St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-07
DEMOCRATS WILL CAUCUS.
Opponents Of the administration
Backing the Move.

Opponents Of the administration
Backing the Move.
WASHINGTON, AUg.6.-A house DEM
ocratic caucus ON the tariff is likely to
be held at o'clock tomorrow. The pc
titiou for call was circulated late to-
day as result of reports that the con-
ferees were making little progress.
Representative Bynum, of the ways
and means committee, and other prom
inent members circulated the petition
and secured many Signatures.
Within fifteen minutes from the time
the house caucus petition was cir
culated today fifty members had
signed. and the caucus became a GER
tainty. Members who had not wanted
to sign last week were now anxious to
do so. The petition requests Chairman
Holman to call the caucus for O'Clock,
ITO consider what action, if any, should
be taken in order to secure the early
passage of the tariff BILL" The petit
ton is not the one formerly circulated
by Representative Springer, although
the latter is interested in the new move.
The call was in response to a petition
signed by tifty-three members of the
house. among whom were Represent
atives Springer, Bynum, Black. of Illi-
nois; Hooker, Geary. Deforest, Enloe,
Bruckner, Washington, English, Bailey,
Patterson, Sperry, Allen, McNagney,
Martin, Mcguire and Cathert. The
petition had been circulated by Mr..
Bynum. of the ways and means COM
mittee, and the success of the move was
secured within half an hour from the
time the petition was started.
Intense feeling was developed as soon
as the caucus move began. Members
gathered in the lobbies and talked
eXcltedly for and against the caucus.
representatives Strauss. Warner and
others friendly to the administration
denounced it as
'Fire in the Rear.s,
Neither Speaker Crisp nor Chairman
Wilson had been consulted as TO the
caucus, and 1t was recognized as directly
in opposition to their wishes. Repre-
sentative Cultivate, all associate of
Speaker Crisp on the committee OH
rules, said:
the caucus is not indorsed by the
committee on rules or by the confereeS.
1t is evidently against the house con-
feTeeS. Members of the rules committee
will probably enter the caucus, but
expect the conferees will remain away
III view Ol tle Iacl LIiaI adverse dcItOu
by the caucus would be equivalent to a
vote of want of confidence
Representative Strauss. close friend
of Mr.. Wilson. expressed the opinion
that the caucus would prove boomer
ang. He believed Mr.. Wilson and the
other conferees and their friends would
attend the caucus and undertake to
| carry 1t. With such men as Speaker
| Crisp. Chairman Wilson, Bourke Cock
ran and others urging loyalty to the
house eonferees, Mr.. Strauss did not
! think antagonistic resolutions would
pass. He said also that he expected the
| caucus would bring out some startling
| conference secrets which would Insure
the conferees support from the house.
Messrs. Springer and Bynum make nc
concealment of the fact that the caucus
is for the purpose of ending the contest
by accepting the senate bill. In this
connection they quote a statement made
to them by Senator Mills to the effect
| that further house resistance meant the
killing of all tariff legislation.