The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-19
OUR STATESMEN
CANNOT AGREE
Amended Tariff Bill Is Not Accepted by the
Lower Branch.
The PRESIDENT is Interested
He Is Kept Informed of the Confer
ence Proceedings by One of the
Members of the Committee-Ap-
preparation Bills Considered-MiII-
ions for the Indian and Russian
ThistIe-No Medals for the Mary.
land and Pennsylvania Defenders.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 18.
001ITHIN very few minutes after
WAUj the conferrees on the tariff bill
\VUVI met Mr.. Voorhees, announced
" u that it was apparent that the
two houses were unable to agree and
it had been decided to report a general
disagreement.
Mr. Wilson stated after the confer
ence that he would make the report to
the house tomorrow morning. During
the informal discussion in the commit.
tee room he was asked by Senator
Jones how long the house would prob
ably keep the bill, whereupon Mr.. Viii.
son replied that he thought the
conferees would be instructed to
insist upon the house bill, and
the conferees would be sent back
within two hours. The same
question was then put tn Senator Jones
and he said that the action OF the SEN
ate would depend on the action of the
house. If the house insisted upon h9ap-
ing Goals OF fire upon the heads of the
senate confsrees and assailing them it
would be very likely that the senate,
when that bill came back, would in
ike manner debate the bill.
Although the report shows a general
disagreement on all items. this is not
technically correct, for the reason that
agreements have been reached on many
items but 1t was deemed best not to
report them until conclusion had
been reached on the whole bill.
Mr.. Wilson says the report OF the
conference will be verbal, and will
simply state that the conference com
mittee of the two bouses has failed to
reach an agreement.
HOUSE CONFEREES ARE FIRM.
The house conferees, as was repeat.
edly stated, held out strictly for the
house bill, and in great number Of
cases the senate conferees showed q
willingness to agree. The determine.
tion to maintain this position by the
house conference is still unshaken, and
it has the heartily approval not only of
many leading Democrats in the house
but also of Speaker Crisp and President
Cleveland.
The fact was not known until today
that Mr.. Montgomery, of Kentucky,
one of the house conferees was in
almost nightly consultation with the
president. The latter has manifested
an eager desire to acquaint himself
with the successive steps taken by the
conferees and the spirit of the discus
sions in the committee room. This in.
formation was fully impaired to him by
Mr.. Montgomery, who enjoys the full
confidence of Mr.. Cleveland and Speak
er Crisp. The attitude assumed by Mr.
Montgomery in the conference fur
nishes strong denial of the recently
printed report that the president is
lukewarm in the cause of tariff reform.
1t may he stated as fact that none of
the house conferees were more insist
ent in favor of the house bill than he
and he is said to have repeatedly de.
clared in the conference that bill
much more radical than that which
passed the house would be more ac.
ceptable to him.
BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE,
Bills were passed authorizing the
construction OF bridge over the Mis-
souri, river at Lexington, No., and add.
ing the towns of Manchester, Vernon
and Rockwell to the customs district
of Hartford, Conn,
The agricultural appropriation bill
was sent TO conference, Messrs, Hatch,
of Missouri; Foreman, of Illinois, and
| Waugh. of Indiana, being the mana
gers on the part of the house Mr..
Hatch promised to take the sense OF
the house before agreeing to the senate
amendment appropriating 81 600 90,
for the determination Of Russian this
ties.
In the course of the afternoon, siy
bills reported from the committee OF
military affairs, were passed. Tn,
most important of these was the sen
ate bill regulating enlistments in thu
army. Bills authorizing the board O
managers of national soldiers homes
TO employ as surgeon at the homes
other persons than soldiers disabled il
the late war, and directing the secre.
tary Of war to prepare and presen
medals of honor to the state militi,
and volunteers who came to the de
fense OF Maryland and Pennsylvania
after the bnttle Of Gettysburg, wer,
discussed. but withdrawn in the face
of opposition.
NINE MILLIONS FOR INDIANS
The Indian appropriation bill occu.
pied the attention OF the senate today
II was taken up at o'clock and wai
considered until 6, when it went ovel
without final action until tomorrow
1t appropriates about nine and half mil
lion dollars-one and half millioni
more than the amount appropriated
for the fiscal year 1894 The bill gave
rise to very little dscussion-that lit
tie being on the subject OF education o
Indian children and for the dispropor
tionately large share Of the money
which has gone in recent years to tht
Catholic church.
While the bill was under discussion
Mr. Quay, of Pennsylvania. presented
n large number Of papers, signed b!
citiz ms of various counties in Penn
sylvania, and headed "a petition con
cerning appropriations for Indian edu-
cation at sectarian schools"
The paper protests "against the vic
latlon of the American principal o
separation of church and state" in
volved in the pending bill, He sal,
that the petitions came from eth
patriotic sons of America" and h
moved that the further consideration