The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-07

He Is Now Anxious for n Compromise
on the Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Chairman
Voorhees,. of the finance committee, has
been unable to attend the tariff confer
ence on account of i'll health and is still
confined to his house. He has not yet
been heard from on the points now at
issue among the conferees. 1t has been as
sumed that he stood with the Senate con-
ference managers not only for the Senate
duty on sugar but also for duty on coal
and iron ore. He announced the contrary
in an interview with reporter for the AS
sociated Press who called upon him at
his house to-day and asked him for his
views. He talked very freely. advocating
such concessions on the part of the SEN
ate as would bring about speedy agree
ment. and took strong ground in favor of
yielding to the demands of the House for
free coal and free iron ore. He said:
''It seems TO me there ought to be but
little. if any difficulty in reaching an
agreement between the two houses The
did not: in the first instance, report in
favor of free sugar, but was overruled by
the House and free sugar put in the vii,
son bill would gladly have concurred
in this. but ii was soon ascertained with
mathematical certainty that such a bill
could by no possibility pass the Senate.
houses / look upon the Presidents letter
to Mr.. Wilson as help rather than a
ment The concession which the President
advises the House to make on sugar is
liberal and ought to be at once satisfac-
tory to every legitimate sugar interest.
can entertain no doubt that it will fur
nIfn Hdbadlo the h basis &c Of f, successful sugar
the Senate. as 1 understand him, that
louisiana will accept 40 per cent ad
eaSem without i5s any to the
portion of it,, is continued to the planters
a few months longer. Under these cir
cumstances L am unable TO see how the
sugar issue can remain any longer an
obstacle TO an agreement.
''The only other points Of serious trouble
are embraced in the question whether coal
and iron shall be free or have tariff duty
lall on them of 40 cents per ton. These
are exceedingly small and insignificant
items of controversy on which to defeat a
great natior al system of revenue reform,
obstruct all legislation looking to that end,
diSappoint and derange every business of
the country, greatly embarraSs the Demo
cratic party and infiict the gravest calam-
tiles on all classes of people. If legisla-
tion shall entirely fail al this time owing
TO n stubborn disagreement as to whether
there shall be a small duty on coal and a
small duty on iron ore, or whether these
men who make that result inevitable may
rest assured that they will be held in ever
lasting remembrance and everlasting exc
Grafton. They Will be hanged in effigy
from one ocean to the other, and their
names will be pilloried in the estimation of
the American people There is so little
greement that those who continue to insist
on small things and thus compel such dis
agreement will be held as criminals by all
just-minded people.
THE sugar schedule being practically out
of the way, as l have shown, by concss-
sions, the Senate ought. in my Judgment,
to concede free coal and free iron ore:
and, of course it would do but for a
membership in that body which could be
counted on the fingers of one hand. l have
no disposition to reflect on the motives of
those who differ from me in opinion, but
has substantially carried it's point on
sugar can very easily and very honorably
afford to make concessions on coal and
great results which would follow, would
be hailed by the American people as a
blessed deliverance from the present crisis
in our affairs"