The Van Buren press., 1894-05-19
The Best Assortment Of Fishing Tackle in Van Buren.
Senator yssss end TIE Tarik.

Il
Little Rock psmocrat.
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, haa
worked harder 20 perfect the tariff
bill than any other member Of ths
committee having the measure IN
charge. 1t is no doubt fact that,
In order to secure the requisite
number Of votes to pass the bill
some CONCESSIONS have been made
but not more than was absolutely
necessary. Senator jones' posi-
ton on the tariff is well known IN
this State, and the insinuatior
that he would suffer himselfto bel
fuenced by any condition not fay
orable to the best interests of hii
people 10 . base slander.
He may have displeased Sena.
tor Alirich, . rank Republican, aud
O'Brien Moore, the wild.eyed cor.
respondent Of The Republic, but
II the measure suits the Democrat.
ic majority, be has evidently per-
formed . most difficult task In per
fecting it.
But the announcement appears
to have been made on the floor OF
the senate that the bill was not to
be amended, and because senators
have subsequently insisted on
amendments, Senator Jones is
charged with treachery. Such q
charge, unsupported as it is by
any evidence, will be looked upon
az the mad rawlings 0fs disgruntle,l
newspaper correspondent.
II the senate passes any tarifi
bill this season the country will
be largely indebted to Senator
Jones for engineering it through.
Batesville Guard: We do but
record current comment and gen.
eral declaration when we say that
Senator Jones has done more, by
Tar, than any or all the other mem.
bers of the senate to bring the
party into happy agreement on the
tarfY bill. Senators Jones and
Vest, Of the finance committee,
and Mills, who is not q member of
the finance committee, were origin.
ally entrusted with the revision
Of the house bill aud worked on it
day and night for weeks. When
this revision was completed, and
being submitted to the Democrat.
ic caucus, and was found to be so
unsatisfactory to = considerable
faction of Democratic senators,
Senator Mills, who had been Sc.
verely criticised for interesting
himself so much In the prepare
ton Of the bill when not Q mem.
ber of the finance committee, re-
fused to have anything more to
do with it.; and Senator Vests
whimsical, petulent disposition In.
clined him more to strong language
and fierce denunciation than to
the tactics of conciliati0n. Things
we're mighty gloomy about the
senate chamber at this time, but
Senator Jones neither quit work
nor lost heart. Patiently, persist.
emily, always IN good temper, he
set to work to find If there was
not some common ground upon
which the Democratic senators
might not get together. His clos.
est allies in the work were the
secretary of the treasury and the
president. Every item fthe bill
was gone over with the s0.called
conservative senator's, and it was
found that it would not be so difi.
cult to arrive at harmonious con.
clusions Is it at first appeared. In
. spirit Of true patriotism, mutual
concessions we're agreed to, and
as the result, We have q reunited
party In the senate and . tariff
bill which the president and secre.
tary Of the treasury most cordially
approve and which the latter, In
an authorized published interview,
declares is materially different
from the house bill In NO really
important particulars, and in every
instance reduces the tariff below
that now imposed by the present
Mckinley law.
There is not Z member Of the
senate nor y person Outside oi
that body who understands how
the Democrats were harmonized
on the tariff bill, who does moi
give Senator Jones the most ex'
travagant praises and the greatest
degree of credit for It.
It is q well.known fact, to ell
well-disposed mon that wish to
know the truth, that Senator
jones' perfected tariff bill, which
that vicious liar, O'Brien Moore
says is a ''sell-out to the Republi
cans" was referred to Q caucus oi
Democratic senator's who sitter re.
viewing it thoroughly, endorsed
1t by . vote Of 81 to l. The only
one declining to accept tho bill
- presented, without offering
amendments to it, was Senate
Hill. of New York. The absent