The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-08-23

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moment and then, with intense earn :
estness, added: "Liars, slanderers,
infamous libellers.p He proceeded
to denounce the lies which had been
heaped on those who had fought
against the trust and yet had been
designated it's creatures. "And when
the finance committee had completed
its BILL" continued Mr.t Vest, "it
was taken cut OF our hand before
democratic caucus, without our
knowledge or consent. II I mistate
the facts let senators arise In their
seats and point it out. At the end
Of three days of miserable wrangling
and recrimination we were turned
out and told to prepare bill which
would command the support Of
forty three senators. We there
upon set ourselves to that miserable
task.u
Mr.. Vest said he would not enter
into the charges that the senate was
a party to the fight between the
president and the senator from
Maryland (Gorman). He (vest)
had his strong differences with that
senator on the tariff and he had
written letter long ago to the
Greystone club stating his objec-
tions to the policy of Mr.. German
and supporting Mr.. Cleveland for
his position on revenue reform.
'tBut," continued Mr.. Vest," 1
belong to no man. I belong to no
faction. am neither Montague nor
Capulet, York nor Lancaster. I can
never follow one who does violence
to the principles of the democratic
party"
Mr.. Vest then took up the Wilson
bill and said the fact had been
apparent that it could never pass
the senate. 1t was fought by north
ern senators, tenacious and deter
mined to defend their interests
against the attacks they supposed
it contained. Vest said that when
the conferees met they gave their
first attention to this "Medusa-
headed monster, the sugar trust"
After much discussion compromise
sugar schedule had been agreed to,
giving 40 per cent on the saccharine
strength in the imported article and
one fifth differential, "and again."
declared Mr.. Vest, "we are assailed.
We were haunted with the statement
that the senate was for sale to
the sugar trust. We were vilifed
by the vile cartoons, editorials and
lying correspondents. He continued
to show that when the sugar COM
promise had been reached when It
was found that the house was not
SO deeply concerned in free sugar
as 1t was in free coal and iron.
Mr.. Vest referred to the presi-
DENTS letter to Mr.. Wilson and
to the consequent change Of issues
from sugar to coal and iron. He
said he had no fight with the execu-
tive. He disclaimed being the Casca
in the cabal against the president,
as charged by the senator from
New York (HilD. II it were neces-
sary for him to retract one word
of what he had said to remain in
public life he would not do it. For
the president to come before the
public and denounce the bill, the
provisions of which he knew in
every detail, was gross injustice
to those who had labored and made
much more sacrifice than he.
He then described the proposition
made to the house conferrees by
the senate. II the sugar schedule
could stand the senate offered the
house either free coal or free iron.
In the compromise that seemed
necessary the difference was split.
The house expressed great gratifica-
ton. After two hours OF conference
the house conferrees came back and
said they would take free iron
ore. The conferrees then adjourned,
with the statement from us that
it would be dangerous to make re-
ductions on other schedules-metal,
woolens, etc. The next day the
house conferrees came back and
said they would take free coal. We
replied: "Gentlemen, take either.
We can be happy with either II
the other dear charmer be away"
Oaughter). The chairman of the
house conferrees then said it was
his duty to insist that all the
scheduled should be taken up. They
were warned of the result. The
trouble with the house conferreef
throughout was that they insisted
that they knew more of the stu.
alton in the senate than we did
They constantly insisted that We
should make the changes they
wanted and take the bill back tt
the senate. While this discussion
in conference was going on, tn,
senator from New York came intt
the senate last Friday and offeret
his resolution, on which there wa
tie vote. That vote was decisive
It more than anything else deter
mipad the Animation here.