The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-20
THEY SENT TIE BILL BACK.

enthusiasm, to the moral courage ex-
hibited by House conferees in stand
ing out against the Senate amend
ments. He pointed out the sacrifices
made by the southern members IN sur
rendering their privileged interests,
and said:
Wool aud the Free List.
''Tbe great leader Cdr. NIills) who be-
gan the fight in this House, although
from wool-growing state, said that
/ if free wool would give the people of
the country cheaper clothing, the wool
growers of Texas would not hesitate
to sec their product on the free list"
why not give US an opportunity to
vote separately on sugar?" inquired
Mr.. Johnson.
up to this time" said Mr. Outh-
no difference of sentiment on this side.
We are all shoulder to shoulder
Mr.. Reed in Closing, in referring TO
Mr.. Outhwaite's eulogy Of the House
conferees courage, asked what cour-
age amounted to that backed down.
How long will this courage last?
Is it to be permanent?
THE gentleman from Ohio, Mr..
Cultivate, is silent. Into the future
he cannot penetrate. Naughter). His
mind is not prophetic. He llGs taken
the first and last opportunity he will
have to commend the courage of the
House conferees." (Applause.).
Without further debate the vote was
then taken on the adoption of the
special order and it was agreed to
without division.
Wilson Against the Amendment.
Immediately after the adoption of
the rule, the speaker recognized Chair
man Wilson. Rising in his place on
the right of the chair his bandaged
head making him look like a worn and
battie-Scarred veteran, the appearance
of the chairman of the Ways and
Means committee was greeted with the
most unbounded enthusiasm on the
Democratic side, enthusiasm in which
the crowded galleries Joined. The
bandage extended down over Mr. Will
sons eyes completely binding him. but
with stoical fortitude, in clear ringing
tones, he delivered his speech in sup
port of the position taken by the House
conference committee against the
Senate amendments. After formally
announcing and reading the report an
nouncing disagreement, Mr. Wilson
said:
Il move that the House further in
sist upon its disa greement to the Senate
amendments and ask for q further con-
ference from them and upon that mo-
remarks to the House
1t is true as the gentleman from
Maine (Nfr. Reed has just said, that
there have been but two meetings of
the full conference on the part of the
Senate and House. A tariff bill, of re-
cent years at least, and perhaps always
III the history of this country. has been
la political measure-a measure pro-
posed by one party and resisted by the
other. The present tariff legislation
does not differ from that in character.
Ii was fully recognized and cordially
expressed by the Republican conferees
of the Senate, that it was the duty of
the dominant party in the two houses.
through their own special conferees.
flrst to try if they could consider their
own differences before trfey brought to
the attention Of the full Conference
committee their proposed action. While,
therefore, there have been but these
two meetings of the full Conference
committee, daily protracted, earnest
and laborious consultations on the part
of the House conferees representing the
majority party in that House, as to the
634 amendments in the hope that we
might reach some agreement that could
be reported to the full Conference COM
lnittee when it should be called togeth-
er. 1t is because no such agreement
has been attained; it is because no such
agreement is at present in sight that
we have felt it our duty to bring the
receive its instruction
Frank and Complete.
II desire to be perfectly frank and
as complete as possible in any state
ment / may make to the House TODAY
and yet [ recognize there are some
limitations to completeness of state
nent which probably it would be best
for me to observe in this stage of the
controversy between the two houses.
But think I may say with truth and
frankness and courtesy, that if the
conferees of the Senate on the part of
the majority had been as free and as
untrammeied as we ourselves were,
with nothing to control our action but
our sense Of duty to the people and to
our party and the House, a tariff bill
would have been agreed upon in one
days session that would have been
satisfactory to the Democratic party
and that would have given hope and
courage and enthusiasm to the Amer
lean people. applause on the Demo-
cratic side.
But. sir. we are not long in finding
out, greatly to our disa ppointment,
that whatever might be the personal
opinions, the personal judgment, the
strong personal wishes of the Demo-
cratic conferees of the Senate, they
came to US somewhat fettered and
somewhat limited as to any action they
might agree to upon this bill, either by
the supposed moral obligations of par
ty caucus or the Apprehension that there
We're forces in the Senate, however
small, yet powerful enough to resist
successfully the passage of any bill
which did not make concessions to
great corporations and trust interests,
that we, as representing the House,
did not feel free on our part to agree
TO. Applause on the Democratic side)
Il do not believe, Mr.. Speaker. there
would be any difference in coming to a
compromise or an agreement upon the
vast majority of the GA amendments
proposed to this bill by the Senate: but
there are important amendments pro-
posed by the Senate which give to this
bill in the main a different character
from what it had when it went to the
Senate. 1t is because of these amend
ments, and because of the statement
made to us in all kindness and courtesy
and | might almost say in sadness. that
sucn was the condition of affairs at the
other end of this capitol, that unless
this house was willing to accept the
Senate bill practically and substantial
ly as it passed the Senate, there was
to be no tariff legislation at this session
of Congress. We did not feel, repre-
senting the House of Representative
that we could without sacrifice of its
dignity and of its equality as a legisla-
tive chamber, respond to any such pro-
position as that applause on the
Democratic side.
objectionable to Reformers.
The differences between the bill as it
PASSED the House and the bill as it
comes back to US from the Senate, are
so marked and Objectionable to tariff
reformers in the country generally that
we could net without the guidance and