The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-26
HOUSE WILL HOLD ON
It Will Have It's Way if it
Takes All Winter.
ALI Of the Presidents Have
Been Gone Over.
LOOKING FOR VOTES
Representative Think it POpu-
Sag to Oppose the Senate.

Despite the high heroics Of the house. the
eloquent protest of Mr.. Wilson, the almost
pathetic appeal Of the president and the
fierce invectivcs of such men as John De
Witt Warner. the old heads persist in their
prophecy that tho senate viii finally pre-
vail on all tho disputed items OF the tariff
bill. They point out that the SO called
conservatives in the senate arc united as
one man, while of the radicals in the
house each section IS willing to give way
on something. AS usual in heated con
ditions OF feeling between the two houses,
all the prccedents have been gone over and
construed with the usual partisan preju-
dice, and the result shows that, while at
the beginning it was taken for granted
that the house alone had the right to
frame a tariff bill, the power, or rather
the practice, Of the senate in that respect
grew rapidly OF course nobody can draw
a line when it is once conceded that the
senate has power to amend, but in prac-
tice it is to be noted that the more nearly
the house was divided the more power did
the senate assume. The much abused tariff
Of 1928 only passed the house by lO7 TO
los, and SO the senate took great liberties.
The Polk Warner tariff of 1916 really got
through the house only by the influence
of the president, and In the senate the vote
was tie, and so Vice President Dallas
had the casting vote Since then the sen
ate has acted as if its powers were coequal
with those Of the house.
Looking Out For Votes.
Tho first statements by house leaders
after the disagreement was reported were
savagely firm We may as wen send for
our winter clothes' said Mr. Springer,
for we shall stay hero till March ( if the
senate does not yield good deal
4 can only repeat what have said
from the start, - said John De Witt War
ner, that this thing must DO fought to a
finish some time; that there never was and
probably never can be q better time for
the house to assert its constitutional rights
on bills for raising revenue, and that it is
our duty TO stay il through The opin-
ion of nearly all Democrats from west of
Ohio may be summed up in the words Of
Mr.. Cooper OF Indiana: i would much
rather sweat it through here till Decen-
Der comes again than to 60 homo and try
to explain to my constituents why /
didn't stick There is decidedly more en-
jOyment here for a western congressman
than there would be at home if the senate
bill wero accepted, and, in my opinion,
every man of US viii gain more votes by
staying At least score of western
Democrats sat down at once and wrote
open letters to their constituents to be
read in convention, and without an excep-
tiOn they announced their intention to stay
till the senate yielded. General Black
took q somewhat more conservative view,
saying: f. 1t is never safe to proPhesy what
the popular branch Of a legislative body
viii do. just now it looks as If Springer
were right, and we might well send for
our winter clothes, but there is a great
and increasing anxiety in the country TO
havc the matter settled, even if it be but
temporary settlement, and that is bound
to influence tho member as soon as petit
tiOns to that effect begin to come in
Many others put in a caveat like this:
Personally I should insist on the house
bill or nothing, but doubt if we can hold
our members up to it. I" So, as aforesaid,
in spite of tho present vigorous protests,
the old heads think they see signs of yield
ing on the part of the house.
Applause For Wilson.
The scene when tho conferees reported
to the house was quite dramatic. Chair
man Wilson, his face distorted by neural
sgia and almost concealed by bandaces, en-
tered, leaning upon the arm Of Cliff Brock
inridge, and both received a ovation The
applause, :" says Champ Clark, twas about
one-third for Cliffs appointment as minis
ter to Russia and the ether two-thirds for
the Prometheus of the house, who is suf-
fering the torrents of the damned and
yet viii not yield his vital principle -
Mr.. Wilson was probably not suffering
quite as much as if the vultures were
gnawing at mis- vi5als, but in tho midst of
his agony he WIS rcsoiute as the chained
hero of the Caucasus and spoke with all
his usual ability It was, however, a re-
lief when tho same conferees were reap
pointed and tho house resumed routine
business.
The next matter of interest was the
Tucker resolution for an amendment to
the constitution directing the election OF
United States senators by n vote of the
people It was ably argued, Of course; but,
SO far as they win express themselves, not
one member in ten thinks it viii be adopt
ed for years, if ever Several members of
the judiciary coInInittee-and it is worth
noting th3t they represent all sections of
tho country-ssy bluntly that tho popular
suffrage business has been carried quite
far enough, and that the real problem now
is to restrict it within proper limits and
mGks5 -safe and honest
Miner Matters.
If the session should be SO prolonged on
account Of the tariff, some Of the foreign
affairs committee think that they NAV
have new and entirely unexpected bust
ness, for the cholera is moving westward
through Russia, and the plague l. work
ing havoc IN China and threatening to
spread to other countries, while there il
war likely in Korea, another revolution in
haiti and sortof British complication in
Hawaii Possibly these things had some
the naval appropriation bill to yield SO
much to the senate as they did The sen
ate addition Of $3.50, 600 for remodeling
the old Hartford q training ship and
the SIS. 600 for repairs to the old Constftu-
ton were allowed to stand, and so was the
section which allows the secretary OF the
navy to fill vacancies in the corps OF ca
diets, but an appolntee must have lived two
years in the district for which he is named
All congressman whose districts are now
unrepresented can nominate candidates