, 1888-05-31
Republican Caucus.

WAsHiNGroN May 20. Up to this time,
(2:3o p. m the republican house caucus
has confined itself to q discussion OF the
general policy of the party, Representa-
tive Hovey, Of Indiana, made speech
earnestly urging republicans to combine in
an effort to force the democrats to take q
decided stand in the pension legis station.
As part of his plan he urged that the bill
to remove the restrictions upon the pay
ment OF arrears of pensions be madea party
issue, if possible, and that the democrats
he placed in position OF antagonlSm in
this and other pension bills by refusing
consideration for them. Hovey's remarks
were well received and led to IA number of
other suggestions in the same line. The
tariff question has not yet been specifically
discussed by the caucus.
The following is the pension legislation
Resolved That it is the sense Of his caucus,
that the house should make special order
for the consideration of the general pension
legislation, AT the earliest day practicable
during the session, and that the committee
on rules be requested To report resolution
to that end said order to be n continuing
order from day to day, until alt general
pension legislation on the calendar shall be
dispoakd OF.
Houk, of Tennessee, then moved the
following resolution, which was unani'
mously adopted: Resolved, That il is the
sense of this caucus that the committee on
rules OF the house of representatives,
SnOuiu report RESOLUTION uidkInE ~ III
order, as matter OF privilege, to move the
discharge ofthe committee on education
from further consideration of the Blair ed
ucational bill and report to the house Tor
consideration at the earliest practicable day
during this session. The members OF the
ways and means committee next laid be-
fore the caucus formal proposition that
had been made by Mills to dispense with
the debate ON the tariff bill, under the five
minute rule, and long debate ensued. At
the beginning several members favored the
acceptance OF the proposition, bAt in the
end they were induced into making the
action OF the caucus upon the subject unan-
i'm Gus 1t was disclosed during the debate
that the general sentiment of the caucus
was that il "A repu blican tariff bin should
be formulated it should fully and enSphat-
ically represent the republican policy oi
protection.
Kelly vigorously protested against the
formulating OF any bill, and other mem
bers argued that it was not reasonable to
require "a minority party to submit q bill
which necessarily would not fully meet
the views of the members of that party.
but must he constructed with the view of
securing strength for its passage from the
majority party
Nelson, OF Minnesota, while urging the
preparation of bill, remarked that he
Twas not in love with Mills BILL ond
added that Minnesota could be relied upon
to give "a republican majority this fall, re-
gardless OF the action OF the house Oh the
tariff Finally Brown, OF Indiana, offered
the following resolution which was unani.
mously adopted: Resolved, That 1t is the
sense of this caucus that the pending tariff
bill be taken up and considered i'm commit
tee of the whole, under the five minuta
rule i'm the usual way, section by section,
and paragraph by paragraph. The caucus
which lasted four hours then adj ouyned.