The Passage of the Senate Bill
August 18, 1894
Summary
The passage of the Senate Tariff Bill in the House serves a major defeat to President Cleveland and the Democratic Party.
Transcription
The passage by the House of Representatives of the Senate Tariff Bill,The consequent defeat of President Cleveland and his supporters ends one of the most exciting and spirited contest in the history of the government.
Senator Gorman, who led the forces against the administration clearly outgeneralled his antagonist.
Republicans sat quiet and witnessed with pleasure that's disruption which was open the apparent within the ranks of the Democratic Party.
The passage of the tariff measure has tended to widen the breach rather than close it, for Senator Hill was neither slow nor backward in declaring that the income tax would cause the lost to the Democracy. not only of New York and Connecticut, but New Jersey as well.
With all of the effort expended to secure the passage of the measure barring the income tax feature it is but the McKinley Bill modified and this modification is in the direction of sacrificing Democratic interest both in the North and in the South.
Virginia and West Virginia will feel keenly the reduction of the duty on coal and iron ore.
The stand taken by the House,Expressing as it did the sentiment of President Cleveland makes it especially objectionable to him that he should be forced to allow it to become law, a measure which Hon. Wm. L. Wilson had so roundly denounced and which in the famous Cleveland letter was declared to be a sacrifice of principle which should neither be tolerated nor endured.
The passage of the bills providing for free coal. 3 iron ore and free sugar was mere Child's Play, and simply afforded the House some occupation and consolation after it had been bullied and beaten into submission by the Senate.
The Tariff Bill as passed by Congress will do the party as much harm as would the failure to agree upon any measure.
The gentleman in the White House is not in the best humor and his followers in the lower branch of Congress are as Sullen and angry as any body of men could possibly be. The end is not yet.
Senator Gorman, who led the forces against the administration clearly outgeneralled his antagonist.
Republicans sat quiet and witnessed with pleasure that's disruption which was open the apparent within the ranks of the Democratic Party.
The passage of the tariff measure has tended to widen the breach rather than close it, for Senator Hill was neither slow nor backward in declaring that the income tax would cause the lost to the Democracy. not only of New York and Connecticut, but New Jersey as well.
With all of the effort expended to secure the passage of the measure barring the income tax feature it is but the McKinley Bill modified and this modification is in the direction of sacrificing Democratic interest both in the North and in the South.
Virginia and West Virginia will feel keenly the reduction of the duty on coal and iron ore.
The stand taken by the House,Expressing as it did the sentiment of President Cleveland makes it especially objectionable to him that he should be forced to allow it to become law, a measure which Hon. Wm. L. Wilson had so roundly denounced and which in the famous Cleveland letter was declared to be a sacrifice of principle which should neither be tolerated nor endured.
The passage of the bills providing for free coal. 3 iron ore and free sugar was mere Child's Play, and simply afforded the House some occupation and consolation after it had been bullied and beaten into submission by the Senate.
The Tariff Bill as passed by Congress will do the party as much harm as would the failure to agree upon any measure.
The gentleman in the White House is not in the best humor and his followers in the lower branch of Congress are as Sullen and angry as any body of men could possibly be. The end is not yet.
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Upper Left Quadrant
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Carlos Serrano
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“The Passage of the Senate Bill,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1500.