The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-15

lively scene, which ended in again side.
tracking the resolution, occurred Mr.. Hill
was asked to tell the senate his reasons for
Offering the resolution and he willingly
compied. IL was perfectly proper, he con-
tended, to instruct the senate conferrees
what to do. 1t was necessary that the sem
ate should know the status of affairs in
order that it might do something toward
adjusting the difficulties that caused
the prolonged delay in reporting the
tariff bill 1t was necessary that the people
of the country should know "where this
bill is at" Mr.. Hill asked Mr.. Gray to tell
his objections to the resolution, and this Mr..
Gray proceeded to do in a technical argu-
ment that the bill was in the possession of
both the house and the senate. 1t could not
be lost he said, and it was not necessary
That it should be returned to be placed un-
der lock and key. 1t did not require Yale
lock to preserve the bill Mr.. Turpie of In
diana got in sly hit at Mr.. Hill in a remark
about man who would say, am a dem
ocrat without the income tax" AS for
himself, he was a democrat with the income
tax, but whether for or against the income
tax no detail of expediency would sever
him from the action of his party on the
| floor. The disagreement on the BILL said
Mr.. Turpie, meant disagreement, defeat
disaster and discomfort. On the motion to
! put over the resolution and go into exeCu-
tive session, the senate was tied, and the
viCe-president's vote in the affirmative
turned the scale. - In the house, the
time was taken up in further consideration
of the sundry civil appropriation bill
MoNDAY.--In the senate, the conference
report on the sundry civil appropriation bill
was again taken up and Mr.. Sherman's mo-
| ton to recede from the senate amendment
for the purchase of the Malone lot as site
| Tor the government printing office was laid
| before the senate. After discussion, Mr..
| Sherman's motion was ruled out on point
| OF order, but its purpose was attained by
| the senate refusing, on yea and nay vote,
to agree to the house substitute for the sem
ate amendment. - The house uncondi-
tionally surrendered to the senate, and, by
a vote OF 1872 to 105, accepted the senate
tariff bill. The startling statement was
made, on the authority Of a leading demo-
cratic senator, that the trust has bought
! sugar to the amount of $4,000, 900 in for
elgn markets in anticipation of the senate
sugar schedule receiving the approval of
the president. Under the senate schedule
the trust would reap profit of $40 100000.
The declaration made by Mr.. Wilson that
the sugar trust had the people by the
Threats, and it is now battle between the
people and this great monopoly" was
greeted with applause. Mr.. Reed of Maine
told the democrats some very plain truths
during the debate. He said the job they
had to do was such that the sooner they got
over 1t the better they would feel. They
were going to trample upon the barriers
which preserved the rights of the people, in
order to perform an act which would be
tasteful to gentlemen differently situated
from themselves. you are going to do it
in defiance of all your declarations" he
said; "you are going to die not only in the
last ditch, but in the lowest part of the
ditch You are going to enact bill which
you believe not to be an honest BILL and
you are going to accompany it with pa
rade which you also know Is not honest.
You are going to desert the roll of honor
in order to trick yourselves out with the
gewgaws contained in this proposition.
You are going to give us free sugar-yes, in
your minds You are going to give us free
coal-Oh, my friends; and then you are go
ing to give us free iron, and you are going
to do it in bold and manly way, like the
back-down you are making here. You are
going to have no committee of this house,
not even your own plant committee, to
stand between you and the noble purpose
that thrills your souls You fear that bill
for free sugar will be contaminated by pas
sage through committee which may have
become an appendage of another portion of
what has been discovered to the legislative
branch of this country. You are going to
march to free coal over the dead bodies OF
the ways and means committee. You are
going to have free iron ore in defiance Of
the rules of this house, in defiance of the
principles which you have always pro-
claimed were necessary for the due trans
action OF public business. You are going
to give half al hour to the discussion of free
sugar in all its branches. You are going to
give fifteen minutes on a side to discuss the
question of iron. You are going to give an
hour to side to discuss 600 amendments,
not one of which have been touched by this
house one-tenth OF second for each
amendment" The free coal BILL free IRON
ore bill, and free barbed-wiIa bill. were all
carried through the house with a rush, and
the house adjourned till "Wednesday.