Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-07-20
TARIFF DISAGREEMENT.
The President to the Aid of the House.
He Points out the Path of PerHdy and
DishOnor, and Calls for the FuIfIIing
of Pledges.

of Pledges.
Complete disagreement on the Senate
amendments to the tariff bill was decided
upon at a meeting of the conferees We'd
nesday This remitted the matter back to
the two houses, and Mr.. Wilson made the
report Of the disagreement yesterday: Mr..
Wilson said that there would be no trouble
in coming to an agreement on the bulk of
the 634 amendments, but on the important
amendments which gave to the bill very
different character from that which it pos
sessed as it passed the House they were ir-
reconciably divided.
The chief points of controversy between
the representatives of the dominant party
in the House and Senate, Mr.. Wilson
said, were the schedules on sugar, silver,
lead ores, woolens, iron and steel especial
ly on pg-iron and steel rails). The chief
difficulty in the pathway of an agreement,
however, was the sugar schedule. The
House had voted for free sugar (raw and
rcfinedD; it had voted down the PROPOSE
ton of the committee on ways and means
for gradual reduction of the bounty on
sugar and tax upon the raw material. 1t
was not possible for any one to state ac-
curately what would be the amount of
protection under the Senate bill to refined
business of sugar refining could be carried
on in this country as cheaply as anywhere
in the world this being the fact he could
not accept the provision in the Senate bill
If the statements were true that the
sugar trust had grown so strong and pow
erfu that no tariff bill could pass Con-
gress unless its interests were cared for, he
hoped that the House would never consent
to the Senate bill.
This statement was greeted by tumultu-
Gus applause on the Democratic side,
throwing of papers and other articles in
the air lasting several seconds.
Whatever might be the fate of a general
tariff bill, Mr. Wilson said, he hoped that
Congress would not adjourn until, by
single BILL if necessary, it had removed
the tax on refined sugar.
Mr.. Wilson sent to the clerks desk and
had read at the conclusion of his remarks
a letter from President Cleveland setting
| forth at length his views upon the tariff
situation in Congress.
The reading of the letter was received
with applause at all the telling points by
the Democrats, and with laughter by the
! Republicans at those passages which refer
! red to existing embarrassments in the Dem
ocratic party.
Mr.. Cleveand's letter opened by refer
ring to the certainty that a conference be
tween the two houses would be ordered
and that "indcations point to its action as
the reliance of those who desire the genu-
inc fruition of Democratic effort and full
filment of Democratic pledges and the re-
demption of Democratic promises to the
people.
"There is no reason for mstaking or
/ y,,ic ha
temper of the rank and file of the
Democracy. They are downcast under
the assertion that their party fails in
ability to manage the government, and
they are apprehensive that efforts to
bring about tariff reform may fail; but they
are much more dOwncast and apprehensive
in their fear that Democratic principle may
be surrendered.
every true Democrat and every sincere tar
iffreformer knows that this bill in its present
form and as it will be submitted to the con-
ference falls far short of the consummatiOn
for which we have long labored for which
we have suffered defeat without discOur-
agement, which, in its anticipation gave us
a rallying cry in our day of triumph and
which, in its promise of accomplishment
is so interviewer with Democratic pledges
and Democratic success that our abandon
ment of the cause or the principles upon
which it rests means party perfdy and
party dishonOr.
zone topic will be submitted to the con
ference which embodies Democratic princi
Piles so directly that it cannot be cOmpro
missed. We have in our platforms and ir
every way possible declared in favor of the
free importation of raw materials. We
have again and again promised that this
should be accorded to our people and oul
manufacturers as soon as the Democr att
party was invested with the power to de-
, termine the tariff policy of the country
The party now has that power. We are a.
certain today as we have ever been of th'
great benefit that would accrue to tn
country from the Inauguration of this pol
icy, and nothing has occurred to release Il
r from our obligation to secure this advant
J age 20 our people"
at must be admitted that no tariff meas
ure can accord with Democratic principle
e and promises, or bear genuine Democrat
= badge, that does not provide for free ray
material. In the circumstances it may wei
excite our wonder that Democrats are will
ing to depart from this, the most Democrat
: ic of all tariff principles, and that the incou
!. sstent absurdity of such proposed depaI
l
4 tion that the wool of the farmer be put o.
- the free list and the protection of tart
taxation be placed around the iron ore an
l. coal of corporations and capitalists. Ho'
= can we face the people after indulging /
such outrageous determinations and violi
e tions of principles 1t is quite apparer
e that this question of free raw material doc
d not admit of adjustment on any midd
: ground, since their subiection to any ra
of tariff taxation, great or small, is aliB
violative of Democratic principle and Den
s. ocratic good faith"
4 The House has placed its emphasis G
t, its hostility to the Senate amendment c
70 the sugar schedule, but President Clev
10 land gives that secondary place. Th
10 quotation is from what he says on this su
S, iect: "While no tenderness should be e
A. tertained for trusts, and while | am deci
~ edly opposed to granting them under Il
A. guise of tariff taxation any opportunity
"A further their peculiar methods, | sugge
- that we ought not to be driven away fro
le the Democratic principle and policy whi(
x lead to the taxation of sugar by the fea
n. quite likely exaggerated, that in carryil
out this principle and policy we may ind
- rectly and inordinately encourage coml
nation of sugar refining interests"
1t will be seen that after months of wo
on the tariff deadlock now exists, al
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