The morning news., 1894-07-26


for the bill because the schedules
relating to the industries Of the
great states they represented had been
arranged their shops would not De com
PEELED to shut up or their workmen be
thrown out Of employment. Because this
had been done, they had consented to
swallow the income tax and given their
pledge in CAUCUS that they would stand
by the party. A duty had been placed on
raw sugar, and if that was right, it WAS,
he said, no more than right that a differ
enttal duty should be placed on refined
sugar, an industry that gave employ
ment to thousands of men in the states
where the refining of sugar was con-
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WOULD PLEASE THE BOLTERS.
Any attempt to change this schedule,
or any other schedule striking at the
salient points of the bill, all of which had
been discussed in previous caucus,
would, Senator Smith said be hailed
with satisfaction by those who had bolted
| the income tax, because they were very
sick of their bargain, and would lump at
| anything that would release them from it.
Senator Smith, in the further course Of
his remarks, told the caucus and Senator
Villas, to whom his remarks appeared
mainly addressed that if any arrange
ment had been made through the aid of
the votes of the senators from Louisiana
| whereby the sugar schedule was to be
/ changed, that there were enough votes at
command with those of the sugar sen
ators to indefinitely postpone the confer
ence report and kill 1t. In solemn
tones Senator Smith challenged
Senator Villas to make this effort and
cautioned him that if he did he would
find that the bill would be as dead as
anything could possibly be Senator
Smith also said that it was very serious
matter whether the bill could even be got
back to conference so narrow was the
democratic majority, and the attitude of
Senator Villas was such that he was
greatly imperiling the slim chance which
the bill did have.
BERRY's POSITION.
Senator Berry of Arkansas said that he
had hoped that in some ways sugar might
be putOn the free list. He was a candi-
date for reelection iE his state, he said,
and anything like a tax on sugar was
very unpopular. If Senator Villas made
his motion to strike out the differential
and voted for it he MIR. Berry said he
would be compelled to do so, as that were
the way he desired TO vote, but if it was
thought that the only way the bill
could be passed was to leave this duty
alone, he would vote with his colleagues.
Senator Berry said, however, that he
knew that If Senator Villas made the pro-
position it would carry and he would vote
10 strike 1t out. Otherwise he would cast
aside his own political chances and vote so
as to pass the bill but he wanted some
sort of tariff bill passed, even If it did
not satisfy him entirely.
BRICE TO FOLLOW BERRY.
Senator Brice remarked that his name
came next TO that of Senator Berry, and
that if he voted TO strike out the differ
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! for he believed in free sugar, both raw
| and refined. Senator Brice reminded
! Senator Villas of the trouble the finance
committee had in getting the bill that
would command the support Of the neces-
sary forty-three votes, and said that as a
member of the steering committee, he
had at the outset analysed the vote in
| the Senate and found bill could be only
passed by carefully considering the con-
cessions demanded by the senators who
represented the manufacturing and in
dustrial states.
Much of the discussion consisted of in
terrogatOries between Senator Villas and
other senator's, the bent of all being to
| get the Wisconsin senator TO agree TO
withdraw his motion, which was looked
upon as putting the whole bill in
| jeopardy.
In one of these cross fires Senator
| Smith recalled TO Senator Villas a speech
he formerly made in the caucus, in which
! he pleaded for unity and harmony and in
sisted that the democrats get together
upon some sort of bill, so that the party
could keep its pledges.
SMITH JUMPS ON Villas AGAIN.
Senator Smith is said to have reminded
Senator Villas that he was one of the
most persistent senators in asking men,
bers to pledge themselves TO vote for the
bill that was agreed upon so that 1t might
pass the Senate.
Senator Villas admitted making this
speech, but said that he did not consider
that those pledges bound the Senate
after the bill got out of the Senate and
into the conference.
This reply irritated Senator Smith,
who retorted that that sort Of 'mugwump
logic" might be effectual in some places,
but it would not do in a case where men
pledged themselves TO stand by a measure
and see it through. The men who entered
that caucus, Senator Smith insisted. were
as much bound to stand by their bill in
conference as they were in the Senate,
and then he reiterated his threat that If
that sort of an argument was TO prevail
the bill was dead then and there, and
would never get back into conference.
THE WARNING REPEATED.
"The men who opposed your income
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yielded under the influence of pledges
made here in this room will not submit
TO it, and / want TO say again that any at
tempt to make the changes suggested
means a motion 20 indefinitely postpone
the conference report now before the
Senate. If that motion should be made
on the democratic side Of the chamber
It will prevail
In the further discussion, participated
In by Senators Vest. Smith and Brice. il
was shown Senator Villas, as these gentle
men viewed the situation, that the bill
was weaker to day than IL was when it
passed the Senate by its very small ma
ority. With your own vote for the bill
counted" said one senator addressing
Senator Villas, there is to-day but forty
two votes solid for the bill which is now
on the Vice Presidents table, and yet
you propose to push motion that must.
that will, inevitably drive from US more of
our own votes.
This was intended, as one senator VINO
described tho situation said, TO refer 70
Senator Murphy and particularly Sena-
tor Irby both OF whom declined 10 enter
the caucus, and who are looked upon as
at least lukewarm In their friendship 20
tho bill, although both Of them voted for
II before.
COAL AND IRON ORE.
The subject Of coal and iron ore was
again brought up, but they did not cut
much Of figure Ia the debate, which