Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-07-26
A STIR In THE SENATE.
Created by Letter to Chairman
Wilson From the President
Endorsing the House Tariff Biu-Bo&h
Bodies Determined that No Com
promise Shall be Submitted
T0-The Letter.

SU.-frOm talks
with senators, the indications are that
fhe presidents letter to Mr.. Wilson
VIII precipitate an animated discus
sion on the floor of the senate to-day.
There will be no limit to the debate,
and before the consideration of the
conference report as an incidental and
the letter as the main subject is over,
some very plain language. it is asserted,
will be used by some of the senators
who have been designated as the ICON
servatives."
1t is also said that three of these sem
'ators will make their replies when Mr..
Voorhees, calls up the report imme-
liately after the reading of the journal
to-day. These three are Senators
Smith, German and Brice. Mr.. Hill
will also speak.
MIR. Smith. if the rumors about him
be true. will make a speech in which
he will warn the conferees that they
have violated the faith placed in them
when they receded from the senate
amendments and agreed, as has been
reported, that they would accept the
house schedules on woolens. cottons,
etc. He will outline the situation as
he sees it and will, it is said, in his
conclusions, tell the senate, the presi-
dent, the country and the house of
representatives that they can accept
the senate bill or no bill at all so far
as his vote is concerned.
Mr.. German, who was in close con-
ference with Mr.. Jones and Mr.. MUIR
ply all the afternoon, went home as
soon as the senate adjourned. 1t is
said that he. too, will echo the senti-
lnents that MIR. Smith will utter, and
will warn the house that if it persists
an the course adopted BY it to-day, it
will end in defeating bill which is
for the best interests of the whole
country, and which was the product of
very serious attention on the part of
the senate. and formulated as the only
bill that could hope to meet with sue
cess. Mr.. German, if the statements
of his friends mean anything. is more
firmly grounded in his original plan
than ever.
B1r. Brice will have few words to
say about the senate bill, in which he,
too, will join his colleagues in letting
the country know that it is the senate
Dill. and not the house bill, that is to
ultimately become the law of the land.
There was rumor about last night
that the senate democrats were now
declaring that their bill should pass
without the dOtting of an ''i' or the
crossing of st." but one of the con-
Scrvatives denied this, saying that
there were many items in the senate
bill upon which concessions would
be made, but that in the main
the senate idea of tariff should pre-
vail or there would be no bill: with
this the idea also prevails in the SEN
ate that the bill will not be defeated.
Mr.. German. with some Indignation,
last night denied the story that had
been circulated to the effect that he
had surrendered coal and had given
his consent that it should go back to
the free list.
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER
personal.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, July 2, 1894.
TO Hon. VIM L. wilson:
''MY DEAR SIR-The certainty that a
conference will be ordered between the
two houses of congress for the purpose
"of adjusting difference on the subject
of tariff legislation, makes it also GER
tain that you will be again called upon
to do hard service in the cause of tariff
reform.
my public life has been so closely
related to the subject, / have SO longed
for its accomplishment, and I have SO
often promised its realization to my
fellow-countrymen as a result of their
trust and confidence in the democratic
party, 1 hope no excuse is necessary for
my earnest appeal to you that in this
crisis You strenuouly insist upon party
honesty and good faith and sturdy
adherence to democratic principles.
believe these are absolutely necessary
conditions to the continuation of demo-
cratic existence.
Il can not rid myself of the feeling
that this conference will present the
best if not the only hope of true demo-
cracy. Indications point to its action
as the reliance of those who desire the
genuine fruition of democratic effort,
the fulfillment of democratic pledges
and the redemption of democratic
promises to the people.
ITO reconcile differences in the de-
tails comprised within the weil-defined
Zines of principle, will not be the sole
task of the conference, but as it seems
to me. its members will also have in
charge the question whether demo-
cratic principles themselves are to be
saved or abandoned.
There is no excuse for installing or
misapprehending the feeling and the
temper of the rank and file of the
democracy. They are downcast under
the assertion that their party fails in
ability to manage the government and
they are apprehensive that efforts to
bring about tariff reform may fail; but
they are much more Gowncast and ap-
prehensive in their fear that demo-
cratic principle may be surrendered.
Sin these circumstances they can not
do otherwise than to look with con-
fidcnce to you and those who with you
have periodically and sincerely cham
ypioned the cause of tariff reform with
in democratic lines and guided by
democratic principles. This confidence
is vastly augmented by the action IN
der your leadership of the house of rep
resentatives upon the bill now pending.
Every true democrat and every sim
.cere tariff reforirer knows that this bilf
in it's present form, and as it will be
submitted to the conference. falls far
short of the contamination for which
we have long labored, for which we
have suffered defeat without discour-
agemcnt: which in its snticipation gave
ms Il raliying cry in our day of triumph,
and which in its promise of accomplish
ment is SO interviewer with democratic
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