The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-10
A DISAGREEMENT.
The Tariff Conference Com
mittees to Make a Re-
port Today.
SENATE IN BAD FAITH.
Proposals Made and Then With
drawn The President in the
Fight.

ences between the tariff conferees are as
great this morning as at any time
since the bill was returned to them
Notwithstanding the dead lock the
statement was made today by one of the
House representatives that an agreement
might be reached by tomorrow night. 1t
was evident from the speakers tone, how
ever, that he hoped for an agreement more
than he expected it.
The situedon today remains unchanged.
The Senate conferees offered the House
members their choice OF free coal or
free iron ore, with forty per cent duty
on the remaining article When the
House representatives accepted the
proposition and agreed upon free coal the
Senate conferrees withdrew their offer.
The house men this morning assert that
the Senate members are trifiing with them
and that they (the House conferees) Will
not recede from their position They
say too, and they say it with great bitter
ness, that these varying propositions are not
only not made in good faith but that they
are inspired by the sugar trust with a view
of embarrassing them and ultimately de-
feating the bill
DOUBT IN THE SENATE.
But this is not the only trouble that sur
rounds thu measures. Back and beyond any
settlement that may be agreed upon by the
conferreeS is the uncertain fate that awaits
the report in the Senate. For month past
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania has been
gathering statistical and other am
munition to fire against the
report if it changes the Senate bill in any
essential particular. The matter is now in
manuscript, and it measures four feet in
height One firm of woolen manufacturers
in Philadelphia has sent him nine hundred
pages of closeH written manuscript,
covering in detail every feature
of the induN ry, and showing the
effect not only upon the, trade
but upon the wages OF the men employed Of
any change in duty. Senator Quay says
the delivery of the speech will occupy forty
consecutive days. He will deliver it. he
adds, without regard to what his Senatorial
associates may do.
Altogether the pro spect Of an early ad-
jurnment at this time is very remote.
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE.
There was another long protracted
White House conference last night,
and Notwithstanding the convenient
technical denials,n as the late Mr..
Blaine used to call State department
fibs, in regard to the active interposition OF
President Cleveland. 1t is an unquestioned
fact that the President and certain members
of his Cabinet are kept carefully advised of
every move in the game.
Conflicting statements of the most positive
character can be had in abundance. Demo-
cratic Senators whose States are largely in
terested in the coal and iron schedules,
positively assert that an agreement has been
reached as to whether coal or iron ore, or
both. shall be admitted free, and quote a
Cabinet officer who is, perhaps, the Presi-
the statement. Other Senators who
are actual participants in the conference
make equally direct statements the other
way, and say nothing has as yet been set
tied as to coal and iron. There is on all
hands a strongly expressed belief that the
day will bring some definite result.
ALL en- HAND.
Senators were early at the Capitol this
morning, and there is no question that a
quorum will be on hand If it is the policy tc
produce it, and if tho Developments of the
day make it desirable or necessary to do so
Even the best informed members of both
Houses of Congress asked themselves
this morning with an air of almost comic
bewilderment whta the surprising con
ferees will do next? After that
magnificently audacious 'bluff" which
the Senate conferees at the
instigation of Messrs. Gormsn and Brice
played upon their House conferreeS yester-
day by rendering them free sugar
and forcing them to decline
what the House is clamoring for
knowing that if they accepted IT they would
too remarkable to be beyond possibility of
happening.
The Republican members of the confer.
ence have not been formally notified to meet
with this committee, but were tole
this morning that disagreement would
be reported, and were taken if they would
agree They consented, and a disagreement
will, it is said be reported today.
A motion to discharge the conferees will
follow the. disagreeing report.