St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-26
CONFEREiS WILL MEET.
TIE TARIFF JGGGLERS WILL TRY TO
GET T0GETRER.
SnNATORIAL CAUCUS ACTION
Senators Stnboornly Stick Co Their
Old Position on All Points
Villas Warns His Colleagues to
Make Concessions to the Popu-
lar Body, and Talks of the
Feeling Against MonopoIies.

Make Concessions to the Popu-
lar Body, and Talks OF the
Feeling Against MonopoIies.
WASHINGTON. July 25.-The senate
will accede to the request or the house
Tor another conference on the tariff bill,
Ind its conterees will return to their
meeting with those of the house nm.
lrammeled' by any specific instructions
whatever This was the conclusion or
The Democratic senatorial caucus, which
adjourned sine die few minutes after
O'Clock today after TWO days sit.
ling. While the caucus did not commit
itself to any definite line of policy in so
many words. the conferees feel with
their Democratic colleagues that they
understand what majority OF them
desire. and they believe this to be that
they shall stand substantially for the
senate bill This is not the individual
preference of many nor perhaps of
majority of the Democratic senators, but
II represents the opinion of most of
them as expressed in the caucus
as to the only practical course open TO
the Democrats who think that the pres
ent congress must pass tariff bill Of
Iome kind, whether it be what they pre-
fer or not. In other words, the result
Of the caucus which has Just closed Is
the reaScertaining of what WAS known
when the three days caucus closed last
March, that it Is impractica5le to pass
any tariff bill through the senate which
eoes not meet the demands of the So
called conservative senators and the:
LOUISIANA SENATOR'S.
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
Dther propositions presented were those
pf Senator Villas and his friends, one of
which provided for instructions to the
senate conferees 10 recede fro IN this II
differential on refued sugar. without
any other change in the sugar Sched
hle, and the other to substitute for the
present tariff schedule duty of 45 per
cent ad valorem without any ditferen-
tial, and that of the conservatives to in
Etruct the committee to stand by the
senate amendments.
Senator Villas and two or three 9th er
senator's opposed the latter course, and
the conservative senators declared aD-
solutely and emphatically that they
would not accept the Villas proposition
20 recede from the ditferential even if
the ad Valorem should bs increased to
t5 per cent or any other sum Within rea-
yon. Senator Smith declared that such
y change meant the shutting down Of
lhe Tetineries In his state. the throwing
Uf thousands of men out of employment
and general disturbance of industrial
conditions such as he could net con-
template with conposure and would
not accept.
The Louisiana senators indicated a
Willingness. as they had done yester-
day, to accept the substitution Of 45
per cent duty straight.
THE PROPOSITION
did not, however. meet with 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 hat several
senators who stated that they agreed
with MIR. Villas in his opposition to the
sugar trust as 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 so many conflicting
reports emanated, and 1t was apparent
that each senator took away an under
standing TO suit himself as to what
Implied instructions the cOnferees were
nnder. Some felt that the senate bill
would be adhered to. and others that
lhe main point of difference, the one
Eighth OF cent per pound on refined
bugar, was to be eliminated, and per-
baps new sugar schedule presented.
But from those senators who have been
managing the bill the statement came
with forceful emphasis that upon the
main propositions upon which the
houses dltfered-sugar, coal and iron
Ore-there would be 10 change from the
senate bill when it was returned from
conference. One thing which everyone
felt assured of was that forty-three
votes could be counted on to send the
bill back to conference. The speeches
today were generally shorter than those
of Yesterday and were. as a rule, de-
voted to advising a strenuous effort to
secure party harmony on the basis of
bill which would receive the support of
forty.three members of the senate.
SENATOR Villas SPOKE
In general terms of the constitutional
Fight of the house TO originate financial
legislation, and, without denying the
concurrent right Of the senate, he sug-
gested that the house privilege in this
respect could not be ignored with COM
placency or safety. He cautioned the
caucus in strong terms to avoid all ap-
pearance of favoring monopolies
ing on that subject. Senators
Smith, Blanchard and Caffery also
made speeches of some length. Senator
German devoted himself 10 a verbal
statement on the parliamentary status
of the bill. Great earneStnesS was eX-
hiblted in the speeches of the New Jer-
sey and Louisiana senators. Other sem
Rtors, as rule, spoke without any man
Hesitation Of feeling, and the meeting
was, upon the whole, far more pleasant
than that of yesterday. A vast majority
OF those who participated i'll the caucus
came out when 1t adjourned with their
faces wreathed in smiles, and most of
then indicated by their actions that
they believed they had inaugurated a
line of policy which would insure the
passage of tariff bill. Some OF them,
who would say nothing as 10 the pro-
ceedings of the caucus, announce d
themselves as confident of ultimate sue
cess of the bill.
The vote on the resolution to send the
bill 10 conference again was not unani-
OCHdlOl V lids anu q I6W OlIltTS
opposed it, and explicitly stipulated
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-
sented.
During the proceedings the attitude of
the Populist senators,
ALLEN AND KYLE,
who have generally voted with the
Democrats Oh the tariff bill, was alluded
to, and one of the senators present
stated that he had been authorized by
Senator Allen that he thought the
bounty on sugar should be continued
for the present. The suggestion was
not received with favor.
Senators Hill. Murphly and frby were
again absent frr;vm the caucus today. Il
is understood that an attempt will be
made in the senate tomorrow to carry