The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-07-05
TARIFF BILL PASSED.
The Once Great Measure of Demo
cratic Reform Passes the
Senate at Last.

Washington dispatches to the
Dallas News give the following in
cidents attendant upon the passage
of the badly mutilated tariff bill by
the Senate:
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Early this
morning the people began gather
ing at the Capitol, impelled by the
idea that this was the day on which
would be settled the tariff bill. An
agreement had been reached as far
as the Senate of the United States
is able to agree, that a vote should
be taken today, but it has been
learned here, if nowhere else on
earth, that one man in the Senate
can at any time block the legisla-
ton of the country and stop the
wheels from going around. So the
crowd gathered with the feeling
which moved a man to 90 to- quar-
ter horse race-may be the horses
may be turned into the stretch and
get away, and may be they may
not. The weather was very hot,
and the grave gentlemen
who have been playing with the in
terests of the country for a few
months took their seats and began
vigorous tanning. Their white
haired wives at home had decked
them universally in the coolest APP
parel and told them to go and do
something one way or another, but
do something. They hobbled, crept
and rode to the Capitol, and here
they were at last to do.
Harris head, denuded of hair;
Harris, for sixty years an all-night
man; Harris, a sure enough Demo
crat, and for fourteen weeks an If
ritated man; Harris, n years of age
on his next birthday, was the first
to come in, and as soon as he came
he announced that this bill must
pass on the Bird of July or there
would be no 4th as far as the sen
ate was concerned, and then he
turned and surveyed the other
members present, and took his seat
as only Harris, an all-night man
and II years of age, and irritated
for fourteen weeks, can take his
seat and the battle began,
Amendment after amendment
was offered, German, the Mephis-
topheles of the Senate, sat and
famed, and kept his eye on the
part of the body which weeks ago
in caucus promised to stand to-
gether. This was a critical mo-
ment for at any instant, vote
might fly away and a vote now was
necessary, Sometimes his fan
would cease its vibrations at a kick
from Democrat. Now and then
it would hutter as if this shinX was
really disturbed at some new trend
taken in the debate or amendments
and then the fan would flutter back
into the waiting of one, two three,
and everybody thought that he had
the game well in hand and knew it,
There was a row on sugar 1t was
a breeze, or rather squat and
then the normal conditions came
around and the fan counted one,
two, three.
Then there was the barbed wire
schedule. Allen wanted it on the
free list The finance committee
had agreed to put it in the free list.
Allen was iubilant and was now
sure of the bill The vote was TAX
en-. Allen was bowled over He
hardly knew what struck him. He
turned tired and white in turns,
He ranted and raved, and declared
that he had been over-reached.
The Democrats voted with him with
the exception of German, Brice
and their conservative brethren,
Then Hill arose. His short speech
was written. He was emphatic.
He protested. He called the bill the
German compromise" bill. The
fan moved nervously, but in an in
slant settled back to its usual move.
Hill would not vote fol- the bill.
He would stand with the present
unjust taxation rather than to
yield to such a hybrid of Democra-
cy, Republicanism. The fan moved
all right now, and then the vote
came. 1t stood 80 to a. The bill
passed. A shout went up from the
| galleries. The fan was laid on the
table and the compromise bill went
to the house,
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