Show HILLS HIGH t he demands free raw material senators on letter of an agreement on the tariff bill further off than ever washington july azof crowds packed the senate ealler iM today the house and the lied yesterday thrown down the gauntlet on the tariff question nd a pitched battle was expected barn in a pink negligee shirt stood watching bis banca while the chaplain delivered the Invocation looking like a judge at kentucky derby voorhees chairman of abe finance committee called up the conference iton abe bill and yielded the floor of new jersey who read a carefully prepared had hoped he said when the bill based the senate two weeks it bad been perfected but abe events of the last twenty jour hours had confronted the io yorty with a possibility of the failure of all abe tariff legislation at this cession if eo must be placed where it be lodeen he criticized criticised the president for r the principles of his party in i attempting to interfere with the 1 lives of the legislative branch of the government but declared be never would intimidated by threat from the president or by any utterance of his party associates at the other end of abe capital who been uproariously applauded plau ded ile called attention to the differences feren ces between the situation in the house and that in senate lie reviewed rabe events in the house which culminated in the passage of the bill with a loss of but 17 democratic ayotee in the senate every democratic vote was needed to pass abe bill and abo finance committee went to work to harmonize the differences feren ces they had accomplished that to their credit be it id he delivered ft eulogy on the tariff hill as it passed abe senate which unlike the 11 he declared contained no to the industries of abe country and was not framed by man from sparse fv settled districts who knew nothing of the areat commercial interests of abe united aate he asserted that the frame of the house bill and large proportion of the democratic party were not tariff reformers alny were free traders senator hill eald A theory as well as veil as a condition now confront us the theory of the democratic party i that in an enactment of legislation free raw materials should always be an essential element the best inter aja well as of the demand recognition this wise discrimination until recently 1 I supposed there was no dispute on this question of principle but that every dem macrat worthy of the name was willing to concede that if there was one thing morn than another to which the democratic arty was committed it was the doctrine of absolutely free raw materials the artrue and honest construction of every democratic national platform for twelve years irrevocably commits us to this lust end reasonable principle hill read abe national platform of and continued to repeal form to reenact re enact it in effect is keeping toi promise to the letter bui breaking in the platform pointed wiam pride to and deliberately approved ibe measures for free iron ore free lead ore iree coal and free wool which were pending in congress at the time of the convention the democratic position was so plain and is go clear that he who runs may read if any democratic benator in part ef the country forgetting the interests inte of the whole land and indue interest of a locality had promised the people of any state or feci iun that there should be any excel fiade to the enforcement of the gen eral principle of tree raw manenal when the democrats should obtain power be exceeded his authority and 11 our lon if then said that abe letter of acceptance was jit blixt hold ringing and explicit deolar r abiu in favor ot the platform that abe parry bed the right to expect but hi letter read in the bouse yesterday left no doubt of ilia true fogt tion now hill then read extracts from abe prel dent letter ayery word of which he op proved he would not defend its expediency he declared that the senate bill had violated the democratic theory ot tariff reform by leaving a duty on iron noil lead and some other raw maderias mat erias ho said the president would veto the sen ale bill if it passed end appealed to the senator surrender eur render while they could do so honorably hill differed from the regarding agari the tax on which be declared ras not necessary if the income tax be re dined and the cenate must therefore re amendments vest followed hill with a Bc athing arraignment ment of the president whose letter of pronounced in favor of free raw yet who now denounced tree raw a perfidy and dishonor orr urged the senate to insist upon its amendments he intimated that inthe in the raw material the benator itjin new yerk hill was insincere he ba never in the long conferences of democratic se raised hia voice in coal aid iron ore an angry colloquy between th two marred vilas motion to strike out tho one eighth of 1 cent per pound on cuaar cassea greet an abe democratic side it wa n ahe bill majority vote of one mill blared hix intention of abe urice he thinks the motion toe modified the republican would vote moar as a tub for all the iao lonn now a motion to lie to withdraw from the e until the hl ruin of i he house run ains been replaced by other member ol 01 the than allson Wl lson |