The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-26
HILL RAVES AGAIN
Rehashes His Old ATgu-
ments Under Gulse of a
Lead Ore Amendment.
SENATOR VEST ANSWERS HIM.
Proves That His Actions Are Those
Of a Disappointed Politician
and Nothing Else.
SENATOR VEST ANSWERS HIM.

WASHINGTON, May 26, 1s94.-After some
unimportanr morning business, the Tariff
bill was taken up in the Senate at 1880
AM, the first question being on the para
| graph as. to iron or steel wheels q5Gl
which had been reserved yesterday. The
| duty in the House bill was fixed at so per
cent. adj valorem. and Mr.. Vest Dem, MOI
in behalf of the Finance Committee,
moved to make it 1Acents per pound. This
was agreed to.
The lead ore paragraph was then taken up,
and an amendment offered by Mr.. Dubois
| rep, Idaho,) to add the words, ''The metho d
of sampling and assaying to be that usually
adopted for commercial purposes by public
sampling works in the United States" was
| accepted by Mr.. Jones
Mr.5 Shoup Of Idaho, moved to make the
duty 1 12 cents per pound, and spoke until
ten minutes past two, and then Mr.. Hill
Dem, N. VI moved to place lead ores on
| the fir &c list. The bill, he said. was not sat
| isfactory to him, but he was now
and always had been in favor of
| German had exceeded his authority
when he said the Democratic party was
united on the present bill, and denied that
there was absolute unity in the party. The
billswas satisfactory to very few Senators
and could not be satisfactory to him SO long
as there was q remnant of the Popu.
listie income tax in it. In ex-
PLANTATION of his vote against tabling the
bill the other day, he said that such a
motion would ave killed the bill. The
country demanded action and the bill ought
to be perfected and then passed. He said he
would vote against any motion to table the
bill SO long as the Senate was engaged in
r.. F .&AO..~%sp1 - a,an-,1
the bill and make it better. In put
ting a duty Of "a a cent q pound
on lead ore, Mr.. Hill wanted to know what
became of the platform; what became OF the
speeches of democrats and what of the
record made in the other House. Free
raw material was the platform of the party.
He would go on record, he said, in
favor of free raw materials. Was the
policy of placing one or two materials on the
free list to be the great triumph of the Demo-
cratic partya Should not democrats, he
asked, be consistent on this question: 1t was
because he wanted democrats to be consist
ent that he made this motion.
VEST REPLIES TO HILL.
Mr.. Vest replying to Mr.. Hill said the real
question as to the admission of lead ores, re-
ferred almost wholly to Mexican ores, as but
little. if any, was imported ore from any
other country. Shelters were interested in
the lead trust and demanded free ores, as it
gave them their material free, just
as the sugar trust demanded free raw
g and If they got it an ideal situation, so
far as the trusts were concerned, was pro-
sented. Even the shelters not the trust, Mr..
Vest said, had entered into a pool to keep up
the prices and demand free lead ores. The
claim that Mexican lead ores should be free
and were needed for fuxing purposes, Mr..
Vest said, was but a pretense, under which
the trust hoped to get it's free raw material.
Mr.. Vest, in the further course of his re-
marks, said the commute had gone as far as
it could in the right direction in the framing
of a tariff bill, and if he, for one, had but
gone as far as he wanted to, the responsible
ity must rest where it belongs.
POLITICAL ExIGENCIEs.
The political ~exigencies in the Senate COM
PEELED the committee to do some things it
did not want to do. II he wanted to array
on his side strong monetary interests, if he
was seeking q reelection he would vote for
free lead; personally he favored it and had
voted for It in the past. But he wanted to
pass a tariff bill. His people were demanding
that he vote for free lead ore and only last
night he was shown a telegram from the
editor Of a paper in his State demanding, in
brusque terms, why he had betrayed his
State by voting to put a duty on lead.
The committee, he said, was confronted
with this proposition. After putting iron
ore on the dutiabls list, should they put lead
ore on the free List or cut it in two. The
committee thought it just, when it found it
could not put it IN the free list, to make this
cut of fifty per cent.
Had be followed his personal inclination
he would have put it on the free list. He did
not propose to wash any dirty linen in the
Senate Chamber, but he was ready to as
sumo his full share OF the responsibility for
what had been done.