Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-07-21
recrimination, denunciation and arraign.

violation of Democratic pledges and princi-
pies. Upon the question of free raw mate
rails the President is right and you know it.
You cannot answer his arguments. You
/ cannot successfully dispute his propositions.
You cannot doubt lis sincerity and patriot
ism. You must yield in the end to his view
of the matter. You cannot stand up
against the sentiment of the great Demo-
cratic masses of the country which will
rally round the President in this contest
with you upon this particular branch of the
subject. The time to yield is now, before
there is further humiliation, embaras sment
and discord.''
sin the light of the letter of the President
the House cannot honorably retreat. 1t
has no other alternative except to insist
upon its bill, wherein it provides for free
raw materials. The President cannot ap-
prove the Senate bill after what he said in
his remarkable letter. No bill which does
not provide for free raw materials can be
permitted to become law.
II respectfully d fer from the President
In his assumption that tax upon sugar is
necessary at this time, conceding for pur-
poses of the argument that the income tax
be retained. Clearly both are not needed
for any legitimate purposes of the treasury.
That fact has been demonstrated over and
over again during this debate. The Presi-
dent speaks of the Democratic principle
and policy which led to the taxation of
sugar" He asserts that in taxation of
sugar I'VE are in no danger of running
counter to Democratic principle"
81 am not controverting that idea but de-
sire only to suggest that if it was desir-
able sugar should be taxed ''as a legitimate
and logical article of revenue taxation," as
| be now says, it seems strange that the
President did not in his last annual mes
sage make some intimation, suggestion or
recommendation to that effect. Not q word
of that kind appears. He endorsed the
Wilson bill explicitly in his message, al
though it provided substantially for free
sugar. He permitted the House to pass the
measure without word of protest or sug-
gestion or advice that there should be tax
on sugar, which has come to be largely re-
garded as one of the necessaries of life.
"Under the existing circumstances, with
the income tax retained in this bill, voted
for free sugar before and shall do so again.
In my judgmen, the House cannot now
honorably retreat from its position in favor
of free sugar. The Presidents suggestion
Cdult tOO ne oeHdle musl IeCeue
from its amendments"
When Hill read some resolutions adopted
at the Democratic convention at Evans
vile, Ind, in favor of free sugar he was
met with denial by Voorhees, Of the truth
of the newspaper dispatch from which Hill
quoted. Voorhees, said, on authority of
Representative Taylor of Indiana, that
there was no such declaration in the resolu-
ton.
Vest addressed the Senate. 1t was a
matter of congratulation he said, sarcasti-
cally, that the senator from New York and
the President were at last able to stand to-
gether on any platform at all. Laughter
The political millennium seemed to have
come, at least, in a modified degree, and
the lion and lamb of New York lay down
together; and the committee on ways and
means now led them. Which was the lion
and which was the lamb he left for future
ascertainment
He (Vest) had been consistent friend
of the present occupant of the Presidential
chair, but the Democratic party was greater
than any man. 1t had survived Jefferson,
Madison, jackson and would outlive Gro
yer Cleveland. who did not embody all the
Democracy and all the tariff reform of this
country.
Gray moved to insist upon the Senate
amendments to the tariff bill and agree to
further conference. In the course of his
speech he declared himself more in favor
of free coal and free iron ore than the Sen
ator from New York had shown himself 70
be. He said he had been in favor of free
iron ore and free coal when the senator
from New York was placing every obstacle
in the pathway of both.
Hill asserted that he had on every occa-
sion, usually on his own motion, voted for
free coal and free iron ore.
"There are 80 senators within sound of
my voice." said Gray, "who know what
said is absolutely true"
Hill asked Gray to explain what he meant
and again asserted that on every occasion
he advocated the absence of duty on iron
ore and coal.
Gray, in course of the colluquy, asserted
that in Democratic conferences Hill had
never spoken on the subject of free coal,
and he declared, somewhat passionately,
''he declined to take instructions from a
source like that"
''By Gods blessing" he concluded, "we
will overcome the remaining obstacles that
lie in the pathway of the achievement to
which the Democratic party is pledged.
We will bring all honesty, we will bring all
the endeavor, we will bring all the patriot
ism that exists in the breasts of American
senators and will join hands to see that the
hopes of the American people are not dis
appointed and that the fruit of Democratic
promise does not turn to ashes on their
lives
Villas moved to recede from the
Senate amendment putting an eighth
of cent duty on refined sugar,
and addressed the Senate IN support
of the motion. In the course of his speech,
Villas declared passionstely that be could
not support the motion to insist without
making this effort to relieve the conference
between the two Houses of that proposed
tax, which was $50 obnoxious to the princi-
Piles of Democracy, so abhorrent to every
principle Of justice, so oppressive to all the
people of the United States, so unfair,
wicked and unnecessary"
Villas motion was opposed by Caffery,
who declared its adoption would strike
deadly blow at the sugar grow ing industry
Of bis state. Csffery explained that Louis
lana planters were not only growers of
sugar cane, but manufacturers of |
centrifugal sugar quite equal to |
granulated sugar. He intimned that