The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-21
The Presidents Letter Receives
His Warm Approval.
HILL TELLS SENATE TO YIELD.
Cleveland Must New Veto the Sugar
Trust Bill if Passed.
smith and Vest Intimate That They win
Not Yield an lnch-Demorrats show
Their Hatred or HiiI-GEepabliczns
Let Democrats Do the oaarreitag.


lively discussion of The presidents letter.
/ The proceedings were opened hy Voorhees,
( chairman of the finance committee. who
/ called up the conference report on the
F., tariff bill and yielded the floor TO smith
/ OF New Jersey. who read carefully pre-
1 pared speech. he had hoped, he SAID.
/ when the bill passed the senate two weeks
/ ago, that il had been perfected, but the
/ events Of the last twenty-foar hours had
Z confronted the Democratic party with the
I possibility Of failure OF all tariff iegisla-
I tion at this session. If so, the response
I bility must ne placed where il belonged
1 He criticised the president for violating
the principles of his party. in attempting
/ to interfere with the prerogative cf the
/ legislative branch of the government, but
| declared that he never would be iutimi-
/ dated by threats from the president or by
/ the utterances of his party associates az the
/ other end of the capitol. who had been
/ so uproariously applanded. He called
/ attention to the differences between
4 the situation in the house and that in the
senate He reviewed the events in the
I house which eliminated in the passage of
the bin with loss Of seventeen Demo-
cratic votes In the senate every Demo
4
! the finance committee went heroicaily to
work to harmonize differences. They had
accomplished thar purpose, to their ever
/ lasting credit be il said. lie delivered q
/ eulogy Of the tariff bill as it passed the
senate. which, nniike the house bill, he
declared, contained no menace TO the In
/ dustries of the country. and was not
framed by men from sparseiy settled dis
tricts, who knew nothing of the great
commercial interests OF the United States.
He asserted that the trainers Of the house
| bill. and large proportion of the Demo-
1 cratic party, were not tariff reformers /;
/ they were free traders.
The president in his letter accenting the
/ nomination had favored not free, but
freer, raw materials. He proceeded to point
out the reductions that the senate bill
made on coal. iron and lead ore, and de-
tailed at length the reelection on other
schedules. The speaker touched on sugar.
/ majority of eighty-three in the house
/ had enabled that body, he said. to ride
! roughshod over the wishes of the repre-
/ sentatiyes Of the sngar-producing states.
and In the face of the presidents protest
! the chairman of the ways and means CON-
/ mitiee proposed TO place sugar. raw and
I
/ bill. He then devoted some time to
an exposition of the situation with
reference TO sugar, raw and re-
fined, contendRg that the proposed
reduction in the senate bill was one OF the
! biggest made in any schedule. From sta
/ tIstics obtained at the treasury depart
ment he maintained the enlistment Of the
senate bill would reduce tariff taxation
| si74oo0,0o0. He had voted for the bill
with the income tax incorporated with
great reluctance. and with the distinct
/ understanding that he was not willing 10
vote for a bill by which a single industry
| should be stricken down or the resumption
of single industry prevented. He had
asked for far greater concessions from his
constituents than he had from the finance
| committee.
so far as am concerned-And | think
| sneak also for several of my colleagues
/ there has not been, and will not be
I the slightest change in my posi-
J tion,m said Mr.. Smith. 1T has
been charged that We are not sin
/ cere in our advocacy of the senate bill.
that we have made IL for trading purposes
| and that those Who oppose the Wilson
bill would rush into line at the hrst crack
/ of the whip. | did not suppose any p>r-
son familiar With the character of this
body would be misled by notion so
pueriIe But il is evident from the atti-
tnde OF our colleagues in the house that
either they do not believe we mean what
We have SAID. or they are willing to invite
the defeat of tariff legislation. IL the
/ former, | have only 10 say they have mis-
taken their men. II tie latter. they must
answer to the people for the defeat OF bill
which should, and believe would. satisfy
alt reasonable expectations. And 80. str.
all fraa a 4tFaasa
ward those who have aspersed our motives,
that, so far as | am concerned. they need
/ expect no further concessions | have
labored earnestly aad honestly TO bring
about a satisfactory settlement OF this
question. but SIR have reached the limit
I IL would lie unbecomtng IN me. NJ Presi-
dent. 10 suggest 10 our e0nferees y bat they
should do They are older and wiser and
know what is best. but il is certainly Citing
( that they should understand tie wishes
/ Of their colleagues, 20 / say Tor myself and
1 | know for many others. that | believe
that il vas member of that committee
I should say to the confeFees from the house
been flung into our fares. Gentlemen, thers
I is our biil. It is the resuit OF great labor
and infinite pains. lt has met the APP
/ proyAl both Of the free trade and pfotec
I ton elements of Our party. IL Is adapted
to conditions. not theories. II - not pRF-
c
hope 10 make Is at this session. Ia any
/ event, such as X is, there u lies. lou are
al liberty 10 take it or leave Il. That, sir
/ wonld be nay posifion. ] gould not rccede
/ from IL 80 much as hairs breadth.
When smith had concluded Hin iumped
to bis feet, and. being recognized, launched
/ into bis speech, as follows:
"A theory 50 veil as q eohditien moi
/ confront. us. Tne theory Of the Demo
! cratic party is that In the suactmsnt os
/ tariff legislation free ras materials should
I siwAvs be an essential and souspicu9us
/ element. The best interests Of the manu-
{ factgfers a. well as the CONSUMERS u tA4
4 land demand the recognition 81 khls " as
( discrimination. IHni Fecsnuy / sup
( rase1 there vas 70 dispute upon thi,
i question Of principles. and that every
/ Democrat worthy D. the name Has Wil.ns
10 concede shat IL fhere was one thlng
/ nlore thzn another 70 which the DFm0
I cratic party Was committed u was 80
/ doctrine Of absoluiely free Faw i2steriais
] a true and honest construction Of egeF5
4 Democratic rlasforfa bor Twelve years ifre-
yooahsy commits as 70 thss JUST and Fes
sonable 30 Reipie.
Hns read the Democratic nassoaa pat
form for fsfs1, and eoatinued
80 repeal the McK Kinley law Ia form sifp'
~ - re-snzc; II ia efieet IS keeping tbs
lgrashlse - the lss.sE. bar sTeas "a < q ~ tas
spirit, ~ the platform ghkc&R rQinted 4
/ wftA pride zaa deliberately approved tht
meas ures for free iron ore. sr<a lead gre
lies eoal AID Tree wool. wsicn ~sss pc saaan !