Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-25
TALKED AND TALKED.
No Agreement Reached al the Senate
Democratic Tariff Caucus.
Louisiana Men Threaten TO Block Bill Unless
Sugar Is Given Show.

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after 2. NJ, the DemO6 ratio senator
went'into caucus for the purpose of formu
lating programme in regard to the dis
posal of the tariff bill. For three hour!
the discussion continued, and then, withou
reached any conclusion, an adjournment
was taken until tomorrow at the san.t
hour. Mr.. Hill was not notified officially
of the caucus until just few minutes be
| fore the Adjournment of the Senate. Hs
was then notified in the cloak room by Mr.
| German and requested TO be present.
Mr.. Hill frantically told the chairman Of
| the csueus that as he was opposed to the
bill and would do all he could to defeat il
SO long as the party saw fit to put the In
come tsx in it, be did not believe he ough
to participate in conference that had fol
its object the passage of the measure and
the settlement of party quarrels. For thai
| reason Mr.. Hill did not attend the caucus
Neither Mr.. Murphy nor Mr.. Irby went
20 the caucus, and their absence cause
some remark. Senators Voorhees, and ID ans
were prevented by Illness from attending
Every other senator now in the city was
present.
Soon after the caucus convened, Mr.
Jarvis of North Carolina, offered resOlu
ton providing that the bill be sent back
to the conference without instruction.
of any sort to the conferees. Upo,
that resolution Ill of the discussion was
based The conservatives, so-called-the
men who formulated the present bill-did
none Of the talking. but one of the senators
said, after the caucus was over, that these
who did talk (and there were s few who did
IN, f1,asr adv n
the Senate bill as any Of the conservatives
could be and insisted as strenuously that the
Senate bill should prevail.
Almost all of the debate ard cross-fire
between the senators was directed at Mr..
Villas, in an effort to induce him to with
draw hi, motion to strike out the differ
entail on refined sugar. Mr.. Villas
did not indicate to the caucus just
what he would do in this con-
nection, but made plea for the
administration, saying that, in view Of the
strong letter the President had written,
there should be some sort of concession On
the part of the Senate, and he believed the
concession should be, among other thing
On the sugar schedule. ..-
Msssrs. Gallery and Blanchard said that
concession of some sort was absolutely
necessary, and they would be content if
the Senate placed a ''tlst" duty of 45 per
cent. on all sugars, raw and refined and
gave the planters half the bounty for 1894
This increase in duty, they said, would
compensate them to some extent for the
loss Of the bounty which the committee
promised them should be given, and which
was decided upon by the former
Democratic caucus. If the Senate would
not agree to this change, which was of al
vantage to the growers of sugar, the Louis
lana senators must insist not only on tie
one-ei ght of cent differential, bat also on
the bounty that was promised them. Mr.
Gallery warned the caucus that unless this
was done, he and bis colleague would vote
against the bill. -'r- .'-..
Mr.. Smith of New Jersey made very
effective speech in which he notified the
caucus that if the differential rate was dis
turbed, a rate which he said had beer
promised and agreed upon in the
caucus, then and there would be
Forthcoming the necessary Democratic
votes to indefinitely postpone the
conference report. The result of all the
sugar discussion was that the caucus did
not get very clear idea how Mr.. Villas
was going to conduct himself, although il
was said, efter adjournment, that he would
probably yield to the judgment of his col
leagues and permit his motion to be with
drawn. 4:.--
The coal and iron ore proved to be as in
teresting a subject for others of the South
ern men as was sugar. Mr.. Pugh of Ala
bama, told his colleagues that neither o.
those articles must be touched. The pre-
vious caucus had agreed to leave them OF
the dutiable list and had fixed rate, an(
that agreement, he said, must not be VIC
lated. If it was, and the Senate
conferees receded from the Senate
amendments on these items, he warnet
the senators that neither he nor hi
colleague would support the bill and. he
likewise assured them that there were othel
senators who stood ready to vote in The
same way.
AS coal, iron ore and sugar were the
three chief items of disagreement, nothing
else was discussed in detail. The sentiment
was almost solidly in favor of the Senate
bill and the insistence of the conferees CT
the amendments made by the Senate. One
senator, tonight, said that "Mr. Villas wa'
the only man in the caucus who appeared
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the only one who voiced any change in thu
existing BILL"
A prominent Democratic senator, WHO
has been largely instrumental in getting
the bill through the Senate, said, tonight
that he believed the Senate would. tomor
row, adopt a resolution to send the bill bach
to the conference without instructions Il
the conferees. He added that there were
assurances that if the bill got back to the
conference the House would ultimately agree
the Senate bill in all It's material points
That there would be concessions on thu
part of the Senate he admitted, but mons
that struck at the main points COW in issue
This senator spoke, as he said, b,
authority.
The general feeling among the Demo
Gratis after the caucus was that the end wal
in sight, and that the Senate bill would ye
. receive the signature of the President.
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