The times., 1894-08-17
DEADLOCK BROKEN.
Senate Tariff Bill To BE tho
Law of the Land.
THE HOUSE DECIDES TO REoEDE,

| Separate Bills Passed Putting Coal. Iron
Ore, Sugar and Barbed Wire on the Free
| List Resolutions Adopted by the House
! Caucus aud the ction nThereunder-Con-
viciion That 1t Was the Senate Measure
or None Controls the Caucus aud Crisp
Offers the Recession Resolution.
! WASHINGTON, Aug. IA The following
! resolutions, offered by Speaker Crisp HIM
self, were adopted by the Democratic
| house caucus:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
caucus that the order heretofore made re-
| questing conference with the senate on
the disagreeng votes of the two houses on
| III. r. 4S4 be rescinded. That the conferrees
heretofore appointed on the part of the
house be discharged from further duty
in that behalf, and that the house recede
from its disagreement to the senate
amendments to said bill and agree to the
same.
Resolved, Further that the house shall
ut once proceed to the consideration of
separate bills placing the following arti-
cles on the free list viz: Sugar in all its
| forms, iron ore, coal and barbed wire.
''The committee on rules is requested
60 report an order providing for the
prompt consideration Of such motion and
bills"
Explaining the Nay Votes.
A division was taken only on the first
resolution and the vote was 130 to 26.
Among the nay votes were the Louisiana
members, Warner Of New York, Straus
of New York. Tracey of New York, Tars.
ney of Missouri, Cochran of New York,
Covert of New York, Dunphy of New
York, Cooper of Indiana, Johnson Of
Ohio, Kilgore of Texas. They had var-
GUS reasons for voting nay. Cochran
said it was too soon to give up hope of
agreement The Louisiana senators OBJ
jected because the proposed bill gave no
protection to sugar and robbed it of the
bounty. Tarsney objected to the bill for
the reasons given in the presidents letter.
The men who favored the resolution, such
as Wilson, Crisp and McMillin, said it
was the senate bill or no bill. McMillin
said the senate bill was great deal better
than the Mckinley bill.
Rule for Rapid Work Adopted.
And so the caucus adjourned and al
most Immediately reassembled as the ma
jority of the house and proceeded to put
through the programme decided on. There
was full house, and the galleries were
packed. The rules committee was busy
framing the rule that would carry through
the free COAL iron ore, sugar, and barbed
wire bills proposed, while other Demo-
cratic leaders were preparing the resolu-
tions that would record the house agree.
ment to the senate tariff bill. 1t took
some time to get these things in shape, for
it was not until 2:25 p. m. that Catchings,
of the committee on rules, was recognized,
and presented the report providing for the
passage of the tariff bill and also of the
other bills named in the caucus resolution.
1t was "rusher," giving little time for
debate, and after Reed had put in the Re.
publican protest it was adopted under the
previous question.
Moves Adoption of Senate Bill.
The special order having been adopted
Wilson moved the resolution discharging
the house conferrees, receding from the
house disagreement and agreeing to the
senate tariff bill so-called. Reed made the
point of order that the bill was not before
the house, but the bill had been Brought in
during the roll call and the speaker pointed
to it. Reed sat down dsconsolately and
Wilson took the floor. He spoke calmly,
but eloquently, the Democrats crowding
about him and listening intently to his
every word. He was loudly appauded by
his friends and was followed by Reed who
also raised the roof" Then McMillin
took the floor. his speech being defense of
the senate bill on the ground that it was
much better than the Mckinley bill.
McDIiIlin's Good Points of the Bill.
The good points noted by McMillin were:
Free wool, free lumber, free hemp, ETC.,
and the reductions in the general sched-
ules. The duties in the chemical sched-
ule of the senate bill about to be adopted,
he said, were reduced from 80 per cent.
to "a per cent; earth and earthenware
from 81 per cent. to 35 per cent. metals
and metal manufactures from 80 to 80 per
cent; wood and wood manufactures from
81 to 90; tobacco. III to 105; cotton, 55 to
AZ; flax, hemp and jute, 45 to Al; wool and
woolens, 0S to 4S; silk and silk manufac-
lures, SO to Nj; pulp and paper, % to 30;
sundries from 20 to "a; total reduction,
from SO per cent. 20 80 per cent. McMil-
lin eulogized especially the principle in
volved in the income tax provision, which
taxed not what people consumed, but
what they had.
FOUR FREs TRADE BILLS PASSED