Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-10
PLANS WENT ALL AWRY
Another Elaborate Tariff Agree
 ment Gone to Smash.
SITUATION AS TANGLED AS EVER.

The House Wanted Free Coal Instead of
 Free Iron ore. and the Senate csnferees
 Refu.-d-Briee ouers a New Compro- misr--cepublIrAn Senators' Threat.
 wAsHrSGToS. Aug. lO-Thc Democrat ic tariff conference had expected to bc able to announce an agrcemCnt- Instead of reaching any definite conclusion the day closed with the bill in quite as uncertain a state as ever before in its history with the situation in noyvisc improved. and with the feeling bctwCCn the friends of | the senate bill and the house bill intcnsi. fled Instead of allaycd. and with no one prepared to say what the outcome would be ar when the end would be reached It was apparent at the very be-inninG l of the conference that those who had come to the conclusion at tho adjournment of the prCviOus days session that an asrCc- ment would Dc arrived at had not taken sufficiently into account the possibility of a misunderstanding or q change Of mind This discovery was made when the senate eonfcrcSss prcpared tO go on with the bill upon the basis of a duty of 70 cents per ! ton on coal and fr,c iron urp. whcreupon the house confcrccs announced their un- willingness tO aCcept this arrangement and stated that they would insist upon a l reversal of thcSc terms. with coal free and | run ore dutiablc. if either was to bc. as | they understood that they xurc to havc n choice between the two.
 The avowal of this position pruSiuccd immediate confusion and led tO an cx- change of renarks which wcrc not alto sether polite
 Senate Refusrs the Houss FlaiIy. The senate confcrccs thcrcupun decided to rcpOrt the state of affairs To the con servative scnators and when the confer ! cncc adjourned called Senators German 1 Brice, smith and Murphy into C,1uSulia- tiOn- The whole situation was outlined to them They wCrr not only made nc quaintSd with the demand of the house confcrees for free coal. but were also given to understand that other material cUncs-s- siOns would hc expected by the house cun- ferccs along the entire line of thc bill. In l cludtng wOOlCns. cOttuns, metals, glass | and carthenwarc.
 They GccidCd upun an emphatic nrEsa- tivC in reply Ia these propositions. saving that if the bOdy of the bill was not pro served virtually as it passed thc senate the report of the cOnfCr-noc when made would not Dc accepted by the s, nate
 Senator Bricc proposed an innovation in the shape of a proposition that the house cOnfcrNcs be given mn opportunity 1 to sccurc free sugar His idea in detail was that the senate cOnfcrecs should vol | untecr to rccccc cnttTcly from tho scn5fe sugar schedule, leaving both raw and rc- fined sugar On the frCc list as provided In | the house bill. and that the senajc bill should bs' otherwise accepted virtually in its present shape. with both CSSaI and iron
 on the dutial'lc list at the rate Of iO cents | per ton
 In urging this upon the cOnfcrccs he said 1t would necessarily prOduor Onc Of thrcc results If it should he declined by the hUusC cOnfCrccs. il would plaoc the re spOnsibility for the sugar duty upon them
 If it should be accepted. and the scnate should on this account refusc to adopt the committees rcrOrt. the house cOnfcrCcs
 would still bear the Oiium for insisting
 upon amending the senate bill
 If, thirdly he said, they should a.,
 cept; if rcpOrt should isc made upOn
 thcsn lines, ana if the repOrt shOud bc ac-
 cCptCd by both nu>s,s and should become
 n la.., we should b,. happy