Show SILVER MEN IN conference discussed plans for the silver fight teller siewart pettigrew alien ad others john clarke ridpath for the purpose or Promo tim Washl neton july 19 senators teller St pettigrew and alien and a cumber 0 fc representatives met col john clarke the historian and tonight and discussed plans for the carrying on of the fight for alie triumph of all agreed that the fight in the future must be on the silver question but no definite agreement was reached as to how it should be conducted the meeting aavo a report that the Pop ulista were organizing to defeat the adoption of the tariff conference report in the senate this was denied however ho and alien for his populist colleague ead that while there necessarily would be a debate on the report he expected to pee it adopted not later than saturday the democratic senators were quoted as saying they will insist on debating the conference report fully and opposing each separate item of the bill it ie the generth they will not succeed in debate beyond a very few days the novelty of a night filled the galleries and at 8 a desultory desu llory di was resumed by hodowell Mo Dowell of ohio the speech of the evening being by Bailey lie spoke first of the fact 1 the final settlement of the question waa not with the house nor wilh oon creps but with the fifteen million voters of the country cju and to them he submitted a statement of his views in his opinion it was impossible that the county could have prosperity under the present financial system nor would any financial system make the people prosperous when the farmers were compelled to pay exorbitant prices for manufactured goods protection interfered with a frea interchange of products with foreign countries which is the basis of international commerce and which must curtail production it alao fo combinations of capital formed for limiting production in order to maintain prices As to the sugar schedule baiguy eaid 1 I am not willing to charge in this high place that the republican party has sold its intellect and conscience to the sugar rust and I 1 prefer to believe it has been driven by logic to its position to the of a monopoly which has grown so bold under its special privileges that it Uzea concree Con gree and brings disfavor upon courts bat air the republican party must confess it has sold ithell to the sugar trust or must admit that protection cannot deny its benefits to monopoly for opposition Mo MilIan closed the debate pointing outi what he deemed to be the most outrageous features of the bill which in his opinion gives benefits to trusts none of which had been ignored referring 0 o baileys charge that he had changed bis views regarding free raw materials be said any statement which imputed to him support of a daty on wool was inaccurate votes in favor tree wool free coal and free iron ore were reviewed and asserted amid applause that by the sign of tariff tor devenne only be democratic party had conquered in the past and will in the future of new york next to chairman dingley senior manager for the conference closed the debate he reviewed the history of tariff legislation 0 lecont beare especially that relating to sugar AJ to this he defended the attitude of the republican party and charged the democratic party with a love unsurpassed as manifested by its schedule for tha sugar trust at the conclusion of laynea speech dingley moved the house to agree to the conference report he demanded the previous question this wa ordered and the vote taken by Thia resulted naye present and not botin 12 the report was agreed to |