The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-26
Villas VERY IDEAL.
Defends the President Against
Attacks Made on Him.
Sees in Him the "White Light
of Upright Purpose"
IT IS A PRIDE TO HIM.
Intimate Association With That
Lofty Distinguished Man,
Is the Greatest Reward That
Has Come to Villas.

WASHINGTON, July 26.-By agreement
the conference report of the tariff bill
was deferred. when the senate met to-
day, until 2 p. N. On motion of Mr..
Hunton, resolution directing the secre-
tary of the treasury to transmit a list of
claims in the hands of the &C
counting officers of the government,
also the claims passed upon by the
court of claims requiring appropriations
at this session, was adopted; also Dir.
Aliens resolution calling on the attorney
general for copies of all correspondence
with railroad officials in connection with
the recent strike.
The senate then considered bills on the
calendar.
At 2 o'clock Mr.. Jones called up the
conference report on the tariff bill
Mr.. Villas was Immediately recognized
but yielded to Mr. Quay who withdrew
the sugar amendments he offered just
before adjournment yesterday.
The Republicans, after consultation,
had found that they could not carry the
free sugar amendments proposed
by Senator Quay yesterday. 1t
was accordingly decided that Sena-
tor Quay would withdraw all his
amendments offered yesterday, but
they will be renewed IN a different form
by some other Repu bllcan- If the vote
shows that Senator QIay's vote viii strike
out the one-eightn dlIferential il Will
probably be- cast on that side. The Re-
publicans do not know how the Popu-
lists will vote. On the proposition TO
vote for free sugar it found
a serious complication existed, for
the Republican senators, Manderson and
Perkins were afraid that the proposition
might go through and be passed, as it
was understood that IN case free sugar
was added to the bill Senator PETER
would vote for it The Republi-
cans felt that the only proposition
that would go through and which
" i'll endanger the bill is that instructing
the conference to strike out the one
eighth difTerential. This would carry
by only the margin of one vote if all the
Republicans, POpulists and Senators Hill
and Irby vote for it.
The Wisconsin senator began his
speech by saying that an extraordinary
scene occurred on Monday last in the
senate
A Democratic senator, he said, saw fit
to attack the president, without prece-
dent, he thought, or If there was
precedent, it was one that ought to be
stunned instead of followed. 1t was
personal assault upon the president and
his character. He had hoped, he said
that the remarks of Mr.. German and
those who joined him on that occasion
would have appeared in the record be-
fore he Mr. NiIas) replied
But, he went on sarcastIcally, he pre-
sumed the engagements of the Maryland
senator were SO pressing that he had had
no time to revise them. Mr.. Villas con-
sidered it his duty TO reply to that as
sault.
He would speak as the personal as
we'll as the political friend of the
president He rejoiced in the honor of
MIR. CIeveland's friendship. It was a
pride to him. OF the rewards, few and
stinted, that came to public men, one of
the greatest that had come to him, was
the intimate association with that lofty
and distinguished man.
It was his honest testimony to his
character that never at any moment in
any temptation, political or personal, had
he failed to see in Mr. Cleveland the
| pure, white light of an upright purpose.
For such a man he saw fit to say some
words-not in defense Che needed none),
but some correction of a discOloratiOn of
facts by which Mr.. Cleveland had been
! placed in false light before the coun-
4 try. He would make this statement in
/ behalf of the truth of history. what
were the points of accusatiOnsf' fnquir-
ed Mr.. Villas, t'in the remarkable assault
to which l have alluded"
/ Those charges were true or false, not
as a matter Of argument, but as a matter
| Of fact "With regard TO coal and iron
/ let US examine the facts" said Mr.. Villas.
And I desire to say here that l am under
deep obligation to the senator from New
York who never in his public career
maze 6uCu dn aDlG GA pOoAAAOA u any
subject as he did on Tuesday last
Wished German Were There.
He regretted, he said. that Mr.. Cor
man was absent from the senate cham
ber.
The first accusation, he proceeded,
was that the president was open to the
charge of duplicity. That was based
upon a letter in which Mr. Cleveland ex-
F, pressed the hope that iron and coal
| would 90 on the free list in the tariff bill.
| Second, was that the executive had by
that encroached on the prerogatives of
! congress. and third. that the president
/ had traduced the senate.
AIr. Villas then reviewed at length the
presidents position IN favor of free raw
material, his letter of 1887 and other
public utterances up to his message to
| congress at the opening of the present
session. Constantly, Mr.. Villas declared,
| Dir. Cleveland had insisted up this prin-
| ciple. It was everywhere proclaimed
by his supporters to be the first step in
the acknowledgements of labor from the
thraldom of unjust taxation Could it be
| possible, be asked, that any one supposed
he had abandoned the principle that lay
at the base Of any scheme Of tariff re-
formG
NO Proof Of Change of Heart.
| What was the proof adduced in sup