The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-27
THE FATE OF THE TARIFF BILL

by q Vote on the Conference Report Now
Pending in the senate-Each House Seem
ingly Determined to Insist Upon Its Own
Bin-An Agreement Not Probable.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-All interest in
congress the coming week centers
about the senate, whereathe fate of the
tariff bill may be decided by the vote
to be taken on the conference report
which is now before that body for ac-
tion. BY tomorrow night history of
Importance to the whole country viii
probably have been made, and events,
fraught with grave results to the dem
ocratic party, viii have transpired.
There was nothing in the shape of a
caucus yesterday. although senators
charged with responsibility in connec-
tion with the tariff bill called upon their
colleagues and endeavored to get some
light upon the situation. A prominent
democratic leader, chairman of one of
the most important senate committees,
and who does not belong to the So
called conservatives, told a United
Press reporter last night that unless
something altogether unexpected hap
pened before the senate met to-day
something to which no one looked for
ward-all hope of tariff legislation at
this session of congress will be doomed
to disappointment. This view was ex-
pressed only after a consultation he
had last evening with some of the
members of the senate finance COM
mittee.
There will be no caucus to discuss
the situation, and it is known that thus
far the dissatisfied elements of the
party-the men who insisted that the
compromise bill should be passed or
none-have kept clear of their col
leagues and have declined to talk the
situation over. They stand as firmly
as ever where they have always stood
discuss; it must be the senate bill or
nothing. The managers of the bill on
| the part of the senate realize this, and,
as one of them said last night:
"What can we do? There is nothing
| to compromise; we went to the extreme
| of compromise when the bill was in COM
mittee and there is nothing further
that we can yield except immaterial
| matters. The house asks us to do some
| thing that is impossible, and the presi-
dent, who knew beforehand what we
were compelled to do, has turned and
placed the responsibility upon the
shoulders of the senate"
When the conference report comes
before the senate again to-day it will be
with four motions bearing upon it's dis
posal pending. OF these the first
made were the two of Mr.. Hill to in
struct the conferees to recede from the
senate amendment placing coal and
| iron on the dutiable list Then comes
Mr.. Villas motion that the senate re-
cede from the one-eighth of a cent diff
| ferential duty which it had placed on
refined sugar, and fourth, Mr.. Gray's
motion that the senate insist upon its
amendments and agree to the request
| of the house for a further conference.
After all, however, it is none of these
motions that the managers of the bill
most fear According to democratic in
formation, before Mr.. Villas gets a
chance to put his motion striking at
refined sugar, or if he does make it, be-
| fore the motion can be voted upon, one
of higher parliamentary standing will
| be made. It will be a motion
that the conference report be indef-
nitely postponed. This motion the
managers of the bill were warned
last night might be made early in the
day, and they have some reason to ap-
| prehend that it may secure five demo
cratic votes. Of course the republicans
would vote solidly for it. A motion OF
this kind was about to be made Friday
| when Mr. Cockrell hurriedly moved to
| adjourn over.until Monday in the hope
| that a cessation of the debate for a
day or two might improve the situa-
| tion.
Should the motion to indefinitely
| postpone the conference report prevail,
| the tariff bill will be defeated SO far as
the senate is concerned, for it would
be refusal on the part of the senate
to agree to a further conference.
Mr.. German, Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Brice
are expected to speak to-day. Mr..
| German will reply to some of the
statements made by the president in
his letter, and it is said will make
claim that Mr. Cleveland knew before
| the public did what concessions the
| senate committee had to make. Mr..
German will also, it is said, quote from
| Mr.. Carlisle's interview about the
| time the Jones amendments were pre-
pared, and use this as going to show
difficulties in the pathway of the SEN
ate and gave the committee its sup
port in its arduous task.