The morning call., 1894-07-30
WILL NOT YIELD.
There Can Be No Tariff
Agreement.
BOTH SIDES ARE STUBBORN.
House Conferrees to Refuse All
Senate Demands.
SUGAR is A sTUMBLING-BLOCK.
AS Concessions Will Not Be Made
There Is Every Prospect of
Deadlock.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-There has been
no meeting of the Democratic conferrees
on the tariff bill since the adjournment
Saturday. and the Democratic managers
on the part of the Senate are as yet unin-
formed as to what will be the purpose of
the reply which the Democratic managers
in behalf of the House will make in
response to the Senale's position that the
conference must accept the Senate bill
Having at the Saturday meeting made
plain to the House members of the confer
enee why this demand on their part had
to be made aud why il should be accepted,
the Senators have. since the adjourn ment
on Friday. given very little attention to
tariff affairs, and say, when spoken to,
that there is nothing for them 10 do until
the House members make known their ac-
ceptance or rejection of the proposition.
II it be accepted they think the report can
be made after a brief conference; if re-
jected, they say they can see no reason for
the long parley, as under the circumstances
they cannot abide by their demands without
endangering the passage of the bill in the
Senate.
The Senate cOnferrees have said to those
of the House that to strike out the differ
ential on sugar probably means the loss of
eight votes in the Senate. and also that it
is equally important that coal and iron ore
should remain in the bill as arranged in
the Senate. 1t does not appear that any
difficulty has arisen over coal and iron ore
in the present conference and the House
members have signifed a willingness to
leave them as agreed upon in the Senate
If the sugar schedule can be changed so as
to eliminate the special duty of 1s cent on
refined sugars.
This is the only question of real conten-
ton, and the Senators are apparently de-
termined to stand firm for the retention of
the differential Furthermore, they DO not
appear to be holding out for the Senate
schedule purely on the ground of eXpedi-
ency, but they also contend for the justice
of the proposition to give protection to the
refners When Chairman Wilson of the
House managers advanced the proposition
on Saturday that the ad valorem rate of 40
per cent would, on account of the differ
enee in the market price of raw and re-
fined sugars, give the refners an advant-
age of about q cent a pound. he was
replied to very sharply by the Senate con-
ferrees. some of whom displayed figures to
proposition was too absurd for argument.
They also went over the argument as to
the cost of manufacturing sugar in this
and other countries. the House members
cOntending it is worth taking into account
and the Senators attempting to demon
stEate the absurdity of this position.
1t looks very much like deadlock un-
less the House conferrees yield, as there is
E Al
TO do so. The conferrees talk frankly about
the situation and plant themselves firmly
upon the positlon that the sentiment in
the Senate is such that it must be the
Senate bill or Bo bill.
The full conference of the members of
the two houses will be had at o'clock to-
morrow. Previous to that time the Demo-
cratic managers of the two houses will meet
informally, when it is presumed the Senate
conferrees Will be Informed of the deci-
sion of their House colleagues of the con-
ference Oh Saturday. The decision will
be fat refusal on the part Of the House
conferrees to yield to the Senate demand
in whole or in part. The determination to
give this negative response has been agreed
on definitely by the House conferrees.
Il had been expected the intense feeling
of the last week would clear the atm0s-
phere and lead to some common ground of
agreement. bu; when the House confer
Tees were met by demand to yield in toto
on sugar and iron they assumed an equally
aggressive and determined stand. At their
meeting each of the four House members
was asked to state If his views had
changed in any way since the former con-
ference. It developed that not one of the
four had modified his views in the slight
est. They were, therefore. unit in de-
clining to accede to the demand of the four
Senate confenees ana the solid front of
the opposition will be made known to the
Senators in the morning.