Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-13
AFTER A LIVELY DEBATE,
R1sIng Speeches By Chairman VII
sou and Speaker Crisp.
As 10 SUGAR. IROS AND COAL.
a Proposition 10 Introduce separate
htiis Placing Them 0n the
Free List

WAsiIiNuToS, Aug. lS.-Ono hour
before the time 20. for caucus, Speaker
Crisp was Joined In his private Office
by Chairman Wilson and Represents.
ives Turner, Mcmillan ami Mont
geometry, this full membership Of the
House Democratic conference COM
mi,tec aud Representative Breokon-
ridge Of Arkansas, advisory member,
Tor final consultation. The current Of
feeling among the members Oi tue
House seemed 10 be setting strongly
IN favor OF accepting the Senate bill
without delay.
AllO O'Clock Crlsp and the conierees
fled cut of the speakers Office ani
took seats In the body. At that time
1853 Democrats were on the door.
Chairman Wilson took the door i'm.
mediately sitter roll call. The mem.
iufs crowded AROUND him lihiening
Intensely 10 every word. Wilson be-
gan with recital OF the difficulties
encountered. lie said each step had
been pursued with an ardent desire ~
House TO resist what was regarded ~
unreasonable demands VI the Senate.
lie reviewed the differences la the
conference on the disputed items. lie
took up each proposition on sugar aud
spoke OF tho vast profit. to the sugar
trust, which would result from many
OF them. lilo did not indulge In the
sharp CRITICS "a that was expected on
the motives OF the Senate coniefees.
Wilson spoke Of the flght made by
the House cOnierces, for sloniflG duty
on sugar on the ground that under the
ad val0fem system itwould be lmpossi.
bic to tell, on account OF tbs invoice
methods, the exact advantage which
would accrue TO the sugar trust. lie
made the remarkable statement that
be had been credibly Informed aud be-.
lieyed that this sugar trust, anticl patiug
tbs enactment OF this sugar schedule,
had purchased Sll9,OO0,00O worth OF
raw sugar. II this was true, he saiU,
the profits aooruing 10 the trust from
this Investment, on account Of the
Senate schedule, would he Mt leaat
StO,O0O,OOO. zine great battle" said
Wilson, warming up, "ls between the
American people aud the sugar trust.
40 Ia q battle In which she trust has
taken the people by the throat, ard II
will never unt until We throw OIL the
grip" There was enthusiastic Rp-
plause nt this,
He proceeded TO state that the House
coniertes hal been willing TO conoede
almost everything except these vital
items Ot sugar, iron aud coal. The
Senate cOnieretH had also seemed will.
log 10 cUnoede much, but were appar.
emily dominated by the knowledge
thut n tnoy conceded what thu repre-
seniatives demanded, tue I'LL could not
puss Aud an agreement br useless.
Wilson closed al ll:O5 O'Clock, having
taken just an hour.
Montgomery, McMillen anu Turner
oorfobofated his statements.
While Wilson was speaking word
was passed around that tue con erence
Ia tho speakers room had resulted In "A
decisive action. and that Speaker Crisp
himself would move that the House
tecode anu accept the Senate bill.
Crisp followed. He spoke with much
spirit and round after round OF al
plause greeted his remarks. Hespoke
" the critical condition aud apparent
need 10 accept the Senate bill, and then
II need be Introduce separate bills for
Tree sugar, iron aud coal. He said II
was the SENATE bill or nothing"
AZ long ne there was desperate
cualce o securing the concessions the
House utmanded, he was In favor Of
staining cut, but he was satisfied the
limo had come when further iuslstenCe
by the House was useless. RE offered
resolution inatruGtiny the House CON
lcrtes TO reuede from the uisag agreement
nud the ways anu means COMMITTEES 10
bring IN separate Tree sugar, iron anu
coat bills.
burst OF applause greeted the read
INK Of the resolution, but half a dozen
lralo Democrats were on their feet, de-
muudlng recognition, prominent among
Them being bourks Cochran, OF New
York.
owing to tue lstensss OF the hour, "a
rule was adopted limiting iuftnet
tpteches 20 i've minutes. Then Cock.
!dn delivered vigorous aud eloquent
speech againtt sufrendering to the
benatv.
"Beltor no legislation than the Senate
lill," he declared.
Division on the Crisp resolution was
tumlnded, 40 ns 10 have "a separate
vote on the first part, to reCede from
lht Engagement ~ the Senate amend.
mtnis, and the provision for separate
hliIs. The fret part was adopted by "A
rising vote, $50 - q, ana the second
lur' without a division. The oauscus
tlru adjourned,
Among those VINO voted against the
RESOLUTION we're tue Louisiana mem.
Deui Warner, Strauss, Tracey,
COCHRAN, Covert Dunphy, New YuTE;
Cooper Indiang; johnson, Ohio; Kill
gore, lexas; fArsney, Missouri.
a member Of thb House Just from
caucus sayr, at tbs conferences between
lhe Speaker and tho conterees touay
was ugreed tO oder a resolution In
'tuollnR the ways and means oOmmit-
'ee ~ report separate bills, putting