The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-21
RAW MATERIALSDEMANDED
SENATOR HILL SAYS PRESIDENT
 CLEFELdSD IS RIGHT.

tenn. HHrris called that body 10 pruer. The galleries. as 1t was expected. was packed with a sweltering mass of men and women. all on the qui' vive for something remarkable.
 It was just 2:ls o'clock when Sena- tor Voorhees, called up the conference report of disagreement, and asked, without any further remarks. that the senate insist upon It's amendments, and that the senate conferees be in structed.
 No sound greeted this and. amid the silence, Senator Smith of New Jersey began to read prepared speech. When he had concluded half a dozen demo- cratic senators were on their feet ask ing for recognition. The vice president of the senate, however. recognized Sem ator Hill, and immediately there was a rustic through the senate, and crowds of members of the house came on the floor and nearly filled the open space be- hind the senators desks.
 Senator Hill moved that the senate recede from its amendments on coal and iron and instruct its conferees to place them on the free list.
 And on this, MT. President, desire to make a few remarks" began Sena- tor Hill, and then continuing. he said: "A theory as well as a condition con- fronts us."
 This was greeted with uproarious laughter and applause by the galleries and some of the senators.
 Senator Hill made a strong state ment of the democratic theory of free raw materials and approved the presi- dents position and sentiments express ed to the house.
 Upon the question of free raw ma terials the president is right, and, you know 1t. You cannot answer his argu- ments. You cannot successfully dispute
 his propositions. You cannot doubt sincerity and patriotism. You must yield in the end to his views. You can not stand up against the sentiment of the great democratic masses of the country which will rally around the president in his contest with you upon this particular branch of the stbject. r \ "The time to yield is now. before there Is further humiliation, embarrass- ,ment andrdiscord," .,.
 In speaking of the condition" MT. Hill said the house of representatives, in repudiating the senate bill, was ex- pressing the opinion of the country bet ter than the senate could, and could not in honor retreat. At the same time the president cannot approve the senate bill.
 He arraigns the senate" said MT. Hill, land intimates that the enactment of the senate bill means party perfidy and party dishonor.' These are strong words, sir, which the president of the United States would not use toward measure which he ever expected after ward to approve.
 "This letter, unusual and unprece- dented in it's character and method of promulgation though it may be, never theless clearly foreshadows a veto of the senate bill, even if the house should finally concur in our amendments. What person would expect the presi- dent to approve the senate bill after its vigorous and scathing denunciation contained in this letter? You would think, less of him for his glaring in consistency.
 "No, this letter is significant. If is a bold, vigorous, even if imprudent let ter. It means war to the knife against the senate bill. It justifes much that has been said against the senate, bill during all the last three months. It means that it can never receive execu- tive approval. It means that the senate cannot be permitted to abandon the great underlying principle for which we struggled and lost in 1888 and fought and won in 1892.
 "The president is right; there is no middle ground which we can occupy. No bill which does not provide for. free raw materials can be permitted to be- come law. .s.%
 Senator Hill differed with the presi- dent in not believing that sugar is a taxable article. The president in his last message mentioned no such idea, and it is surprising that he thinks as he does now.
 When Senator Hill denounced the presidents recommendation of a duty on sugar, and read a short newspaper dispatch from an Indiana convention de- nouncing Brice, German and Hill for voting against free sugar, scene was caused by Senator Voorhees denying that such a convention had done. such a thing. Voorhees, lost his temper when Senator Hill asked him if he feared to stand up for democratic principles, and for a time the scene was exciting.
 Senator Hill. after he had finished his regular speech, paid his respects to the income tax. and said that he was glad that the president had at last de- nounced 1t. MT. Fill then read the pres- idents letter, calling it of uncertain date" and picking out the word 'depre- cate," used by MT. Cleveland, read, amid great laughter, Webster's defini- tion of the word. Senator Hill when he was greeted with applause.
 Senator Vest followed and drew a sarcastic picture of the pleasure he felt of seeing the senator from New York and the president at last standing to- gether on some sort of platform.
 Senator Vest, in closing, said: ssIn my the bill as it now stands will become a law, or the Mckinley bill will stand" ,y-'1. r '.
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