The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-09-13

last letter WLlcn GTeSlueuE NIeNelaiu
wrote to Catchings sugar is not
mentioned.
During the fight the Ohio Senator
was serene. He applied the same
methods which have made him such q
successful man in the past. He always
talked freely to the newspaper men,
and he told them what was going on.
He knew more about it than any other
Senator and he did not try to deceive
any one. "My object is to get tariff
blk" he said, (which will repeal the
Mckinley law. For myself, | will
vote for any bill which will command
forty-three Democratic votes. 1t took
us about three months to make such a
bill. 1t is now our object to pass it
as soon as possible.
When the bill had finally passed
and was in conference another strug-
gle began. Although the admins
tration was with the Senate upon the
tickIish question of sugar, the public
was made to believe that it was on the
side of the House and fighting with
the House for free sugar. 1t took
some time for the House and the
people to learn this. but when 1t
became known the Honse took the
bill, and Cleveland allowed it to be-
come a law. 1t was while the bill was
ii conference that Senator Brice mani
tested some uneasineSs. When the
Democrats threatened to break away
from the caucus agreement and change
the bill in some particulars, its fate
was somewhat doubtful. 1t was Sen
ator Brice who got, or rather forced
Villas to come back into line when he
was going wrong. If Villas had per-
sisted in his motion to force off the
one-eighth diflerential on sugar, the
bill would then and there have been
indefinitely postponed. 1t took eau
Gus to convince Villas of it but he
finally knew where the matters stood.
Subsequently, when the attempt was
being made to change the bill in con-
ference, it was Brice who found out
that enough Democratic Senators had
agreed among themselves to defeat
the bill If the Senate ever got pos
session of it again. 1t was Brice who
convinced the House leaders and the
administration that such was the case:
and then followed the action of the
House in passing the bill which is now
a law, and which even its enemies are
obliged to admit is good law.
The bill had very narrow margin
when it passed the Senate on July Sd.
Gallery of Louisiana voted against it.
Blanchard threatened to. No one
could tell what the Populists would do.
1t has since been learned that the
louisiana Senators were told by Mr..
Brice that if they voted against the
bill because it did not provide for
bounty on sugar for this year that the
appropriation bills pending in the
Senate Committee on Appropriations,
of which he was member. would be
amended so as to repeal the Mckinley
bounty. If they took stand that
would defeat tariff Legislation their
State would suffer. Before the roll
call was over, both voted for the bill.
If a man will only go steadily ahead
and refuse to be startled out of the
right course. by the waves of the pub
lie opinion, which sometimes misguide,
and by the fierce denunciations of
political opponents" said Mr.. Brice
one day. when he was the target of
the most virulent abuse, she will find
that he will come out all right in the
end. If man under these conditions
undertakes to please everybody he
pleases nobody and becomes dissatis-
fled with himself. In these days YOU
cannot change your course under
stormy conditions any more than
modern ocean liner can change hers
at the shifting of every wind and
tide"
But then the Ohio Senator was
locking farther ahead than many Of
the others who were getting ready to
desert. .'It's lesults l am after" he
remarked one day. 81 can't go into
details about this thing. A schedule
here and there may be too high or too
low, but the general result is a great
improvement over the Mckinley law
and that is what | am fighting for.