The Portland daily press., 1897-07-23


ing evidence of the alleged fact the state
iuenG consist of insinuations, mysterious
III LINUS and indefinite illusions made on
th the authority of some person whose name
'iie correspondent does not disclose.
| All these innuendos are met in the most
uirecG and emphatic manner by the state
nnnents of the senator from Rhode Island,
WI. Aldrich, the chairman ofathe SUBJ
committee of the finance committee, hav-
ing In charge the arrangements of the de-
tails of the tariff bill.
senator Aldrich's reply to Senator Till
man in which he refers to Senator Jones
OF Nevada, as the only senator outside of
q It's proceedings. is quoted at length.
heplylng to his statement Senator Jones
makes an individual parenthetical state
ment in which he says:
he Is member of the finance COM
mllttee of the Senate, and that such in
lormatlon as he obtained from the sub
committee on the occasion referred to by
the senator from Rhode Island was in
formation received in legitimate official
consultation with the members of the
SUD committee, and that such information
was conveyed by Mr.. Jones to no hu-
man being in any form or manner before
Ine presentation of the particulars to the
| Senate
The report takes the position that the
ulstlnct assertions Of senators are not to
De outweighed by newspaper attacks in
stlgated by men willing to make state
menus to newspaper correspondents, with
view to publication and then, like as
sasslns, who use the stilletto in the dark,
skulk behind those correspondents and re-
1use to permit their names to be made
known, even for purpose of evidence.
1t would, they continue, be monstrous
to set in motion the investigating ma.
cnlnery of the Senate every time tht such
an attack upon senator. The committee
goes at length in the question OF the
| propriety Of expelling from the Senate
press gallery and send to prison news
paper correspondents who make false
charges, taking positions against both
! suggestions.
\ In conclusion the committee recon-
mends that the resolution be indefinitely
postponed.
Mr.. Tillman offered resolution dis
I charging the committee on contingent ex-
| penses from further consideration Of his
resolution for an investigation of alleged
1 senatorial sugar speculation. Before
| anything could be said, Mr.. Jones of Ne
vada presented report from the commit
1 tee on the same resolution.
Mr.. Tillman was quickly on his feet
asking that the report be read. He did
mentary device and he wished to secure
| a direct vote on the resolution.
4 Mr.. Gallinger of New Hampshire, a
member of the committee, suggested that
i the resolution go to the calendar and be
reached in its proper order.
/ Mr.. Tillman insisted on having it read.
Mr.. Gallinger objected, the presiding
officer holding that a single objection
was sufficient to prevent the reading.
Then Mr.. Tillman moved that the report
be read on a viva voce vote. The motion
was lost and the resolution went to the
calendar.
Mr.. Allison askedithat the tariff confer
ence report be taken up but was met
with several measures which senators
desired to hurry through in anticipation
of the adjournment of Congress. Mr.
Allison would not yield and Mr.. Allen
finally made an issue by moving to take
up the bill for a non-partisan commits
sion to- inquire into questions affecting
agriculture and labor.
further delay the consideration of the
tariff report proceeded.
Mr.. Chiffon of Texas took the floor fo1
a speech against the bill as a whole
with an analytical criticism of the sched-
ules in details.
Concerning the sugar schedule he said
it was so cunningly devised as to make
ferred. The main point was as to the
loss suffered by the people and after a
calculation Mr.. Chiffon concluded that
the sugar trust would be enabled by the
bill to charge the people one cent per
pound more for sugar than under the
present law. He said the agricultural
schedule ought to be known as the
fraud schedule" as it was designed to
be deceptive to the farmer. In oonnec-
tion with Mr.. Chilton's discussion of
the agricultural schedule, Mr.. Tillman
was drawn into a vehement argument on
the benefit of an export bounty on agri-
cultural products. The South Carolina
such a bounty was the most effective
means of destroying the entire protective
| system, for if the farmer got one drop of
blood in his mouth he would want to
"swallow the whole carcass" and it
would end in a scramble overturning the
whole system.
Proceeding, Mr. Chiffon took up the
Democratic position of free raw material,
urging that raw wool and other raw
products were entitled to exactly the
same consideration as manufactured
woolen goods, but neither of them should
be benefited as against the interests of
| the whole people.
| Mr.. Jones of Arkansas, followed in
criticism of the bill in detail.
The senator referred to the full meeting
of the conferees, Democrats and Republi.
cans, and related the futile efforts of the
| Democratic conferees to secure hear
| ing
Mr.. Jones asserted that 1t was the first
time in the history of the country that
such arbitrary action had been taken by
a conference committee.
"vote it down." suggested Mr.Allis son,
| the report is mere recommendation
to the Senate"
Eyes" declared Mr.. Jones, the Sem
ate owes it to it's dignity to reject the re-
port. i"
Mr.Aldrich, one. Of the Republican con-
ferees, interrupted to state that the course
Of this conference committee was the
same that every conference committee
| followed In the tariff contest of 1894,
the Democratic conferees We're together
six weeks and the Republican conferees
We're not invited in and knew nothing
clared that Republicans senator's were
responsible for the pending bilf and it