The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-12
A DISTASTEFUL DOSE.
The Surrender Of the House Confer
eeS Now Predicted.

The House to Give Battle to the
Trusts Hereafter in Single Bills.
The Prospective ThunderboIt From
the White House Enormous
strength of the Sugar Trust as
Evidenced by Recent Congressional
Action - The Presidents Course
Hard, if Not Impossible, to Predict.
Washington, Aug. 1.-THE House has
come to it, and will accept the Senate
bill. This is the programme tonight 1t
may not be adhered to any longer than
any other programme that has been
agreed upon, but it is the plan now.
Such an action would be complete sur
render on the part of the House and the
President to the Senate. and it was a dis
tasteful dose for the House conferees to
swallow, but they talked the matter'oFer
during the morning and came to the con-
clusion there was nothing else they could
do.
The plan is to concur in all amendments
of the Senate, and afterward to make
war on the trusts and monopolies in sin
gle bills.
WILL THE PRESIDENT STAND IT2
A thunder5olt may come from the
white house on Monday and upset all
plans and programmes, but the fight the
House is making has been futile-so
futile that Chairman Wilson will no
longer continue it. The Senate has made
proposition after proposition, only to
withdraw them and make more to
be withdrawn in the same way.
The House conferees have asked
for caucus, signed the call
themselves, and it has the sanction of
Speaker Crisp. The caucus will meet
Monday, and some sensational tales will
be told
The members of the House are, of
course, wallowing in their own fury, and
there is no telling to what extent their
indignation will CO. 1t is said that in a
week after the Senate passes the bill, a
free sugar bill will be sent TO the Senate,
and another putting iron and coal on the
free list, too.
MR.. WILSON'S SPEECH.
MIR. Wilson in his speech, when a dis
agreement was reported, said that wheu
he found out that the sugar trust had
grown so strong as to defeat any legisla-
zion, he would favor remaining in session
until every vestige of protection should
be taken away. The House is ready and
anxious to follow this line, and from Mr..
Wilson's remarks this afternoon, it would
seem that he would introduce the bill.
THE SUGAR TRUSTS PULL.
The sugar trust has such hold upon
the Senate, however, that it is a matter
of grave doubt whether such a bill could
pass that body, even if should come unen-
cumbered by any other proposition.
There is as much indignation felt by a
ma .Ority of the democratic senators over
the action of Senators German, BrIce and
Smith as the House expresses.
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky said to-
day: "The only thing to do now is for
the House to accept the Senate bill and
then to attack the trusts singly. Pass
the Senate bill, and then on the heels of
1t pass another, wlplng ont all benefits TO
the sugar trust. The country has been
giving them S25000,0 600 a year to ena BILE
them to keep their grip on the public"
THE PRESIDENTS POSSIBLE ACTION.
Mr. Cleveland, it is stated tonight, will
make no further attempt to coerce the
Senate. But it is hard to predict even
what he will do, and Imagination cannot
picture what he might do. But the
probability is that he will allow
the Senate bill to come to
him, and after it is signed urge
speedy legislation on coal and
iron. He has recommended a tax on
sugar, so he will hardly ask the House for
free sugar bill, though he will favor any
measure striking out the diderenrial for
the sugar trust. From start to finish it
has been a daybf excitement for all inter
ested in the tariff bill Last night
had left everything in grave doubt
and the lines on both sides were at the
highest tension The conferees were
wrought up TO the pitch of desperation
The tirmness of the House and the stub
born resistance that almost reached con-
tempt on the part of the Senate had
buried the whole situation in the
darkest shadows of despair Morn
ing broke on this chaotic con
dltion of things without lifting the
gloom which enshrouded the tariff
prospect before the conferees. They met
this afternoon under stress of circum-
stances that foreshadowed a hopeless
gathering. They parted in anger, and
then came the preliminary struggle in the
Senate. When things get to a GER, ain
pitch they right themselves, In sheer
desperation the House committee accused
the Senate of bad faith and decided to
ask the lower body TO recede