The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16

conference it could only be stated that the
sugar schedule has consumed the greater
part, if not the entire time, OF the commit
tee, and the work has been devoted largely
on the part of the senator's in persuadlng
the representatives to consent to the re-
tention of the one-eghth of a cent dlffefeh-
tial on refined sugar Inquiries have also peeii
sent by the confereeS as to how mucn less
than 40 per cent ad valorem will satisfy the
sugar producers. louisiana members vi
congress say nothing whatever can NC
yielded from the AZ per cent rate ana the
response to the cOnferees was to that eliec.'
While it is true that during the week al
most every schedule in the Dill mas peeh
under consideration, it is also true that 40
yet few if any, rates have been fixed other
than tentatively and when members OF the
conference say that nothing has been abso-
lutely agreed upon they are technically
within the bounds of the truth
1t appears from the best information op-
tainable that a great part of the time has
been given to a representation TO the mouse
conferees by the senate members OF the ne
cessity of making the most liberal conces-
sionS possible in the interest OF the maj
passage of the bill through the senate. The
house conferees have indicated in most II
not in all instances, what they thought the
house would assent to and 1t Is the figures
given in these cases which have been ac-
cepted as agreements by those who have
heard them reported.
TO PAY COLONEL GOODYEAR.
The Senate Passes the Appropriation
After Some Debate.
Washington, July 12.-Senators show
themselves less punctual now that the daily
sessions open at noon than they did during
the two months when their attendance
required two hours earlier. There are
q y1rba tl,o
chaplain offers prayer and there are no OBJ
jectiOnS as to the absence of a quorum
as there were while the tariff bill was
pending. The unusual, if not unprecedented
circumstance of having the conferences on
the tariff bill confined so far to the demo-
cratic managers of the two houses eX-
Guiding the republican conferees was called
to the attention of the senate in a resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Hale republican, of
Name, directing the chairman of the sem
ate conferees, Mr. Voorhees,, to inform
the senate whether a full and free confer
ence is being held.
"A conference was ordered on the pen
sion appropriation bill and Messrs Brice
German and Cullom were appointed con-
1erees on the part of the senate.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
was reported and placed on the calendar
Inc 1ortl1lcatonS appropriation bill was
then taken up. The amount appropriated as
it passed the house was 81, 225 600, and the
additions recommended by the senate com
mttee on appropriations was $554 600, MAX
ing the total $2779,000 The amendments
We're agreed to as the bill was read
The bill was passed.
An amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priations bill was presented allowing So 900
each to the families of the government
clerks who lost their lives in the Ford's
theater disaster.
nd ha,JNo,. Ill
up and the committee amendments were
acted on they We're read
A committee amendment appropriating
$5o0W TO pay &. z. Goodyear for improving
the harhOr of Brunswick, Ga. led to a
snort, but rather acrimonious discussion
between Mr.. Blanchard, democrat of
Louisiana, who opposed the amendment
contending that the contract had not ac-
complished the desired result and had no
claim on the government, and Senators Cor
don and Walsh, democrats, of Georgia.
who held that the contractor was entitled
to compensation for the depth of water
which he had obtained
The amendment was adopted
The appropriation for improving Cumber
land river below Nashville was increased
from $4,000 to $4,000, the $4,000 additional
being for a dam and lock at the mouth, Of
Harper's river.
Brunswick's Rar.
Washington, Especial 1.-THE SEN
ate commerce committee has agreed to re-
port in favor of giving Colonel GOODYEAR
S5c'00O for the work he has already done on
brunswick harbor. and $4,000 additional
when he gets twenty-five feet of water on
the bar.
Reduced Majority.
The democratic congressional CAMPAIGN
committee is actively at work. and is re-
ce1Vlng encouraging news from many sun
pressed, doubtful districts 1t is expected
that the democrats will lose quite a num-
Der of districts, but the most conservative
figures show that the next house cannot
be other than democratic by from fifteen
to twenty majority.
The leaders feel confident that the repub
hcan claim that they will cary the next
house is groundless.