Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-08
SENATOR QUAY OBJECTS
So a Proposal to Limit Tariff
Debate Fell Through.
FIVE MINUTE RULE SUGGESTED.
1t Is Expected That MIR. Quay VIII With
draw His Opposition, Though, and Their
the Work VIII Hum-A Religious Point
Raised In the House.

Raised In the House.
WASHINGTON, June S.-A single para,
graph disposed of placing duty of 90 pei
rent ad valorcm on buckwheat, corn, corn
meal, rice and rye flour, wheat and wheat
flour, with a reciprocity provision permit
ting the importation of these articles free
of duty from countries imposing no I'M
port duty on them when imported from
the United States, and 10 per cent duty
on oatmeal, was the net result of eight
hours work in the senate.
The feature of the session was an at
tempt to reach an agreement to consider
the next 80 pages of the bill up to the
wool schedule on pege 20 under the five
minute rule Most of the Rep. blican
leaders had agreed to this programme, but
Senator Quay at the last moment object
ed, and it was defeated 1t is expected
that he will agree to it tomorrow, after
which progress will be made temporarily
at least
Had the agreement gone through, in all
probability it would have proved the fore
runner of far moro extended arrange
ment looking to virtual agreement upon
limit of time for the discussion of all
the remaining schedules of the bill, and,
the Democrats think to the virtual fixing
of day for the final vote.
What the Agreement Meant.
While Senator Harris announcement
indicated an agreement upon the next four
schedules only, the conferccs discussed a
more extended programme, and virtually
agreed so far as their agreement could
bind the senate, to the application of the
five minute rulc for debate to not only the
schedules coming before the wooden schcd-
ule, but to those coming after the WOODEN
schedule, including silks, papers and
pulps, sundries and the free list
The only exceptions made to the appli-
cation of this rule We're on the wooden
schedule and the income tax provisions,
ON which the Republican confcrccs said it
was somewhat uncertain rs to the time
that would be required, but they We're Of
the opinion that two days would afford as
much time as the Republican side would
desire to devote to either wool or income
tax.
The remarks of the Republican con-
ferees were such that the Democratic sen
ators were very much encouraged over the
prospects of an early passage of the bill,
and prominent Democratic member of
the finance committee expressed the opin-
ion that If Senator Quay should withdraw
his objection to the five minute rule in the
discussion of the four schedules, as he eX
pected Mr.. Quay would do today, the final
vote would be reached by Saturday of next
week, the 10th inst.
The same senator stated that two or
three days would be sufficient time in
which to dispose of the bill in the senate
after it should be reported from the COM
mittCe Of the whole. He said there We're
only n few of the schedules which would
be reopencd at that stage of the bill.
Most of the time, except two hours occll-
pied by Mr. Carey of Wyoming in II set
speech, was consumed in the discussion of
the reciprocity proviso of paragraph 100.
An interesting debate on the claim enter
ed by the attorney general against the Le-
land Stanford estate prevented the resump-
ton of the tariff debate.