Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-13
HOUSE CLAIMS THE BILL
Its ConfereeS Are Sure It Is In
 Their Hands Now.
THE SENATORS WILL SIMPLY WATT.
HIIrs Rexolution Is No Longer n Bugaboo to the House Members, and They win Decide to Accept or Reject tho Senate Tarin Bin at Their Leisure.


 Tarin Bin at Their Leisure.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. l3. The tariff leaders had anything but day of rest They were on the go from early morning until late at night. It was a day of con fercnces at the White House, at the private residences of the confcrccs and at the ho- tels. Secretary Carlisle was with Presi- dent Cleveland throughout the afternoon.
 The senate and house conferees made no effort to get together, and they remain as wide apart as when their meeting broke up on Friday night. The house conferces were in consultation informally most of the day, although at no time were they all together at once
 Chairman Wilson spent the day with Representative Breckinridge of Arkansas at the NOrmandic hotel and was there call ed upon by the other conferccs. MT. Will son did not sec the president through the day.
 The meetings of the house men brought about thorough understanding among them as to the line of action at the caucus today and in the subsequent proceedings of the senate and house. They reviewed the situation from every possible stand point and preparcd themselves for all emergencies. As one of them said, it was like going over the field of battle and learn ing the topography of the ground the night before the great fight.
 House Conferees Reach a Decision.
 At the outset the house conferces satis- fled themselves of the parliamentary sit uation of the bill. They had done this with the greatest care toward securing an accurate and authoritative decision. Speaker Crisp had been asked to examine with care the precedcnts bearing on the case, and it was understood that he had in turn consulted with Secretary Carlisle, who as cx-spcaker of the house of repre- sentatives, is regarded one of the best authorities on parliamentary procedure
 From the examination which had bccn made the conferccs were fully satisfied that the house of representatives had the right to pass the senate bill now or at any time. This determination went much further than has heretofore been understood It was that the house, having the actual phys ical possession of the tariff bill could pass 1t with the senate amendments be fore the Hill resolution passed today. or after the Hill resolution passed, or after the Hill resolu tion was defeated.
 That is, so confident were the house conferces of their right to pass the bill at any time that they regarded their rights as entirely unaffected by anything the senate could do with tho Hill resolution or with any other resolution. They rec ognized that there wore some prccedCnts against this position, but they regarded the overwhelming force of authority with them, and they therefore accepted it as settled that the house had supreme au- thOrity over the bill without reference to what the senate might do today or here after.
 This conclusion was of the utmost i'm portancc in bearing on the action of the caucus today. It assured them in tho first place that thcro was no need of prccipitate action toward accepting the senate bill bcfOrc Mir Hills resolution had passed. This resolution could b taken up in the