The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-27
HILLS AMENDMENTS LOST.
THE SENATE RULES TO RETAIN 4
 DUTY ON COAL AND SUGAR.

When That Had Been Done an Argumen
 Arose as to Instructing the confsrees. ba,
 Before Vote Could bs Taken on Senate,
 -senntor Villas Defends the Prcsident'i
 ECourso.
 Washington, July 2e.-Just at z
 o'clock, according to arrangement, the
 conference report on the tariff bill was
 called up and much to everybody's sur
 prise Senator Quay withdrew the
 amendments he offered day before yes- terday instructing the oonferees with reference to the sugar schedule. Then Mir. Gray suggested the absence Of n quorum and roll-call was ordered. When the quorum appeared Mir. Villas was recognized.
 He spoke of Senator Gorman's speech ns something unprecedented in the an- nsls Of history. It was not an attack on the president as such, but bitter personal attack by democrat on Q democratic president. He mentioned that the German speech had not yet ap- peared in the Record, but he supposed the duties of the senator were such that he could not find time to revise 1t. Senator Villas then remarked that he felt called upon to say something in defense of his political as well as per- sonal friend.
 The senator from Wisconsin then re- hearsed how he had been called into close relation with that great and dis tinguished man." how he had got little in patronage from him. and even what he had received was given sparingly.
 Then came pyrotechnics of speech to describe ''that great and distinguished man." He spoke of the ambition and de- sire of the president to serve his coun- try, bursting forth in a sentence de- scribing Cleveland as "the pure white light of an upright purpose" German was not in his seat.
 Villas deplored this, and then began to answer the German accusations. In doing so he paid high tribute to Sena- tor Hills defense of the president. The senator then launched forth in a long set speech to show what the presidents position had always been on raw ma terial. He denied the charges of du- plicity.
 In concluding his speech he said he would vote to carry the bill into confer ence, and in order to carry it into ef- feet he withdrew his motion offered Friday last.
 ' At 4:46 p. m. the president pro tenn pore announced that the question be- fore the senate was that of adopting the two amendments Of Senator Hill that thesenate recede from it's amendments placing a duty on coal and on iron ore. MT. Hills motion to recede from the duty of 40 cents ton on iron ore and on coal was at the suggestion of MT. Allison, rep. of Iowa, divided so that the vote should first be taken on iron ore. The vote resulted: Yeas 6. nays 65.
 Senator Caffery withdrew the mo- tion he made yesterday instructing the conferees on the sugar schedule to in- Bist on the bounty for 1894.
 MT. Hills motion with regard to coal was also lost. Yeas G. nays 64-the same senator's supporting the motion who had voted for the previous one.
 The question recurring on MT. Gray's motion to insist and to agree to further conference MT. Washburne, rep, of Minnesota, moved to amend it by instructing the senate conferees to recede from the one-eighth cent pound differential duty on sugar (the same amendment which MT. Villas had offered and had withdrawn.) MT. Mills, dem., of Texas. made a point of order that l the senate could not recede from a part l of an amendment already agreed to and could not therefore instruct it's l Conferees to do so. |
 MT. Hill. den.. of New York, argued against the point of order. MT. Gray said it would be idle and l absurd for the senate to seek to limit 1 the power of it's parliamentary agents. MT. Mitchell, rep, of Oregon, took | khe view that the motion must be in | order as the effect Of it would be to re- duce the controverted points. MT. Hale argued that 1t was not an | Abridgement of 8 full and free con- Terence for either house to abandon one of the things in dispute. MT. German, dem., of Maryland, ar Eued that the senate could not instruct the conferees at this time, as there were no conferees.
 Without action on the point of order kho uo,, "a oH Hjns,,,x,nS