Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-30
Probable Course of the Ways and
Means Committee.
PRINCIPLES ALREADY AGREED UPON
Tho Senate Protective Amend.
ments All to Be Rejected.
AN IMMEDIATE CONFERENCE

Chairman Wilson's return to congress
sional work has brought about definite
understanding among members Of the ways
and means committee on the essential fea-
lures of how the tariff bill is TO be handled
when II returns to the House. There has
been no formal meeting Of the committee
as yet. and no resolution defining the pro-
gram has been passed. yet the plan of pro-
cedure is none the less definitely under
stood. The two principal points on which
the committeeman are agreed are:
First. that the bill will be sent to confer
|. ence without any preliminary effort to Sc
cure agreements in whole or in part In the
House
Second, the det ermination Of the commit
tee Is to make the ultimate tariff act as near
like the original Wilson bill-as II left the
House-as time, persistence and endurance
will allow. There Is no disposition to sur
render In any degree to the Senate amend
ments. With these two essential features
agreed on the majority of the members Of
the committee feal that the rest is largely
detail.
A Disagreement I'm Toto.
The first understanding. as to at once
sending the bill to conference. disposes Of
persistent reports that an effort would first
be made to carry the bill before the House
for the purpose. II possible. Of agreeing on
some features, and thus expediting a final
settlement. On the contrary. there will be
no such temporizing. There will be a dis
agreemnt in toto with the Senate. and
request for conference. unless the Senate
has already made the request. in which
case 1t will be assented to.
The second understanding. that the ulti-
mate tariff act will be as near possible to
the Wilson bill, gives the keynote to the
main struggle between the Senate and
. a
mittee would be conciliatory and desirous
OF reaching a speedy agreement between
the Senate and House in order to avoid
another protracted tariff debate. But on
the contrary, the feeling Is so strongly to-
ward standing by the Wilson bill and re-
sisting the protective encroachments made
by the Senate that the most influential
members of the committee say the Wilson
bill, in its substantial and essential fea-
lures. will be the rCck on which the COM
mittee will plant itself with the House be-
hind It,
Mr.. Wilson's Opportunity.
This feeling has found expression in GER
tain personal appeals to MIR. Wilson. His
associates have said to him that an oppor-
tunity offered to few public men was now
presented to him. This opportunity was
to stand by the Wilson bill as against the
Senate amendments. 1t has been point led
out that state and local conventions have
In their platforms and resolutions severely
arraiGned the Senate and have expressed
preference for the Wilson bill IL left
the House This and the attitude Of the
press and public has been presented as
amounting TO a public demand, as we'll us
a personal Opportunity. for standing BY the
Wilson bill. While Mr. Wilson has given
no public expression in this line. one Of
his associates on the committee says that
1t has made due impression on the CHAIR
man. This member added that the zen IL
ment was practically unaRlnoustae this
line.
The first meeting of the committee will
be held next wssk Nr.s,Wtlson expects
the bill to pass the Senate Tuesday. The
Inaa,,S next day ,. being July Nill not permit a
man will call a meeting for Thursday next
This will be done whether the reprint OF
the Senate bill has been completed or not
Members Of the committee said today that
every effort would be made to expedite
the committee stages Of the measure next
week, and the opinion was expressed that
II would not take more than a day or two
before the formal disagreement and sub
mission to the conference would be effected
When Will the Tariff Bill Passs
Senators do not seem inclined to venture
PASS the Senate. 1t is generally believed
that the debate on the bill and the amend
r. ents will continue until Tuesday night
and that the majority will insist upon a
session on Wednesday, the 4th, in order to
Continue the consideration OF the bill The
republicans generally are quite anxious to
get through with the bill. and may assist In
disposing OF IT by Tuesday night