The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-21

voted for free sugar before, and I shall
do so again.
'In my judgment the House cannot
now houorably retreat from its position in
favor of free sugar. The Presidents sug-
gestion came too late. The Senate must
recede from its amendments"
VEST FOLLOWS HILL.
MIR. Vest, member of the conference
committees followed Mr. Hill 1T was -
he said, "a subject for congratulation for
every democrat that the senator from
| New York and the President of the
United States were at last able to stand
together on any platform, after all
Laughter. They were both now ur-
gently pleading for the enactment Of
a law that would give absolutely free
raw materials. These distinguished
statesmen had arrived at that uni6cation
of opinion after much Intellectual strug-
gle, and were now subject to the charge
of much inconsistency. So far as har-
mony could be produced, even to a lin
ited extent, within the Democratic party,
he Mr.. Vest joined in the congratula-
tions that must come from every portion
OF the country on this union at last of
those two distinguished gentlemen.
THE political millennium" Mr.. Vest
continued, seems to have come upon us,
at least in modified degree. The lion
and the lamb of New York have lain
down together and the committee on ways
and means of the House now leads them.
Which is the lion and which is the lamb,
| leave to future ascertainment, for ] am
not bold enough to enter now on tina dis
cussion."
1.-The senator from New York tells us,
as does the President of the United
States, that the cardinal principle of
democratic faith in regard to the tariff
reform is free raw material. The Presi-
dent even goes further than the distin-
guished senator, and says that it is per-
tidy to democratic discipline and prin-
ciples to consider tariff reform unless free
raw material be embodied in that re-
form.''
MORE KEEN SATIRE.
In this connection MIR. Vest referred
sarcastically to the fact that in the vote
by yeas and nays on a motion TO put wool
on the free list, MIR. Hill had sat in his
seat and not voted. Mr.. Hill stated why
this had been so, and Mr.. Vest exclaimed
in tone of satire: "If my soul we're
burning with enthusiasm for free raw
materials, If could not rest
at night because the Democratic party
were going to its death by placing duty
on raw materials, l would stand on no
parliamentary technicalities, but would
rush here at the peril of my life and put
myself on record for that great cardinal
and elementary doctrine. But the yeas
and nays were called, and the senator
from New York declined to vote for free
wool"
In the further course of his remarks
the senator said. 1.-The time has come for
plain speaking in relation to this matter.
have been consistent friend of the
present occupant of the executive chair
defended him in this Senate when his
friends could be counted on the fingers of
one hand and shall still continue to sup
port him as long as | believe that his ends
and objects are in consonance with the
success of the Democratic party, which
Is, believe, necessary to the glory and
honor of this country. ssss
But the Democratic party is greater
than any man. 1t survived Jefferson. 1t
survived Madison. 1t survived jackson.
And it will outlive Grover Cleveland.
"He does not EN- brace all the democ-
racy and all the tariff reform of this
country. He had no right to disregard
the spirit of the constitution.
THE LETTER REPUDIATED.
"He had no right to trample on the
sensibilities of other members of his
party for any purpose whatever. Where
did the President OF the United States
find the right, by private letter, to try
to influence legislation7 When our
fathers declared that there should be
three great coordinate departments of
this government, absolutely independent
of each other, did they mean that Pres
ident of the United States, by the use
of patronage, by the shadow of the
great office which the people gave
him, should in the teeth of the
constitution, put into the hands of.a CON
fierce, instructed to have full and free
conference in matters in dispute between
the two houses, a personal appeal to his
party friends to stand by his views on any
public question, Mrs. Adams, the wife of
the second President of the United States
In some memoirs, has given q reason why
the capitol was placed at one end of the
avenue and the white house at the other.
She said it was to prevent the President
from exercising undue influence
on the deliberations of congress. But in a
conference committee, where the conferees
are instructed to have a free conference,
the President Of the United States has
deliberately injected his personal appeal
and personal opinion, In order in advance
to influence measure on which he is,
the last under the constitution to pass.
he is part of the law making power of
the government, but his functions
only begin after the two
houses of congress and
uninfiuenced by the executive office-have
passed upon the question and placed the
bill before him. But the President. with
out waiting until the constitution put the
duty upon him, in private letter to the
chairman of the conferees on the part of
the House of Representatives, threw his
personal authority, the weight of his
great office, his hold upon the American
people, into the scale and demands
of this Senate that 1t shall accede
to his views in reference TO tariff reform
that portion Of the letter. which has
struck me with more alarm than any
thing / have heard In the course of my
public life, since the declaration of war
between the sections thirty years ago, is
the declaration by the President that it
is impossible, without treason to the
party to which we belong. without
perfdy to the principles which we pro
fess for the tariff bill to become law by
the votes of his political associates.
CALLED MoCKERY.
"What a moekery it is to talk Of a full
and free conference when one conferee
has in his pocket & the time he goes into
the conference, the views, If not the in
structions, of the President of the United
States as to what should be done.
81 was a tariff reformer before the
President commenced his phenomenal
career, and to be now told that we are
false to the great principles of the party
is beyond the limit ef human endurance
The traveller who tolls IN his courep "A long