The Portland daily press., 1894-01-06
UNDER THU PARTY whip.
Democrats Hold One Caucus and
Must Hold Another.
THE FOES OF THE INCOME TAX
GET A CONCESSION.

They VIII Have Two Days In Which to
Talk Against It-Crisp Made Two
Speeches-Democrats Urged to Attend
the House Sessions in Order to Rebuke
tho Brethren Who Are Absent-The
Sugar Schedule Under Fire.
Washington, January 5.-Unusual pre-
cautions were taken to preserve the
secrecy of the proceedings Of the caucus
OF Democratic members of the House on
the tariff bill tonight. Five minutes
after eight, Chairman Holman raped
the caucus to order. One hundred and
forty-seven mem bers answered to their
names, an unusually large attendance
ana greater than anticipated. One hun
dred and nine are majority of the
Democratic mem bers of the Hous, It
was determined to limit the speeches to
five minutes, and Speaker Crisp was
accorded the floor to open the proceed
lngs. He called it the duty of the mem
bers OF the Democratic party to stand
together in support of the tariff measure
reported by the committee on ways and
| means, and recalled the promises and
pledges ofsthe party to the public in re-
| gard to this matter. He said President
| Cleveland and the Democratic majority
| in Congress were elected for the purpose
! of carrying out the will of the people ex-
pressed at the polls in 1892, upon the
Chicago platform. If any man objects
to the provisions of the BILL" he said,
"let him state his objections on the floor
In open debate and then, if he cannot
support the bill, vote against it.n He
protested against the policy of tearing
| the measure to pieces in caucus and
closed by offering resolutions pledging
the majority to the support of the bilf
The Speaker was loudly applauded.
| Messrs. Sperry of Connecticut, Sickles
OF New York, Cochran of New York,
and Outhwaite of Ohio spoke The
latter urged the members to rally to the
supporter the committee ON ways and
means in the effort to meet the just ex-
| pectations of the people. At this point
it is said 1862 representatives were present.
leaving 81 Democrats to be accounted
| for.
| John Dewitt Warner of New York.
argued that the internal revenue feature
| should be presented to the House as a
| separate measure.
| Mr.. McAler of Pennsylvania, offered
the following: Resolved, that the
| committee on ways and means be re-
l
measures in a separate bill, such bill to
be brought before the Democratic caucus
| before it is discussed in committee OF
the whole or the House,
| Speaker Crisp again took the floor. He
| said he did not believe there would be
| any ground for complaint on the pal t Of
| Democrats at the course of the commit
| tee on ways and menas with respect to
1 the internal revenue features to be pro-
/ posed. He would accept an amendment
to his resolution introduced at the be-
| ginning of the caucus providing for ad-
ditional time in which an income tax
might be separately discussed. This
amendment was made to give two days
with night sessions.to this feature.
| Thereupon Mr.. McAler withdrew his
| motion and the Speakers resolutions
were adopted by acclamation. They are
! as follows:
Resolved, That it is TIE sense of this
| caucus that it is the duty of every Demo-
| cratic member of the House to vote for
the pending resolution providing for the
consideration of the tariff bill in order
that the House may have an opportuni-
ty to redeem the pledges of the party.
Resolved. further, That it is the duty
of every Democratic mem ber of the
House to attend it's daily sessions and
thereby express the opinion that those
m members who are absent owe It to the
party andsto those OF us who are here to
Immediately return in order that the
pressing public business may be attended
Co."
Mr.. Harter OF Ohio, offered the follow
| ing as a su bstitute for the provisions of
| the bill relating to sugar as reported by
the committee: THAT the bounties au-
thorized to be paid to producers of sugar
by section 23l of the Mckinley bill shall
cease upon the passage of this bill. All
sugars, raw and refined, all tank bot
| toms, all sugar DRAWINGS and sugar
| sweepings, syrups of cane juice, melada,
concentrated melada, concrete and con-
centrated molasses and molasses, one cent
shall hereafter increase the duties now
levied upon the productions or manu-
factures of the United States imported
| into it or into any of its possessions,
then and Immediately thereafter, the
above rate of one cent shall be increased
to two cents Ter pound upon all articles
named in this section which may there
after be imported into the United States
from such country and it's possessions;
provided, also, that an additional, inn
port dutyssor tax shall be levied and1sscoi-
| lectedsupon all sugars imported from
countries paying bounty upon sugars
exported equal in amount to said
bounty"
Mr.. Robertson of Louisiana, proposed
a duty Of tnree-quarters of cent a
standard and aove that grade of one
and fve-eightQs of a cent per pound.
Mr.. Pierce of Louisiana, arose to pro-
pose that the provisions of the Mills bill
| relating to sugar be substituted for
those of the Wilson bill, when at ten,
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