Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-21

| of an effort to outline the future of tho bill in view of the expressions of the day, they did not as rule hesitate to express their individual views. These wcrc of diff | fcrcnt and varied shades, ranging all tho way from n prediction that an amicable understanding would be reached before tho meeting Monday to defeat of the bill.
 VIII Wave the Olive Branch Today. There was no effort on the part of Dem ocratic senators to conceal the fact that the adjournment till Monday was taken | for the purpose of making an effort to bring the divcrging clements of the party | together
 A rumor also gained currency during | the day that a Democratic conference | would be held today for this purpose, but 1t was impossible to confirm the report. | No call for a caucus had been issued, and | some of the Democratic leaders declared that it would be without purpose, if held, 1 for tho reason that 1t could 20 no further | toward binding members uf it than would tho last days caucus held previous to the reporting of tho Jones amendments to the senate.
 | There Is no doubt, however, that the ] day will be mainly devoted by a large elo | ment in the party to cause Senator Villas | to withdraw his amendment to the sugar | schedule providing for recession by the | senate from portion of the sugar schedule of the senate which provides differcn- | tial duty of one eighth of u cent u pound l on refined sugar.
 | The >ituat on Unsettled.
 The day was one of dramatic interest in the senate. for the fate of tho tariff bill of 1S94 depended upon tho course pursued | in the upper branch of congress. Tho friends of tho tariff bill worc anxious faces, and moro than once during the day they felt that the very danger point had been reached The enemies of the bill at times believed that they would be able to defeat it. When the adjournment came, the situation was still porplcNing.
 Tho senate procCcdingS proper were of peculiar naturc in that the debate was carried on entirely by the Democrats. savo n brief speech by Senator sherman and n question by senator Aldrich. The prin- cipal speeches Of tho day were thosc of Senators Hill and Vest. though others contributed to the interest of the occa sion.
 Senator Hill's position indursing the president in emphatic terms was one of the most conspicuous incidents Uf the day | Senator Vest took occasion tO talk in plain terms in defense of the right of the senate and house to manage the ConfcrCnce without executive interference His crit icism of the presidents course and tho action of Mir. Wilson was more severe | Ihdh was 0AINClttl Ilt SDthe TOT tne finance committee and the position Of tho senate confcrecs.
 The action of senator Villas in precCd- ing his speech with n motion to strike out the one-eiShth difIerential on sugar was m additional sensation of a sensational day from the fact that il was probable that the motion would carry. It caused . consternntion until it Was found that the motion may be declared out nf order I Tho SrnfRtnRnfS Of Srnntnr Senator Blanchard were important indi- eating that n change in the sugar schedule might mean the loss of their votes while Senator Blanchard stated decidedly that = he would not vote for the bill if this change was made Senator Gray's wig orous speech was enlivencd by brisk col loquy with Senator Hill. The exciting days proceedings closed with m aflirma. Il tive vote on the motion to adjourn over n until Monday.
 8 Senator smiths Speech. :. The speech of Senator Smith had beor 6 carefully prepared Ho had hoped hs said, when the bill passed the senate two weeks ago that it had been perfected. But the events of the last 2I hours had con , fronted the Democratic party with tn, possibility of the failure of all tariff legis lation at this session. If so, the responsi bility must be placed where 1t belonged. - He criticised the president for ''violat ing tho principles of his party in at tempting to interfere with the preroga tives of the legislative branch of tho gov e ernment. but declared that he should nevc
 be intimidated by threats from the presi
 dent or by tlk utterances of his party as
 sociates at the other end of the capito - which had been so uproariously applauded
 He called attention to the difference be
 tween the situation in tho house and tn
 senate. He reviewed tho events in tn house which culminatcd in the passage c Is the bill with tho loss of 1T Democrnt
 votes in that body. In the senate all WI
 changed. Every Democratic voto WI = needed to pass n bill. if 1t was to be passs N as n party measure. and tho members
 the finance committee went heroically ss v, work to harmoniZc the difference existir w on the Democratic side. They had accor
 plished that purpose, to their eycrlastir tS5 tS credit, be 1t said.
 e- He had been ono of those who had stos le. out for concessions in the interests of h
 constituents. Ho made no concealmcnt
 his position then; he made none now. I
 then proceeded to deliver a glowing cul
 gy of the tariff bill as 1t passed tho senat - which. unlike the house bill, he declare
 contained no menace to the industries
 the country and had not been framed
 men from sparscly settled districts WI
 knew nothing of tho great commercial 1
 terests of the United States.
 They Were Free Traders.
 He asserted that tho framers .pf | house hiil and iarge rroporticn af . psmocr3tie party wore not tartn rofor. sss thsk wsrs frez truderA PsrsopAl
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