Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-15
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is.
SENATE.

During the routine morning business
the chief clerk of the House delivered
a message from the House notifying the
Senate of the discharge of the House
conferrees on the tariff bill and Of the
fact that the House had receded from
its disagreement to the Senate amend
ments, and further that he (the clerk
had been directed to present TO the Sen
ate, for the signature of its president,
the enrolled tariff bill Within a few
minutes afterward the Vice President
announced that he had signed the tariff
bill.
Mr.. Quay gave notice that he would
offer us an amendment to each OF the
four bills putting sugar, coal, iron ore
and barbed wire on the free list, the
Mckinley tariff bill.
Mr.. Daniel was appointed on the
committee on privileges and elections
and relieved from duty on the commit
tee on claims.
Mr.. Chandler asked Mr.. German,
who had proposed the appointment,
whether he had made any request to
fill the vacancy on the finance commit
tee
Mr.. German responded that he had
not made any such request.
Mr.. Butler offered resolution, which
was referred, instructing the committee
on interstate commerce to inquire and
report as TO the freight and passenger
charges, differcntials, etc, of the South
ern Steamship and Railway Association.
At the request OF Mr. Harris each Of
the four House bills as to sugar, coal,
iron ore and barbed wire was taken up
and received its second reading. This
tormality having been accomplished.
Mr.. Harris rose and said Il deem it
my duty to submit to the Senate com
munication from the Secretary Of the
Treasury received this morning.
send it to the clerks desk SO that it
may be reported to the Senate.
The Secretary's letter was then read:
1t says it would be unsafe in view of
the condition of the Treasury to put
sugar, iron, coal and barbed wire on
the free list, as it would create deficit:
Mr.. Berry moved that the sugar bill
be called up for action.
Mr.. Harris said in view Of the strong
letter of Mr.. Carlisle and the danger Of
deficit, he would move that they be re-
ferred to the committee on finance
where they would be dealt with as was
deemed best for the interests Of the gov
eminent.
Mr.. Berry made pleepfor immediate
action. He wanted the Senate to go
on record. The Senate had been
charged with being favorable to the
sugar trust and he wanted the people
70 know just how they stand. He was
in favor OF the House bill as it came to
the Senate.
Mr.. Henderson wanted to know how
Mr. Berry voted on the 6itierential, but
he declined to yield.
Mr.. Berry said he did not want the
bills buried in committee.
Mr. Hutton asked whether an aboli-
ton OF the one eighth cent pound
diflerential duty on refined sugar would
create q deficiency. He wanted that
difIerential struck out.
Mr.. Harris ID no hesitation in say
ing that it would not have that effect.
He was as much opposed to the differ
entail as the Senator from Virginia
was, but his opinion was that the
finance committee ought to deal with
those bills, and so to deal with them as
to guard effectually against the dreaded
deficiency. More than that he did not
care to say.
The discussion was here interrupted
BY conference reports on the deficiency
bill and the sundry civil bill
The House joint resolution providing
for the extension of the appropriations
till the 9th of August was taken up,
amended by fixing the time for the Goth
of August and passed.
Mr.. Vest, after the conference reports
on the sundry civil and deficiency ap-
preparation bills had been disposed of,
began an argument in favor OF imme-
date action on the four tariff bills that
came over from the House. There was
no inconsistency in these who voted for
the Senate bill and those who were now
ready to vote fJr free sugar. He was
ready, he said, to fight under Cleve-
lands flag to the death for tariff reform.
Every word of the Secretary of the
Treasury'y letter read from the clerks
desk to-day was an arraignment of the
House bill, and showed that had the
Wilson bill been passed there would
have been big deficit. Mr.. Carlisle's
letter was a vindication of the Senate
bill.
Mr.. Vest then proceeded to discuss
the situation and said he would put no
friend where he had been-on the fl
nance committee-whereh he would be
subject to blackmail and all sorts Of
charges against his integrity The
rules of the Senate were against it and
brought it into disrepute. 1t was no
wonder that the name of the Senate
had become by-word and q reproach.
Mr.. Vest declared that the President
had said before his letter to Mr.. Wilson
was sent that he would support the bill
shat passed. AS it was now, his letter
to MIR. Wilson was a good campaign
document for the republicans. Recur-
ring to what he called san unpleasant
subject" he said that he had no quarrel
with the President of the United States
and that the Senator from New York
(Mr. Hill) had done him injustice in as.
cribng to him the role of "the envious
Cascan who stabbed Caesar at the foot
of Pompey's statue.
He had no private grief against the
President; but he wished to acknowl-
edge his gratitude to him for having re-
lieved him from all responsibility in re-
gard to those appointments. He could
now indulge in the words of the we'll
known hymn
There shall bathe my wearied soul,