Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-21

W 1t reduces the duty on irun, coal, lead and some other raw materials from those i'm posed under the Mckinley law and in that respect Is commendable, 1t nevertheless imposes some duties thereon and thereby fails to redeem our pledges. It is not question of the amount of duties which may be imposed-a question of principle is involved, and a single penny's duty yi- plates our promises and places us in a false position. As the president well says, thsre can be no compromise on a matter of this character, where n vital principle Is at stake.
 The house of representatives, fresh from the people, which represents moro dis tinctly and peculiarly than we do the tax ing power of the people. repudiatcs our bill, and a Democratic president has e.i- phasizcd that repudiation, and the tondi- tion which confronts us is ono of extreme embarrassment Shall wo retreat or ad- vanccr Shall WIG surrender to the house while we can do so honorably, or shall wc wait until we arc driven to itt
 The President Committed
 In the light of the letter of the president the house cannot honorably retreat. It has no other alternative except to insist upon its bill wherein 1t provides for free raw materials Tho president cannot ap- prove the senate bill after what he has said in this remarkable letter.
 He arraigns tho senate and intimatcs that the enactment of tho senate bill means party pcrfidy and party dishon- or" These aro strong words which the president of tho United States would not use toward n measure which ho ever ex- pectcd afterward to approve.
 This letter, unusual and unprecedented in its character and method of promulga- tion though 1t may be, nevertheless clear ly forcshadows veto of tho senate bill, even if the house should finally concur in our amendments. What person would expect the president to approve tho senate bill after Its vigorous and scathing dcnun- citation contained in his letter? You would think less of him for his glaring incon- sistcncy.
 No, this letter Is significant It Is n bold, vigorous, even if imprudent, letter. It means war tO the knife against the sen ate bill. It justifies much that has been said against the senate bill during all tho last three months. It means that it can never receive executive approval It means that the senate cannot be permitted to abandon surrender tho grcat underly- ing principles for which wo struggled and lost in 1888 and fought and won in 1892.
 Tho president Is right Thcro is no mid dle ground which WIG can occupy No bill which does not provide for free raw mate rials can be permitted to become law. He Respectfully Differs.
 It is unnecessary to enter into any ar gumcnt to define or designate what arti cles constitute raw material. Every Dem ocrat knows what they are. Any article may Do considered raw material when 1t Is in the lowest or crudest form in which 1t enters into commerce. That definition is ample and sufficient and will redeem our pledges if 1t Is honestly applied. The fs,r materials, us is now ingeniOusly contend cd.
 If the president in his wisdom had seen fit while the debate was progressing in the senate to have aided my efforts to sc euro adhesion to this principle by express l ing his views in favor thereof in some proper and legitimate way, l should havo been gratified, and it unquestionably | would have been of practical benefit to tho cause. l rejoice that Inc has expressed them even now, although I am. not re- quircd to defend the manner and form of | their presentation even if they required defense, which do not assume. l respectfully differ from the president | in his assumption that q tax upon sugar is necessary at this time, cnnceding that an income tax Is to be retained. Clearly both are not needed for any legitimate purposes of the treasury. The president l speaks of tho " Democratic principle and | policy which lead to the taxation of sug- ! ar" He asserts that in the taxation of | sugar we arc in no danger of running counter to Democratic principle.
 Some Pointed Interruptions.
 When MT. Hill in the course of his I speech declared that it was n principle of the Democratic party to have free raw ma terials Mir. sherman (Rep. O. arose and asked when, that doctrine was cnunciatcd- T .N.r.. Ohio would content himself patiently he (HilD would call a distinguished wit ness In the Democratic party.
 Mir HIll's opening scntcncC, It is n theory that now confrunts uS-nOt a con dition, was greeted with hearty laughter which caused the chair tn Rdmonish the galleries
 While he was speaking of free coal and frcc iron Mir. Pugh CDcm., Ala crratcd a sensation by asking Mir. Hill who owned the coal ana iron ore which he (IIin) and the president desired should be placed on tho free list.
 II do not know" replied Mir. Hill em- phatically. II know to what the senator
 probably rrfrrs, and it may b. brought out in this debate. do not know who own
 the coett and iron mines whose coal would
 come in frrc. I do not care. IL makes no
 differcnce"
 Mir. Hill, after his declaration in favor
 of free sugar, proceeded to say that the
 free sugar clause in the tariff bill had been
 universally indorsed by the Democrats oi
 the country. He read from n dispatch
 from Evansville, Ind which stated that
 a congressional convention had denounced
 Hill, Brice and German the Benedict | Arnolds of the Democratic party for op
 posing free sugar.
 Mir. Voorhees, (Dcm., Ind.) arose ana
 denied absolutely the truth of the dispatch
 on the strength of information given hin
 by Congressman Taylor of Indiana. wh'
 was on tho floor. Sharp words between
 MT. Hill and Mir. Voorhees, followed
 Vest Denounces Cleveland. l Mir Vest (Dem., Mol took tho foo [ when Mir Hill sat down. After the spcecl of tho senator from New York, Inc began l | 1t was n subject of congratulation that h B and the president had at last found plat
 form on which both could stand. The lioi
 and lamb had at last lain down togethe F and were led as a little child by the way
 and means committcc. He left to other I to decide which was the lion and whic i was the lamb.
 n Mir. Vest then read tho letter of accept a ance of President Cleveland in 1892 prC a nouncing in favor of frJCr raw material n Yet now he denounced frccr raw material V as pcrfldy and dishonor. In scathing tonC a he arraigncd the president. He had bcc il his friend, Inc said in thundcrous tonc' ,- he had defended him on the floor of th ,- senate when his friends could have bee V counted on the fingers of one hand. Whcr V did the president get the right to dictai r | to congress- to dcnouncc one branch of cor n gross to the other Did he embody in h ' single being all the Democracy, all the ta IT if reform sentiment, in this country NJ . Cleveland was big man. But the Dem n cratic party was greater than any one mai ,- It had survived Jefferson, Madison. Jacl It son. It would survive Grovor Cleveland. d
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