The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-21
WASHINGTON. July 20.

WASHINGTON, July 70.
G1HE senate today WAS the theater
Of great oratorical display
which was witnessed and en-
u joyed by IN immense audience,
composed of senators, members OF tine
lower house and spectators IN the gal
leries. The occasion was the presenta-
tion of the message from the house
asking y further conference on the tar
iff bill. The speech OF MIR VOORHEES,.
chairman of the senate couterrees, was
Il model of brevity. Mr.. President.
he said, "the conterrees on the part OF
the senate now await further action on
this bill.
After saving these words be took his
seat and had no further part Ill the
days proceedings in slight contro-
yersv with Mr.. hill. Then Mr Smith,
of New Jersey. made a speech OF nearly
nm hours duration, favorlng further
conference, and admitting that the
country was confronted by the danger
of no tariff legislation at this session.
He favored saying to the house con
ferees, Such as the bill is. there it
lies; you are at liberty 10 take it or to
leave it.
Reterring TO the presidents letter to
Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Smith said that DEM
ocratic senators had been accused OF
violating Democratic principles because
they had not placed raw materials on
tie free list. The word "psrfiIy," he
said. had been used in that connection.
Personally. he believes in the priuci-
pies of free raw materials, but he
could not believe that now, when it
WAS hardly possible for miners to OBJ
taid living wages. that now was the
time of taking the risk Of striking that
great industry and roUbing thousands
and thousands of miners OF their means
of livelihood. AS to the Income tax, he
said that was 4 proposition taken from
Populis,ic platforms and incorporated
into a Democratic revenue till,
HILL SUPPORTS CLEVELAND.
He was followed by Mr.. Hill, OF New
York, who prefaced a long speech with
motion that the senate receda from
its amendments placing coal and iron
GRE on the dutiable list. He gave a
partial approval 10 the presidents le;-
ter and declared that Democratic sen
ators would have to rally around the
president or else they would go the
wall, while the president would come
to the front, and he added that this
was the time TO yield, before further
humiliation, further embarrassment
and further discord.
He was not required to defend pro-
priety or the wisdom of the promulga-
tion of this letter at this peculiar
time, because it may widen the breach
already existing in the senate, and, in
that view, mHy be regarded as nnfOrtu
nate and i'll advised. The speaker stated
that the presidents letter clearly fore.
shadows veto OF the senate bill "even
if the house should finally concur in
our amendments" and regretted that
the chief executive had not aided his
efforts by some such letter when the
debate was progressing in the senate
course that would have been Of prac-
tical benefit to the Cause. S8n-
ntors differed from tho presi-
dent in the assumption that the
TAX upon sugar is now necessary, con-
ceding. for purpose OF argument, that
"a" income tax is TO b. retained.
While raw sugar WAS being carried
through the house." Mr.. Hill said, "the
administration remained quiet, bnt
atler the house had acted anu the coua.
try been led to expect free sugar, the
administration shows its hand and de-
clares for duty upon it" He concluded
in my opinion the house cannot no W
honorably retreat from its posi- tion in
favor OF free sugar The presidents
suggestion came tO) late. The senate
must recede from its amendments.
VEST GROWS SARCASTIC.
Mr., Vest addressed the senate. II
was matter of congrntulation, he
said. sareastically, that the senator
from New York and the president
were. ut least, able to stand together
on any platform at all. A political
millennium seemed TO have come, at
least in modified degree. The lion
and the lamb of New York had lain
down together, and the COMMITTEES on
ways and means now led them. Which
WAS the lion and which the lamb he left
for future ascertainment
The time had come, he said. for
plain speaking in regard to this mat
ter. He, Mr.. Vest, had been consist.
ent friend OF the present occupant OF
presidential chair. But the Democratic
party was greater than any man. II
had survived Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson, and it would outlive Grover
Cleveland, who did not embody all the
.mocrscy and all the tariff reform of
this country.
MIR Gray, of Delaware, moved to in.
sist uDou the senate amendments TO the
tariff bill and to agree TO further con.
ference In the course of his speech he
declared himself more in favor OF free
coal and free iron ore than the senator
from New York had shown himself tC
be. He said he had been in favor oil
free iron ore and free coal when the
senator from New York was placing
every obstacle in the pathway ol
both. Mr. Gray, in the course oi
Il colloquy, declared somewhat passion
ately that he declined to tax,
instructions from q source like that.
MIR. Aldrich made an effort to draw
him out on the subject Of the presi-
dents letter, but Mr.. Gray declined t,
go into the matter and spoke OF MIR
Aldrich waltziug with Mr.. Hill in tn
dance Of the family feud. "By God
blessing" he concluded, I'VE will over
come the remaining obstacles that Ii