The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29
HARRIS FLOORS HALE.
The Tariff Leader on a Platform the
Country VIII Indorse.

washington, April 2S.-In half an hour
,f-ar the Senate met to-day the tariff bill
rs taken up, on motion Of MIR. Harris,
nv vote of 81 to 49,
Mr. Hale took the initiative by asking
.-sr the clause fixing the date for the
ing effect of the bill be passed over
Cor the present He sent to the clerks
5a-lz and had read certain statements by
danocratic senator's concerning the tariff
hi The FIRST of these was an interview
,ritb Senator Brice, of Ohio, some six
,-eaks ago, in opposition to the bill.
Then he had read a recent interview
1ritb the same senator, speaking of a
.,-,rro,nise tariff bill The third was
De,.sDaUer interview with Mr.. voorhees,,
- which he is represented as being in
fa,-or of free sugar. Mr.. Hale then went
~ m say that the sugar schedule had
baan agreed upon in the interest of the re
F1nrs. and that the metal schedule was
- he torn up and dlsmembered so that
Nh. Harris would not recognize it.
t,yCbatever denials may be made the
whole bill is to be changed, and senator's
mo have not been friendly toward it
are to be propitiated, in order that there
NIGHT be a solid democratic vote for the
bill
HARRIS REPLIES.
Mr.. Harris replied in his impressive
ana deliberate manner to Mr.. Hale. He
80. The senator from Maine has COM
nIimented me in manner which shows
no DISPOSITION on his part TO spare my
T'odest bushes; but what he has said
niles il necessary, perhaps, for me TO
define. briefly, my position in regard to
the Dending bill. l undertake to say, and
assert with absolute confidence, that
mere never was, in the history of this gov
eminent a tariff bill framed by either
Marty that has not been the result of a
rnm9romise between conflicting interests
and cOdicting opinions. have tolerably
well defined opinions about what the tariff
roicv of the country ought to be. They
are a little more extreme than those of,
nerhaps nne-tenths of the senators on
his side but | have never been sufic-
ieu-ly arrogant or sufficiently confident
If NV own superior wisdom on
that or other questions, as to hold my
self aloof from the suggestions or other
gentlemen equally well informed, equally
honest and equally interested in the gen
eral welfare of the country. | should de-
spise myself if were not capable of hear
ing the suggestions of brother democratic
senator's, and hearing them in a spirit of
compromising conflicting opinions on this
and all other important questions about
which we chance to differ. | do
not choose, at this time, to go
into the details of this bill, but l
have been ready from the beginning, and
an still ready, to compromise conflicting
opinions with brother democrats and
would be even willing 10 compro-
mise conflicting opinions with my
friend from Maine, if he
evlnced a determination to come to re-
form OF the most vicious and outrageous
tariff act that ever afflicted the coun-
try"
THE SUGAR QEsTIoN.
Mr. Hale-I will ask the senator one
square question. The provision of the
bill touching sugar is carefully worked
out. 1t had the scrutiny of the finance
committee and [ take it that the senator
from Tennessee agrees in it, does he not2
II assenJed to 1t as a member of the
finance committee" Mr. Harris admitted
And the senator is championing the
bill with that provision in it," said Mr.
Hale Nov what will be the position of
the senator when he is asked to vote for
an amendment which is clearly not in the
interest of the sugar growers in Louis
lana or Nebraska. but is in the interest of
the reHner, and so changes the schedule
That the refner gets great advantagel
VIII the senator go for 1t on the theory
that 1t reduces JaXation2n
81 am as little in favor MIR Harris de-
clared emphalcaly, of aiding and bene-
fling the sugar refners or the sugar
trus, as the senator from Maine or any
nan IN this chamber, or outside of it.
Tut II TO make such concessions was an
Indispensable necessity to pass a bill to
reouce taxation and to repeal the in
1amlts of the Mckinley act, | would glory
IN accepting them" Applause on the
democratic side and in the galleries..
HALE FOOLIsHLY ELATED.
That tellsthe whole story" Mr.. Hale
exclaimed, with an air of extreme salts
Iaclon. The senator has let it all out.
NO matter what offensive provisions may
De inserted IN this bill at different points.
the senator will vote for every
one OF them for the sake
OF getting the bill through. He has
stated IN aIfew words and much better
than ! could, all that 1 was seeking
country
Iney are so much less Objectionable"
sdlu MI Harris, than the policy of the
senator from Maine and his Mckinley act
tnat can scarcely imagine proposition
.uGt would not maintain as prefera bic
10 II; and if had to decide between CON
y!nulng the Mckinley act in force or SUBJ
SllyuIng II with something at least better
dJhoQgh not SO much better as | de-
SIteI-l would vote for the latter [
nope the senator from Maine understands
my position on the question"
s,is AZ 40, do thoroughly" said Mr. Hale,
seit-complacently.
mr. Sherman, IN the course of an argu-
L1ent against fixing the time for the act to
zane e5Hect, before 1t had been thoroughly
UouSiqered and amended, declared that
LePuOlcan senator's never would allow the
OH to pass until every word and clause
WAS WAS subjected to their scrutiny. After
tuls opening, MIR. Stewart read a short
9peeGh on the gold standard, and Mr..
Lbo-ph delivered the sixth instalment of
MS speech against the tariff bill. Then
%tisf eulogles on the late Representative
69-'tt..ey' OF Pennsylvania, the Senate, at
'1'o CLOCK, adjourned until Monday.