The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-26
REED BOASTS CLEVELAND.
The Maine Statesman on the President's
 Tariff Policy.

ing the latters views on the tariff and favoring a compromise on a duty on sugar was read by Mir. Wilson in the house on Thursday, July 10, after the reading of which ex-Spealxer Reed took the president and the democratic ma jority to task in very severe terms. He said:
 q take 1t for granted, Mir. Speaker that tho gentleman to whom the letter was addressed to which we have just listened has observed all the proprieties which gentlemen ordinarily ob- serve with regard to their correspondence, and that a letter which is marked Personal hav- | Ing been addressed to him, he has not been l guilty in any way of making 1t public in this fashion without the express consent Of the au- thor Hence we have here to-day the sorne- what remarkable spectacle of a message sent by the president of the United States to the house of representatives through his faithful | committee on ways and means. This seems to | be a just reciprocal action on his part for the | house will recollect that the committee on ways and means communicated to this house it's intention Of having an income tax through the kindness of the president of the United States. Applause on the republican side.
 Whether this relationship thus intimate be- tween a committee of the house and the presi- dent of the United States was contemplated by the constitution of the United States or not is hardly worth the trouble of inquiry in the shape in which the matter now stands before | the house. Least of all would anybody on this side find fault with the severe language which the president-the democratic president-has seen fit to use about a democratic senate. | Laughter and applause on the republican sidel Undoubtedly his personal intercourse with the members of that body and his official relations with them have enabled him to put all the strength in the reproof which that 1nf 1fpu Il,sN naNla stands to-day is bes'osa ahern and him. Far be 1t from rs Go interfere If he has made a righteous charge their characters are black ened, and if he has made false charge it is for them to see that justice is done to the truth of history. Applause on the republican side. l We have no concern with It except as specta- tors
 "The public aspect of this affair, however. shows that the newspaper rumors have had all the truth that newspaper rumors ever have in regard to the relations between this com mtttee of the house and the president of the United States, and 1t is shown clearly that the committee has his directions to consent to a sufficient tax upon sugar in consideration of the fact that coal and iron ore shall be brought here free. In other words, in the great con- test between the trust which manufactures the sugar of this country, and which is a home corporation, and the great corporation which Is to exploit the mines of Nova Scotia and enrich by ten million dollars the set of men who are engaged in that enterprise, the president and committee of this house takes the side of the Boston corporation. Laughter and applause on the republican side.l Which is best let them decide. Which is the most satisfactory to the people let the country decide. It is a matter that does not concern us
 The gentleman from West Virginia was kind enough to compliment the republican con- | fprraaS n hn nd hvi infa far ra- frain from cOmplimenting us in stating the declaration that was made. It is curious how two men witnessing the same scene put differ ent interpretations upon 1t. To my mind the scene which occurred was only part and parcel of the statement which was made. that. inas- much as these gentlemen had called us in not for the purpose Of consultation, although that was their avowal, but for the purpose of removing the reproach which had been cast upon them by the greatest demo- cratic newspaper, which is the represent tive of democratic ideas, the New York World Of course our republican conferress saw that we went there as mere matter of form, and said: If you have made up your mind to disagree, why not like men do so, and let us not waste our time upon immaterial | matters
 But, under the influence of that editorial, they wasted another day before they brought before the people of this country their resist less determination to make the senate yield to their wishes
 But the gentleman from West Virginia in the course of his remarks. has been pleased to observe that In their private meetings with the members of the conference board on their l side-the three other southern gentlemen and the northern gentleman in some what ill-health they treated them in Q tone almost of sadness in regard to their willingness to agree, but were held back by their bad partners the | JOrkingpS Of ba trt mufo in his congressional mood the gentleman from West Virginia did not permit himself to give particulars.
 He stated that the membsrs Of the senate were fettered,' but he did not state to what the fetters' attached them hope when the conference committee next meets-the confer ence committee and not the democratic poli- ticians seven southern and one northern-we shall have diagram printed as m aid to our memory so that we may know exactly to what amendment each senatoris 'fettered' and what the size of the fetter' is Laughter and ap- plause on the republican side.l
 "The gentleman from West Virginia has pledged this house-amid the uproarious ap- plause of their side-to stand out against the senate, to break the letters which bind these gentlemen to their present positions. I have no doubt that what the gentlemen says Is true, that the southern gentleman in the sen- ate met their southern brethren here with sadness. 1 have no doubt that sorrow filled their hearts, because there are many amendments of the senate which 1t is fair to say are im- provements on the house bill and in the direc- tion Of protection. The senate bill is not what | this country ought to have, It is not such a bill as would do justice to it's industries, but the house bill was so bad that almost any change in an upward direction would be better.
 But what was the trouble with these south ern gentlemenY These southern gentlemen met with the interests and industries of the northern democratic conferrees-their fellow senators-and what Is tariff bill but one which relates to the interests of the industries of the countryS
 When distinguished senator held out for collars and cuffs and the democratic party in the senate marched up to the poor measure of protection on them, that senator was acting not merely for his own interests but for the in- terests of his constituency. And if it is true, as is stated, that he himself was in any way in- terested in business in that town-not of that kind-and that business would lose it's vigor and life on account of the destruction of the collar and cuff industry, he was representing his people, because this country and its pros- perity is made up of its industries and it's in- terests. Applause on the republican side.
 ''The gentleman from Ohio tNIr. Outhwaite) in that moment of truth which sometimes comes from the exhaustion of the intellect Laughter and applause on the republican side T mean tho wearlness, for do not mean to