New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-07
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Washington, March 6.-Someth!ng Of tho
strength and significance Of the opposition 10 the
Wilson Tariff bill which has been developing In
the Senate for the last two weeks was revealed
to-day by the abject surrender of the Democratic
leaders TO the forc.hle demand OF the friends
of silver that all tariff reform legislation should
be postponed until after the Bland Seigniorage
bill had been passed and sent to the President
for his approval. Finding, on hasty review or
the situation this morning, that the enemies OK
the Wilson bill could muster more than enough
votes to make the Bland bill the unfinished
business" Of the Senate whether the tariff bill
were reported or not, Mr.. VOORHEES,. who had been
boastingy proclaming his intention OF smother
ing the Bland bill in committee until all danger OF
its interfering with tariff legislation was past
struck his colors at once, simply begging the op-
position as a personal favor to spare him the
humiliation Of being defeated yea and nay
vote.
Mr.. Stewart. who has appeared as the special
friend and champion of the Bland bill in the
Senate. had intended TO ask a vote at 2 o'clock
on the question of making the SeignioraSe Dali
the unfinished business" but before that time
Mr.. Faulkner acting as the representative OK
Mr. Voorhees, and the other Administration
leaders, arranged privately with Mr. Stewart
Mr. Aldrich and the other managers OF the tarih
slde-tracking scheme. to avoid formal VOTE
giving his promise that II Mr.. Stewards motion
were allowed to go till tomorrow II wouid %
agreed to without opposition.
DELAY OF a MONTH
The adoption Of Mr. Stewards motion means
OF course. that the work Of tariff revision Is 10
he abruptly suspended for three or four weeks
while the Senate discusses NJ. BANDS vacuum
coinage" project, and that it is 10 be resumed
Ia, If- yans
on this new piece of financial quackery to the
satisfaction Of his free-sver Democratic allies
The feebeness and incapacity Of the Demo-
cratic Committee Of Revision have. in fact,
through the protracted delays incurred in re-
porting the Wilson bill. finally put into the hands
Of the opposition that particular club 10 kill the
Wilson bill which was most OF all to be dreaded
and fought shy of. BY prolonging the stris
within the party over the details or the re-
vised' bill until Mr.. Bland could throw MS
seignorage nrebrand into the Senate, the Demo-
cratic leaders have exhibited political fatuous-
ness and parliamentary short-sightedness WHICH
seem almost incredible. Divided as the Demo-
cratic party is the tariff, II Is still more w'ceiy
and bitterly separated the silver question.
and the opportunity 10 play one Of these issues
of against the other offers now as II has foi
wears past the most promising field for poitlcai
manipulation and manoeuvrIng which the op-
moments Of obnoxious legislation OF any sort cou"
possibly desire.
That the Republican opponents OF the wilson
hill would avail themselves 10 man or the
chance TO shift the fighting at this Juncture
from the Wilson measure to the Bland measure
went without saying. The Populists were eager
to ioln in any flank movement Wnlcn might
give hope Of tnkerng with the counuys
finances rather than its revenues. In me Denio-
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test last summer over the repeal or the sherman
act were still alive and burning, and there We're
not a few OF the victims OF the ADMINISTRATORS
well-relnembered bunco game or 'cofnproniIse
last October who were alert TO seize the oppor-
tunitv now to promote the fortunes OF silver at
the expense Of the revision or the tarlf SO ihuco
more ardently desired by Mr. Cleveland.
QUICK REVENGE FOR THE SILVER MEN.
To keep the tariff bill as hostage while ths
vacuum Coinage bill" ran the gantet OF Pres
idental approval was revenge which the
whirligig Of time had brought around sooner
than most Of las; summers sufferers had counted
upon in their most sangune moments. win
the Republican and Populist votes in favor OF
prior consideration of the vacuum bill the op.
position was only three short OF n majority ana
among the outspoken opponents OF the tarit
bill in its present shape and the radical free.
silver Democrats. who think tariT revision OF
secondary Importance to currency iniiatioi
enough votes were easily secured 10 have turned
the scale in favor OF MIR stewards motion had
the tariff bill managers been willing 10 test the
issue openly in the Senate. Among the Demo-
cratic Senator's counted to-day as likely 10 sup
port Mr.. Stewards motion were Messrs. Whlte
Of California: Roach of North Dakota; Martini
OF Kansas: Butler and lrby, or South Carolina,
and HILL Of New-York.
The virtual decision reached to-day TO consider
the Bland bill ahead of the Wilson bill made the
precise date of the completion OF the laoors ot
the Finance Committee 'reylsers' OF compara-
lively little consequence Mr.. Voorhees, again
disappointed those who had accepted his latest
predictions and failed 10 produce the finished
bill for the inspection Of the full membership
OF the Committee on Finance az its regular
weekly meeting this morning. The meeting in
deed declared off. and the chairman could
give only the most indefinite assurances as 20
the time when the revise" would be actually
finished. In the Senate this afternoon Mr. Har-
rls intimated that the bill was on the very verge
OF completion which was taken To mean that 1t
would be submitted tomorrow. But unless the
long-deayed draft is presented tomorrow MORN
ing. and is then found to contain practically
every concession demanded by the "COnserva-
tives." so that II can command unanimous party
by its best friends to be more than dubious.
MIR. HILL GETS on WAR FAINT.
That Mr. Hill is fighting the Wilson bill as q
whole, and not for the concessions demanded
for the special interests represented by the va.
rous other conservatives" was shown by his
introducing to-day n resolution virtually calling
for a recommittal OF the Wilson bill and It's re-
on revenue tariff lines. Mr.. Hilrs
resolution will probably never reach vote, but
its author by submitting 1t publicly declares his
hostility t. the deficit and income tax theory
on which the Wilson bill is based and advertisea
his intention which was already well under.
stood, defeat the bill II possible unless its
entire structure is radically changed. leading
Republican manager and member OF the Finance
summed up the situation as affected
by to-days parliamentary fencing as follows:
The motion to take up the Bland Segniorage
bill and consider II to the exclusion OF tariff
legislation will be adopted tomorrow do not
think that the Administration leaders will oppose
II. We have the votes TO carry IL whether they
do or not. The debate on the Bland bill may run
some time / don't know how long. But you
may be assured that the Tariff bill cannot come
seriously before the Senate before We well
into the month OF April"
The hay dealers and producers throughout the
country are up in arms over the change In the
tariff on hay from "a TO 81 per ton, as proposed
by the Wilson bill Recognizing the danger ID
this vast interest which represents farm vafu