The San Francisco call., 1897-06-19
Senators Pass Another
Day in Acrimonious
Debate.
Free-TraderS Become Rabic
Protectionists on Certain
Schedules.
SCrubbIng Of Democratic SoiIec
LInen-Tillman Denounces
Cleveland.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 1S.--De-
bate in the Senate to-day was mostly con-
fined to attacks on the tariff by Jones and
Vest and to brief responses by Allison.
veral other Senators on both sides took
part. The result was that not a page Of
the bill was disposed of. The schedule
under consideration was fax, hemp and
jute. One of the first matters to attract
attention was the appearance of Petit
grew, who had been hitherto voting with
the Democrats, and who now assumed the
role OF an advocate of high protection, en-
deavoring to have the duties on fax made
twice as high as those proposed. Another
point of interest was the development of
antagonistic views between leading Sena-
tors on the Democratic side.
Bacon of Georgia, on whose motion
some days ago raw cotton was put on the
dutia BILE list at 20 per cent ad yalorem,
manifested disappointment at that appar-
ent gain to Southern planters being rem
dered nugatory through the adoption of a
paragraph putting a compensatory duty
on manufactures into which Egyptian
cotton entered, thus promoting instead of
curtaiIing importation. While defending
his own course he got into an acrimonious
discussion with Jones and Vest, which
the latter referred to as washing of Demo-
cratic dirty linen for the delight of their
Republican opponents.
Tillman expressed himself as pleased at
the operation and only displeased because
he could not get the Senate to take part in
the washing. This had reference to his
resolution for the inves tig alton of charges
in connection with the sugar sched ule.
HawIey, Burrows and Chandler got
int the discussion on the Republican
side, and the days session closed with a
long speech by Morgan in support of the
proposition to transfer nearly all articles
from the free to the dutiable list at the
rate of 10 per cent. Articles which he
would still leave on the free list. some
three dozen in mum Der, are those which
are necessaries of life. The others are
such as enter into manufactures. and he
would have made those utiable as a COM
pensatory tax. Eventually he withdrew
mis- amendment with the intention of
offering it at another stage of the bill.
In his speech Tillman charged in plain
language that Cleveland had bought with
patronage enough Democratic Repre-
sentatives to pass the Sherman repeal bill
in 1893 and then bought enough Sena-
tors to pass the bill in the Senate"
As Tillmau shrieked out this charge
with uplited hands there was murmur
of indignation throughout the cham ber
but all the Senators remained silent in
their seats. Tillman denounced the tariff
bill as infamous, but said that while the
infamy wss being perpetrated he intended
TO get what little benefit ne could for
South Carolina and take his chances with
his constituents. He denounced the Will
son bill as protection measure, and insist
ed that because of it the Democratic party
was "kicked out of power" He concluded
by saying that in the next campaign he
wonld attempt TO convince the people that
the Democratic and Repu blican parties
had both betrayed them on the tariff.
The Senate, after an executive session,