The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-08-16
MONDAY. AUG, 10.

MONDAY. AUG. b.
In the House. the tariff bill as reported from
conference was passed by vote of 1872 to los.
The House accepted the Senate bill in toto 1t
was Senate bill or no bill at ali. In the caucus
Mr.. Crisp offered resolution that the House
recede from disagreement the Senate amend
ments to the BILL also, that the House should
Immediately adopt measures placing coal, iron,
sugar, and barbedwire fencing on the free list.
Speaker Crisp's motion was adopted by a
rising vote, which was stated to be 100 to 81.
Those who responded to the negative were the
four Louisiana members-Messrs. Price, Boat
ner, Meyer, and Davey-Johnson tOhio); Nc
kaig, Talbot Rusk, and Rayner (Md.); Dock
cry and Tarsney MOI; Cochran, Tracey
Covert. Dnnphy, Straus, and Warner IN. \. J a;
Mallory fla, and Griffin and German (Mich)
The portion of the motion relating to the sepa-
rate bills was adopted without division, and
the caucus adjourned.
On the floor of the House, Mr.. Catchings pre-
seRted the following:
Resolved q J That it shall be in order after the
passage of the order, 70 move that the action of
the House, requesting a further conference on the
tariff BILL be rescinded; that the conferees be dis
charged from further duty in connection therewith
and that the House agree TO the Senate amend
nents in bulk; which motion shall be debated two
hours when the vote its adoption and the
motion shall be indivisible.
General leave to print on the subject is given for
10 days.
(2) That 1t shall be in order after the adoption
of the order. to present in the House and consider
without reference to any committee bills for plae
ing sugar. coal. iron and barbed wire upon the
free list. Thirty minutes shall he given To the dis
cUssion of each bill. and then the vote taken.
Mr.. Reed made little speech, the gst of
which was to the effect that parliamentary
the bill was not before the House, and SO could
not be acted upon. He said
The bill must be in the hands of the Senate al
though it may he in the custody of the confereeS
Nevertheless the Senate is proposing action upon
1t, and the House to-day Is proposing action upon
1t. the House having repented of its bill and the
Senate having repented of its bill also, and there
being at this moment asserting possible between
the two bodies because each one of them is very
properly ashamed of its offspring and dis
gus;ed with the offspring OF the other. Laughter
on the Republican side Now it is proposed that
one body the body which has not the papers, shall
proceed to take action and actually climb over
every legal obstacle in order to get ut the nnuseous
meal which has been set before them, the nature
of which they themselves have described. Upon
my word, ! never heard of such spectacle in par
liamentary history or any other
The House, Mr.. Crisp sad had the right to
change rules based the manual as we'll as
any other rule, and the case cited by Mr.. Reed
from the 38th Congress was not in point. As
to the legality of the proceeding, the Speaker
said he had found a precedent i'll the proceed
ings of the AID Congress which was on all tours
with the action proposed.
The object of all the CONF rences, said Speaker
Crisp. was to get the minds of the two Houses
together; and while conference is still in ex-
istence it has been held that one House may
reeede from its disagreement to the amend
ments of the other House and permit the bill
to become a law
The period of debate expired (the previous
question having been adopted without divis-
ion). A vote was taken, resnlting-yeas 1SS,
nays 3. The Republicans did not vote, and the
three negative votes we're cast by Democrats.
The yeas and nays were then ordered.
The vote resulted-ycas 176. nays 81, with II
P0puists present and not voting. Democratic
cheers greeted this announcement, and then
Mr.. Wilson offered a motion providing that the
order heretofore adopted asking for further
conference with the Senate on the tariff bill be
rescnded; that the conferees appointed under
that order be discharged and that the House
recede from its disagreements to the Senate
amendments to the tariff BILL
Debate followed.
The vote was then taken on the report Of the
Committee on Rules to concur in the Senate
amendments the tariff bill, and it was
agreed to-yeas 1Sl, nays 105; present and not
voting or paired, (Mr. Black. OF IIlinois.)
motion to reconsider the vote and to lay
that motion on the table was made by Mr.. Will
son, and agreed to- thus making the action of
the House on concurring in the Senate amend
ments final.
As soon as the Senate bill was ont of the
way, Mr. Wilson brought forward tho pop
gun bills and they were passed as follows:
Placing coal on the free list-yeas I60 NAYS
I0a
Placing iron ore On the free list-yeas 1913,
nays 102.
Placing barbed wire on the free list-yeas
1877 nays 81.
Placing all sugars on the free liss-yeas 276.
nays IL.