New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-02
THE SENATE OBSTINATE.
INSISTING on ITS AMENDMENTS TO THE
LEGISLATIVE BILL.
THE HOUSE TIRED OF CONFIRMING AND THE
SENATE UNWILLING TO YIELD-PossI-
BILITY THAT NEW BILL MAY
rBY rE.EoRAP TO THE ThrBCSE.r
BE NECESSARY.

WASHINGTON July 1.-The obstinate stand which
the senate has been making for week or more in de-
fence Of It's rather radical proposal TO convert lh
present force OF session oerks-most OF them Simply
private secretaries to Senators in the minority VINO
have no committecS-to annual employees al salricS
Of 81 500 has led az last 10 an open deadlock on INC
Legislative Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill
and in the effort TO carry this minor point tie senate
has finally put itself in the ndcfensible attitude Of
threatening in case Of failure the defeat OF the en-
tire till In fact unless the vote taken this after
noon IS rcconsidercd within day or two II LOOKS aS
II the tedious process Of constructing announcer measure
Of this magnitude and Importance VIII nave 10 peeh
over a+nn at the Beginning. II VIII be duhcnlt Y"
pcrsuadr any one tina. the purely personal ana de-
cdedly petty raised ami persistcntly maintained
BY the senate Justify any such trlhne WIFI ''c
public business at this stage of the session
The crisis reached today has been lnvl'e1 LOT
some time 10y the belc0se attitude of the Senate Oil the
ouestion at issue between the two houses on ms
appropriation bill. The House had PROVIDED as usual
for the Senatc's session clerks after some GrhphhS
otou; each Representative being as much en1t!ch 10
private secretary as each Senator. The senate Ap
rropriations Committee made the session clerks an
nuaI at salaries of $500 each Then the senate
IA sed that TO 81 800 The House thoueht the
differences between the two branches In mattSrs VI
peicusites were being acccnuated too much ana mas
voted steadily TO non in the senates programme
ferences we're held and proved futile and the Senate
conferecs we're sent back each time with Instructions
10 stick to their guns.
This afternoon another failure was reported ana
another leaest conference was sent across % inc
House. That body was tired OF conierring ana re-
turned word that 1t would adhere to the original bill
The senate had chance TO retire from the hcld De-
comingy bnt the impetuous advocates OF the an
mail scheme defeated the conservative element IN q
light vote Nineteen senators preferred waivlnG the
nSin made thus far without until next session
10 defeating the entire bill. Twelve OF them were
Republicans and Democrats. a. follows Messrs
Allison Bate Berry Blair Coke. Culloin Dawes, iT!e'
Hale Iawley, Payne, Platt, Power hanson heagai'
SAWYER sherman squire and Vest Twenty i0nr sen
ators-twelve from each party-tavof1d deteaung tne
whole bill rather than Welding the senales rea'rangc
mcnt Of cler,ships. They we're Mcssrs Aldrch' Aiem
Harbour Butler, Carlisle, Cockrcn tolqulu, .iNooil'
polph Faulkner. Gibson Hampton, lscock' ihealie'
Jones, Of Arkansas Henderson, MtGncH MV Wsan'
PaSeo. Puch. stewart stochbrdge' Teller ana wash
burn. go, ..ostr. ;,.oe1i
atcv offered n motion 10 RECONSIDER, "rlcn VIII
rrcl,olIy come up u morrow. with FAR chance oI
aadont,on 4 new Appropriation bill could not be
reported and passed within month or SIX weeks