Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-05-18
HOPE TODEFEAT IT
Republican Senators Not Certain
That the Tariff Bill Will
Go Through.
A CAUCUS OF MEMBERS HELD.
Radical Opponents Think the
Measure Gould Be Debated
at Length.


can members of the senate were in eau
Gus at Senator Sherman's house from 8
o'clock until 1850. The caucus partook
more of the nature of an informal con-
ference than business meeting, and
while it was called with the purpose of
arriving at conclusion as to the
method to be pursued by the Republi-
can party in the senate, it closed with
out eliciting anything in the way of a
party declaration. There was no vote
on any proposition whatever, and the
proceedings consisted of large number
of speeches. There were about rs Of the
81 Repu blican senators present., and
every one there
Had something to Say
in the course Of the evening. There was
great divergence in views. OF course
the accounts of the evening agree that
while there were probably 25 speeches,
all brief, no two Of them were
on the same lines or advised the same
manner of proceeding. There was no
agreement except upon the one point
that the Lii should IL beaten if posi-
BILE. On general lines the greatest di-
vergence OF opinion was on the ability
of the Republicans
To Beat the Bill at All,
and while there WIS no formal division
which would permit Of accounting, the
caucus appeared to he about evenly d.
vlded in the sentiment on this question.
A statement that Eastern senators were
tavora lie to a continuation Of the oppo-
sition on the lines which are now being
observed and that Western senators
We're opposed to any effort to secure de-
lay for delays sake, would lie in gen.
erai way correct, hut there were excep-
tons on both sides. Senators Aldrich,
Chandler, Frye and others contended
that the bill could be defeated and said
that all that Was necess ry to demon
strate the correctness OF this assertion
was to give the Demo- rats time
To Widen tho breach
which they asserted now exists. The
opposition element contended that there
Was no possible assurance Of any Dem.
ocratlc support in opposition to the bill,
anu that the only means Of testing the
truth Of the rumors Of Democratic dis
satisfaction was to let the voting 20 on.
There was much talk as to the general
dement's and moons istencies OF the bill,
IN some Of the silver senators did not
tall to call attention to the lack of sym
pathy which had been displayed by the
Repu blican senators when the silver re-
peal bill was before the senate last fall,
and to intimate that they had no desire
at this time
To Heap Goals of Fire
on the heads of that element in the
party at this time by doing kindness in
return for what they termed inconsid-
GRAFTON. They agreed in the main with
their Repu blican colleagues as to the
nndesirability of passing the bill, but
declared they would not filibuster,
especially in view of the strong proba-
bility of the passage of the bill despite
any opposition that might be made to it.
The more radical opponents of the
bill replied that they had no desire to or
intention to filibuster, but asserted that
the bill was one which could be opposed
by legitimate methods for a long time.
Some of the senators expressed the
opinion at the close of the conference
that another meeting of the party in
the senate will be held at an early day.