Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-27
THE TARIFF DECISION.
Republican Senators Take an Un-
 expected Stand.
CAUCUS AT EVARTS HOUSE.
Bill to Equnlize the Tariff to be Fr"ie0
 at an Early Day and Submitted to
 Senate Caucus-The Session May De Indefinitely Prolonged - Differences

Indefinitely Prolonged - Differences
 of the Solons.
 WASHINGTON, July 26.-It was busy day about the Senate yesterday in regard to the tariff. and it was soon learned that the Sena- tors had received notice to meet in caucus at the house of Senator Evarts.
 The different views which the Republican
 Senators have entertained upon the expeol-
 ency of considering the tariff at this session
 found very full expression at the caucus.
 Among the most pronounced ln 1aVor oI
 taking affirmative action upon some bill were
 Senators Aldrich. Hiscock, Jones of Nevada,
 and Allison. MT. Adrich has been the acuVe
 working member of the subcommittee WHICH
 has been giving attention to the subject. MT
 HiscOck has, cO-operated with him more thah
 any member of the subcommittee, owing to
 the fact that MT. Allison, the other working
 member, has been occupied much or hls tlme with his duties as chairman of the committee | on appropriations.
 MT. Aldrich and MT. Hiscock were quite clear in their opinion that 1t was the duty or | the party not to adjourn without having placed | itself on record in favor of some affirmative
 tariff legislation. They considered the ques- l tion of the surplus too important to adjourn | without presenting an affirmative proposition
 with respect to it. Not only, they said, should l & bill be passed which would propose to re- duce the revenue by the reduction Of tobacco taxes, the tax upon alcohol used In the arts' and at least half the duty upon sugar, but they i deem it expedient to go further than that ana l to ke up the schedules one by one to remove cert ain inequalities, as they are termed, and mako no ssibly some reductions. and also some l innrao po Ut ut all events to do something | ,ybiob ',, jailed revising the tarl1- 1 IT. su u oe ~tlling to go part way in 1 +bis ',i4e! naleon was '" ~ot quite so positive l = :, 0N' Du' "aS l. committee, and l as the other members of th, "a he expe- 1 was not quite so sure that it won ,>hate 1 dleht to enter upon a general tariff d, 1am- | MT. sherman, who is member of thu, {,
 mlttee on Finance, did not agree with his as- | soclates as to the eNpediency of entering into | 50 eAtcnded discussion as they proposed. 1 lie thought that, at best, it would not be wise | to go further than to propose a simple tax
 reduction bill which should embrace only the
 articles Of tobacco, alcohol in the arts and sugar.
 The caucus lasted from eight o'clock till | midnight. Nearly all of the Senators were | present, and those who were not were repre- sented by their colleagues or by some one l duly authorized to speak for them. hlddleberger gave what may be called a proxy to Don Cameron, and said he would cheerfully support whatever the majority of 1 the Republicans might determine upon. The | decision of the caucus was, therefore, the unanimous verdict of the Republicans of the Senate.
 l That decision was thata bill to reduce the l surlius and to equalzc the tariff shall be 1 framed nj the earliest practicable day by the | Conmittre on Firancc; that the bill so | framed shall be submitted to Il Republican
 caucus, that its general, terms may be ap- proved ArI :!,,.t h. t}Hrty -nino Renublicana ! will agree To coosir~r, 10 vote upon, and to 1 pass lie bill "ro" }~hinh tE' majority of the Hepu!!icau9 ot ,ne Senate il a caucus here 1 &fIar to 2e ,.;,,'a,l snail acrcc Whi:c -" views of tho Senators were at first by no means ununimuus at the end Sen l ator sherman said that the Republicans had not been So united in d caucus for fourteen years.
 ! Senator Quay, who was not present, caused | it to be known that in his judgement it was practically incXpedi1nt for the Senate to con- sider the tariff, and that it would be to the ! advantage of the party to have the issue as it l now stands. But at tho same time he stated | that he yielded his judgment to that of the 1 Senators from doubtful States. | An effort had been made during the day to ! secure some expression of opinion from Gen ] Harrison upon the subject, but the effort was 1 unsuccessful. A person who is very near to l him stated that in his opinion Gen. Harrison | is opposed 10 further debate. Mir. Sherman l hal been opposing the bill which the Senate | Committee is preparing upon some grounds; ! but in the caucus, to the surprise of some of 1 his associates on the Committee, he stated | that he had como to the conclusion that the tariff debate had better proceed and that the Committee should go on with its work S,'nator Chandler made very earnest l speech in favor of passing bill. He said that l it w&s necessary to do this and that it would have d good effect to submit to the people q measure which would have the support ofthe l thirty-nine Republican Senators. He pledged l the votes of all the Republican Senators with l out reservation to the support of bill. l Nearly all of tho Senators took part in the debate The vote upon the motion to pro- | ceed to pass a tariff bill was taken standing, and every Republican Senator rose, voting aye.
 Perhaps the most significant fact connected with last nights caucus was that the first sub- l feet discussed was the probable action of President Clcvelrnd, in the event of Congress l adiOurning without taking any action upon a | bill to reduce the surplus.
 l It was stated at the beginning of the con- l ference that certain Republicans have re- ceived informaton within few days which l they regard as reliable that if the Senate | should decide not to act upon tariff bill, and | Congress should adjourn without taking any l action upon the surplus, the President, within l three weeks, would issue proclamation con- vening Congress in extra session for the pur- | pose of passing some law to dispose of the
 surplus, and that in the message convening Congress he would make campaign docu-
 ment which would have very serious effect | in some Northern States.
 "What effect will this decision have upon | the length of the session I" MT. Allison was
 asked after adjournment of the sauohs. He
 answered. "The session will be prolonged
 until October"
 One of the..Senators said: ''The bill will not l be mere skeleton proposing reduction on l tobacco, sugar, and alcohol in the arts, but it 1 will go into all of the schedules of the tariff | The free list. which has already been nearly prepared, will be longer and larger than the | free list of the Mills bill. Every proposition l of the Mills bill will bo considered and an- | swered.'' | Satisfied With Their Leaders. | PrrTsBURG, July 27.-Local members of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers dis 1 credit reports of a movement to depose Chief