Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-08-04
Correspondence.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Conference Committee fails to
Agree.

Agree.
From our regular correspondent.) !
WARRINGTON, July 80, 1894-The
free traders publicly bluster quite as
loudlv as they did week ago, as to
the House conferees holding out for
free raw materials until the Senators
are compelled to surrender. but
their private talk and acting tells
another story. Mr.. Cleveland has
discovered that he could not dictate
TO the democratic Senators in mat
ters affecting the well fare of thou
sands of citizens of the states they /
represent. and he is said to deeply |
regret that he allowed the edvice OF |
Don. Dickson, the Michigan rainbow
chaser to out weigh that OF Secre- |
tarv Carlisle, who advised him not
TO send that letter. He has,
changed his mind about free coal Tor
the benefit of the Whitney syndi i
cate: free iron for the Carnegie
crowd. and protection for the sugar
trust. hut he has found out that he
went the wrong way to get this uni
one combination of s'tariff reform. "
He wants them as bad as ever, and
some saw he is willing to see all tar
ar legislation fail rather than not to
get them. but he regrets having
iumped ON those who know how and
and do not hesitate TO fight hack.
Although the conferees held their
first recorded meeting today since
the bin was, on Friday last, sent
hack to conference without instruc-
tfons nv the Senate. the democratic
couIerees spent all day Saturday
and Sunday In trying to patch W
the difference bet ~een the House and
Senate. but as no satisfactory an
swer has vet been found TO the ulti
nation of the Senators-"take thu
bin as It is OF you'll get nothing
the status is unchanged. Some o
the shrewdeet observers are con.
WINGED that victory for the Senat
hin ia assured, and that the time @
the democratic bosses is now princl
pally taken mp with arranging sc
ries of more or less confusing
changes in the bill, which shall max
IL seem that concessions were mad
on both sides, or as one man puts II
.shnding q soft place for Cleveland t
TALL on" The House conferees al
Individually willing to hold on
against the Senate, but the demo
Gratis of the House are not willing I
keep up the fight aud they hay
plainlv shown their dissemination
fight Cleveland's battle for him.
Secretary Gresham and Carlis
are doing their best to defeat Il
bill which provides that immigran
shall be inspected by u. 5. Consul
before being allowed to start for tn
country, and which was recent
passed by the House end Is now
fore the Senate immigration comm
tee. The principal ground for the
opposition, according to their ch
spokesman, Mr.. Stump, u. s. Co
missioner of Immigration, Is that
bill, fit became a law, would st
all migration. That argument v
hardly defeat the bill, as there 6
MANY who believe that immigrant
ought to be stopped; for time, a
way. Representative Stone, of p
author OF the bill, and by VIII,
shrewd management 1t was eng
eered through the House In spite
the opposition of the chairman
the House committee on Inning
ton. thinks it will be just the
that Is needed; that 1t would 81
the class of immigrants who are
WAYS welcome in all countries.
MIR. Cl0v 5luhd UO have II
difficulty IN controlling the acti
OF democratic members Of
House. Only the other day
democratic members of the BIC
committee on Commerce were ins
ing upon the necessity for the &C
ton of the resolution authors
that committee to make an inv,
CATION of the recent strikes, bees
they did not consider the law III
which Mr.. Cleveland appointed
Investigating Commission br
enough to furnish the necessary
thority. Mr.. Cleveland gave
chairman of that committee q
that he thought one investiga
enough, and straightway the de
cre ts on the committee began
talk about the clashing that W
be caused by two Investigations
to indicate very plainly that the
olution was dead, Mr.. Cleve
would doubtless be willing to
largely for receipt that woui,
able him to control the Senate
easily.
No finer bit of sarcasm was
got off on the floor of the Sc
than when Senator Henderson
fan to Senator Villas, just /
his name was called on the vC
instruct the Senate conferees I
cede from the differential duty {
fined sugar, to hide his face VII
voted against motion he had
nally made himself and had
withdrawn after two lengthy a
citing democratic caucuses. Z
tainly must have felt like hidin
face when he voted for the
trust after having posed befOI