Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-07-28
NO CHANGE IN THE BILL
THE SENATE DOES NOT RE
CEDE VERY FAST.
The Tariff Measure Back In Con
ference And No Progress Made
wilson COnsul's with Pre- y de nj
Cleveland

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Vicc President
Stevenson has been tclegraphed to bv
the Democratic Senate tariff managers
to return to Washington at once as, in
their opinion. his presence at this juno
, ture is impcrativcly needed by his party
associates. The Vice President is at his
home in Bloomington, Ills.
The decision of the presiding officer of
the Senate yesterday Mr.. Harris) sus-
taincd the point of order that it was not
in order to give instructions in "full
and free conference" The decision was
appealed from and the motion to lay the
appeal on the table was made by Mr.
Faulkner, Democrat, of West Virginia.
The vote was taken amid great excite
ment, and it resulted in Il tie, yeas 81,
navs 49, So the motion to lay on the
table, not having had majority, failed.
| Then came the question whether the
decision of the chair should stand as the
Judgment of the Senate, and it was also
decided in the negative in the same way
Then Senator Gray's original motion to
insist and agree to further conference
was agreed to without a division.
Representative Catchings of Mississ-
ippi, member of the committee on rules,
called at the White House this morning
and had talk with President Cleveland
about the tariff situation.
Tn House conferecs make no secret of
the embarrassment OF ttcir position
cspccially in relation to the President s
attitude on the bill, and are anxiouslv
searching for way out OF their difficult
ties. Soon after Catchinps took his de-
parture Chairman Wilson arrived.
Though still in poor health. he took the
night train from his home in West Vir-
ginia Immediately on being advised that
the senate had scat the bill back to con
ierencc-aS it did vcsterday-and on his
arrival he drove at once to the White
House which he reached at 10 a. m, The
President received him Immediately y and
Clos,d the door to all other callers. They
remained in close communion for over an
hour.
The Democratic members of the confer
} cncc commit tee on the tariff bll were
! prompt in resuming their sessions TODAY.
The meeting was held in the room of tn,
senate committee on Interstate com
merce. with all the members present cx-
crpt Chairman VOORHEES, who was alb.
sent on account of illness. From the
best information obtainablc the indica-
tions are that there will be numerous
changes in the less important schedules
of the bill. These were agreed upon ten.
tativcly in a former conference, and it is
considered improbable that the basis OF
agreement then arrived at will be
changed materially during the present
conference.
The early session of the conference was
devoted entirely to an exchange Of views
upon the situation. with the Senate mem
bcrs doing the greater part OF the talk
ing. They told the House members that
in the present feeling in the Senate it wa'
out OF the question for Senate conteree.
to undertake to make any concessions OF
the principal articles in dispute and that
in their opinion. the conference woult
have to adopt practically the Senate bill
or tic L would be no tariff legislation.