasure, and that consolation
grows out of the fact that having
known Ml*. Hewitt for gome yours
and having talked with him freely, I
have never known any man or set of
men who entirely met his approval,
except Mr. Hewitt himself. (Laugh
tor. I ll Ho hud lived in the days when
common scolds were ducked, Mr. Hewitt
would have been drowned before
this. (Laughter.)
Mr. Chairman, the people of the
South have had a great ileal to endure.
I shall not refer to the fact that tl.ey
passed through a terrible war for 1
think that lias been referred to hero
once before. (Laughter.) Hut sir, they
have had a great deal to contend with
since that time. They have had drought
cyclones, simoons, epizootic in the
horses, tuberculosis in the cattle,
cholera among the hogs and the chickens?they
huve hail vurious diseases
and pestilences, they have seen their
crops depreciate, they have had to eontend
with mortgages when they had
no money to pay them, hut throughout
all these trials and tribulations, they
have exhibited something of a bravo
and courageous spirit; and now, just to
think that the one thing cherished
most of all others, the one sustaining
prop that they had amid all these disasters.
the idea that Mr. Hewitt up-J
proved them ? to think that that last
prop is taken away, and that, after all,
Mr. Hewitt does not approve them.
(Laughter.) Why, gentlemen, rather
t han have had this cruel disaster come
upon 1113' peoplo, I would have paid a
silver dollar out of my own pocket.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Chairman, I am sorry to see that
my friend from Tennessee, Col. l'atterson.
is not in his seat, because I
want to say a word to him. He is my
neighbor and my friend. He is an
honest, intelligent, hit I'd working roproBontativo.
L do not know that I
would refer to the matter I am going
to talk about now, if it hud not already
been mentioned in this debate. 1 simply
wish to repudiate, so far as I am
concerned, the apology which the gentleman
from Tennessee is said to have
made for me and my sort in responding
to ex-Mayor Hewitt's speech in
New York lately.
1 have here what purports to be a report
of Col. Patterson's speech. I will
read a few extracts from it. After
stating that the Southern Representatives
in Congress were generally opposed
to the financial view of Now
York, ho went on to make these remarks.
He was speaking in Now York,
and I confess it is right hard for a
man to maintain the parity between a
speech that is acceptable in New York
and one that would be acceptable to his
constituents in Hardeman county, Tennessee.
(Laughter.) lie said: "For
more than twenty years, every State
platform lwis contained a plank for the
free coinage of silver. These men have
been brought up to believe in it without
(|iiestion. They believe it. They
are bound to believe it, just as the
Haptist, the Catholic, or the Presbyterian,
without ever reading in the Hlblo,
is one because his father was. So
these doctrines have become a part of
the Democratic belief thero, and these
fellows have followed them blindly.
(Laughter.) 1 was in the sumo condition
when 1 went to Congress. (Laughter.)
I boliovod in free silver ami lots
of other things." i suppose the gentleman
has ceased to believe anything
now. (Laughter.) ''lint I soon began
to study these things, and under the
leadership of Grover Cleveland, who is
the on'v man in the country who could
havo piloted the ship of State! through
these stormy times, I learned the correct
principles of sound currency.
(Groat laughter.) These other men of
the South are true Democrats and they
love their country." 1 thank him for
that, said Allen. Ho says further:
"They have simply followed tration."
Ah! gentlemen let me tell you that
when you separate yourselves from the
doctrines of Democracy as you havo
learned and held them from the time
you were born up to the present, when
you cut yourselves loose from the proud
traditions of that party and set out to
study under some now prophet, you aire
very liable to got tangled in your Democratic
harness. (Laughter.)
I confess, Mr. Chairman, that 1 have
boon brought up to believe in some of
these things by traditions, hut unlike
til v fidnnd from Tonnnoa.... I'..l
...j .. vxv* i win i viiim v>Uli I "
Hon, I studied-public questions before I
cumo to Congress. (Laughter.) I came
hero because I hud studied them. That
is why my people selected mo out and
sent ino noro. They did not send me
to Congress to school, as Co). I'atterson
seems to have been sent. (Laughter.)
Thoy sent mo hero to maintain, and
carry out as far as I could, the groat
Democratic principles that they had
received from their fathers, and I hope
by the help of Cod and the constituency
in the First Congressional district of
Mississippi to do it. (Laughter and
applause.)
Col. I'atterson says further: "Mr.
