Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-16
VEST FREES HIS MIND
He Did 1t Tn a Somewhat Sem
 sational Speech on Sugar.
THE sENATgs QUORUM MELTING.

There Is Prospect That Not Enough Sem
 ators VIII Bc Left In a Day or Two to Take Action In the Supplemental THriff
 Hills.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. I6.-For five hours tho senate debated the question of pro- cccding immediately to the consideration of the house bill placing sugar, raw and refined, on the free list.
 Secretary Carlisle's letter stating that the free entry of sugar would deprive the treasury during the next fiscal year of $43, GOO, too revenue and cause n deficit of $50, 900, GOO, which was read in the senate, was made the justification of MT. Harris motion to refer the bill to tho committee on finance, but Mir. Berry. a Democratic senator from Arkansas, wanted the bill considered at once on the ground that the question was thoroughly understood and that its reference to the committee would mean its death.
 The debate was marked by one of the most sensational speeches of the session. Senator Vest of Missouri turned on the calcium light in a speech of two hours and half. Always eloquent the Mis- souri senator. smarting under what he be- lived to be unjust criticism and islanders heaped upon himself, rallied with fine frenzy against the president and all those who had assailed him Vest. his associates on the finance committee or their mo tives.
 He gave n complete history of the strug- gles in conference and justified the ac- ton of the senate confercnce committee throughout.
 NIT. Vest In a Fine Frenzy. He referred indignantly to Mir. Glove lands letter fin support of the house bill and ranged alongside of 1t the letter of Sec rotary Carlisle just presented, which, hc declared, proved cunclusively that the house bill would, If enacted, have caused Q deficiency of S30. 900, OOO. That letter, l he said, with great display of feeling, vim dicated the position of the senate. He denounced the self constituted critics of the press and the demagOgues who had sought to pull down men in high places, | who has assailcd the senate and senate bill Tho senate had been made the | scapcgoat.
 He proceeded with great indignation to l describe the position in which he had bsNcn ! placed during tho last five months He i had not an enemy in the world. he declar cd dramatically, whom hc would place tn l the position he had occupied to be criti- | cised, denounced. blackmailed and driven l in order to pass bill for the relief Of the country that was distorted by the views Of 1 those "nO lOAkEu I the situation lTNth l their own selfish standpoints. The rules ! of the senate werc responsible he said. No wonder. " said he with uplifted hand. that the public declares the senate lags | supcrfiuOus un thu stage when We sit hero day after day. whilc almanacs statistics. even novels. arc read tO Us under our rules, and WIG arc puwcrless to help our ] selves.
 Mir. Vest then processlcd with his de ! nF ha ,ll fF, frF, with the adjustment of a sugar schedule. He sketchcd tho effect nn tho trust of the protection uf to cents on loo pounds given by the Mckinley bill. and the enormous power developed by the trust in virtue of | that protection. Under the Wilson bill | as reported to the house from the commit too it contained a duty and bounty. When l It was in tho house. frcc sugar was i'm serted. The finance committee prepared n bill which gave no diifcrcntial benefit to 1 the trust
 And yet, said MT Vest with bitter ! ness, they cali us the creatures Of the Sugar trust"
 Tho senator paused for q moment and then with intense earncstness added Liars, slandcrcrs, infamous libClers.'
 Ho procceded to dcnounce the lies which had been hcaped on thosc who fought against this trust and yet had been dcSig- mated as its creatures.
 And when tho finance committee had completed its bill. " continued MT. Vest. lit was taken out of our hands, before a Democratic caucus, without our knowl- edge or consent. If misstate the results. let senators arise in their seats and point 1t out. At the end of three days of miser- able wrnngling and recrimination we wcrc turned out and told to prCparo a bill which would command the support of 43 senators. We thcrcupon set ourselves to that miserable task.
 The frcsidcnts Letter.
 Mir Vest said he would not enter into the charges that the senate was a party to the fight between the president and the senator from Maryland CGormanL He (Vest1 had his strong differences with that senator on the tariff, and he had written letter long ago to the Grcystonc club stating his objections to the policy of Mir. German and supporting MT. Clcvo- land for his position on revenue rcfOrm.
 Mir Vest referred to the president let
 ter to Mir Wilson and to the consequent change of issue from sugar 10 coal and iron. He said he had no fight with the executive. He iiselaimed being the CAsca in the cabal against the president as charG ed by the senator from New York (HillD.
 Recurring again to an unpleasant sub
 jcct, l hope for the last time, wish C say have no quarrel with the presidcn; of the United states. l made no attack upon tho president of the | nitcd States.
 The senator from New York (Mr. Hill
 did mo an injustice when he put mo in
 tho role of the enviOus Cassius who stab
 bed Cmsar at the foot of Pompey's statue simply defended the motives of myself
 and my colleagues upon the finance com
 mittcc against the imputations in thG
 presidents letter.
 , If it wore necessary today in order tS , remain in public life that I should rctrac
 one word of what said in the senate. i should not utter 1t. No man, no matter , how high his position, has n right to per . petuate an injustice upon another. Afte , the president of tho United States haS
 told my colleagues, for had not bccn ta
 the White House, that although he pro
 ferrcd free coal and free iron, still tho bil
 hs we were preparing 1t would receive hi I | support, and after we had given our labor
 our energy, almost our lives in tho prep
 aration of this hill, for the prcsiden
 then to come before tho American pcopl
 and denounce a measure which he had fail
 cd to deny once before, although he kney i its provisions, was an net of gross injus . tice to those of us who had suffered. Mir. Vest then passed to the question 0
 personal attack made on him, in whicl
 1t was charged that his views were the re
 suit of personal resentment for the treat '. mcnt he had received from the president
 The senator from Now York tHilD who - although coming hare with an spparen t defense of the president, had really ''com n to bury Caesar, not to praise him." Ina