Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-11
TARIFF CRISIS REACHED
Hill Throws a Bomb Among the
 Conferees.
THE SENATE BILL OR NONE NOW.

If the Resolution Ordering a Report I. Carried Today. There Is a Prospect That Attempts at TarIfr Legislation wm End. No Sugar Bounty Means Defeat ofths BIII.
 WASHINGTON. Aug. Ii.-A crisis in the tariff affairs has been reached both in the open senate and in the secret councils of the Democratic tariff conference.
 When the conference closed last night, it was with the understanding that tho meetings would be suspended for the pres ent. No time was set for reassembling the conference today or hereafter, and it was felt that no further sessions might bc necessary in case the senate acted favora- bly today on Senator Hills resolution di- recting the senate conferecs to report the situation of affairs
 What was of most importance was tho feeling expressed by the house cOnfcrees at the close of the conference that in case the Hill resolution passed-and they believed it would-the conference would practical ly be relieved of its work, and 1t would re- main only for the house to accept the sen ate bill as a lesser evil, as they believe, than the Mckinley law.
 
 day of intense excitement among the tar iff leaders.
 The day opened with the senate propo- sition for free sugar still pending before the conference Chairman Wilson and his house associates were satisfied that the tender of free sugar was not made in good faith, and they had therefore requested the senate conferees to furnish poll of the senate showing that if the proposition was l. .N I.n %ko 1 ate and the bill passed
 | APolI Showed Defeat. The poll was considered as soon as the confcrees convened It disclosed that in the event of acceptance of the free sugar amendment the bill as a whole would be voted against by 3S Republicans and by Senators Kyle, Allen and Pcffer, Popu- | lists and Gallery and Blanchard. Demo crats, n total of 43 votes, sufficient to | defeat tho bill. This poll was made on | the best judgment of the senate cOnferccs. The house men accepted 1t as showing conclusivcly that the tender of the freC | sugar amendment, while made in good faith by the senate cOnferees, was n means adopted by :he conservative senators fOI the purpose of defeating tariff Legislation and leaving the Mckinley law in force, | They discussed the situation from this | standpoint, tho arguments not lacking very pointed and personal criticism of the motives of those who had offered free sug ar and free coal as well, knowing. as they | asserted, that they would defeat the bill. The discussion brought out for the iirst l time the statement that the defensive al liancc between certain senators proceeded farther than mutual cooperation and un derstanding and was now reducd tO a sign l ed agreement
 | While members of the conference diC not claim to have seen the agreement, they stated as q fact that Senators Kyle, Allen PefTer, Blanchard and CafTery had rcduceI | their understanding to black and white and had signed 1t to the effect that theI l would vote against any bill which diS not contain n bounty clause for sugar.
 As free sugar would eliminate the boun ty provision. tho signed agreement Wa regarded as showing that the five scna tors, combined with the Republicans wotfld defeat the bill.
 IL was while animated comments wen being made in tho foregoing condition that word reached the conference of Sena tor Hills coup d 'etat in the open senate The conference hastily adjourned, tn senators going on the floor to take part II the debate. Mir. Wilson was not dispOse' to attach much weight to Senator Hill | move at the outset and said that 1t woulI
 
 the bill was confercnce. This feeling wa shared to n largo extent in the day b! house leaders, who characterized 1t as on of the bluffs which had been made O late to dcmuralizc the house conferees an, force them tO yield
 The Conference DfsinteErated.
 Later in the day. however. this feelini gave way to one of profound concern owe the situation and the future of the bill.
 At o'clock the conference, or n rem nant of it. again assembled, with the Hil resolution and the exciting debate thereon as the main topic among them All 0 the house men were present, but Senate Jones was tho only senate cOnferee in at tendance for any length of time. and was said that Senator Vest felt indiSpoSe' to confer pending the Hill resolution.
 Little or no attempt was made to talk up items or schedules, the talk being ol the sensational general phases just devel oped. and no progress was made up to o'clock, when the conference separates without fixing n time for assembling
 The house conferces no longer disguise tho deep concern they felt over the futur os the bill. They had made a rough esti mate of the vote on the Hill resolution and they felt 1t would pass today. Unde these circumstances they said nothing | could be done until the resolution was dis | posed of. If, through some hopeful turn 1t was defeated, they said, 1t would lcay the conference to proceed, and the contes would be carried on for the Wilson bill If, however, 1t was passed, it would praC tically discontinue the conference.
 In that event the house men stated witt satisfaction that they would still be abl to avert the complete defeat of all tarif legislation by having the house agree t the senate bill They spoke of this a | showing that while the situation was bal it did not necessarily mean the defeat O all tariff legislation.
 !. The senate cOnferees also regard the sit ! uation as very serious, and they separate from their house colleagues in no amiabl frame of mind
 Senators In a Hnn. ; It would appear that Senator Caffer had been called into the conference dul ing the afternoon by the house members and that the conferees on the part of tn senate accepted this act on the part of tn | house conferccs and others which they al not specify us a reflection upon the scnat conferecs. It was impossible to obtain tn consent of any senate member of the COT ference to the use of his name. but one C them who has bccn very prominent in tn conference declared In a tone of bitter sal casm that the house conferees had foun it necessary to make their own poll of tn senate, and upon the result of this DO
 had declared that the senate proposition { put sugar on tho free list had been mad for tho sole purpose of killing the bill. "Furthermore. " said he. they have d