Carlisle has said that he did not mind
having the soignorugo coined. If that
bill becomes a law it does not mean
disaster. It may be a mistake. It is
only the last gun of a retreating army.
The men in New York who dread free
silver are unnecessarily alarmed."
And elsewhere he says: "If the bill to
coin the seignorage passes, it is merely
to let these Southerners go olf the
field of battle with their side arms."
(I .aughto.'.)
Mr. Chairman, we have asked no
terms. We have not asked to bo permitted
to carry oft' our side arms. We
have not asked to be permitted to fire
tho last gun of a retreating army. So
far as I am concerned, I do not believe
tbat the rotrent. hoa horrun i.t oil 1 .!<>
not believe that wo are yet ready to
capitulate on thin question. Now 1
want to say a word for Col. i'atterson,
as he is not hero to say it fpr himself.
I desire, so far as 1 am concerned, to
repudiate the gentleman's apology
made for inc. I owe no apology to the
people of Now York; 1 do not propose
to make any, and I do not propose to
have any made for mo. but I do not
think any man ought to be hold down
to a very rigid account for an after-dinner
spooch at a banquet. Why, sir.
I recollect not long ago I went to a
banquot in Baltimore, whore everything
was so good, where I was surrounded
by so many rich men, that by
the time it. came my turn to sneak 1
i felt so well I addressed thorn as "fcl;
low capitalists." (Laughter.) Therefore
beware of the influences surrounding
a banquot. If I were uot perfectly
I familiar with the abstemious habits of
my friend from Tennessee f would huvo
thouirht on roudin<r this speech tliut ho
hud gotten sumo what under the same
inllu<'iiee Unit uuothor Tonnesseoun did
that a traveling man told iuo about.
Tin- story wus about a rugtfed, seedy,
hard looking follow, who lournod that
the traveling man know his hrothor
living in Kaufman county, Toxus. The
Texas brother was well off, and tho
Tounosseean asked the traveling man
if ho ever saw his brother a train to tell
him thut ho was hard up, and that if
ho wan over going to do anything for
him tliat was th?> time. Under tho intlucnco
of two or three drinks, however,
tilings begun to brighten with iiitn,
and the last tho traveling man hoard
from him was tho request to toll his
brother in Texas that if lie wanted
anything, "just to draw on mo." ,
(Laughter.) "Now, under the inllueueo
of one of those Now York banquets,"
said Mr. Allen, "with all they have
good to oat, and the aoeoni]>aniinonts,
one fotds, by the time the speaking begins,
like telling the rest of the world
to draw on him. (Laughter.) Therefore,
I, on my own motion, would never]
quote a banquet speech on anybody, j
beeause I do not think it is exactly the
square thing."
In conclusion, Mr. Alien said: "I 1
would t hat I bad tho eloquence of the :
chairman of the committee on ways
and means, Wilson of West Virginia. :
in his last appeal here for the passage ;
of his turitV bill. I would like to in|
voke the Democratic patriotism of our
Democratic colleagues. I do not claim
that a vote for this bill is the roll of
honor, but I do claim tliat in the condition
with which we find ourselves
surrounded today, the roll of honor belongs
to those Democrats who are willing
to let a Democratic Congress do
the business of this Congress, and I do
not believe any man can claim a place
upon the Democratic roll of honor who
stands hero longer and gives his pri's- '
enco and his inllucnco to filibustering
tactics that keep us here and make a |
spectacle, as limn been made, of our- I
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nuivus. v ppiuuso.)
tahii'r talk in caucus.
a lively discussion anions democratic
sciiiilois lis in i lu i'niprr
l'olicy in heooiinti'iit'liiik llie \vilsuii
(till.
The Doinocratic Senatorial caucus
last week revealed a variety of views
upon the Wilson taritV bill. On the
127Hi nit., the discussion was plain and
emphatic, and several Senators were on
their mettle concerning the interests
they represent.
It is understood that a scene somewhat
sensational in its features took
place during' the morning session.
Senator White, of Louisiana, had made
.a very vigorous speech while on the
subject of sugar, in which lie bitterly
denounced the attitude of some Senators.
No reply was made until this
morning, when it is said, that two or
three Senators replied in language
that was decidedly personal and unpleasant.
It is also said that White
lias declared that he would not send
his resignation as Senator to the Governor
of Louisiana until he know what
was to be done with sugar. Mr.
