The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-27

when the mouse by a vote of Isl 20
I07, decided to discharge the house
conferees from further consideration
OF the bill, recede from its opposition
to the 634 senate amendments, and
agree to the same.
1t was complete victory for the
senate. The house made an absolute
surrender. The result grew directly
out of the course of events at the SEN
ate end of the capitol, precipitated by
Mr.. Hill on Friday. Up to that time
the senate cOnferees had stood firmly
against the senate amendments, es-
pecially on the three disputed heads,
coal, iron and sugar, and the temper
and voice of the house was for war
war to- the end. But the indications
that the Democrats of the senate
might be unable to longer hold a ma
iority of voters in line for even the
mate bill, and that the bill was IN
desperate jeopardy, forced the house
Democrats to immediate action. The
Democratic conferees of the house at
last admitted that they were beaten,
that another vote could not be risked
in the senate, and that it must be
either the senate bill or no bill.
The whole question was precipitated
in the caucus held Just before the
house convened today, at which, after
a thorough review of the situation and
speeches ain favor of receding, by
Speaker Crisp, Chairman Wilson and
others, it was decided to pass the SEN
ate bill and Immediately afterward
pass separate bills placing coal, iron
ore, sugar and barbeG wire on the free
list, aud by so doing place the house
on record and at least partially over
come the humiliation involved in its
defeat. The programme arranged in
caucus was carried out to the letter in
the house after an irOncIad special
order.
The scenes in the chamber through
out the day and evening were excit-
ing, and at times sensational. The
galleries were packed, and the mem
bers applauded and cheered their res
peCtive leaders to the echo. Under
the terms of the order, but two hours
were allowed for debate on the main
proposition to recede and agree to the
Senate amendments to the tariff bill.
y parliamentary skirmish preceded
the pitched battle, but the point of
order raised oy the Republicans was
swept aside. The Speaker ruled the
House with an iron hand. The prin-
cipal speeches for and against the
main proposition were made by Wilson
and Crisp or the one hand, and eX-
Speaker Reed and Burrows on the
other. There was no time for prepare
ton, and all of the speeches were hot
from the brain and were greeted with
rounds of cheers. BOurke Cochran,
of New York, and Mr.. Tarnsey, of
Missouri, both Democratic members
of the Ways and Means Committee,
delivered scathing and sensational
speeches, denOuncing the surrender of
the House as cowardly and indefen-
sible. The Speaker replied to Mr..
COckran, whose effort was a brilliant
one, with such temper that the latter
took il as personal affront, although
the Speaker disclaimed such inten-
ton, and made a vicious lunge at
Speaker Crisp.
There was nOlattempt on the part of
the Democratic leaders to claim a vic
tory. They all admitted that they
were accepting the inevitable, justify
ing their action on the ground that
the Senate bill was better than the
Mckinley law. The most startling
feature of the day, perhaps, was Mr..
Cockran,s eloquent appeal to Chair
man Wilson to name the Democrats
in the Senate who threatened the de-
feat of the tariff legislation if the
attempt TO adjust differences between
the two Houses was persisted in, but
Mr. Wilson made no response.
When the vote came to be taken at
D o'clOck, thirteen Observation-Disclosures.
Bartlett, Cochran, Hendricks, Ounphy
and Covert, of New York; Davey,
Meyer and Price, of Louisiana
Everett, of Massachusetts German,
of Michigan; Johnson, Of Ohio; and
Tarusey, OF NissOuri-vOted with the
Republicans against the resolution.
The Democrats ten put through, one
after another, what the Republicans
described As pOp-gun" bills, placing
coal, iron ore, barbei wire and sugar
on the free list, and which in the de-
bate they maintained would be pro-
posed only TO go 10 their death in the
Senate.
There is good authority for the
statement that the President will
neither sign nor veto the Senate tariff
bill, but will allow il to become a law
without his signature.
~ THE CAUCUS.
WASHINGTON CITY, August I3.-
The House Democratic caucus met at
10 a. m. Wilson spoke OF the fight
made by the House Sonferees for
specific duty ON sugar, on the ground
that u2der the al valorem system ii
would I've Impossible TO tell, on ac-
count of invoice methods, the exact
advantage which would accrue ID the
sugar trust. He made the remarkable
statement that he had been credibly
informed and believed that the sugar
trust, anticipating the enactment of
the Senate sugar schedule, had pur-
chased S112,0O0,OO0 worth of raw
sugar. If this was true, he said, the
profits accruing to the trust from this
investment, on account of the Senate
schedule, will be at least $40, 00O,O 900.
rThis is a great battle" said Wilson,
warming, "between the American
people and the sugar trust. IL IL
battle i'm which the trust has taken
the people by the throat, and 1T Will
never end until we throw Oft Its
grip" There was enthusiastic ap-
plause at this. He proceeded to state
that the House cOnferees had been