The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-27

/ popular contempt. AS for sugar revenue
tariff can be cousisteptIx placed upou IL
cend If the sugar trust gels any projections
out Of it the. Denessratie party cannot be
justly charges with perfdy or iHconsist-
eBcy. Tie PRESIDENT says he vas opposed
/ 70 putting spersonal income tar into the
BIZ. bat holds since, the majority of the
pxrty favor il the minority cannot oppose
Il WITHOUT rebeIIing sgainststfis rules Of
party govennment and the public inter
ests II very plain that rhe president
will veto the whole Dill IL coal asd iroA ore
are not restored 70 ne free list. The pres
sdsntis willing 70 comprozniss en- the line
Of free ore and coalA and uniform duty on
raw and refined sugar. and on no other
line
cit Is not Improbable that Senator Gull
lon. Of Illinois, Is right when be predicts
that the whole Wilson tariff Gill wdl be
beaten, because the house Is hardly will
ing to ''eom Promi$e' on sugar. Ii voted
for no protection for sugar : forfree sugar
all around. and Chairman Wilson has de-
clared that the house should never adjourn
unsl sugar had beer, restored TO the free
Iistas his bill passed the house.
1t Is curious feature Of this contest
that Senator Hi. the only Democrat who
voted against the senate bill because II in
ciuded an income tax, is the stoutest
champion of the position taken by the
presidentin his letter. HILL seems to have
become Democratic 'free LANCE" and IL
is bat just TO sag that no man in either
house Of congress has added 80 much 10
bis reputation for ability durfng tie last
year as David B. Hill. he Is easily the
ablest and keenest debater on the Demo-
cratic side in the senate.
During the present session Senator John
Sherman has added nothing to bis high
reputation; it was not TO be expected; he
is too old. Tom Reed. of Maine, and
Lodge. Of Massachusetts. have made bad
blundsr IN their proposition 10 l'bulldoze'
Europe INTO International bi-metaltism;
Senator Davis of Minnesota, and David
b. Hills Of New York. have made more
reputation during the last year than any
other two men In congFess. Hill forced
the Democrats of the senate TO pass the
silver purchase repeal law, and he stands
ready now to help Cleveland whip the
senate into dropping their amendments to
the Wilson bill. Davis speech npholding
the presidents action in sefding Federal
troops into Illinois was the best word
said in that debate and Hills speeches in
debate have been uniformly able. acute
and aggressivee IL the Wilson bill is not
defeated; If the senate yields and passes
the bill as within the lines of the presi-
dents letter he will owe his victory TO
David b. Hill, Is he did in the struggle
over the passage Of the bin repeating the
silver purchase clause of the so-called
Sherman actof July, ls9a.
2 Itwin not be so easy FOR the president
to win in the senate now AZ it was in the
extra session. for In the extra session the
Republicans cordially supported the silver
purchase repeal bill. while today the
Republicans are determined to defeat the
Wilson tariff bill If possible. In order to
bring the louisiana senator's to his side it
is reported that President Cleveland offers
ftse sugar men an ad yalorem duty of 45
per cent. on ali grades, with the bounty
clause OF the Wilson bill, and says that If
this is not accepted he will insist on free
sugar with tho same vigor that he is in
sisting on free coal and iron ore.