Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-05-15
TALKING AGAINST TIME
Bur Little HeadWay Made
OH the Tariff
HE BILL SHOULD Bt BtAltN
The Only Conclusion Arrived at by the
Caucus Of Republican Senators.
THE BILL SHOULD Bt BEAftN

wAmNGToS May l5-Ths senate de
Republicans nagVing and hsrassing the
majority aud baking progress at every
step.
Only six arlgraphs Of the second sec
tion Of the bill, those relating to alumina,
alum aud it, products, ammonia and It's
products, bone cbrr, hOrix, camphor
and chalk. were disposed of rs "A result of
seven hours work About 25 amend
ments were offered by the Republicans to
the SIX items upon which the rates were
fixed yesterday and debated with per-
sistency which exsspyratsd the Demo rats
beyond measure. The latter kept their
temper fairy well, however. The only
feature Of The days proceedings were Mr..
Plates observations on the alleged sur
render OF tue Democrats to the Sugar
trust, aud he was soon engaged in con-
trovsrsy. An attempt by MIR. Allison 10
restore blue vitIiol and copper 20 the duti-
able list was defeated.
In the House.
Yesterday WAS district day in the house
and several unimportant bills were passed.
The only important bill passed was one
giving the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Electric Railway company
an entrance into Washington.
The resignation of Representative
Compton Of Maryland was laid before the
house after which a bill was passed au.
thorizng the Braddock and Homestead
Bridge company TO build a bridge over
the MOnongahela river at Homestead, Pa.
The Republican Caucus.
The Republican members II the senate
were in caucus at Senator Sherm ans
house last ght from o'clock to ll:50
The eau us plrtook more Of the nature
OF an Informal caucus than business
meeting, and while IL was called with
the purpose Of arriving at a conclusion rs
10 the method TO be pursued by the Re-
publican party In the senate IL closed
without elciting anything In the way of
a party declaration. There WAS no vote
on any proposition whatever, and the
proceedings consisted in a large number
OF speeches.
There were about 25 OF the 81 Republi-
can senators present, and every one there
had something to say In the course OF the
evening There was a great divergence Of
views Indeed the accounts of the meet
ing agree that while there were probably
20 speeches, most of them, of course,
brief, no two of them were on the same
lines or adv Ised the same manner of pro-
ceeding.
There was no agreement except upon
the one point, that the bill should be
beaten il possible. On general lines the
greatest divergence of opinion was on the
ability of the Republicans to beat the
bill at all and while there was no formal
division which would permit OF a count
ing, the caucus appeared to be about
evenly divided in sentiment upon this
question.
Exceptions on Both Sides
A statement that eastern senators were
favorable 10 the continuation of the
opposition on the lines which are now
being observed, and that western sena-
tors were opposed to any effort to secure
delay for delays sake. would be in a gen
eral way correct, but there were excep-
tions on both sides.
Senators Aldrich, Chandler. Frye and
others coutenied that the bill could be
defeated, and said that all that was neces-
sary to demonstrate the correctness of
this assertion was 20 give the Democrats
time to widen the breach which they as
serted now exists. Some of them do
clared that four or five Democratic votes
could be counted on as opposed to the
bill, while Que of those present went so
far as TO say that he was assured of the
opposition of at least seven Democratic
senators. No names of Democratic sena.
tors were given.
The opposition element contended that
there was no positive assurance of any
Democratic support in opposition to the
bill, and that the only means of testing
the truth of rumors of Democratic dissat-
isfaction was to let the voting go on.