The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-06
GROVER SAID YIELD.
A Reported Remark of the Pres
ident Caused a Stir.
Either This Tariff Bill Soon or
Silver Basis.
COUNTRY BANKRUPT.
Carlisle, 1T Was Said, Admitted
it Was Virtually So
COUNTRY BANKRUPT.

WAsHINGTOS. Aug Especial -
When the second Disagreement CT the con
ference committee on the tariff bill was re
ported, tho capitol was soon filed with ez-
citing rulnors many Of which have a pres
ent as 1vell as = historical value in showing
how congress has recently lived from day
to day. 1t was said, rs il b. the CHEST
authority that the president had no1i1ed
his supporters in the house to yield beeause
Secretary Carlisle had been Informed that
he could borrow no more money and in 10
days the government would be dead ashore
The rumor ngers went so far as TO quote
the exact language of the president to TINS
effect. We must yield. 1t is either this
bill, and that right soon, or we shall be
on a silver basis. Tt was said also that
Mr. Carlisle had notified his friends ia the
house that tho government was practically
bankrupt; that the treasury reserve was
running low; that gold would probably go
out faster than ever. and that something
must be done Immediately, whether they
liked il or not The next report that
Spea lScr Crisp was now the great obstacle
in the way OF settlement, and that he had
declared that no bill at all would be better
than to surrender to the senate Finally
figures were produced and handed around
to tho effect that the Sugar trust had al
ready got in enough raw sugar to last it
is months and that with q straight revc-
nue. tariff or q Fat duty Of 45 per cent
any other nrraa cement whatever there
could be no revenue from sugar in all that
time.
a Delicate Situation.
All these runlors anu many moro, some
with q slight foundation in truth and
many with none, were spread in one aft
ernocn, but when the house adjourned
early and informal conferences took place
between senators and ma MIXERS it was soon
made apparent that the stalwarts Of the
senate had done all thcy could Such sen
ators as Lindsay, Vest. Turpic, Cockreu
and Berry men whom no stalwart in the
house has doubted, very frankly told their
colaborcrs in that body that there had not
been chance to liberalizc the bill since
il passed the senate. They said IL effect,
III we once bring it back into the senate
for open debate, we shall noxel get il into
conference again. II Those F>pulist sena-
tors who have voted with the Democrats
emphasized this and went much further.
According to many stalwarts, the situa-
ton stood thus: Among the Democratic
senators there are 81 stalWart tariff
formers and seven who must be counted
off and on, just as it happens Mr.. 1rby
has girtled uD his Ioins and 1cd the scene,
Mr. Hill is n political gymnast and, as to
the two Louisiana senator's and the other
three, the public knows the condition on
which they win vote for bill
Such was the plain statement sent to
The staiwarts Of the house from the most
staIwart Of the senators. And in the
house there were no less than five factions.
A iocular ex-Confederate member put the
situation thus. This house has gone at
the senate just like that Colonel r. in
tho Federal army did at our fellows ut that
stockadc fight in Kentucky. What he
said amounted to this: Surrender, d-n
you, for if you don't I WHIP That has
been the attitude of our fellows toward
the senate from tho start. . John Dc Witt
Warner managed to laugh ut this illustra-
ton, but came out a. vigorously as ever
in assertion of his determination not to
yield Said he- The committee will re-
port agreement if yvo Will just let them
alone. If NVe knock of the bonus to the
Sugar trust and put decent revenue tar
III on sugar, there arc not 90 Democrats
in this house who would vote against it.
Add free coal and iron, and it would be
just the Same, but If you give free coal
and iron and leave tho bonus on sugar this
house will never adopt it, The president
tried to dodge sugar, but to il hc must
como in order to get free coal and iron or
indeed any bill. Would the senate yield?
you ask I think they would They have
never been tried yet =
Tariff Iscforners Not Satisfied.
All this time it was evident that the
sentiment in favor OF concession was grow
ing, and but for the pressure from home
the issue could have been closed a week
ago. Several western districts have been
canvassed very thoroughly by the local
press and the figures forwarded to the rep
resenratives. Look here, N said Mr.. Coop
er Of Indiana, sat these figures There Is
not one Democrat or tariff refOrInCr in so
who is satisfied to let the senate bill pass.
Ihcy insist on Us sticking to the house
bill They don't understand the situation
here, Of course, but it viii DO an awful
job to make them sec that" This Is but
a sample Of the sta-emenUs coming IN
from All over tho west 1t is vain for the |
members to write back that this bill is a
great advance on t he Mills bill, which
would have satisfied tho Democrats q few |
years ago. Their constituents arc set on
the Wilson bill and persist in believing
that the house could get it if it woul4 only
stick
National Arbitration.
Pending this racket, tho house has
rushed through private and local bills Ill
II has overloaded the senate, and tho lat
ter has about finished its work on tho aT3-
preparation bills. and all these things ars
going smoothly between tho two houses.
The representatives at length felt so free
Of obligation that they absented them
selves or adjourned early and took up q
waiting attitude generally The leaders
said that they had done all that it was de
siTable for record purposes to do at this
session, but some OF the committees have
continued to bring in bills. The commit
tee on labor has given an exhaustive study
of the Springcr bill, which provides for a |
national board of arbitration, and gener-
ally favors it Mcssrs. Boatner Snod- |
grass, Cooper and Harris of the Pacific
railroad committee have Joined in a mi
nority report looking toward government |
control, and Mr. Harris, the Kansas Dem |
ocrat, has added an individual report, IA
voring cOmplo1e government ownership.
The committees on agriculture viii also |
push its bills to charter the Society of |
American Florists, to transfer the fish
commission and orpolQUica1 survey 70 tho ]