The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-07
SENATOR VOORHEES, TALKS.
Advocates Such Concessions as VIII
Bring About Speedy Agreement.


Bring About a Speedy Agreement.
Washin gton, Aug. 6.-Chairman Voor-
hees, of he Financial committee, has
been unable to attend the conference
IN account of i'll health and is still con-
fined to his house.
He has not yet been heard from on
the points now at issue among the con-
ferees. It has been assumed he stood
with the Senate conference managers
-Gnot only for the Senate duty on sugar,
put also for duty on coal and iron ore
lie announced the contrary in an inter-
view with reporter for the Associated
Press, who called upon him at his house
today and asked him for his views. He
talked very freely, advocating such con-
ceSSlonS on the part of the Senate as
would bring about a speedy agreement
and took strong ground in favor of
yielding to the Democrats Of the House
for free coal and free iron ore. He said:
seems to me there ought to be
Attle, if any, difficulty in reaching an
Increment between the two houses. The
gays and Means committee of the
House did not, in the first instance, re-
port in favor of free sugar, but were
oVerruled by the House and free sugar
was put on the Wilson bill L would
gladly have concurred in this. but it
was soon ascertained, with mathemat-
zeal certainty. that such a bill could by
no possibility pass the Senate
'On this point of difference of the
two houses, look upon the presidents
letter to Mr.. Wilson as help, rather
than hindrance. towards a compro-
mise settlement. The concession which
the president advises the House TO
make on sugar is liberal, and ought 90
be at once atisfactory to every legiti-
mate sugar interest l can entertain no
doubt that it win furnish the basis of a
successful schedule. Mr.. Caffery has
announced in the Senate, as | under
stand him, that Louisiana will accept As
per cent. ad valorem without any refer
kence to the trust, especially if the boun-
sfty or at least portion of it, is con-
Bnued TO the planters a few months
anger. Under these circumstances, L
Tfk ~unable to see how the sugar issue
remain any longer an obstacle to an
asF eement.
Too Small to Kick About.
fThe only other points of serious
trbuble are embraced in the question
whether coal and iron shall be free or
have tariff duty laid upon them of
40Acents per ton. These are exceeding
ly small and insignificant items of con-
troVersy on which to defeat a great ma
tional system of revenue reform. OBJ
struct all the legislation looking to
that end, diSappoint and derange every
barrass the Democratic party, and in
flict the gravest calamities on all clas-
ses Of people.
All legislation shall entirely fail at
this time. owing to a stubborn dis
agreement as to whether there shall be
a small duty on coal and a small duty
on iron ore. or whether these two ar
ticleS shall be on the free list. the men
who make that result inevitable may
rest assured that they will be held in
everlasting remembrance and everiast-
ing execration.
They will be hanged in effigy from
one ocean to the other and their names
will be pilloried in the estimation of
the American people. There is so lit
tie ground in my mind now for the
final disagreement that those who
continue to insist on small things and
continue to repeat such disagreement,
will be held as criminals by all just
minded people.
THE sugar schedule being practical
Sly oGi of the way, as have shown, by