The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-14
SENATE BIhh IS ACCEPTED BY THE HOUSE.

forced the House Democrats to- imme-
date action.
The Democratic conferees ~of the
House at last admitted that they were
beaten, and that another vote could
not be risked in the Senate; that 1t
must be either the Senate bill or no
bill.
The whole question was precipitated
at the caucus held just before the
House convened today, at which, after
Thorough review of the situation, and
speeches in favor of receding by Speak
er Crisp. Chairman Wilson and others,
it was decided to take up the SEN
ate bill and Immediately afterwards
pass separate bills placing coal, iron,
iiore, sugar, and barbed wire on the free
list, and by so doing place the House
on record and at least partially over
come the humiliation involved in its de-
feat. The programme arranged in the
caucus was carried out to the letter in
the House, after an ironclad special o.
des.
Exciting and Sensational.
The scenes in the chamber through
out the DAY and evening were eXcit-
! ing, and at times sensational. The
galleries were packed, and the mem
/ bers applauded and cheered their re-
spective leaders to the echo. Under
! the terms of the order but two hours
4 were allowed for debate on the main
proposition to recede and to agree to
the Senate amendments to the tariff
bill.
/ Parliamentary skirmish preceded the
pitched battle, but points of order
raised by the Republicans, were swept
aside.
The speaker ruled the House with
an iron hand.
The principal speeches for anG
against the main proposition were
made by Chairman Wilson ant
Speaker Crisp on the one hand, anC
eX-Speaker Reed and Mr.. Burrows OF
the other.
There was no time for prepare tior
and all the speeches were hot from
the forge of the brain and were greet
ed with rounds of cheers and applause
Bourke COchrf H. Of New York anC
Mr.. Tarsney, of Missouri, both Demo
cratic members of the Ways ant
Means committee, delivered scathinl
and sensational speeches, denouncin.
the surrender of the House as coward
ly and indefensible
The speaker replied to Mr.. Cochran
whose effort was brilliant one, witt
: such temper that the latter took it a
a personal affront. although the speak
er disclaimed such intention, and mad
VICIOUS IuHSe at speaker Crisp.
There was no attempt on the part O
5 the Democratic leaders to claim
victory. They all admitted they wer
accepting the inevitable, justifyin
their action on the ground that tn
Senate bill was better than the No
Kinley law.
The most startling feature of the da
= perhaps, was Mr.. Cockran's eloquer
appeal to Chairman Wilson to nam
} the Democrats in the Senate VIII
, threatened the defeat of all tariff les
= islation if the attempt to adjust til
{ difference between the two houses wa
i persisted in, but Mr.. Wilson made Il
: response.
When the vote came to be taken {
5 6 o'clock Is Democrats, Messrs. -~Bar
| lett, Cochran, Hendricks, Dunphy, Wa
I ner and Covert, of New York; Dave.
4 and Price of Louisiana; Everett
! Massachusetts; German, of Michigan
I Johnson, of Ohio, and Tarsney, of Mi
e souri,, voted with the Republican
against the resolution.
: The Democrats then put through, OF
e after another, what the Republican
= described as the pop-guns bills, placir
coal, iron ore, barbed wire and sug;
on the free list, and which in the d
= bate, one each, they maintained won
: be proposed only to go to death in Il
ta