The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-10

lu17dE report, says Mr.. Wilson.
that the president had
smashed the compromise
u agreed upon by the confer
rses on coal, sugar and iron ore yester
day, is an absurd invention. There is
not word of truth IN it and YOU can
sly 30. The president has never inter-
Tered in our deliberations in the slight
est manner He has treated the mat
ter with great delicscy."
This authoritative statement made
ly Mr.. Wilson was called out by the
stories that were circulated about both
wings of he capitol today. As the
members of the house dropped into the
chambers this morning they had all
heard the same story, which had evil
IDENTIFY originated in the hotels last
night. The story was related with so
much circumstan tiality of detail that
by the hour Of noon dozen mem ers
could be found who claimed to know
POSITIVELY that 1t was correct Later
IN the day came q new report that the
conlerrees Were further apart than ever;
that the senate,conferrees acting undrr
instruction from the senatorial body
had fatty repudiated their promises of
the day previous and that dis gree
in- report would likely be made to.
morrow.
FREE IRON OR FREE COAL
A member VINO is "A manager on the
part of the house, said that yesterday
the proposition was made them that
they might nave their choice between
free iron ore or free coal and that while
this matter was bei1g discussed Mr.
u rman made a proposition that the
house should have free coal and that
iron ore should remain at 40 cents a
ton. According to this conferree, this
proposition was accepted and Mr.. Cor.
man then sent another offer in
the shape of free sugar. This
cOnferree was frank enough to admit
that this second offer fairly took
away the breath of the house members,
but said that after they had dis
cussed it FOR a short tins it was d
clined with thanks. He said the house
conferrees had made up their mini
that they did not want free sugar but
Chat they would stand by the sugar
schedule they pr viously suggested
and which had been agreed to all
around in conference to wit, duty of
40 per cent. on raw sugar, a duty of 40
per cent. on raw in the refined and
one-ffth cent a pound differential for
the tining interests. So far as the
house was concerned, said this con-
ferree, they stool just where they did
last night for DUTY on sugar, iron
taxed at 40 cents n ton and free coal.
PROMINENT SENATORS OPINION.
This morning, he said, the senate in
sisted that the proposition should he
free iron ore and coal dutiable at 40
cents ton, and the house refused TO
accept 1t, After the conference this
afternoon one OF the most prominent
senators on the committee said that
he would never vote for an agreement
that included free coal for the reason
that such bill could not pass the sem
ate and he did not propose to lend him
self TO any scheme that was intended
as a trap to get the bill into the senate,
where it was to be Killed.
This senator made the emphatic
statement that coal could not be frae
aud he declined 10 say whether IT, ere is
an agreement in sight or to say that
there was not. 1--WE may agree in an
hour" said he, 'or we may be here for
several days and possibly forever"
The coal men in the senate are up in
arms ~ The thought of free coal, and it
looks as if all tnat had been done was
about to he undone. As a matter of
fact, while coal and iron ore are play.
ing an important part in this discus
sion, they by no means occupied all
the attention of the conferrees today.
HOUSE WANTS THE EARTH,
II was said by one of the senators
that as last as an agreement was
reached on one thing something else
that could not be granted by the sem
ate was asked by the house and insisted
upon, although to give it was imperiI.
ling the success of the bill. The whole
conduct OF the house conferreps An
peared to be, this gentleman said, that
OF people who We're seeking to consume
time and cause delay. This after
noon the demand was made that
the woolen, cotton and metal
bouVuuio 10 leuuCbut ana this
at once set the senate conferrees
by the cars. They told their associates
that they could not do it and the speci-
fic assertion was made, with the au.
thority of the gentlemen referred to by
the senate conferrees that il, the sched
ules is question were changed that
neither Senator Smith nor Senator
Murphy would vote for the bill and
that any effort to change the metal
schedule would start Senator Quay
again andno man could tell what the
result would b. but even the most san.
guine friends of the measure would
feel that its defeat was near at hand.
Any deviation from the schedules
now in the bill affecting the industries
OF New Jersey and New York will be
opposed by the two senators referred
10. even to the extent of voting agains.
tie bill. All these things were told the
cpnferrees today. but they only laughed
al 1t and professed to look upon it as
wat they called great game of bluff.
At all events 1t is known that when
the conference adjuorned tonight,