St. Paul daily globe., 1894-08-16
Villas Answers Vest

iton .io SScTetdTy OF the treasury he
would prefer to take mis- Judgment than
tnat OF Mr.. Mills. and would insist on
his motion.
Villas Answers Vest.
Mr. Villas Oem., Wis., replied to
some OF the observations of MIR. Vest.
taking issue with him. He pointed out
tnat the caucus had preceded the report
or the hnance committee and the latter
Dooy had undertaken to execute the
desires OF the caucus. That caucus had
voted for free iron ore. But the hill
reported had contained taxed iron ore
and coal. 1t was. however, a bill which
should have been supported by Demo-
cratic senators. But it was tilibustered
against and delayed for forty-eight
days, "tor the reason" said Mr.. Villas.
that we did not have Democratic
majority in the house on tariff reform"
referring to the president. Mr.. Villas
saio tne executive had always expected
the BILL was to be perfected in confer
ence. IL was remarkable that the SEN
ator from Missouri should take person.
ally to himself the presidents reference
to perfidy and dishonor, when it was
made In private letter and had no ref
erence to individuals.
Mr. Villas declared that he did not
want 1t to go forth that this bill repre-
sented the settlement of the tariff uues.
tlon Tor twenty years to come.
Mr. Villas then drifted to the discus
sion OF the discriminating duty in favor
OF the sugar trust. He did not believe
from what had been said on both sides
or the chamber that the senate could
afford to clothe the sugar trust with the
power to gtut its greed. The bill should
not go to the finance committee. Here
III the senate the differentials had been
stricken out. and when that was done
cry OF rejoicing would 90 up from the
people that congress was no longer in
the grasp of the sugar trust.
IF the bill Is not referred to the
finance committee" asked Mr.. Mitchell
(Rep.. orr. "do you favor the bill as it
came from the house?"
MIR. Villas replied that he considered
sugar a legitimate object of revenue,
but the people should be rid of the beast
CT the trust. However, rather than have
the trust profit to the extent of millions
he would be willing to sacrifice the
revenue from the sugar.
''lf the senate voted to refer the bill,n
MT. Villas said, lit voted to bury it.
lnere should be no mistake about that
when the vote was taken."
Mr.. Faulkner, (Dam., W. Va.) asked
Nv what authority Mr.. Villas assumed
that the reference Of the bill would
mean its death, after Mr.. Harris state
ment tnat it would be promptly acted
upon.
Mr.. Villas said he had no authority,
although he considered Mr.. Vests
statements suff cient.
MT. ManderSOn said If the senators Oh
the other side had concluded the dis
closure OF the secrets of the charnel
house he would
Move to Adjourn.
AT the request of Mr.. Dolph. how
ever, Mr.. Manderson allowed a motion
10 go INTO executive session to take
precedence.
Upon the motion Mr.. Gray Dem.,
Del.) demanded the yeas and nays. and
it was defeated-1S to 81, as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich. Allison, Blanchard,
Gallery, Chandler, Davis, Dolph. Gallin-
ger, Higgins, Kyle, Manderson, Mitchell
IOr.l Patton, Perkins, Platt, Quay,
Nays-Blte. Berry, Blackburn, Brice,
Can, Camden. Carey. Coke, George,
Du ools, Gibson. Gray, Hansbrough,
Harris, Hill, Hunton. Jarvis, Jones,
GArk;l Lindsay. McLaurin, Mills,
Mltchell NJ (WIs.), Palmer, Pasco, Feffer,
6pettlgreW, Ransom, Roach. Stewart,
11rple, vest. Villas and White-34.
On the announcement Mr.. Dolph ex-
plalned that he had not made his motion
10 go into executive session in autagon-
Ism or the free sugar bill. He was in
favor of considering it, aud would vote
Tor IL If it reached vote.
Mr.. Palmer made some general re-
marks on the tariff bill that had gone to
the president.
=, AFTER humorous passage between
Mr.. Kyle and Mr.. Palmer and another
between Senators Harris and Chandler.
the senate at p. Ill. adjourned.