White's attitude was described by one
Senator us that of a man who stood
with his commission as a Supremo
Court Justice ill line ill inl^nl i.la
I resignation us u .senator in tho other,
wuiting to sot) whon ho could servo
his constituents und tho pooplo host.
Sonutor Hrico, of Ohio, who was tho :
prime mover in culling tho caucus, !
made a forcible and vigorous speed) 1
to-day. Ho is said to have criticized
tho wisdom that placed tho construction
of tho tariff hill in the hands of I
three Senators, whoso status as a subcommittee
had been attacked on tho
floor of the Senate and gone unchallenged,
and who wore not apparently (
in sympathy with any of tho manufacturing
centres of the country which ;
were most uifectod by tho bill. It was j
evident, ho said, that tho party was |
rent by dissensions, and the question ]
for the conference to decide in connec- |
tion with tho tariff bill was what '
should be done to save tbe Democratic I
party. If, said Hrico, you are going !
to frame this bill in accordance with j
tho platform of tho Democratic party
as adopted at Chicago, that is 0110
thing. If, on the other hand, you
intend to frame it on the lines of the
platform that was not adopted, an entirely
different view of the case is |
given us, but if you intend to frame
it so that you protect tho sugar interests
alone, at trio expense of tho
if rout industries of tlm Noi-t.li ?n<i ir/.n i
intend to ignore them entirely, then I :
propose, for one, to have something to
say.
Mr. Brico, it is understood, called
attention to the fact that there must
ho more done than merely conciliate
the sugar Senators, whoso constituents
would be injured by prospective legislation
: that a very important question
for Democrats to consider was
what they should do to keep in the |
party the great States of New York,
Slew Jersey and Maryland, which
were full of industries that, ho assert- j
0(1, the proposed bill sought to cripplo. '
The great States of Ohio, New York
and Now Jersey, with their representation
in Congress aggregating many
times more than any Southern delegation,
should not he ignored. The
Democrats, Mr. Brico believed, should
frame a bill that would yield suHlclont
revenue to run the government, but
they had failed to doit, (f the bill
was not carefully considered, Mr.
Brice warned the caucus that the
States to which he had referred would
become, so far as Democracy was con
corned, as barren as a desert. If concessions
were to be made, he said,
they must i>e made on general lines
and toward those industries that pro
mice mo greatness of tho States which
tho Domocratio party were now
threatened with losing.
Hrico wanted tho party romoved
from tho placo whore it laid itself liahlo
to tho suspicion of engaging in a sectioual
consideration <Hf the measure.
For that reason, he l>oliovod it hotter
that tho bill should ho referred to a
comraittoo to bo suggested by tho caucus
to bo made up of representative
men, representing States whore thtse
aggrieved industries were known and
understood and that such a committee
should make up the bill. Even if they
reported the saino bill, still it would
Ihj free from objections that are now
lovelod at tho bill before tho caucus.
Bride spoke freely und his remarks
had much weight with the Senators'.
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NO 34.
lie is counted as one of the six "con
servativcs " in whose hands the fate of
the bill appears to rest. These men
nr. IT I 11 M ?I-| :
to > ft l\<V? * A III) AJIll I 1/ I I , .U lli pilj} V V illlU
of Louisiana. ami Cjiffory.
Senator Mill made Ins first speech
in the caucus today. His chief assault
was on the income tax, which be denounced
us inquisitorial and iniquitous.
He believed the party that ptissed it
would pay the penalty for the commission
of such a crime. It was argued
that it was against the principles of
the Democratic party and contrary to
its platform, which declared that all
taxes should he raised from Imports.
Democracy did not look with favor
upon the building up of a system of
international taxation, such us was
contemplated by the income tax. It
was only put iu the bill, ho said, to
help muko good the deficit caused by
the great reduction In the duty and
the nlucing on the free list of such
articles as should contribute towards
the customs revenues. There wore a
hundred items in the hill, Hill said,
that alTeoted his State, that could
properly be incorporated in a bill
framed for " revenue only," but which
teemed to have been ignored by tho
committee.
Washington, Feb. 28.?Aftorspending
the better part of throe days in a
caucus on tho taritT bill the Democratic
ocimiors una uiiornooti sont tho bill
back ti? tbu finance committee without
expressed, but strongly implied instructions
to amend it according to the
concensus of opinion uh expressed during
tho discussion. No dictation was
made to tho committee as to wiuit
articles should bo put on tho dutiable
list, nor were any rates suggested? the
committee being left free to exorcise
its own judgment in tho light of what
transpired during the past throe days.
