The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-19
HILL HIS AUTHORITY

support a measure that contained that
provision, and as he Vest assumed that
1t would remain in the bill-and he had
no question about it-he thought he was
authorized in saying that the senator
meant that he would not vote for the
bill. If he did not mean that, he, lVestl,
would be exceedingly glad to know it.
Nobody separated from the senator in re-
gard to any pending measure with more
reluctance than himself
Mr.. Hill challenged Mr. Vest to take
his address to the Senate on the income
tax and point out line or sentence in it
from which he had right to make that
inference. II never said !" he continued,
that intended to support this bill if it
contained the income tax; nor did
! say that / would not. cross
that bridge when l reach it, Aud no in-
genlous suggestion of the ingenious sena-
tor from Missouri will make me declare,
here and now, what I will do when the
maj votes come on this bill God knows,
(no one can telD, what this bill will be
when it passes the Senate, or what it
VIII be when 10 comes out of conference.
know not how many concessions are in
1t to be eXtorted from the finance COM
mittee. l know not how many other
democratic principles will have to be
yielded at the dictation of some one. no
one knows who. Therefore | reserve any
expression of my views on this bill until
see what the bill is. until 1t is pre-
sented as tinality.
DON'T KNOW HOW 1T WAS MADE UP.
81 understood the senator to say that no
one knows better than myself how this
paragraph to put coal on the dutiable list
came to be made up. / do not know why
he made that statement. | am not a
member Of the finance committee. / have
attended but u very few times before that
committee. have no more reason
to know how it came to be
made up than any other member
of the Senate. | do not know how
duty should come to be put on coal. The
very first report of the finance committee
made to the demouratic caucus com
manded duty on coal. Therefore, moth
ing that took place in the three days
democratic caucus compelled the placing
OF coal on the dutiable list; and nothing
that took place in all the subsequent hear
ings before the finance committee COM
PEELED it. l think it would be
wiser and better for senators
TO come here and defend this
| provision, rather than attempt to apollo
glze for it and excuse it. have seen in
the public press, some portions of the tes-
tlmony gi, en- last Saturday before the in
vestigating committee by the senator
from Missouri. Certain wrong impress
/
senator-intentionally or Inadvertently
stated in substance. l understood him to
say, or allow it to be inferred,
that after the famous three days confer
ence Of democratic senators, at which
1T is conceded that no conclusion was
| reached, certain senators waited on the
finance ommittee-Senators German,
Smith, Brice, Caffery and myself From
the manner In which this testimony is
given 1t would seem thai we wentvthere
in body No such thing ever occurred.
| was invited to give my views by some
messenger from the committee, saying
that was desired there. l went alone
| went in company with no one, although
| do not want it to be inferred that /
would be ashamed of such excellent com
pany.
THE DISCUSSION.
"a discussion took place in an informal
way on the sugar question, principally. l
do not intend to 10 into details, but /
think that wrong inference can be
drawn from the senator's testimony. /
made no demand, no request, no sugges-
tion in favor of duty on sugar at that
or any other interview with the finance
committee, and l ask the senator from
Missouri whether that is not true"
Mr. Vest-I so stated, expressly anG
empatically, in my testimony / ex-
pressly stated that the senator from New
York said nothing; and l never intimated
that those senators came there in a
body. / do not know who sent for them.
] found them there. | never undertook
to say how they came there.
Mr. Hill submitted that it was not to be
said that he favored before the finance
committee duty on sugar because he sat
there in silence, hearing the question dis
cussed, and then he came into the Senate
and voted the other way. He had his
own views on that question. Not by his
silence before the finance committee or on
any other occasion, not by any act of his
had sugar been placed on the dutiable
list. IL was not done in pursuance of any
demands, any request, any suggestion of
his. Other senators could speak for
themselves, he could only speak for him
self.
DISCUSSED FOUR HOURS.
After several other senators had dis
cussed the subject Mr. Harris remarked
that Mr.. Hills amendment had been dis
cussed for four hours, and he moved TO
lay it on the table. He withdrew that
motion, however. at the request Of MIR
Hill in order that the vote might be taken
directly on Mr.. Hills motion to strike out
the paragraph, and to put bituminous
coal onsthe free list.
The motion was re1ected-yeas z, nays
81. The affirmative votes we're given by
three populist senator's, Allen. Kyle and
PETER; two democratic senators, Messrs.
Hill and Irby, and two republican SEN
ators, Messrs. Hansbrough and Wash
| burn.
Several other amendments were voted
down, and finally the Senate amendment
was agreed TO without a division, so that
bituminous coal and shale shall pay a
duty Of 40 cents ton, and coal slack, or
culm, 10 cents.
Mr. Hill moved TO strike out the next
paragraph Of. theI committee amendment
Cooke IS per cent. ad valorem"
The motion was defeated-yeas 4, nays
As. The affirmative votes were given by
Messrs. Allen, Davis. Hill and PETER.
That disposed OF tho coal paragraph
and the Senate went on with the other
paragraphs in the "sundry schedule"
No further controversies arose and the
remainder Of the bill down to the free list
was disposed of according 10 the pro-
gramme of the finance committee.
The Senate then, at 6:l5 o'clock, ad-
iourned till tomorrow at 10 O'Clock.
COTTON MILLS CLOSED.
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