Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-26
NO BILL WILL PASS
CONGRESS WILL BE DEADLOCkED
ON THE TARIFF,
After a Days Discussion In the SEN.
ate This Feeling Ia Even More
Observation-Disclosures Cleveland
IL Arraigned.

Washington, July 2l.-Crowds such az
had not thronged the senate in months|
packed the galleries to-day. The house
and the president had yesterday thrown
down the gauntlet to the senate on. the
tariff question and a pitched battle was
expected. An ominous hush was upon
the chamber when the president pro tenn,
Mr.. Harris of Tennessee, raped the SEN
ate to order. Senator Blackburn of Ken
tucky, in a pink :legligee shirt, stood,
watch in hand, while the chaplain deliv-
cred his invocation, looking like a Judge
ut kentucky Derby.
The conservative Democrats" Mr..
Brice i'll an immaculate suit of white
flannel. Mr.. German in q sedate suit of
blue. and Mr.. Smith in long black
frcck coat, sat grouped together on the
Democratic side. Mr.. Hill, sitting fur
back, chatted merrily with Gen. Daniel
Sickles, the one-legged veteran of Gettys-
burg. Senators Sherman, Aldrich, ALI
son, Hale and Chandler, the leaders of
the Republican side, appeared amused at
the storm which threatened across the po-
litical aisle. The preliminary routine
business was transacted in q perfunctory
way.
After speech by Mr.. Smith of New
Jersey attacking the president for writ
ing the tariff letter, Senator Hill arose.
He said: IA theory as well Us q condi-
ton now confronts us. The theory of the
Democratic party is that in the enactment
of tariff legislation free raw materials
should always be an essential and con-
spicuous element. We are committed to
this side of the question. We are hon
hi 10
and our promises. Until recently 1 had
supposed that there was no dispute upon
this question of principle, but that every
Democrat was willing to concede that if
there was one thing more than another
to which the Democratic party was COM
mitted, it was to the doctrine of absolute
~ free raw materials"
He said that while the presidents letter
came too late and was ill advised, still he
endorsed it.
Upon the question of free raw ma
terial the president is right, and you know
it. You cannot answer his arguments.
You cannot doubt his sincerity and pa
triotism. You must yield in the end to
his views. You cannot stand up against
the sentiment of the great Democratic
masses of the country, which will rally
around the president IN his contest with
you OH this particular branch of the SUBJ
ject. The time to yield is now, before
there is further humiliation, embarrass-
ment and discord."
Senator Vest, speaking of Hills in
j dorsement of Cleveland, said he was glad
to know that the lion and the lamb had
at last lain down together. He would not
say, however, which was the lion and
which the lamb. In scathing terms he
arraigned the president, saying he had
been his friend and defended him on the
floor of the senate when his friends could
have been counted on the fingers of one
hand. He asked where the president got
| the right to dictate to. congress, and said
that he believed that this bill would be
passed or no bill.
Senator Villas moved that the senate
recede from the Is cent sugar differen-
tial.
A very hot personal controversy oc-
CURED between Senators Hill and Gray,
and it looked at one tine as though there
might be personal collision. An ad-
journment was taken until Monday with
out action.
The feeling is even more pronounced
that the senate and house will be dead
locked on the tariff and that no bill will
be passed.