The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-08-14
HOUSE BACKS DOWN
An Unconditional Surrender
on the Tariff Bill.
ACCEPTED THE SENATE'S TERMS
Democrats VIII EndeavOr to Pass Every.
Thing Today---The Chinese Treaty
Confirmed by the senate.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-One hour be-
fore the time set for the caucus, Speaker
Crisp was joined in his private Office by
Chairman Wilson and Representatives
Turner, Mcmillan and Montgomery, the
full membership of the house democratic
conference committee, and representa-
tive Breckenridge, of ARKANSAS, advisory
member for final consultation. The
current of feeling among the members OF
the house seemed to be setting strongly
in favor of accepting the senate bill
without further delay. At 10 O'Clock
Crisp and the conferees fled out of the
speakers office and took seats in body.
At that time 153 democrats were on the
floor. Chairman Wilson took the floor
Immediately after rollcall. The mem
bers crowded around him listening in
tently to every word. Wilson began
with recital of the difficulties encount-
cred, which, he said, at each step had
been pursued with an ardent desire to
support with honor the desires of the
house to resist what was regarded as the
unreasonable demands of the senate.
He reviewed the differences in confer
ence on the disputed items. He took
up each proposition on sugar and spoke
of the vast profits to the sugar trust
which would result from many of them.
He did not indulge in tie sharp criticism
that was expected on the motives of the
senate conferees.
While Wilson was speaking, word was
passed around that the conference in the
speakers room had resulted in decisive
action. and that Speaker Crisp himself
would move the house recede and accept
the senate bill.
Wilson spoke of the fight made by the
house conferees for specific duty on
sugar on the ground that under the ad
valorem system it would be impossible
to tell, on account of the invoice meth
DDS, the exact advantage that would ac-
crue to the sugar trust. He made the re-
markable statement that he had been
credibly informed, and believed the
sugar trust, anticipating the enactment
of the senate sugar schedule, had pur-
chased $112 ZOO, 900 worth of raw sugar.
If this was true, he said, the profits ac-
cruing to the trust from this investment
on account of the senate schedule would
be at least $40,0OO,OO0. "The great
BATTLE said Wilson, warming, sis bet
ween the American people and the
trust has taken the people by the throat,
and it win never end until we throw off
its grip"
There was enthusiastic applause at
this. He proceeded to state that the
house conferees had been willing to con-
cede almost everything except those vital
items of sugar, iron and coal. The
senate conferees had also seemed willing
to coneede much, but were apparently
dominated by the knowledge that if they
conceded what the representatives
were demanding, the bill could not pass,
and the agreement would be useless.
Wilson closed at II :O5 o'clock, having
talked just an hour. Montgomery, Nc
Millin, and Turner corroborated his
statements.
Crisp followed; he spoke with much
spirit and round after round of applause
greeted his remarks. He spoke of the
critical condition and the apparent need
to accept the senate bill, and then, if
need be, introduce separate bills for free
sugar, iron and coal. He said it was the
senate bill or nothing" AS long
as there was a desperate chance of
securing the concessions the house de-
manded, he was in favor OF standing
out, but he was satisfied the time had
come when further insistence by the
house was useless. He offered resolu-
ton instructing the house conferees to
recede from the disagreement, and the
ways and means committee to bring in
separate free sugar, iron and coal bills.
A burst of applause greeted the reading
of the resolution, but half q dozen irate