The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-16
forty-three senators. We, thereupon, set
ourselves to that miserable task"

ourselves to that miserable task -
"a MEDUsA-HEADED MONSTER"
Ms. Vest said when the conferees gave
their first attention 10 this "medusa-
headed monster, the sugar trust" after
much discussion a compromise sugar
schedule had been agreed to, giving 40
per cent on the saccharine strength in
the imported article and one-ffth diff
terential. Again declared Mr. Vest,
we were assailed. We were bounded
with the statement that the Senate was
for sale to the sugar trust. We were vii
llhed by vile cartoons, editorials and
lying correspondents"
Senator Vest suited his action to his
words and showed the intense bitterness
of his feeling. He continued to show that
when this sugar compromise had been
reached then it was learned that the
House was not so deeply concerned in free
sugar as it was in free coal and iron
Mr.. Vest referred to the Presidents
letter to Mr. Wilson and to the con-
sequent change of the issue from sugar to
coal and iron. He said he had no fight
with the executive. He disclaimed being
the "Cascan in the cabal against the
President as charged by the senator from
New York (Mr. Hill.
NOTHING TO RETRACT.
If it were necessary for him to retra ct
one word of what he said to remain in
public life he could not do it. For the
President to come before the public and
denounce the bill, the provisions of which
he knew in every detail was a gross in
justice to those who had labOred and
made much more sacrifice than he He
then described the proposition made TO
the House COnferees by the Senate. If
the sugar schedule should stand the
Senate had offered the House either free
coal or free iron. In the compromise that
seemed necessary the differences was
split. The House expressed great gratifi-
| cation. After two hours of conference,
the House COnferees came back and said
they would take free iron ore. The con-
ferees then adjourned with the statement
from the Senate cOnferees that it would
be dangerous TO make reductions on the
other schedules, metal, woolen, etc. The
next day the House cOnferees came back
and said they would take free coal. We
replied. Gentlemen, take either. We can
be happy with either, ii the other dear
charmer's away" Laughter
HAPPY WITH ETHER.
! Continuing, Mr.. Vest said "The
chairman of the House conferees then
said it was his duty to insist that all the
schedules should be taken up. They
were warned of the result The trouble
with the House conferees throughout
was that they insisted that they knew
more of the situation in the Senate
than we did. They constantly in
sisted we should make the changes
they wanted and take the bill back
to the Senate. While this discussion in
the conference was going on, the senator
| from New York came into the Senate last
| Friday and offered his resolution, on
which there was tie vote. That vote
was decisive. 1t, more than any
thing else, determined the sit
uation here. Men said the ques-
tion here was between the Wilson
bill aud the Senate bill. That statement
was as false as the assertion that this
was a democratic Senate. On the ques-
tion of tariff reform it never was and
| never can be a democratic Senate as at
| present constituted The question was
between the Senate bill and the Mckinley
| law. There the choice was to be made,
and every one conversant with the situa-
tion so understood it.
MATTERS PERSONAL.
"Mr. .President,it it is not pleasant ever to
indulge in personality, but my attention
has been called recent tly to an infamous
/ statement coming from generally
reputable source made in the public press
to the eject that my action in regard to
the letter of the President to MIR. Wilson
in regard to the tariff bill, had been
dictated by feeling of revenge
against his excelency because he
patronage of my sta te. The senator
from New York (Mr. Hill was kind
enough, in concluding his speech when he
played the role OF Marc Antony, and
when some people suspected that he
would really like to have played Marc
Antony and come to bury Caesar and not
to praise him, to say that after this clas-
sic group that had attacked our modern
Caesar, he knew not what private grief
might have. MIR. President, i have no pri-
vate grief, but l wish to acknowledge in
the most public manner my gratitude to
the President for having relieved me
from all responsibility in regard TO the
appointments in Missouri. Sir, if there
is anything in my public life which has
afforded me any pleasure, real and sub
stautial, it has been the fact that the
President in the exercise of of his consti-
tutional right, of which do not complain,
informed me that he no longer desired my
advice regarding Missouri patronage.
NEVER AGAIN.
"Not again during this administration
will l stand in a crowded ante-room look
ing into the anxious, haggard faces of ex-
pectant olfice-seekers. Not again will [
will | watch the shadows par
| TALLY produced by indignation that
flow across the executive brow
and feel my heart sink as each
shadow came and went. Not again will
| be damned at country postOftiCes and
upon village corners as an migrate who
has given no omces to his friends. Sirs,
were it not for this tariff debate and this
tariff discussion | would now indulge in
the ecstacy of that well known hymn:
Then shall bathe my weary soul
in seas Of endless rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
AcrOs my peaceful breast
MAKES NO COMPLAINT.
81 have nothing to complain of on the
part of the President. l am ready TO fol-
low him now as the old Scots
followed the banner of Bruce, when
he fought for country and
home. fight for no man
l night for principle, my party and my
country. Men pass away like clouds from
the evening sky, but principle must live
forever. sir, when any man living ac-
cuses me of personal motives in what l
have done in connection with this bill
but my connection with il is note ended
| simply answer him as a Marmion to
DOUGLASS: Lord Angus, thou hast lied "
A motion by Mr.. Dolph TO go into exec
utive session in the Senate at 30 p. m,
and thus cut off the discussian of the
sugar question, is regarded as a test vote.
IL was lost-lS TO -. 1t was stated to-
night by those in charge Of affairs in the