Show VOORHEES ON THE TARIFF All Differences should ba immediately patched up washington ang 6 chairman voorhees of the financial committee baa beebi unable to attend the conference on account of ill health and is still confined to hie house he has not yet been heard from on the points now at ideue anione the conferees it has been assumed he stood with the senate conference managers not only for the senate duty on sugar but also for a duty on coal and iron he announced the contrary in an interview with a reporter for the associated press who called upon him at his house today and asked him for bis views he talked very freely advocating such concessions on the part of the senate as would bring about a speedy agreement and took strong ground in favor of yielding to the democrats of the house tor free coal and free iron ore he eaid it seen to me there ought to be little if any difficulty in reaching an agreement between the two homes the ways and means committee of the house did not in the first instance report in favor ot free sugar but were overruled by the house and free sugar was put on the wilson bill I 1 would gladly have concurred in this but it was soon ascertained with mathematical certainty that such a bill could by no possibility pass the senate on this point of difference of the two houses I 1 look upon the presidents letter to mr wilson as a help rather than a hindrance towards a compromise settlement tl the concession which the president advises the house to make on sugar Is liberal and ought to be ai once satisfactory to every legitimate sugar interest I 1 can entertain no doubt that it will furnish basis of a successful schedule mr caffery has announced in the senate as I 1 understand him that louisiana will accept 45 per cent ad va lorem without any reference to the trust especially if the bounty or at least a portion of it ie continued to the planters a few months longer under these I 1 am unable to eee how the sugar issue can remain any longer an obstacle to an agreement the only points of serious trouble are embraced in the question whether coal and iron shall be free or have a tariff duty laid on them of 40 cents per ton these are exceedingly small and insignificant ant items 0 controversy on which to defeat a great national system of revenue reform obstruct all the legislation looking to that end disappoint and derange every business of the country greatly embarrass em barass the democratic party and inflict the greatest on all classes of people it legislation shall entirely fail at this time owing to a stubborn disagreement aa to whether there shall be a small duty on coal and a small duty on iron ore or whether these two articles shall be on the diee list the men who make that result inevitable may rest assured that they will be held in everlasting remembrance mem brance and everlasting execration they will be hanged in effigy from one ocean to the other and their names will be pillories in the estimation of the american people there is no little ground in my mind now for the final disagreement that those who continue to gneist on 11 things and continue to repeat such disagreements will be held as criminals by all just minded people the sugar schedule being practically out of the way as I 1 have shown by con sessions cessions ces the senate ought in my judgment to concede free coal and free iron ore and of course it would do so but for e membership in that body which could be counted on the fingers of one band I 1 have no disposition to reflect on the motives of those who differ from me in opinion but this small minority of the senate having substantially carried their point ou augar can very easily and very honorably afford to make concessions on coal and iron such action on their part and the great results which would follow would be hailed by the american people aa a blessed deliverance of the present crisis in our affairs |