The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-18
LOOKS BLUE FOR TARIFF.
General Disagreement viii Doubt
less Be Reported.


Washington July 1.-THE first formal
conference on the tariff bill, with all the
Senate and House members, both Demo-
crat and Republican. present. was held
today and continued only about an hour.
An adjournment was then taken until
o'clock tomorrow.
The proceedings of the full conference
consisted in an effort on the part of the
Democrats to enlighten their Republican
colleagues upon the elements of disa-
greement between the members of the two
houses without revealing the methods by
which they have sought to get together
or the details of the proceedings of the
Democratic conferences. 1t had been eX-
pected that the Republican conferees
would at the outset indulge in some criti-
cism on having been kept out of the con-
ference during it's initial stage, but the
Republicans had little to say beyond for
nal greetings, and waited until Senator
voorhees,, as head of the Democratic CON
ferees, made somewhat formal and full
statement of the situation. He said no
dlseourtesy to the Republicans had been
terence meetings, but had been confined
to an effort to bring about some
settled d pSlfiey among the Demo
added he was frank to confess the
efforts toward agreement had not proved
successful. The features of disagreement
were then gone into with considerable
ciates. The result is coal, sugar, wool and
cotton schedules had been the bone of
contention. but he did not give particulars
in any case except that of sugar, with ref
erence to which it was stated the House
members had indicated a willingness to
grant some duty on that article. but had
fined sugar
On the other articles which had been
the basis or disagreement, Senator Voor-
bees and the Democratic members of the
conference hnr oil rxyith
saying the Democratic conference of the
two houses had contended each side for
its own bill. This had been especially
true in the metal and wooden schedules,
the Senate amendments to which had
been strongly objected to by the Demo-
cratic House conferees. They said among
ule the House. members had held out for
iron ore and for the House rates on lead
ore containing silver; also cutlery and
steel rails rails. They had also demanded
free coal. In the general discussion, the
Republican conferees gathered that sugar,
iron ore. coal, the wooden schedule, cotton
schedule and silver-lead bearing ores were
the chief questions of disagreement.
The question finally arose as to what
would be done now that the full confer
Senator Aldrich that the bill should be
taken up item by item, and be considered
by. Republicans and Democrats, but the
point was raised that this appeared to be
Democrats had just disclosed that there
was no prospect of agreement ON the main
question.
There was no further proposition sub
mitted and no programme outlined, and
the conference adjourned until o'clock
tomorrow, the Democratic conferees agree
ing to meet prior to that hour to further
consider the course to be pursued.
AS a result of the days meeting the
Republican conferees concluded a general
disagreement would be reported to both
houses within few days. There was no
distinct statement or proposition to this
clusion to be drawn from what occurred.