The only effort made to secure an
expression by vote on any special
schedule was made this afternoon by
Mr. l'ugh, on iron ore, and that resulted
in an endorsement although by
an exceedingly small majority on the
committee's action. Mr. l'ugh moved
that iron ore bo changed from tho free
to tho dutiable list, and on a yea ami
nay vote, this proposition was defeated
by a vote of 11) to 17. The bill is again
in tho hands of the Democrats of tho
tlnanco committee and an effort will be
made to have it repaid in time to lay
before the full committee on finance by
Saturday, or at tho latest. Monday
morning. There will prohuhly not be
another caucus, but in order to provide
for emergencies, Gorman has been
given authority to issue a call if lie
thinks it host.
Mr. Gorman was amontr the first.
speakers at the afternoon session. His
speech was very diplomatic in character,
and was a strong ploa for Democrats
to inn monizo and get togotlier.
Mr. Gorman was questioned closely by
a number of Senators, and in response
said it was apparent that some concession
must bo made. Referring to the
income tax, Mr. German expressed his
bitter opposition to that tax. It was,
lie said, undemocratic and against
Democratic ideas. Ho hoped it would
he stricken from tho bill; but if it was
not, lie said he would '"swallow the
dose," but assured his colleagues that
it would be the " bitterest dose ho had
yet boon compelled to tako."
Mr. Hugh made a speech favoring a
duty on iron ore, und foretold what
would occur to the now industries in
Alabama if this was left on the free
list. Mr. I'ugh went further than the
other Senators, and insisted that some
expression be had on this proposition.
Accord inly, lie moved that the committee
be directed to put iron ore on
the dutiable list " tho same as coal,"
which was accepted to mean 50 cents
a ton. On a yea and nay vote this was
defeated by a vote of lb to 17, Hill not
voting. Hugh thon said that inasmuch
as the vote was so close, and moiiio
Senators were absent, ho did not feol
bound bv the vote- nnrl i-naprvAd ???
right to offer un umondmont to tho bill
wlion it carao up in tho Serato.
Tho uction of Pugh in forcing a vote
on iron oro, and then declining to bo
bound by it, led to tho conclusion thut
it would ho i in possible for the caucus
to accomplish anything definite, and
tho motion to recommit tho bill to the
full Democratic membership of tho
financial committee to shape in accordance
with tho views expressed and
to harmonize tho differences was made
by Voorheos. This motion was carried
without opposition. There was no resolution
or any specific instructions.
The question of what shall or shall not
bo dutiable, or what tho vote shall l>o, is
still open. One Senator, who took a
prominent part in tho caucus, explained
the moaning of this action to be a notice
to tho committee that they had made
a hill that could not pass and must now
proceed, in the light of what they had
heard to construct a bill that could
pass. It does not go to tho sub-cornmittoo,
but to the full Democratic
membership, and the attempt will be
made to lay it, thus changed, Ixfforo
the Republican members at a special
meeting Monday, ut tho latest, with
tho hope of being ablo to report it to
the Senate Tuesday morning. Tho
majority of the finance committee will
work day and night from now until
they have finished the bill. It in tindor
stood that the " conservative," eletnont
will not bo content to havo the
bill reported until it shad havo boon
i submitted to a further caucus. A. prominent
Senator is authority for the
j statement that this protracted caucus
has boon characterized by the utmost
good fooling, save the one speech of
Mr. White of Louisiana, who is said to
havo attacked tho members of the
committee and Mr. Voorhoes.
-Governor Tillman said thoother day
to a newspaper reporter that any sensible
man in South Carolina ought to
knowthat there is no provision in the
Dispensary law for constables to enter a
private residence whithout a warrant,
lie said that Ixiforo tho bill was passed
' tho anti-Tillman papers in the State
had harped on that as a feature of
the law, and had kept it up ever
since. They did it thon and are doing
it now, lie said, to prejudice the peoplo
against the law. llo said that no
such provision was ever in tho law and
was never intended to be there; nobody
wanted it there, and tho whole
thing is being given circulation for the
purpose of prejudice. If tho authorities,
ho said, believed that a man was
sidling whiskey from his house nothing
would bo done until a warrant for
liis arrqpt uud a search of the promises
I was gotten <>ut.