The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-07-25

Washington says: The Senators have but
one reply to the question as to the chances
for the tariff bill, and that is '.Senate bill
or nothing" Senator Jones still thinks
compromise will be finally reached and the
bill become law. The prospect are that
the session will be prolonged and may ex-
tend into October.
Washingto ton, July 24.-The morning busi-
ness was of little interest. 1t concluded,
however, the passage of the House bill
granting use of certain lands to.the
TOWN OF CAsTINE,
Maine, for "a public park.
At 1890 the message from the House an
nouncing the disagreement of the confer
ence was laid before the Senate. Then,
much to everybody's surprise, Senator Hill
arose and with characteristic deliberation
told the Senate that he agreed with the
Senator from Maryland, that the country
was confronted by great crisis. u
He started in to sketch the events leading
up to the deadlock between the Senate and
House. He advised the course of receding
from these amendments as he had proposed,
and not to stick blindly and obstinately to
the Senate provisions.
81 am a practical man. / say to practical
Senate, let. us express our opinion on some
of these disputed points," he said. The
House was backed by the public, by the
press, by the President of the United States
on the point of free raw material.
The clouds were dark and forbidding. The
Senate could afford to recede from their
amendments. It struck him that the right
and honorable course for the Senate to.pur-
sue was to recede from its amendments on
coal and iron.
He had simply picked out these two
articles, and he suggested to his party
friends that the Senate recede and see If
that would.not result in an agreement.
Then Hill took up the subject of the
PRESIDENTS LETTER
to Chairman Wilson. 1t was not his
| province, he said, to speak of the propriety
of sending the letter,
The President was the Judge of what was
right to do, and he did not propose to
criticise him. II am here to defend the
sentiments expressed in that letter. said
Mr.. Hill.
.'MI. President, you would judge from
sentiments expressed in egard to thatsletter
that the President had been guilty of grave
crime in sending it.
sHe violated nelaw, he had moral, a
constitutional. al legala right to send that
letter. 1t was not an official communica-
tion. 1t was a private letter to long time
and faithful adherent
He had a perfect right to write that
letter, and in his honesty he had done So"
Again Mr. Hill launched out into defense
n ~
for writing the Wilson letter.
At the conclusion of Mr. Hills speech, Mr..
Caffery, Democrat of Louisiana, made
motion to instruct the Senate conferees to
insert in the sugar schedule provision to
pay to the sugar producers Tor 1924, bounty
of nine-tenths of a cent a pound on sugar
testing no less than ninety degrees by
polarization, and eight tenths of cent for
sugar testing not less than eighty degrees.
Mr.. Caffery defended the President in con-
nection with the Wilson letter, and declared
there was nothing in that letter which the
President was not perfectly justified in say
ing, and nothing in it that assailed, in the
slightest degree the honor of the Senate or
any Senator.
At the close of Mr.. Caffery's remarks the
| Senate adjourned.
Railway Postal Clerks Bill Passed.
| Washington, July 24.-In the House, the
bill directing.the unemployment of railway
postal clerks passed: Yeas, 140; nays, So.
Testimony is Suppressed.
Washington, July 24.-The Senate sugar
| investigating committee he'd brief session
| this MOI ming and examined Edward Levy.
representative of Wheeler & Co., on the
floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The
| testimony was suppressed.
Could Make No Agreement.
! Washington, July PA few minutes after
three the Democratic Seniors went into
caucus for the purpose of.formulating pro-
gramme in regard to the disposal OF the
tariff bill. For three hours the discussion
continued, and then without having reached
any conclusion an adjournment was taken
| until tomorrow.
| Soon after the caucus convened MI.
Jarvis of North Carolina offered a resolu-
tion providing that the bill be sent back to
conference without instructions of any.sort
to the confess. upon that resolution all
of the discussion was based. The conserva-
tives so called. the men who Formulated the
present bill did none of the talking, but one
| Senators
that those who did talk, and there were few
| who did not, were as Jealous in their ad-
vocacy of the Senate as any of the conser-
| yatiyes could be, and insisted as strenuous
ly that the Senate bill should prevail. AL
most all of the debate and cross fire between
| Senators was directed at mir. Villas, in an
effort to induce him to withdraw his motion
| To strike ont the differential on refined
sugar. The general feeling among Demo
Gratis after the caucus, was, that the end
was in sight and that the Senate bill would
vet receive the signature of the President.
For Is Year Old Fo rgery.
Worcester. July 24.-Asa q. Cushman, for
marlv nroprietor of the Lake View house at