The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-19
Mr.. GORMAN's PREDICTION
He Thinks the Tariff Bill Debate
Will End Friday or Saturday.
Only the Income Tax to Be Considered
How the Measure Will Be Handled
After 1t Leaves the Senate.
Special to the IndianapolIs journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 1s.-The Senate to-
day rejected, by a vote of 81 to Z, Hilrs
amendment TO the tariff bill placing coal
on the free list. and agreed TO the finance
committees amendment providing for a
duty of 40 cents.
Il expect the last vote 10 be taken on
the tariff bill on Friday or Saturday" said
Senator German TO the Journal CORE
spondent tonight. There remains only
the income tax TO be discussed. and !
think that will be adopted by a larger vote
than any other paragraph in the bill.
though I think there are more Democrats
opposed TO II than TO any other feature. BY
next Wednesday I expect to see the Sen
ate formally adopt the entire bill. Then
we Will devote ourselves to the appropria-
tion bills. and 1 see no reason why we should
not be ready to adjourn by August"
Now that the Senate is concluding it's
work on the bill. attention turns to
the following steps Of the measures
progress toward the White House. IL is
reasonable to expect that consideration of
the bill in committee of the whole will
be completed in the Senate before the end
OF this month. Then it will be reported
back to the Senate for final action. I'M
portant changes are possible at this stage.
and in the present case very probable.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
The sugar schedule is so manifestly un-
popular that even the conservative Sena-
tors fear they will not be able to bulldoze
the House as they did their colleagues of
the Senate, and tina unless some conces-
sions are made to the indignation of the
House the other private snaps which
each conservative has obtained on the side
as the price Of his vote may be endangered.
Hence the sugar schedule will suffer some
revision in the Senate before the bill is
intrusted to the tender mercies of the con-
ference committee. What concessions the
Sugar Trust will permit is, of course, still
doubtful. One thing is certain. the trust
will permit no unsatisfactory bill 10 be-
come a law. The acknowledging delight
that Senator Vest seems TO feel in the
shamefu confession he has made so often
that certain surrenders were unavoidable
If a bill was to be passed has shown that
this tariff bill will pass only by and with
the advice Of the Sugar Trust One con-
cession which the trust is already willing
to permit the Democratic managers of the
bill to make is the abolition of the clause
postponing the operation of the sugar
schedule until next January. The Repub-
@(cA Wa I'm q OA tN~
one-eighth dinerential. but whether they
will succeed is a future question. 1t is
well TO remember, however, that when Mr..
Pettigrew offered an amendment during
the sugar fight in the Senate striking out
this one-eighth differential, 1t was defeated
by only three votes, the vote being 80 nays
10 90 yeas. Mr.. Aldrich had inadvertently
left the room, and thus lost his vote, and
Mr.. Quay announced a pair with Mr.. Irby,
thus depriving the Republicans of two
votes. Mr.. Irby has since that time an
nounced that mad he been present ne would
lave relieved Mr.. Quay Of the pair and
would have voted for the amendment him
self. IL is evident, therefore,, that the hope
OF striking the differential out of the bill
is by no means desperate. The committee
itself is expected TO abandon the one-tenth
discriminating rate against the German
sugar producers.
The next step in the career of the bill on
its way to the White House Will be its re-
turn to the House Of Representatives and
its subsequent discussion In conference,
where it will be finally nodded into the
shape in which IL will become a law. There
seems TO be considerable interesting mis-
Information about the bilfs career at this
stage. Indignant members of the De Witt
Warner type nave announced the radical.
even revolutionary, changes that will be
made when the bin gets back to the. House
Coal and iron ore are to be restored to the
free list; the Sugar Trust Is to be annihi-
lated, and in a general way the House is 10
take the bit between It's teeth ana nSnt IL
out with the Senate on a tariff reform line.
IL il takes all summer. A glance at the
working methods OF a conference commit
jungle of misapplied enthusiasm. In the
first place. the bill will never come before
sne fhDe5s SEr = House NAV Vote to give
Its conferees certain Instructions on GER
tain features of the bill in conference. but
Gouse ~conferees find themselves unable
TO follow out the Instructions there will
simply be a deadlock until one body sur.
renders. and experience has shown that II
nag.
When the tariff bill has passed the Sem
ate and is returned to the House the pro-
cedure is this. The secretary OF the Sen
ate will report TO the House that the Sen
ate has passed House Bill 1864 with GER
tain amendments thereto" The secre-
tary will probably not smile when he
makes this humorous announcement
"House Bill 1851 was once known as the
Wilson BILL the certain amendments
thereto nave made il the German CON
servatfve'' bill and the certain amend
ments have swallowed up the House bill.
The next step ought 10 be its reference
back TO the on ways and means.
But Mr.. Wilson. the chairman OF the COM
mittee. will waive that step and Will inn
mediately move that the House disagree
10 the certain amendments u WklCn II
Senate has asked the concurrence or the
House. and that the Senate be invited TO
appoint conferees. These motions will. of
course. all be adopted in a trice. Then the
conferees are appointed IL is of no
especial importance IN this present state
ment OF the routine Of a conference to
speculate on the number or the personnel
OF the forthcoming conference committee.
The number of conferees from each house
may be seven or il may be five from the
Senate and seven from the House. That
IL a matter or no especial Importance
since when voting In conference that body
does not ballot as a unit but as two COM
mittees. each OF which acts by its own
majority vote. IT Is perfectly competent
for the House 10 vote its conferees GER
tain Instructions. One of these ~instruc-
tons will probably be 10 stand out for
free sugar. After a few DAYS session Mr..
Wilson will probably announce In the
House that the conferees after a full and
agree on the sugar schedule. Then the
House viii instruct its ccnferees TO 'tn-
sist" on its sugar schedule. AT the next
report the House will instruct it's con-
when the stage OF adhere has been
reached no further course remains but an
indefinite deadlock or a surrender. There
are Usual two full and free" con-
ferences. before either body gets to the
adhere" state: though IT is perfectly com
petent for either house 10 omit the pre-
liminary stage OF insist and get right
down 20 adhere" at the outset. But this
- a breach OF parliamentary etionette,
and II is expected that the House will not
courtesy.
The anal stage will be reached when
Mr.. Wilson makes the report of the con-
ference committee 20 the House. That re-
ment has been reached By the conferees
on all points QxCeDt the sugar gQhadula