Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-19
FAIL TO AGREE. Joint Conference on the Tariff Will
 So Report.
THE HOUSE DETERMINED,
As is Also the Senate-PenCe Gets Excited Over Silver
 Dollars.

con erees on the tariff bill held brief ses- sion today and adjourned before l2 o'clock. They made another effort to reach an agreement, but it proved intellectual and the meeting adjourned, with the under standing that the full conference of the committee, to begin at 2 o'clock, would report disagreement.
 The conferees met again at o'clock Within few minutes afterwards Mir. Voorhees, announced that it was apparent that the two houses were unable to agree and it had been decided to report general disagreement. The senate republicans stood up for the senate bill, az did the democrats, while the house held out for their bill, and it was formally decided that the agreement should be reported to their respective houses.
 Before this was done MT. Wilson, chair man of the committee of ways and means, stated that il they could get together on coal, iron ore and sugar he believed they could fix up an agreement that would be satisfac- tory to both houses. No proposition look ing to this end was made and the action here indicated was taken. The whole thing was over in few minutes.
 Mr. Wilson stated after the conference that he would make the report to the house tomorrow morning. During the informal
 
 asked by MT. Jones how long the house would probably keep the bill, whereupon Mir. Wilson replied that he thought the conferees would be instructed to insist upon the house bill and the conferees would be sent back within two hours. The same question was then put to MT. Jones and he said that the action of the senate would de- pend upon the action of the house. II the house insisted upon heaping coals of fire on the head of the senate conferees and assail- ing them, it would be very likely that the senate, when the bill came back, would in like manner debate the bill.
 It is believed, however, that the bill will again be in conference by Saturday at the latest. Although the report shows gen. eral disagreement in all items, this Is not technically correct, for the reason that Agreements have been made on many items, but 1t was deemed best not to include them until cohcIusrvu had been reached on the whole bill.
 MT. Wilson says the report of the con- terees will be verbal, i, and will simply state that the conference committee of the two houses has failed to reach an agreement. The committee on rules will probably meet etstomorrow and report Il special order limiting the time during which debate upon the report may continue. Speaker Crisp could not say today how long the debate on the conferees report to- morrow would be permitted to continue iu the house, but it is thought that it will be limited to two hours-one hour on each side.
 time set apart for the democrats, if he is physically able to speak, and Reed and Burrows will probably be spokesmen for the republicans.
 TO COIN STANDARD DOLLARS.
 Orders for the coinage of standard silver dollars were today sent to the several mints At New Orleans and San Francisco dies lx, fnro oka nj hotJip hann pared when Secretary Carlisle, nearly year ago, concluded to coin the silver seigniorage, but subsequently decided not to do so. These dies will last for coinage purposee for some time.
 PENCE GETS EXCITED.
 Representative Pence of Colorado has made public the substance of a resolution which he intends to introduce in the house at the earliest opportunity.
 It requests the secretary of the treasury to inform the house how many silver dol lars have been coined during 1894, giving the date and amounts, how they have been issued and to whom; whether any of these dollars have been sold or issued to mem- bers of congress, or at their request, and he is requested to report to whom such dol lars have been sold or issued, and when, as shown by the bookssof the director of the mint. If the books of the director do not show this information, then the facts are to be stated from the knowledge and recollection of the director and his em- ployes.
 The reason for this solution is here given in his own words:
 i ''There is big bunco game going on down south, and want to see who is in 1t. Witbin the past few days l have re- ceived intelligence from Alabama that Colonel Oates supporters there are exhib- iting silver dollars of the mintage of 1894, with view to persuading the people of the state that the administration is favor able to free silver and that it is coining silver dollars. On Monday of this week called upon MT. Preston, the director of the mint. asked him how many silver dollars had been struck off this year. He replied that the number was 406, that these were proof pieces, that they were struck of to prove the new dies, which are changed each year, and not for the pur- pose of circulation. 1 asked MT. Preston to whom these pieces had been sold. He replied that number of persons had bought them, among them some senators and representatives. l asked permission to buy five and was told that I could get them.
 'ssNow,D Pence went on, "what l am trying to get at is the use which is being made of these silver dollars by the afore- said senators and representatives. If my advices from the south are correct they are being used in Alabama to assist Colonel Oates candidacy for the goyernorship. If certain newspaper statements are to be be- lieved they are being used in Georgia and Arkansas in the interest of the democratic party also. If that is the case, l am cor rect in describing such action as bunco game, for it can be successfully practiced in the backwoods districts, where the peo- ar,Ia eaidom if evar read A neWapaDer. 1t