The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-26

from Rhode Island "A ldrich).
Mr.. Hill said that he was not
aware that he had been waltzing
With Aldrich, but he remembered last
summer when Mr.. German was waltz
ing down the aisle with Mr.. Sherman
in the fight to repeal the Sherman
silver bill. The New York senator
said this with biting sarcasm, and
then recalled the fact that the COL
leagues who were now prophesying
the defeat of this tariff bill were then
loudly proclaiming thatunconditional
repeal could never pass; that the
struggle must be compromised. The
president was the bold and untlinch-
ing champion of unconditional re-
peal. "You said it could not pass"
said Mr.. Hill, turning to the Demo.
cratic side, "but it did pass, and L tell
you now that while This compromise
bill may pass, [ do not believe it will"
He then referred to Mr.. Germans
assertion yesterday that the Mary
land senators, Mr.. Brice and Mr..
Smith, had promised the Louisiana
senators a duty on sugar during the
campaign of 1892. He doubted their
authority to construe platforms. He,
for one, would refuse to be delivered.
He thought that if Mr.. Cleveland's
interference was complained of, the
best way to avoid such en.anglements
in the future was Ito keep away from
the White House, as l do" Laugh
ter. The idea that these old political
foxes had gone 10 the White House and
had misunderstood the president was
absurd. II was childish for them to
come back here and plead that they
had been overreached by one "ambi-
tious president" ~ shall vote to per-
feet this BILL" continued Mr.. Hill. 81
shall vote for free coal, free iron and
free sugar."
"If the senate recedes from every
amendment placed upon the bill as it
came from the house," interrupted
Mr.. German, twill you vote for it?"
81 will cross the bridge when L
come to it, replied Mr.. Hill, parrying
the thrust of the astute senator from
Maryland.
but you said" he added, "that
the senate will not recede and you are
perfectly safe in making that bluff"
"Why don't you call it?" inquired
Mr.. Lindsay, naively, "tha senator
understands the term of the national
game better than l do" retorted Mr..
Hill. Mr.. Hill closed his speech with
piece of satire as has been heard
during the debate. "The senator
from Maryland has soght to term me
the Iago of the senate" said he. 81
might respond with the drafts upon
Shakespearan character. In that
case would term the senator from
Maryland as the Cassius of the senate
[Great applause. We all recall Cas-
sius, the lean and hungry Cassius."
Mr.. Hill leaned over and addressed
himself almost directly to Mr.. Cor
man.
"And the senator from Arkansas,
would call him Marcus Brutus. 1t ie
the senator from Arkansas who has
labored so earnestly for this bill. He
is the honest Brutus of the senate
Tlong laughter and Casca is the name
of the senator who struck the first
blow on Friday last Mr.. Vest. Tri'
bonious is the senator from Indiana
testy yet earnest; and Metellus Gin
Der is the senator from Tennessee
|GMr. Harris Having thus charac
Ierized the senators amid great laugh
ter, Mr.. Hill added: "We all remem
Der the CADET who struck Caesar, snC
when on yes erday the senators sough
to strike down ouI president they
made the mistake that had been mad,
before. Not that they loved Casa
less, but they loved Rome more. No
that they loved the president less, bu
they loved the senate compromis
more.n Then pausing for a momen
Mr.. Hill closed with sarcastic DELHI
GRAFTON: But can say with Antony
"They are all honorable men,"
Mr.. Caffery followed, first moving
that the conference be instructed t
make the following amendment
THAT the bounty provided in SAT-
bill shall stand unrepealed to the ex
tent that there shall be paid to tn
producer of sugar from beets. Sol
ghum or sugar cane grown in tn
United States in the year 1894, o
from maple sap produced in the Unite
States during the year 1894, under tn
bounty law of 1894, and subject to tn
limitations now imposed by law, o
all sugars testing not more than
degrees by the polariscope, 8 10 of
cent per pound, and upon all sugar
testing SO by the polariscope and n,
less than so, $40 of l cent per pound
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, July 24.-The hous
today passed by party vote the bi
for the reinstatement of clerks di:
missed from the railway service be
tween March IS and May /, 1888. Th
vote was: Yeas, 40; nays, So. Bill
we're passed to issue patents to tn
Presbyterian Board of Home Mission
for land in the Omaha Indian reservs
ton for courch purposes; to authoriz
the secretary of the interior to leas
sites in the Hot Springs, Ark, rel
ervatiors for cold water reser
voirs; to authorize settlement
with the state of Arkansa
by the secretaries of the treasury an
the interior Of differences between tn
government and the state growing on
of the issue of bonds by the stat
which are owned and held In trust b
the United States; bill to conGrI
the titles of settlers who entered land
J in Califoin MIA, Nevada. Oregon an
: Arizona under the timber and ston
= act, but whose entries have since bee
declared invalid because the land
. have been offered at public sale ac
: cording to law, but have not been car
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