The herald., 1894-07-27
SENATE pnouKnDINas.

Chief lex -cuttve.
WASHINGTON, July 26.--By agreement
the conference report on the tariff bill
was deferred when the. senate met to-
day, until p. m, for the purpose OF
giving the Republicans time to con-
eider.
On motion OF Hunton, the resolution
directing the secretary OF the treasury to
transmit list OF the claims in the hands
OF accounting officers of the government,
also all claims passed upon by the court
OF claims requiring appropriations at
this session. was adopted; also Aliens
resolution calling on the attorney-gen-
ersl for copies OF all corresrondence with
railroad officials in connection with the
recent strike.
The Republicans, after consultation,
found they could not carry the free
sugar amendment proposed by Senator
Quay yesterday. 1t was decided Quay
should withdraw all bis amendments,
and that they should be renewed in dif-
ferent form by some other Republican.
Manderson and Perkins expressed fear
that the free sugar proposition would 60
through and the bill pass, as it was un-
PETER would vote for it. The Rspubli-
cans felt that the only proposition that
would 60 through which will endsnger
1t is that instructing the cor!erees to
strike out the ons-egh.h cent diferen.
tisl. This would carry by a margin of
one vote If all the Republicans, all the
Populists and Hill and Irby vote for 1t.
At 8 O'Clock Jones called up the con-
ference report on the tariff bill. Quay
Withdrew the sugar amendments he
offered yesterday.
Villas said on Monday q Democratic
senator saw fit to attack the president
without precedent. he thought, or II
there was a precedent it ought to be
Stunned instead of followed. 1t was a
personal assault upon the president and
his character. He had hoped, he said,
the remarks of German aud those who
joined him on that occasion, would have
appeared in the record before he (Vilas)
replied, but, he went on rcastically,
he presumed the engagements of the
Maryland senator we're SO pressing that
he had no time to revise them. Villas
considered it his duty to reply to that
assault.
He would speak Is the personal as
we'll as the political friend of the presi-
dent. He rejoiced in the honor Of Mr..
Cleveland's friendship. 1t was a pride
to him. OF the rewards, few and
stinted, that came to public men, one of
the greatest that had come to him was
intimate association with that lofty and
distinguished man. 1t was his honest
testimony to his character that never at
any moment. in any temptation, politi-
cal or personal, had he failed to see in
Mr.. Cleveland the pure white light OF an
upright purpose. For such a man hs
saw tit to say some words-not in de-
fense Che needed none). but come COR
rection of a discoloration OF facts by
which Mr.. Cleveland had been placed in
. false light before the country. He
would make this statement in behalf of
the truth Of history.
"What were the points Of accusa-
tion," inquired Mr.. Villas, Sin the re-.
,msrkable assault to which have al
Iuded ?'
He regretted, he said, that Mr.. Cor
man was absent from the senate cham
Der. The fret accusation, he proceeded,
was that the president was open to the
charge of duplicity. This was based
upon q letter in which Mr.. Cleveland
expressed the hope that iron and coal
WOulu W Ou LILO lIc0 llnt III tD6 Chrlu
bill. The second was that the executive
had encroached upon the prerogatives
of congress, and the third was that the
The charges were true or false, not az q
fact.
with regard to coal and iron, let us
examine the facts." said MIR. Villas !;
''and / desire to say that am under
deep obligation to the senator from New
York, who never in his public career
made such an able exposition of any
subject as he did on Tuesday last"
Mr.. Villas then reviewed at length the
presidents position in favor of free raw
material, his letter of 1887 and other
public utterances up to his message to
congress nt the opening of the present
session.
Constantly, Mr.. Villas declared, Mr..
Cleveland had insisted upon this prin-
ciple. 1t was everywhere proclaimed
by his supporters to be the first step in
the eufranchisement Of labor from the
thraldom o: unjust taxation. Gould it
be possible, he asked. that anyone sup
posed he had abandoned the principle
that lay at the base Of any scheme OF
tariff reform? What was the principle
adduced in support of this allegation
and change OF hearth
Mr.. German himself had no personal
testimony to offer. He called on Mr.
Vest, who offered conversation-hear-
say te,timony that would have been ex :
cluded from any court OF justice. He
had no personal testimony. The dis
tinguished senator from Arkansas,
whose labor in behalf OF the bill had
earned SC much respect from his col
leagues, testified that he had personally
talked with the president about the
senate bill. Did Mr.. Jones claim that
al the details of the bill had bean laid
before Mr.. Cleveland? Necessarily OF.
Only the general principles upon which
the amendments were made. In regard
to those amendments upon which the
specifications of Mr.. Gorman's charge
had been founded, the testimony OF Mr..
Jones was clear that the president
whenever coal and iron ere were men,
toned, expressed the hope that they
would 20 on the free list. Was there
anyone desirous OF doing open and free
justice to the president. after reading
Mr.. jones' own statement, who would
not say that Mr.. Cleveland had never
faltered in his urgent demand for free
eoal and iron?
Without duplicity. but with the
openness and boldness that always
characterized him, Mr.. Cleveland had
az nyesaed to the chairman of the Wavs