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Washington, July 2G-It is reported
that compromise. which has tho ap-
Eroval of the president. has been agreed
upon, increasing the duty on sugar, leav-
iry out the diilcrcntial ard continuing
the bounty for 81 year; also placing
reciprocity clause i'll the coal schedule.
The speeches to-day were generally
shorter than thos,. Of yesterday, aud were
as rule devoted to alvis:n. II strenuous
effort to secure party lrrlnny on the
lasis of Il bill which woull receive the
support "f IS members Of the senate.
Senator Villas spoke IN general trr..s Of
the constitutional right of the house to
originate financial legislation. and with
ouL tt'llN llf1 tlc CoIIS.lIfttuC tlnllG tlle
senate. lie suggested that the house priv
il"ge i'll This respec: could not be is-
Gnred with complac..cy or safety. He
cautioned the caucus in strcns terms to
avoid all appearance" Of favorills mo-
ncroli,.s in view of the present feeling
on The subject. Senators Smith. Blancll-
artl and Caffcly also made spccchcs of
! some length. Senator Goruan devoted
himself tc Il verbal statement on the
parliamentary status of the hill. Great
earnestncss was exhibited in the speeches
of the New Jersey and Louisiana SELL
a'ors. Other senators, as u rule, spoke
without any nanifestatiJl. of feeling,
AMI the meeting WAS, upon the whole,
far more pleasant than that of yrstcr-
day. a vast majority of those who par
ticiimtcd i'll the caucus came out when it
adjourned with their faces wrcatllc,l in
smiles, and most of them Indicated by
their actions that they believed they had
inauSurated line of policy which would
insure the passage of a tariff bill. Some
of them, who would say nothing as to the
proceedings of the caucus, announced
themselves as confident of ultimate sue
cess of the bill.
The vote on the resolution to send the
bill TO conference again was not unani-
nous. Senator Villas and few others
opposed it. and expressly stipulated that
their participation in the caucus should
not be considered as binding them to
support the report of the conference COM
| mittee when again presented.
Members of the house are pleased with
tho outlook, and it is believed that an
agreement will now be reached.
In the senate Mr.. Gallery continued his
speech On the tariff bill, but his remarks
Cid not arouse any interest. When he
finished Mr.. Daniel of Virginia spoke.
Senator Quay gave notice of amendments
TO Villas motion to instruct the senate
conferees to rccede from the entire sugar
schedule and to recede from the schedule
providing for the eighth of Il cent per
round diff .rcntial on vetincd sugar.
Washington, July 2-.-When Mr.. Jones
called up the col ference report on the
tariff bill, Mr.. Vii IS was Immediately
recognized. but yicl.led to Mr. Quay, who
Withdrew the srg:.r amen 'mcnts he of
fcrcd just before adjournment yesterday.
The Wisconsin senator began his
speech by saying that nn extraordinary
scene occurred Oh Monday last in tho
senate. A democratic senator. said lie,
saw fit to attack the president without
precedent, lie thought, of if there was
precedent it was one that ought to be
Stunned instead of followed. 1t was
personal assault upon the president and
his character.
MIR. Villas then reviewed at length the
presidents position in favor of free raw
material. his letter of 1897 and other
public utterances up to his message to
congress ut the opening of the present
session. Constantly Mr.. Villas declared
Mr.. Cleveland had insisted upon this
principle. 1t was everywhere proclaimed
by his supporters to be the first step in the
cnfranchisemcnt of labor from the thral-
dom of unjust taxation,
| For two hours he held the floor amid
| wrapt attention of the senate and gal
| leries, delivering his scatllng rebuke of
the Maryland senator. lie denounced
| Mr.. Germans assault as wanton, reck-
less and unjustilinblc, and though, he
declared that Mr.. Clevclan headed no
defense ut his hands, he took up the
charges made by Mr.. German and met
them with m;tsterly skill and logic. He
made his statement, he said, in the in
terest of the truth of history. In con-
| clrsion he c,lo.iZ,,l the personal cllarlc-
ter and public integrity of Mr.. Cleveland
and said the president could not suffer
from this uni justifiable attack Of the
Maryland senator
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Villas explained that in view Of the fact
that Messrs. GOlman, Brice and Smith
had assured him that his motion to reccde
from the 1-Sc diffcrcntal in favor of the
refincrs of sugar must fail, and the fur
ther fact that a Democratic caucus had
decided to agree to Il further conference
without instructions, he would withdraw
the motion. After some general re-
marks by Mr.. Stewart against the inter-
ference of the executive with the legis-
latve branch of the government, Mr..
Hills motion that the senate rccedc from
its amendments placing duty of 40
cents IL ton on coal and iron ore were
voted upon and defeated, the Republic
ans, except Mr.. Hansbroush, joining,
the Democrats bound by the caucuc
agreement voting against it. The vote
stood 6 to G5 and & to G4. Mr.. Irby of
South Carolina was the only other Dem
ocrat except Mr.. Hill who voted for free
coal and iron. The Populsts, Allen,
Kyle and PETER, also voted for it. MIR.
Washburn renewed Mr.. Villas motion to
instruct the cOnfcrees 10 recede from the
Mr.. Gray Immediately made the point
of order against it that it was not COM
petent for the senate to instruct in O
question in conference. The point of or.
Dire was debated for some time. but had
not ben decided upon when the senate
adjourned. There is 10 doubt, however,
that it vii be sustained and this motion
ruled out. The general impression is that
the bill will go back to the conference
tomorrow.
Washington. July 27.-TEe days pro-
c"cti,iss i'll the house were dull in the
extreme nd one hy one the members left
their desks. Until there was not half
hundred members in the chamber The
conference report Gil the notifications tin
was agreed to. The day had been as
sislnd: to The. committee or interstate
.1d foreign commerce and some twenty
or thirty bills reported from this com.