Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-11
BAD FEELING
Between the House and Senate
Tariff Bill Conferees.
All Sorts Of Schemes Ahoat for and
Against the Bill.
Vest Ready 10 Agree TO Anything-HiIl Wants
+. Report at Once.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 Tomorrow is
set for the battle royal in the protracted
struggle over the tariff. Tonight there has
been numerous conferences on the part of
both the friends and enemies of the bill, ,and
the air is full of rumors of plots and coun-
terplots that have for their purpose the
safety or destruction of the tariff measure. :.
One of these conferences is said to have
been held at the White House, another on
the part of those interested in the preserya-
ton of the House bill was held at the Airing
ton hotel, at which Chairman Wilson and
Isidor Strauss, a close friend of the Presi-
dent, were present. In the upper room of
the hotel smother conference was held by
certain Republican senators aided by ex-
Speaker Reed.
prominent senator tonight, repeated
story to the effect that there was a plot in
process Of incubation that meant the laying
of violent hands or the tariff bill and its
presentation to the House, for the purpose
of having that body accept the Senate
amendments and pass the bill. 1t is said
that the House conferees have become pcs
sessed of information that leaves them no
room to coubt that it is the intention of the
Senate to defeat any report that its con-
ferees may make, and then kill the tariff
bill. The House conferees, it is said, are
determined to defeat this alleged scheme
and have decided that they must take the
i'll back to the House and present it to that
body for action, regardless of parliamentary
standing or any precedents.
Senators informed of this alleged plot,
tonight, said that if the House attempted TO
pass the bill in this way, the Senate would
pass a resolution directing the presiding
officer to refrain from signing the enrolled
till, and thereby defeat the final official act
that would sent the bill to the President.
The vote, today, by which the Senate re-
fused to go into executive session and there
by shut out Mr.. Hill and his resolution, is
looked upon as very significant. The reso-
luton will come up, tomorrow, and the de-
bate promises to be very interesting. 1t is
predicted that the friends of the administra-
ton will fihbuster to prevent action on the
resolution, and it is predicted by both
Democratic and Republican senators that
Mr.. Hills resolution will prevail by good
majority, and if the final vote of the day
can be reached the bill will be killed.
When the Senate conferees left their as
sociates shortly before 6 o'clock, there was
every evidence of bad feeling. The House
conferees, to-day, aroused the indignation
of their Senatorial associates by sending
for Messrs. Caffery and Blanchard, the
louisiana senators, and having q conference
with them. Mr.. Caffery declined to discuss
the matter. The House conferees set on
foot some movement looking to the paciti-
cation of the Louisiana senator's and their
Populist colleagues, Messrs. Kyle and
Allen.
Prominent House conferees stated after
the conference adjourned, this afternoon.
that the House people knew of the exis-
tence of an agreement in white and black
signed by Senators Caffery, Blanchard,
Kyle and Allen, in which tLey pledged
themselves to vote for no bill that did not
contain provision for bounty on sugar
grown in 1894. This is denied by the Sen
ate conferees.
As a result of the indignation of the
Senate conferees, when an adjournment
was taken there was no arrangement that
the Senate conferees should meet with the
House men tomorrow.
1t is understood that at the meeting of
the conferees, this morning, Mr.. Vest told
the House people to write out any sort of a
report they wanted and he would sign it.
lie was tired of the delay.
The proposition TO give the Louisiana
senators bounty was discussed this after
noon. Mr.. Mills is quoted as saying that
he is in favor of doing so. Other senators
have put themselves on record as favoring
anything that would unite the party.
Senator Hill, tonight, gave out state
ment in which he says his object in offering
bo rnco1n,,,p fp1av m pynp1itp the
disposition of the tariff measure. Every
days delay is injurious to the
bu.i1ess interests of the country, and
the bill should be disposed of
one way or the other. The conferees ought
to know each others minds by this time, and
If they cannot agree, the fact of such dis
agreement should be reported to the two
houses, when, if no understanding can be
reached upon the bill, Congress should
promptly adjourn and give the country a