Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-18
REPUBLICANS LET IN.
The First Joint Conference on
 the Tariff Bill.
AGREEMENT TO DISAGREE COMING.

AGREEMENT TO DISAGREE COMING. A Report That the Democratic Mem bers of
 the Two Houses Cannot Settle Their Diff
 ferences Expected soon-Utah Statehood
 Bill a Law-In House and Senate.
 WASHINGTON, July 1s.-The first form Ll conference on the tariff bill, with all the senate and house members, both Dem- ocratic and Republican, present. was held and continued only about an hour.
 The proceedings of the full conference consisted of an effort on the part of the Democratic members to enlighten their Republican colleagues upon the clements of disagreement between the Democratic members of the two houses. without re- vealing tho methods by which they have sought to got together or the details of the proceedings of the Democratic con- fercnces.
 It had been expected that the Repub- lican conferees would at the outset ins dulge in some criticism on having been kept out of the conference during its in- itial stages. but the Republicans had little to say beyond the formal greetings and waited until Senator Voorhees,, as head of the Democratic conferees, made a some what formal and full statement of tho situation.
 He said that no discourtcsy to the Re- publicans had been intended. Tho meet ings had not been conference meetings but had been confined to an effort to bring about some settled policy among the Dem- ocratic conferees. Senator Voorhees, add ed that he was frank to confess that the efforts toward agreement had not proved successful. The features of disagreement were then gone into at considerable length by Mir. Voorhees, and his associates. They stated that the sugar, coal, metal, woolen and cotton schedules had been the chief bones of contention, but did not give par ticulars in any case save in that of sugar, with reference to which they stated that the house members had indicated a will. ingness to grant some duty on that article, but had objected to the differential duty on refined sugar.
 On tho other articles which had been the basis of disagreement Senator Voor- hees and other Democratic members of the conference contcntcd themselves by say ing that the Democratic confcrccs of the two houses had contended each sido for its own bill
 Object to Senate Amendments This had been especially true on the metal and wooden schedules, the senate amendments to which had been strongly objected to by tho Democratic house con ferecs. They said that among other special articles in the metal schedule the house members had held out for free iron orc and for tho house rates on lead orc con | taining silver. cutlery and steel rails | They had also demandcd-so it was re- ported to tho full confercncc-frce coal In the general discussion tho Republican conferecs gathered fhat sughr. iron ore, coal, the woolen schedule. curtoff schedule and silver lead bearing ores were tho chief questions of disagreement
 The question finally arose ms to what would be done, now that tho full con ference had assembled It was suggested by Senator AldTich that the bill should Dc taken up item by item and be consider cd by Republicans and Democrats, but the point was raised that this appeared to be hardly worth while in view of what the Democrats had just dIscloSed-that there was no prospect of agreement on the main l qucstita
 Thcrc was no further proposition sub mitted and nu prOgrnmmc outlined. and | the conference adjourned until . o'clock | today, the Democratic confcrees agreeing to meet prior to that hour to further con slider the course to bC pursued
 General Disagreement Probable. | Tho meeting was not marked by any sharp controversy ar criticism. and only | once did the sarcasm of Mir. Reed find ut terancc. IL was hen Chairman Wilson, speaking rather personally of the amend monts urged by certain Democratic scna- tors, said that 1t might be well to inform tho public of the situation by printing in the tariff bill the names of the senators alongside their respective amendments. To this Mir. Reed responded that tho pub l lie would probably mistake tho tariff bill for biographical dictionary.
 As result of the meeting tho Rcpub- lican confcrcsSronclndcd that general disagrcemeIs {enld bc reported to both houses within. 1eNd days. There was nc distinct statcnici or Proposition to this effect, but il appcnfeet 10 be the only con clusion to bo drawn from what had oc cured. Senator @kidrich and Mn. Reed said there would no disposition on tho
 part of the Republicans to delay n report
 of disagrcemcnts-e
 At the close nf the meeting Chairman
 Wilson stated that no exact plan was 1T
 view for reporting back to congress. It il
 believed, however. that plan will be de
 veloped today, and that the report of dis
 agreement will be made to the senate anC
 house within the next two days
 In senate and House.
 4 surprise was sprung upon the senate
 which blocked the hitherto rapid progres
 on the appropriation bills and almost pre
 vented the immediate passage of the agri | CuituTl tppFupEihllou ulAl. T ho NohSAa eration of this bill was practically com pleted Monday, and the bill seemed ol the eve of being passed, when Mir. Hans , brough offered an amendment appropriat , ing SI, 900. OOO for the destruction of th Russian cactus or thistle.
 It was immediately laid before the sen | ate when the agricultural bill WET agai
 taken up. A point of order made agains
 1t was decided in the negative by vot
 of the senatc-26 to 22. The amendmen |. consumed the remainder of the day an
 led to considerable discussion It wSl adopted by q vote of 27 to 2i. n Several unimportant bills werc passc n early In the day.
 The house passed the Bailey voluntar
 bankruptcy bill by n vote of i27 to si an
 devoted the remainder of tho day to bus !. ncss reported from the judiciary commi |. tee. Only two bills, however. were di V posed of-one to create an additional ell l. cult judge for tho Eighth judicial circu
 and the other making United States raj
 road corporations for the purpose of juri
 diction citizens of the states throug Is which they pass or into which they go | Isr.e Ar. f.A