The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-26
ALLISON MAKES A POINT.
A CONFERENCE ASKED ON THE
SENATE TARIFF BILL,


The House Tariff Reformers Won't Be
Fooled, However, and the Bill VIII
Go to the Ways and Means Commit
tee-It Will Be Speedily Considered
and Non-Concurrence Recon-
mended.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Allison moved that the Senate
insist on its amendment to the tariff bill,
and ask for conference with the House on
the bill and amendment The motion
was agreed to without objection.
Before the tariff bill went to the House
from the Senate this afternoon there was
indorsed on it, in compliance with a motion
Of Mr.. Allison adopted by the Senate, a
statement that the Senate adhere to its
amendments and request conference.
This is an unusual but not unprecedented
course to pursue, and is adopted for the
purpose of expediting the consideration of
the bill
CAUSED COMMOTION.
This action of the Senate caused mild
commotion among the interested members
of the House when it was made known to
them. The impre's e'sion in some quarters
was that the Senate had very cleverly
trapped the ways and means committee. 1t
would be out of the ordinary course
for the House to refuse to accede
to the request of the Senate for
a conference, yet if this request is
granted the result will be to prevent the
ways and means committee from passing
upon the Senate amendments to the tariff
bill. Again it is argued thatsf the House
should refuse to comply, this refusal would
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the efforts of the Senate to secure speedy
action upon the tariff bill.
WHAT MEMBERS SAY.
Several members of the ways and means
committee, when spoken to about the mat
ter, expressed a belief that the request for
a conference would not be granted until the
bill had gone through the regular course in
the House and the committee.
Mr.. Breckinridge Of Kentucky said the
rules of the House require all bills coming
back with Senate amendments to be re-
ferred to the proper committee. The tariff
bill could not be sent to conference in
violation OF this rule, for a single objection
would suffice to prevent it. He agreed with
other members of the commit go in the
opinion that the Senates request for an i'm
mediate conference would be refused.
WHAT WILL BE DONE.
Tomorrow Speaker Carlisle will, in due
course of routine, refer the Senate substi-
tute for the Mills bill to the ways and means
committee. The ways and means commit
tee will send it at once to the public printer
to be printed. AS there are 10000 words in
it, it will hardly be ready for committee
purposes before the middle of next week. As
soon as it is in print the committee will
proceed to consider it item by item, sitti z
if necessary every day for that purpose.
Some report will be made on it as promptly
as possible. This is all that the democrats
of the ways and means committee have de-
termined on.
TO FAVOR NON-CONCURRENCE.
Speaker Carlisle and Chairman Mills said
to-day that the committee would probably
report, as the Senate has anticipated they
would, in favor of nOn-concurrence in the
Senate substitute, or, in other words, in
favor of standing steaifastly by the Mills
bill. Other tariff reformers think that some
agreement may be reached on some features
Of the substitute. Said one Of them to-day
I'VE really do not know the
merits Of the details of the
Senate substitute. We shall have to con-
slider it carefully before we can say how we
will act" But all agreed that there was
nothing in the report that the majority Of
the ways and means committee had agreed
upon substitute for the whole bill, or even
had agreed upon reporting any substitute
! ne chances are thdL what the speaker ana
the chairman of the ways and means com
mittee predict will prove true However,
it is all uncertain yet.
THE COWLES BILL.
One thing seems certain and that is that
the Cowles internal revenue bill is not
likely to be reported by the committee on
APP rpropriations. There are not enough dem
Ocratic members Of the committee favora-
BILE to it to report it without republican votes
and the republicans are restrained by the
dawning consciousness that the democrats
and not the republicans will be helDed in
Virginia and North Carolina by legislation
of the sort which may pass the present
House. Meanwhile James ID. Weeks has
prepared new tariff and internal revenue
bill, a modification Of the Senate
substitute without the tariff com
mission feature, which Mr.. Randall
may or may not offer in leu Of the Senate
and Mills bills. No one thinks revenue re-
duction in any form probable at thissession,
though some still think it possible. But all
four tariff parties in the House are eyeing
each other closely and figuring for position.
Some republicans talk tonight OF trying
to force Immediate action by the House to-
morrow on the Senate substitute for the
Mills bill. They claim that a motion to
concur or non concur takes precedence Of
a motion to refer, but Mr.. Carlisle proposes
to refer the substitute and the Mills bill to
the ways and means committee.