Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-14
FULL ATTENDANCE At the Conference on the Tariff
 Bill Desired
BY. KICKING REPUBLICANS.
River and Harbor Bill in Hand. But Little Accomplished
 In the House.

w ASHlNGTON, July lo.-A DHl to piace sleeping and dining room cars under the provisions of the interstate commerce act was introduced by MT. Davis of Minnesota by request and was referred.
 A bill to amend the arbitration act of October 1, 1888, was introduced by MT. George and referred.
 MT. Hale's resolution directing the chair man of the senate conferees on the tariff bill to report why full and free conference has not yet been held was then taken up, discussed for an hour and half, and then by common consent placed on the calendar.
 MT. Hale, in justi.ying the resolution, said that no one could tell what had be- come of the tariff bill, and that so far as the senate and country were concerned 1t was a lost bill.
 MT. Voorhees,, while disclaimng any disrespect or lack of courtesy to the repub- lican conferees, defended the course pur- sued by the democratic conferees, in excluding the repu blicans from the confer ences, as being in the interest of speedy action on the bill. They desired to perfect it, he said, "on their own line of action' before submitting it to the full conference committee.
 The three republican conferees, Messrs. Allison, Sherman and Aldrich, spoke of the course pursued by the majority of the conferees as unusual, and MT. Allison said that if the minority conferees were to be mere by-standers at the formal conference it would be better to have the conference committee dissolved without delay. MT. Sherman thought that the majority con :. ferees should confine themselves to such portions of the bill as presented political questions.
 After this matter was laid aside the river and harbor bill was taken up. The first half of it had been gone through at yester- days session. and the half that remained (forty- nine printed pages) was disposed of in a little less than two hours.
 The bill was passed, and conference with the house was asked. Then the legis- lative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was rushed at the same rapid pace, only the paragraphs providing for reor- ganization of the executive departments being reserved.
 Only twenty pages of the bill relnaiu led to be acted upon, besides the reserved sec- tions.
 The following bills were passed:
 House bill to change the boundaries of the judicial district of Florida.
 Senate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge over tho Buck river, in Hum- phreys county, Tennessee.
 A concurrent resolution was introduced by MT. Faulkner and agreed to for the correction of an error in the bill for the ad mission of Utah as n state. Tine correction is to change @tsfifty- third" to 1" fifty fourth, '' as the designation of the congress to which the represen tatives from the new state are to be elected.
 Within less than an hour the concurrent resolution had been passed by the house and the error corrected in the enrolment of the bill, The senate adjourned at 6:10.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 Beyond adopting the report of the con- ferees upon the bill making appropriations for the payment of pensions for the year ending June 30, 1895, the house accom-i plished but little business and that only of preliminary nature. The entire session of the day was spent in consideration of measures on the private calendar. Two of them, one known as 1.-the omnibus reso- lution,' recommending in bulk thirty seven claims, amounting to $1 ,040, ,000, to the court of claims for investigation, were ordered to be reported to the house un-s favorably. One bill was given favorable recommendation, and the rest Of the ses sion was occupied in discussing fourth.
 At 5 o'clock the customary recess was taken until 6 clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pen sion bills.
 Just before the house took a recess at 5 o'clock the senate concurrent resolution to amend clerical error in the bill to ad init Utah as a state was, on motion of Mir. Rawlings, democrat, of Utah. agreed to.