The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-26
ONLY ONE COURSE OPEN.
Narrow Path of the Tariff
Tinkerers.
The Bill Will Go Back to
Conference.
Democratic Senators Arrive at
Conclusion.
They VIII Acesds to the Request OF tho
House and tho Conference VIII
Be Untrammeled by Spe-
cific Instructions.

By the Associated Press
WARRINGTON, July 25.-The senate
will accede to the request of the house
for another conference on the tariff bill,
and its conferses will return to their
with those of the house un-
by any specific instructions
whatever. This was the conclusion OF
the Democratic senatorial caucus which
adjourned sine die few minutes after
5 o'clock today, after a two days cit
ting. While the caucus did not commit
itself to any definite line of policy in 80
many words, the conferees feel with
their Democratic colleagues that they
understand what a majority OF them de-
sire, and they believe this to be that
they shall stand substantially for the
senate bill. This is not the individual
preference OF many of the Democratic
senators, but it represents the opinion
of most of them as expressed in the
caucus as the only practical course open
to the Democrats who think the present
congress must pass tariff bill OF some
kind, whether it be what they prefer or
not. In other words the result OF the
caucus which has just closed, ia the re-
ascertaining of what was known when
the three days caucus closed laet March
that it is impracticsble to pass any
tariff bill through tho senate which does
not meet the demands of the so-cslled
conservative senators and the Louisiana
senators.
1t became evident soon after the eau
Gus convened today that the resolution
of Senator Jarvis to send the bill back
to conference without instructions WAS
the only course open to the caucus.
The other propositions presented were
those OF Senator Villas and his friends,
one of which provided for instructions
TO the senate conferees to recede from
the one-eighth OF O cent differenti~ On
-ro6n cd sugar without amy -tisox- chuugr
in the sugar schedule, and the other to
substitute for the present tariff schedule
a duty of As per cent ad valorem with
out any diGerential, and that of tho
conservatives to instruct the committee
to stand by the senate amendments.
Senator Villas and two or three others
opposed the latter course, and the con-
servative senators declared absolutely
they would not accept the Villas propo.
sition to recede from the differenlial,
even though the ad valorem should bs
increased to As per cent or any other
sum within reason. Senator Smith de-
clared such change meant the shut
ting down of the refineries in his state
and the throwing of thousands OF men
out of employment and q general dis.
turbance of industrial conditions such
as he could not contemplate with pleas
ure and would not accept.
The Louisiana senators indicated a
willingness, az they had done yesterday,
to accept the substitution of q As per
cent duty straight. The proposition
did not, however, meet general favor,
as the wisest course to pursue in view OF
the hostility of the New Jersey senator
and those who acted with him, and in
view of the fact that several senators
who stated that they agreed with Mr..
Villas in his opposition to the sugar
trust. as a matter of principle, advised
in favor of the cessation of all efforts to
give formal Instructions.
There have been few secret confer
ences from which 10 many conflicting
reports emanated, and it ia apparent
that each senator that took away an
understanding to suit himself as to what
implied instructions the conferees were
under. One thing OF which every one fclt
assured was that 43 votes could be
counted on to send the bill back to con-
ference.
The speeches today were generally
shorter than those of yesterday, and
were as a rule devoted to advising a
strenuous effort to secure party harmony
ON the basis of q bill which would re-
Ueive the support of As members of tho
senate. Senator Villas apoke in general
terms of the constitutional right OF the
house to originate legislation, and with
out denying the concurrent right of the
senate, he suggested that the house
privilege in this respect could not be
ignored. He cautioned the CAUCUS to
avoid all appearance of favoripg mo-
nopolies in view OF the present feeling
On the subject.
Senators Smith, Blanchard and Cafery
a,so made speeches of some length.
Senator German devoted himself to @
verbal statement on the parliamentary
statue of the bill.
Great earnestness was exhibited in
the speeches OF the New Jersey and
Louisiana senators.
A majority OF those who participated
in the caucus came out when it ad :
>urned with their faces wreathed in
smiles, and most of them Indicated by
their actions that they believed that
they had inaugurated a line of policy
which would secure the passage of O
tariff bill. Some of them, who would
cay nothing as to tho proceedings, an
nounced themselves as confident OF the
ultimate eUccpea of the hill!
The vote on the resolution to send the
bill TO conference again was not unani-
mous, Senator Villas and few others
opposing it, and explicitly stipplating
that their participation in the caucus
should not be considered as binding
them to support the report OF the con-
ference committee when again pre-.
aented.
During the proceedings the attitude of
the Populist senators. Allen and Kyle,
who have generally voted with the Dem.
ocrats on the tariff bill. was alluded to
and one of the senators present stated
that he had been authorized by Senator
Allen to cav that he thought the hon ntv