The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-11
ETERNAL HOPE.
New Prospects of a Sue
cessful Issue For the
Tariff Fight.
SOP FOR LOUISIANA
Conferees Shaping Out a Bounty
On this Years Sugar
Crop.
HOUSE CAUCUS ON MONDAY
Great Excitement At the Opening
of the Senate Session-Hlll
Presses His Resolution

this morning that the House confefrees
have fixed up a cheme for granting the
Louisiana Senators the bounty on this
years crop of sugar. They have can
yassed the situation and have secured
the support of all the administration
democrats in the Senate. This, for the
time being at least, has weaned over
Senators Coffery, Blanchard, Allen and
Kyle, who it is said, hoping that thereby
the bounty will be granted will act with
others to prevent undue haste in any
thing that may be attempted today. The
republicans will refuse to vote for the
bounty, and it is claimed that the re-
publicans ana the anti-administration
democrats will prevent the adoption of a
bounty amendment to the bill.
HOUSE CAUCUS.
A caucus of the House Democrats vii
probably be held on Monday afternoon
next. 1t will differ from the caucus of
last TuesdQy, in that it will be held at
the request of the House conferees on
the tariff bill. At this caucus the repre-
sentatives of the House will state fully
the matters in dispute; the propositions
and counter propositions that have been
made in conference and what the actual
situation was at the hour of adjournment
last night. ..
These conclusions were reached at an
informal meeting of the House people
room OF the Speaker, and for an hour
talked over the programme they shall
follow. One of the number subsequently
stated to United Press reporter that a
garbled and purposely misleading stories
of the conference were given out by the
Senate representatives with view to
befogging the public mind as to the posi-
ton of the two Houses and that the
time had now come when the House con-
ferees should take their brethren OF the
House into their confidence and acquaint
them with what had been done and what
ii was purposed to do.
CONFERREES SITTING.
The House conferrees at noon went
over to the Senate and re-entered the
Commerce Committee room, where they
have been meeting the Senate representa-
tives since the bill was sent to confer
ence. There they will await the APP
pearanee of the Senate conferrees if the
latter decide to present themselves.
expected, the eonferrees win, after; OUT
lining the situation, ask what instruc-
tions the House may have to offer.
This will be in pursuance of the promise
made by Speaker Crisp at last Tuesday s
caucus, that when no agreement was
possible the House conferrees would
themselves ask e4flL fpr a issfED eaHfFs:
At one o'clock this afternoon Mr..
Charles Crisp, the son of the Speaker,
esGplang tn the Mr Na f9r 9oman 4b
-.Aairman of the aucus Committee, and
simply requests that he will call a
caucus of the democratic members of
the House for ten o'clock Monday morn
The call does not state the purpose of
the caucus, but the object as given
be followed.
The cali is signed by all the House
conferrees and Speaker Crisp. 1t con-
tains upwards of fifty signatures and
will be signed by ali the democrats of
IN THE SENATE.
The observer in the gallery of the Sem
ate today could not have failed in he
ing impressed with the importance of
the occasion which brought him there.
70 ha 9f % that Hf sometng n ao9 Of vtai i
interest promised in the actions of
the men who sat beneath him on the
of conversation before the >'hamber was
called to order was unusually l. nd,
enough SO to cause comment by those
familiar with the studied quiet OF the
historic hall. These things We're merely
contributary to the impressiveness Of the
knowledge in the mind of every man and
fairs of the country had arrived, and
Mat the day might witness the Ineli-
urinary steps to the dereat of the
teasure which proposed to change the
IFevailing atriff system.
s = The crowded galleries were filled with
an attentive audience. Strange to say,
women appeared TO be in greater num-
: bers than men. They occupied major
ity sof the seats in the womans public
gallery, and had good representation
in those reserved for the families and
was one vacant bench in the private gal
lery. This was the space reserved for
the President and his cabinet, their wives
and families; and covert glances went UP
from the floor to see if it We're occupied.
The gallery reserved for the diplo-
metic corps formed another exception to
H. 10 fA- ire aT11xr orr 1lf-
''''e all ALL EYES ON HILL.
Naturally, the Senator most observed
was a1r Hill. 1t was he who had brought
about the crisis by his resolution direct
ing the Senate conferees to report an
agreement or a disagreement, and he was
which all present had come to witness.
He was dressed as usual in a suit of light
cloth. the coat short frock. A low coll
lar and a black bow tie, together with
the low-eut vest, gave him an old fash
ioned appearance quite at variance with
the fin de steele ideas to which he has
given VENT A few stray scraps of paper
on his desk were all that indicated that
Mr. Hill was ready to deliver speech.
4 rap of the Vice Presidents gavel
Nearly every Senator was in his seat at
that time and all listened with heads
reverently bowed to the PRAYER of the
Chaplain, that the minds of the Senators
might be so tempered as to do right and
justice.
3 A lot of routine business came before
the Senate for the first half hour,
much to the disappointment of the gal
OPENING THE BALL.
At II 80 O'clock Mr.. Hill made an at
tempt TO call up his resolution Rising
from his seat in the rear row on the
Democratic side he said:-"Mr. President
/ desire to call up-butjust here the Vice
+ President broke in by laying before the
Senate the resolution of Mr.. Chandler,
providing for an investigation dy the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections of the. charges Of corruption
made in connection with the election in
Alabama of a Legislature which would
have the election, of a United States Sem
ator This caused a suspicion that there
was a scheme to side track Mr. Hills
resolution, but Mr.. Chandler cleared the
way by allowing his matter to go over
until Monday, when Senator Morgan, who
win be the Democratic candidate for re-
election by the Alabama Legislature will
be present
There was disposition on the Demo
cratic side to debate the resolution even
after Mr. Chandler had agreed to let
1t go over until Monday. bur Mr..
Chandler, who was more anxious to have
the Hill matter discussed, prevented this