The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-09
TO-DAY WILL COME THE END
WILL BE 4 BREAK OR AN AGREE-
 MEyT OF THE CONFERENCE.
No Reason Why the Senate Should Not Have tho Report Eariy-Decided That Iron Ore Shall be Made Free and Duty Fixed on Wool-sugAr Is Settled.

Have tho llcpOrt Ehriy-Deciucu hhht
 Iron Ore Shall be Made Free and Duty
 Fixed on Wooi-sugar Is Settled.
 Washington. Aug. S.-When the tariff conference adjourned few minutes be- fore o'clock tonight 1t was with the understanding that at the session to- morrow morning all the details should be arranged and that the republicans should be informed of what their dem ocratic colleagues had done. One of the most prominent managers on the part of the senate made the emphatic state ment that tomorrow would see the end of the conference and by night there would be either an agreement or break of the conference. But one thing, he said, could postpone the result long CT. Should the house conferees con- sent to an agreement, and should the arrangement of the details consume so much time as to run the work over into the next day that would be permitted, but otherwise the close of to-morrowwill witness the end of the labors of the con- ferees on the tariff bill. So little is yet to be accomplished, however. that there is every likelihood that the republicans can be called in at an early hour, and there would be no surprise if the senate should have the report of the conferees nt a reasonably early hour in the af- ternoon.
 The hitch that still hemains for set clement is on iron ore and coal. So far as the principle Is concerned, those items seem to be disposed of finally; one of them is to be free and the other is dutiable. These matters were the subject of three distinct changes to- day. At o'clock in the afternoon 1t was decided iron ore should be made free absolutely and that coal should 1e- tain the rate of 40 cents ton fixed by the senate for a period of five years, at the end of which time it was to be free.
 Subsequently proposition was made to fix a sliding scale that would re- duce the duty spcific percentage each year. This was antagoniZed, but the house men, anxious to gain as much in the way of concession as possible per sisted, and the result was that this matter was left until tomorrow morn ing for final decision.
 At the conclusion of to-day's confer ence all the conferees appeared to be in a very happy frame of mind, and there seemed to be very good reason for their statements that nagreement would soon be reached. One of the senate's conferees said that if there was an agreement the sugar schedulew would re- main as 1t was published Friday last: to wit, 40 per cent. on raw sugar; 40 per cent. on the raw sugar in the re- fined, and 1-5 of a cent differential on refined sugar.
 The sugar schedule is looked upon by the conferees as settled.
 Lead ore, about which there has been a great deal of quiet talk, is said to be in the same way. An effort was made in some quarters to have the house rate which greatly reduced the duties restored, but this was not done. The senate rate on tobacco will probably stand, and whisky be put back to the one dollar a gallon provided for in the house bill with the proviso, however, that the bonded period may be ex- tended from five to eight years by the payment after the end of five vars of an additional tax of five cents per gallon per year.
 It is also understood that the provi- sions on woolen and cotton goods and the metal schedule have been cut into but little compared with the cuts upon which the house insisted. There are &l4% 4I4& conferees did not finally settle coal and iron tonight was that the senate mem- bers wanted opportunity of consulting with their colleagues to see how the proposition would be received. The latest proposition is to put iron ore on the free list and reduce the duty on coal five cents per annum until it reaches the free list. A careful can- vass of the senate showed the snate conferees that they could not touch coal without imperilling the whole bill, while iron might be tempered with without having that disastrous ef- feet.
 A prominent member of the conserva- tives was called upon by one of the conferees this evening for advice as to how he and his colleagues should act in this matter and was told that the day for giving advice had passed. The conferees might now, this senator said, bring in any kind of a report they pleased and the senate would vote up- on it. At one stage of to-day's proceed ings the senate conferees told the house conferees they could have either coal or iron free and the house prompt ly accepted coal Then began the can- vass of the senate showed the senate would be the result of this com promise. It was seen at once that such a scheme doomed the bill to failure and made such men as Faulkner. Pugh. Camden and German indignant. The senate conferees went back and told their associates that they could not grant the concession. The house men finally accepted free iron ore, but sub- sequently insisted that they should have that which was originally given them. This was the condition of affairs when the conference adjourned for the night,
 That report will be made to-mor- row is almost 8 certainty. During the afternoon members of the senate and the republican leaders were conference, but they have succeeded in keeping strictly secret all that they did.
 When asked tonight what the policy