Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-09

inaliy given them. This was the condition of affairs when the conference adjourned for the night.
 That report of some kind will be forth coming tomorrow is almost a certainty. What its fate will be the next few hours will tell. What the policy of the republi- cans will be cannot now be foretold. This element of the senate, active and alert to embrace every opportunity to defeat the bill, has not been idle.
 During the afternoon session of the sem ate the leaders were in conference, but they have succeeded in keeping strictly secret all that they did. In the night quite number of the leaders met at Sen tor McMillan's residence for dinner, and 1t is safe to assume that the political side of the tariff fight was discussed between the courses. When asked tonight what the policy of the minority would be, MT. Aldrich, the republican leader, remarked that they had no policy and would have none until they knew what the democrats intended to do. With a smile MT. Aldrich observed that the republicans would be about the capitol tomorrow and would keep their eyes open.
 ca it being known that the bounty on this year's sugar crop is not to be given, there is much concern among democrats to know what course Messrs. Ciffery and Blanchard will assume towards the bill.
 Mir. Caffery declines to talk, but rests on the speech he made recently In the senate,
 WACu lS QSCihE0d Oudl ib WOulu Oo HIS ohAJ
 to consider the interests of his state before
 he did that of the party at large. This IS
 interpreted as being a threat that he will
 not support the bill. Both the Louisiana
 senators are receiving large nun. bers of telegram5 urging them
 to vote against the bill un- less the bounty is given, and the two lead
 ing democratic organs in New Orleans this
 morning announced that the two senators
 would, under the circumstances, be justi iaA in xynt iner ina ha
 Messrs. Kyle and Allen are also both quoted as saying that they could not in-
 dorse tue bill unless it provided for a bounty on sugar. Ia view of the fact that these four votes are essential to the success of the bill, how they will be cast will have
 much to do with the future of tariff reform in this congress.
 MT. Jones declared that the bill will pass but there are others who hesitate to make any prophecy. MT. Brice is inclined to think that the senate will not accept tho conference report if it materially changes | the senate bill, but says the senate will | amend the bill by moving to re- | cede and after so perfecting it will | send it back to the house and let them pass | it. Brice is of the opinion that if the bill l comes into the hands of the senate again | it will refuse to grant another conference, | but that the bill will, after being perfected,
 pass and become law. Others anticipate | trouble and expect some delay in debate. Mir. Jones and all of his associates on the l conference committee hold that a motion | to indefinitely postpone or to lay the con | ference report on the table will not be in order and that this motion cannot be made. | Under the senate rules majority can
 make any ruling it pleases, and If there | should be majority in favor of postpon- l ing the conference report 1t would be an easy matter to sustain an appeal from the de- cision of the chair. It is this vote that is feared, and the apparent indifference of the | conservatives to the report that may be | made only addsto the uneasiuess of those | in charge of the bill. If the bill should get | into the senate tomorrow night or Friday
 morning 1t is likely that whatever action
 the senate takes would be speedy and cer- l tain