The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-21
THE DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
Nearly All the Talking Done BY
Democrats.

Washington, d. c.. July 20.-Crowds
packed the Senate galleries today.
The House and president had yester-
Aday thrown down the gauntlet in the
JTtariff question and pitched battle was
expected.
Mr.. Blackburn, in a pink negligee
shirt, stood, watch in hand, while the
judge delivered the invocation. looking
like a judge at Kentucky derby.
Mr. VOORHEES,. chairman of the
finance committee, called up the con-
ference report on the tariff bin and
yielded the floor to Smith, of New Jer-
sey, who read a carefully prepared
speech.
He hoped, he said, when the bill
passed the Senate two weeks ago, 1t
had been perfected, but the events Of
the last tweDtyfour hours had con-
11ronted the Democratic party with the
kvpossibility of the failure Of all tariff
legislation at this session. If so, the
responsibility must be placed where it
belonged He criticized the presi-
dent for violating the principles of his
party, in attempting to interfere with
the prerogative of the legislative
clared that he viii never be intimidated
by threats from the president or by
the utterances of his party associates
at the other end of tie Capitol, who
had been so uproarously applauded.
He called attention to the differences
between the situation in the House
and that in the Senate. He reviewed
the events in the House, which culmi-
mated in the passage of the bill with
a loss Of seventeen Democratic votes
In the Senate every Democrat was
needed to pass the bill and the finance
harmonic the differences. They had
accomplished that purpose to their
everla sting credit, be it said. He de-
livered a eulogy on the tariff bill as
it passed the Senate, which, unlike the
House bill, he declared, contained no
SfmeDace to the industries of the coun-
{tpy and is not framed by men from
-sparsely settled districts who knew
Nothing the great commercial interests
Of the United States. He asserted that
the trainers of the House bill and a
large proportion of the Democratic
party were not tariff reforners. they
Were free traders.
The president, in his letter accept
ing the nomination, had favored not
free but freer raw materials He pro-
ceeded to point out the reductions that
the Senate bill made on coal, iron and
lead ore, and detailed at length the
reductions on other schedules.
A majority of SO, in the House, lad
|. enabled that body, ne said, 20 ride
ifough-silod over the wishes Of the rep
resentatives of the sugar-producing
states. and in the face of the presi-
dents protest, the chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee proposed
to place sugar, raw and refined on the
free list in a separate bill He then
devoted some time to an exposition of
the situation with reference to sugar
raw and refined. contending That the
proposed. reduction in the Senate bill
was one Of the biggest made in any
schedule From statistics obtained at
the treasury department, he main
tanned the enactment of the Senate
bill would reduce tariff taxation STA
o0d lie had voted for the bill with
the income tax Incorporated with great
reluctance and with the distinct un-
derstandi1g that he was not willing to
vote for a bin by which single indus
try should BE stricken down, or the re-
sumption of a single industry preven-
ted. He had asked for far greater