The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-07-26
THE PROCEEDINGS.


Dave Hill for Once Agrees With Prssi
dent Cleveland.
WARRINGTON, July 20.--Crowds
packed The seuate galleries today. The
house and president had yesterday
thrown down the gauntlet on the tariff
question and a pitched battle was ex-
pected. Senator Blackburn, In pink
neglige SKIRT. stood watching the hands
Of tho clock while the chaplain deliv-
cred the invocation. looking like II
Judge at Kentucky derby.
Senator Voorhees,, chairman OF the
finance committee. called up the con-
ference report on the tariff bill and
yielded the floor TO Senator Smith of
New Jersey, who read carefully pre-
pared speech.
Cant Intimidate Smith.
He hoped, he said, when the bill
passed the senate two weeks ago that
It had been perfected, but Che events of
the Inst "a hours had confronted the
democratic party with the possibility
Of failure OF all tariff legislation at this
session. Ii so. the responsibility must
be placed where II belonged. He critl-
clsed the president "for violating" the
principles of his party In attempting to
interfere with the prerogatlve of the
legislative branch of the govern ment.
but declared that he would never be
inundated by threats from the presl-
dent or by the utterances of his party
associates at the other end of the capi-
toi who Ind been so uproariously APP
plAuded. He called attention to the
differences between the situation in
the house and that In the senate.
He reviewed the events In the house
which eliminated In the passage of the
bill with loss of II democratic votes.
In the senate every democratic vote
was needed to pass the bill, and the
finance committee went herolcaIly to
work to harmonize the difference. They
had accomplished that purpose 10 their
everlasting credit, he 1t said. He de-
llvered an eulogy on the tariff bill as il
passed the senate, which, unlike the
house bill, he declared, contained no
menace to the In dustrles of the country
and was not framed by men from
sparsely settled districts who knew
nothing Of the great commercial Inter.
ests OF the United States. He inserted
that the trainers Of the house bill and n
large proportion OF the democratic PARTY
were not tariff reforners; they were
free traders.
Hill supports Cleveland.
Hill said: A theory as we'll as a
condition now confronts US. The
theory of the democratic party Is that
In the enactment Of tariff legislation
Tree raw materials should always be an
esst ntiai and conspicuous element; the
beat interests of the manufacturers as
well As the consumers of the land de-
mand recognition in this wise dis
elimination.
"Until recently l supposed there
was no dispute upon this question Of
principle, but every democrat worthy
Of the name was willing to concede If
there was one thing more than another
10 which the democratic party was
committed 1t wns the doctrine of abso-
lutely free raw materials. The true
and honest construction OF every demo-
cratic national platform for ~ years
has been irrevocablv committed TO this
just and reasonable prInclple.n
Senator Hill read the democratic mn.
ITO repeal the Mckinley law in form
simply to re-enact it In effect, is keep
ing the promise In the letter but
breaking 1t Ia the spirit. The platform
pointed to with pride had deliberately
approved measures for free Iron ore.
FREQ lead ore, free coal and free wool
which were pending In congress at the
time OF the convention. The demo-
cratic posltion was 90 plain and is 30
clear that he who runs may read. III
any democratic senator In any part of
she country, forgetting the interests of
the whole land and subscribing the
supposed Interests of q locality, prom
Ised the people Of any state or section
that there would be an exec ption made
% the enforcement Of the general prin-
'ipis Of free raw material when the